NS-RSA
Nordic Section of the
Regional Science Association
NS-RSA
is the organization of the Nordic members of the European
Regional Science Association (ERSA). Within ERSA regional scientist are
organised according to language or national affiliation. ERSA is one
of three supra regional groupings of individual national and international
sections or associations, which together constitute the Regional Science Association International (RSAI). The other supraregional groupings are the North American
and the Pacific Regional Science Associations. For further information
see the relevant homepages accessible through the links on this page.
The purpose of NS-RSA is to stimulate regional science in the Nordic countries to facilitate contacts to international networks in our field. The regional science community is an interdisciplinary group from various fields of social science i.e. economics, geography political science and planning. Our members are researcher from universities and research institutes and civil servants from international organisations, governmental agencies and local and regional authorities in our field.
During
the last ten years the NS-RSA embarked on a project to support the creation of
regional science networks in the
Activities
of the NS-RSA has contributed to during the last 10 to fifteen years includes
two European Congress in Stockholm and Odense (a third will take place next
year in Jyväskylä in Finland), two ERSA summer-schools and 7 Nordic Baltic
seminars. For details see the links on this page.
Membership benefits and registration.
Members
of NS-RSA are eligible to discounted conference fees and subscription to major
journals in regional science. NS-RSA offers three types of membership, full
membership, student membership and Nordic membership. The later does not
include reduced subscription fees for journals and non-Nordic conferences. From
2005 membership in the international sections will be managed by Blackwell
Publ. Current member will be contacted by Blackwell. Nordic membership will
still be managed by the section directly, and will still include discounted
rates on Nordic events and general information provided by e-mail and our
web-site.
Links
:
·
RSAI
·
ERSA
·
Blackwell http://www.rsai-members.org/
Upcoming
events in the Nordic-Baltic area:
·
The
11th Uddevalla Symposium will take place in June 14-16, 2007 at University
West, Campus Uddevalla,
Abstract
submission deadline: February 28, 2007
·
19th ERSA Summer Institute 2006 Groningen, NL
Institutions
and useful resources:
Become
a member/membership registration: please send an e-mail to your local board
member:
Finland:
Aki Kangsharju (chair) aki.kangsharju@vatt.fi
Finland:
Jaakko Simonen (treasurer & secretariat) jaakko.simonen@oulu.fi
Denmark:
Andreas P. Cornett cornett@sam.sdu.dk
Norway: Steinar Johansen bstj@toi.no
Sweden: Lars Westin Lars.Westin@econ.umu.se