Conference themes

Land Use and Water Management in a Sustainable Network Society

The central theme of the conference, Land Use and Water Management in a Sustainable Network Society, expresses two typical Dutch spatial challenges: striking a balance between land use, water management and sustainability, and developing and maintaining well-functioning networks in a small, densely populated internationally oriented country with a polycentric urban structure. But the central theme is in fact of equal interest for most other countries. For example, flooding of rivers and urban water management are matters of great concern all over Europe (and beyond). Sustainability is of global concern. And most, if not all, contemporary societies are characterized by complex polycentric network structures that increasingly extend beyond borders.


Thematic streams

Conference papers were allocated to the following specific thematic streams:

  1. Location of activities
  2. Urban and regional planning and policy
  3. Regional and interregional modelling: theory and empirics
  4. Regional economic growth
  5. Globalisation and regional competitiveness
  6. European union, European integration and cross-border development
  7. Fiscal federalism / institutions and governance
  8. Labour markets
  9. Regional population change and the migration of households and firms
  10. Urban land use, real estate and housing markets
  11. Urban dynamics and development
  12. Entrepreneurship, networks and innovation
  13. Multinational activities
  14. Transport and communication
  15. Agriculture and rural development
  16. Water, natural resources and the environment
  17. Methods and methodology in regional science
  18. Geographical information systems
  19. Young scientist sessions
  20. Tourism

Special sessions

The following special sessions were organized:

  • Spatial planning in Europe (B1)
  • Regeneration of urban districts (B3)
  • Effects and evalutation of spatial planning (B4)
  • Regional institutions and growth (D1)
  • Innovation and regional development (D2)
  • Population-employment interaction models (H1)
  • Co-production in multifunctional development (J1)
  • Railway stations and urban dynamics (K1)
  • Agglomeration economies and urban development (K2)
  • Agglomeration economics (K3)
  • Urban networks (K4)
  • Urban dynamics and locational preferences (K5)
  • Sustainable urban development (BEQUEST) (K7)
  • Pricing in transport (N1)
  • ICT and changing spatial communication patterns (N2)
  • ICT and changing production networks (N3)
  • Teleworking and travel patterns (N4)
  • Choice analysis (N5)
  • Agricultural and rural dynamics in European regions (O1)
  • Water and spatial planning (P2)
  • Water and the economy (P3)
  • Green-blue networks in sustainable landscapes (P4)
  • Transition to renewable energy (P5)
  • Modelling land use change (Q1)

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