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The 2011 Vechta Mini‐conference addresses the restructuring of rural places
and communities under globalization, highlighting the interaction of local and
global actors to produce new hybrid socio‐economic relations. Recent research
highlights the heterogeneity of globalization in which rural places are different to each other, but also different to how they were in the past. The purpose of the conference is to explore and discuss opportunities and challenges
associated with globalizing rural places, and to identify possibilities for policy and practical intervention by rural development actors.
Keynote presentation by
Professor Richard Le Heron, University of Auckland, New Zealand
We invite contributions to the conference on the following topics:
1. Globalization and rural change discourses
2. Global commodity chains, value chains, supply chains and rural development
3. Geographies of responsibility and the agri‐food industries
4. Innovative agri‐food clusters
5. Rural innovation systems
6. Resilient rural regions
7. New global property regimes
8. Mobility of rural knowledge and expertise
9. Transnational rural entrepreneurship
10.Rural policies and planning in the era of global change
11.Alternative food geographies
12.New rural‐urban interactions
13.Globalization and sustainable rural development
Please note that the above topic list is not exhaustive. We invite any
contribution that fits with the general theme of the conference. While this conference is sponsored by the International Geographical Union ‐ Commission on the Dynamics of Economic Spaces ‐ we are particularly interested in participation from individuals in a variety of academic disciplines (including, but not limited to, geography, sociology, anthropology, women and gender studies, planning, international business, and economics).
Information on participating / attending:
Registration:
Conference Package: includes all meals, and conference materials, excludes accommodation: 150 EUR
Pre‐conference field trip (optional): “Agro‐technological Clusters in Globalizing
Worlds” (19 May 2011): 65 EUR
Date:
05/20/2011 - 05/21/2011
Registration deadline:
04/01/2011
Event venue:
University of Vechta, Germany
Institute for Spatial Analysis and Planning in Areas of Intensive Agriculture
49377 Vechta
Niedersachsen
Germany
Target group:
Scientists and scholars
Email address:
Relevance:
international
Subject areas:
Geosciences
Types of events:
Conference / symposium / (annual) conference
Entry:
04/11/2011
Sender/author:
Sabrina Daubenspeck
Department:
Pressestelle
Event is free:
no
Language of the text:
English
URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event34938
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