Date

Multiple Meeting Announcements

  1. Call for Papers - Remote Regions/Northern Development
    Western Regional Science Association 49th Annual Meeting
    21-24 February 2010
    Sedona, Arizona

  2. Native Peoples Native Homelands Climate Change Workshop II
    18-21 November 2009
    Prior Lake, Minnesota

  1. Call for Papers - Remote Regions / Northern Development
    Western Regional Science Association 49th Annual Meeting
    21-24 February 2010
    Sedona, Arizona

The organizers of the forty-ninth annual meeting of the Western Regional
Science Association (WRSA) announce a call for papers. The meeting will
be held at the Sedona Hilton Resort and Spa in Sedona, Arizona, from
21-24 February 2010.

The Remote Regions / Northern Development sessions are in their
twenty-seventh year. The organizers are issuing a general call for
papers from economists, political scientists, anthropologists,
sociologists, historians, planners, and others involved in research in
northern and other remote regions. In the past, researchers from Canada,
Alaska, Hawaii, Greenland, Finland, Scandinavia, Australia, New Zealand,
Micronesia, Israel, Russia, and the United States have presented papers.

General topics include the analysis and discussion of economic,
political, and social-cultural change in remote and sparsely settled
regions. Papers on any topic consistent with the general theme are
welcomed. Examples of specific topics include:

- The consequences of new technology
- The effects of government expenditures
- The conditions for success or failure of development projects
- Relations between the subsistence and market economies
- Regional benefits and costs of development
- Economic integration and cultural preservation
- Community development
- Changing social patterns
- Native sovereignty and federalism
- Migration
- Institutional change and resource governance in remote regions

The organizers also welcome special sessions and are especially
interested in sessions that address a particular theme from the
perspective of a number of countries or regions. Please contact Lee
Huskey (aflh [at] uaa.alaska.edu) if you are interested in organizing such a
session.

Conference organizers will be sending information about association
membership, registration, hotel reservations, and related matters to
those responding to this call.

Submission deadline: Sunday, 1 November 2009.

The conference website is available at:
http://www.u.arizona.edu/~plane/wrsa.html.

For further information or to submit an abstract, please contact:
Lee Huskey
Email: aflh [at] uaa.alaska.edu

  1. Native Peoples Native Homelands Climate Change Workshop II
    18-21 November 2009
    Prior Lake, Minnesota

Organizers announce the Native Peoples Native Homelands Climate Change
Workshop II, entitled "An Indigenous Response to the Challenge." It will
be convened 18-21 November 2009, at the Mystic Lake Casino Hotel in
Prior Lake, Minnesota.

The workshop will bring together Tribal College and University students
and staff with Native peoples from throughout the world to play an
active role in the development of climate change policy, assessment, and
research. Tribal College and University students, faculty, and staff;
Native American, Native Hawaiian, and Alaska Native leaders and groups
involved in climate change and energy work; tribal elders and youth; and
climate scientists and scholars are invited to attend.

An important focus of the workshop will be on identifying and sharing
strategies for mitigation and adaptation in tribal communities. Areas of
impact, mitigation, and adaptation to be considered in the workshop will
include clean energy, housing, water, traditional plants and medicine,
sacred lands and sites, natural resources, subsistence economies, local
and Indigenous foods, and practical means to create resilience, health,
and a positive future for future generations.

For further information, please go to:
http://www.nativepeoplesnativehomelands.org/.

Or contact:
Nancy Maynard
Email: nancy.g.maynard [at] nasa.gov