THE SECOND ASIAN SEMINAR IN REGIONAL SCIENCE

Theme

ASIAN REGIONAL SCIENCE: CROSS-FERTILIZATION OF IDEAS AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE AMONG THE SCHOLARS

The International Centre for the Study of East Asian Development (ICSEAD)

Kitakyushu, Japan

September 29-30, 2012

Organized by:

Applied Regional Science Conference

Chinese Regional Science Association – Taiwan

Korean Regional Science Association

Regional Science Association of China

BACKGROUND AND SCOPE

Since its conception in the 1950's Regional Science, an interdisciplinary field of scholarly endeavor has seen many changes. The enhancement of knowledge and technologies and the growing of Globalization endowed several techniques of regional science and location theory less applicable. 

Nevertheless, the changes brought upon the need for people from various fields that were not involved in Regional Science before, rendering the field truly multi-disciplinary. Initiated as a field of human geography, it winds up including people from varying disciplines such as engineering, planning, economy, geography and environmental studies. In a multidiscipline field such as Regional Science the exchange of ideas and research within the field is deemed to be necessary. It is this multi-disciplinary approach that helps to facilitate new theoretical insights for tackling regional problems. It fosters better codification of methods and exchange of frontier ideas. The combination of knowledge of an industry and knowledge of theory is inevitable if it is to establish credibility. For without it, efficient communication is restricted.

With recent trend in globalization and cross border activities, promoting international collaboration is essential. Asian regional science organizations currently lack of such alliance and exchange of ideas and research. This joint seminar is set upon with the aim to serve as a platform for cross-fertilization of ideas among scholars and particularly to promote the exchange of ideas and research among Asian countries and regions. It is hoped that the exchange will further stabilize and foster in the near future for the benefit of all regions.

Topics of interest in this Joint Seminar on Applied Regional Science include (but not limited to):

1.   Spatial Economics

2.   Economic Geography

3.   Transportation

4.   Asian Regional and Urban Problems

5.   Regional Development

6.   Location of Economic Activities

7.   Housing

8.   Regional and Urban Planning

9.   Environmental Quality

10.  Local Public Finance

11.  Migration and Demographic Analysis

OBJECTIVES

Key objectives of the conference are:

To foster exchange of ideas and research experience in the field of Regional Science among the scholars of Asian countries and regions.

To establish a formal collaboration relationship among regional science associations in Asian countries.

To promote interaction between researchers and policy makers of Asian countries.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND THE CONFERENCE?

Regional science educators.

Researchers in regional science, engineering, planning, transportation, economy, geography, the environment, etc.

Professionals and consultants from the construction industry.

Financiers, bankers, lawyers and policy makers.

Graduate students

Others normally associated with regional science

LANGUAGE

The official language of the conference is English

CONFERENCE VENUE

The International Centre for the Study of East Asian Development, Kitakyushu, Japan (11-4 Otemachi, Kokurakita, Kitakyushu, 803-0814, Japan)

WEB:http://www.icsead.or.jp/

CALL FOR EXTENDED ABSTRACTS

Authors are invited to submit abstracts, relating to the conference themes. The abstract should be written in English (in MS word or PDF format only)

All abstracts should be structured as follows:

Title: The title should be short, preferably less than 15 words.

Author(s): Provide contact details for the authors including names, surnames, organization/company, phone/fax no., e-mail and full postal address.

Keywords: Provide up to 5 keywords.

Background: Short summary of relevant background and problem addressed.

Objectives:Define the “tangible and measurable” objectives of the work presented in the paper.

Methodology:Describe briefly the methodology that you are using or have used to achieve your objectives.

Results:Provide a short summary of the results.

IMPORTANT DATES

May 31, 2012 Deadline for submission of abstracts

August 31, 2012 Deadline for full papers.

Abstract should be sent to the Organizing Committee via e-mail to Dr. Erbiao Dai at:

dai@icsead.or.jp

HONORARY CHAIRMAN

Masahisa Fujita (Konan University)

Yoshitsugu Kanemoto (University of Tokyo)

Hidehiko Tanimura (ICSEAD)

INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

CO-CHAIRMAN

Sungbae Kim (Soongsil

University)

Tatsuaki Kuroda (Nagoya University)

Dai-Gee Shaw (Academia Sinica)

Kaizhong Yang (Peking University)

COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Shouyi Hao

(Nankai University)

Euijune Kim

(Seoul National Univeristy)

Hong Sok Brian Kim

(Seoul National University)

Jaehong Kim

(University of Ulsan)

Fu-Chuan Lai

(Academia Sinica)

Seil Mun

(Kyoto University)

Ryohei Nakamura

(Okayama University)

Shin-Kun Peng

(Academia Sinica)

Jiuwen Sun

(Renmin University of China)

Takatoshi Tabuchi

(University of Tokyo)

Jyh-Fa Tsai

(National Taipei University)

Houkai Wei

(Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)

LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

CO-CHAIRMAN

Hiroshi Sakamoto (ICSEAD)

Dao-Zhi Zeng (Tohoku University)

COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Erbiao Dai (ICSEAD)

Kazuki Tamura (ICSEAD)

Xiao-Ping Zheng (Ritsumeikan University)

INTERNATIONAL CONTACT DETAILS

Dao-Zhi Zeng (Tohoku University)

Email: zeng@se.is.tohoku.ac.jp

Phone: +81-22-795-4380

Fax:  +81-22-795-4380

LOCAL SECRETARIAT CONTACT DETAILS

Hiroshi Sakamoto (ICSEAD)

E-mail: sakamoto@icsead.or.jp

Phone: +81-93-583-6202

Fax: +81-93-583-4602

REGISTRATION FEE

10,000 yen

(5,000 yen for students)

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