The Western Regional
Science Association
"The way academic
life should
be."
ROOM Reservations:
Reservations are still being taken at our conference rate of $179 on a space-available basis.
REGISTRATION:
Please register if you haven't already.
Receipts are posted in your User Area on the NARSC website.
Click here for all
conference arrangements details.
Founded in
1961, the Western
Regional Science Association (WRSA) is an international
multidisciplinary group
of university scholars and government and private-sector practitioners
dedicated
to the scientific analysis of regions. WRSA is know around the
world for the quality of its signature "seminar-style" invited paper
sessions. Full papers (not just abstracts) must be submitted by
our traditional October 15 deadline (draft version okay at this stage,
with conference version due no later than December 31). At the
conference, each paper is allocated 45 full minutes of Program time --
inclusive of the remarks of an assigned discussant and open discussion
with session attendees. All paper presenters can expect to be
assigned discussant and/or chair duties.
WRSA Annual
Meeting paper
sessions are organized
on topics such as: Resource Utilization, Impact Analysis, Regional
Modeling,
Location of Economic Activity, Regional and Urban Planning,
Environmental
Quality, Regional Development Issues, Interregional Migration,
Transportation
Problems, Locational Criteria for Public Services and Facilities,
Housing --
Financing and Renewal, Tourism and Recreation, and Energy Issues.
WRSA's Annual Meetings are held
in late February
in some of the most spectacular locations in western
2010 Hilton Sedona, Sedona, Arizona (February 21-24, 2010)
2009 Silverado, Napa, California
2008 Hilton Waikoloa, The Big Island of Hawaii
2007 Hyatt Regency, Newport Beach, California
2006 La Fonda, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2005 Hyatt-Regency Islandia, San Diego, California
2004 Wailea Marriott, Maui, Hawaii
2003 Rio Rico, Arizona
2002 Hyatt-Regency Monterey, Monterey, California
2001 Riviera, Palm Springs, California
2000 Sheraton Kauai, Poipu, Hawaii
1999 Ojai Valley Inn, Ojai, California
1998 Hyatt-Regency Monterey, Monterey, California
1997 Royal Waikoloan, Hawaii
Our
upcoming 49th Annual Cosmic Convergence, February 21-24, 2010, at the
Sedona
Hilton
Preliminary Program
Room
Reservations at the Hilton Sedona at our conference rate ($179 + tax)
Registration
Mulligan
Dinner Invitation
Travel
Information -- Getting to Sedona and the Hilton
Hilton-Sedona Website
(Do
NOT use for reservations, but it has some good information)
Call for Papers
Call for Entries,
Tiebout Prize competition for best graduate student paper
Call
for Entries, Springer Prize competition, for best paper by an early
career
scholar
Our
recent 48th Annual
Meeting, February 22-25, 2009, at the Silverado, Napa, California
Final
Program: Napa
2009 Annual Meeting
Photo
Album from
the Napa 2009 Annual Meeting
Link to the Silverado's Website
Photo
courtesy
of:
FreeFoto.Com
The Charles M. Tiebout
Prize in Regional
Science
- Call for Submissions for the 24th (2009-2010) Tiebout Prize Competition in Regional Science
- Tiebout
Endowment Fund: Information on Making a Contribution
- List of
Previous Winners of the Charles M. Tiebout Prize Competitions
Newsletters
- Summer 2009
- Fall 2008
- Summer 2008
- Archives (Access to all past issues since Fall
1998)
WRSA
board and officers
WRSA
history and photos
WRSA
Annual
Meetings (Listing of venues and dates, 1962 to the present)
Presidents
of the WRSA (From the formative period of the Association beginning
in 1960
up to the present)
Winners
of the Charles M. Tiebout Prize in Regional Science (From the 1st
competition, 1987, to the present)
-
Photo
Albums (Scenes from each of our Annual Meetings since 2002)
Upcoming and recent regional science conferences
- 21st
Pacific Conference of the RSAI (Surfer's Paradise, Gold Coast,
Queensland, Australia, July 19-22, 2009)
- 49th European Congress of
the RSAI -- ERSA 2009 (Łódź, Poland, August 25-29, 2009)
- 56th North
American Meetings of the RSAI (Grand Hyatt Hotel, San Francisco,
California, Nov. 18-21, 2009). Hosted by WRSA!
Links:
- Websites of
interest to regional scientists (Associations, journals,
institutes, etc.)
- Call for Applicants, Benjamin H.
Stevens Graduate Fellowship in Regional Science
Membership:
Dues are now being collected
for 2010
memberships in the Association. For their annual
dues, WRSA
members receive:
- A subscription
to the Association's official journal, the Springer-Verlag
international quarterly, The
Annals of Regional Science (paper copies will be sent in 2010
to
- All 2010 issues
of the
informative WRSA Newsletter and regular updates sent as e-mail
announcements via the
WRSA listserv
- Members residing in
Joining is easy! Payments
are being
collected this year through the convenient, on-line E-payment
facilities of the
North American Regional Science Council's website. Click
here
for directions and to go to the NARSC site to join! The
procedure is
simple and regular membership costs $95 US. Special reduced rate
for
student members: $50 US. NOTE:
All persons whose names will appear on the Program of the 49th Annual
Meeting,
February 21-24, 2010, in Sedona must be dues-paid 2010 WRSA members; please use the
NARSC website to pay
the combined Preregistration and Dues Fee.
Address Changes: Members are requested to report address
changes via
email to: wrsa@email.arizona.edu
WRSA
in the international
regional science community...
The Western
Regional Science
Association is a founding member of both the Pacific Regional Science
Conference
Organization (PRSCO) and the North
American
Regional Science Council (NARSC). These two organizations are
nonmembership, operational arms of the umbrella, worldwide scholarly
membership
group: the Regional Science
Association International (RSAI).
PRSCO sponsors the biannual
Pacific Conferences
of the RSAI in odd-numbered years and a PRSCO Institute (a smaller,
more
focused seminar-style gathering) in even-numbered years. NARSC sponsors
the annual North American Meetings of the RSAI.
As a member organization, WRSA
periodically
serves as host of both the Pacific Conferences and North American
Meetings of
the RSAI. WRSA hosted the 17th Pacific
Conference,
RSCO17, in Portland, Oregon in 2001 and the 45th N. American
Meetings
of the RSAI, in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1998. WRSA will host
the 56th
North American
Meetings of the RSAI in San Francisco, November 18-21, 2009.
For
further information
about WRSA, please contact:
Professor David
A. Plane,
Executive Secretary, WRSA
Geography & Regional Development / University of Arizona
Harvill Building,
Telephone: (520) 621-1738; 621-1652 (messages) / FAX: (520)
621-2889
E-mail: plane@email.arizona.edu
Last
Updated: 2/7/10