This four-day conference brings together academics and policymakers to exchange news, views and research findings from the fields of regional studies and science, regional and economic development, policy and planning. The conference will also direct attention towards seeking to improve the...

General session covers a wide range of topics. Although the covered topics are broadly region, urban, transportation, environment, and international issues, papers related to these issues in a broader sense are welcome. Topics: Growth and Decline, Regional Difference, Industrial Structure,...

Topics: - Evaluation of impacts from different policies on economic activities and economic outcomes. - The effect of COVID-19 on regional and urban development. - Resilience of regions and cities (after crises and exogenous shocks). - Urban-rural differences in labor market outcomes, income,...

For this year’s 70th Annual Conference, the JSPE Board of Directors decided the general theme of “SDGs and Modern Capitalism: A Political Economic Approach.” The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), adopted at the UN Summit in 2015, constitute a ubiquitous national and international...

The 2022 Tokyo conference will bring together leading researchers and practitioners in the field of real estate from all over the world. The aim is to enhance interdisciplinary discussions pursuing the conference theme, “Towards Sustainable Real Estate.” The 2022 Tokyo conference will be...

This conference has been cancelled.

2020 RSA Annual Conference - POSTPONED to 2022

The Applied Regional Science Conference (ARSC) was established in December 1987 under the goal to promote interdisciplinary researches in the field of regional science.

This conference aims at expanding the geographical and thematic scope of degrowth discussions, as well as building dialogues with critical social theories, sciences and social movements.

We delve into economic theory to understand the mechanisms behind social change but listen also to subjects such as political science and history as well as the many natural science disciplines that help us understand the resource and environmental challenges we face. These are times when...