19th APDR Congress (Associação Portuguesa para o Desenvolvimento Regional)

Theme of the Congress:
“PLACE-BASED POLICIES AND ECONOMIC RECOVERY”

Place-based policies aim at solving persistent under-use of resources and reduce enduring social exclusion in specific places. This is achieved through external interventions and multi-level governance devoted to promote the supply of integrated goods and services tailored to specific regional contexts and to stimulate institutional changes (Barca, 2009). How to design and assess these policies? How to integrate sustainable development strategies when most policies are sectoral and problematic places do not have adequate institutions? How to promote institutional capital at the local and regional levels? How to move beyond the established administrative boundaries toward functional places? How to learn from the failures of former regional policies that promoted regions in crisis? During the congress, participants and reputed specialists will try to answer some of these questions.
This year’s congress will count on a group of Special Sessions organized by several members of the Scientific Committee of the Congress on specific themes of regional science. The papers presented in these Special Sessions result from invitations addressed by the organizers and are not therefore open to submissions.
The Scientific Committee of the event will count with the presence of Paula Remoaldo, full researcher and coordinator of a research line of CICS.

The call for papers is open till April 1, 2013.

For further information view the official website http://www.apdr.pt/congresso/2013/abstract.html

By admin in Notícias on 12/04/2013