SOCIO-ECONOMIC SPATIAL SYSTEMS AND TERRITORIAL GOVERNANCE
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Main Themes

The heritage of Professor Salme Nõmmik and contemporary studies in human geography

- The most important scientific works of Professor Salme Nõmmik
- Human geography and politics in the Soviet system
- Soviet economic geography and Western regional science - the formation and cross border transfer of
ideas
- Applied studies at the Department of Geography and their application in spatial policy and planning

Theory and methodology
- New economic geography and old regional science
- The prospects of mathematics and modelling in Human Geography and other social sciences
- Territorial production complexes, economic clusters and innovation systems
- New research methods in human geography
- Geography at school and university as designer of spatial perception and consciousness

Socio-economic spatial systems and administrative structures
- Multi-level governance, territorial politics and city regions
- Consolidation versus fragmentation in territorial governance
- Territorial administrative reforms: driven by science and/or by politics
- Devolution and subsidiarity - nice European buzzwords not necessarily followed in Eastern Europe
- Socio-economic spatial system - what kind of settlement system is going to be by the mid
21st century?
- Demography and urban networks
- Suburban sprawl in Eastern Europe: how to plan new real estate developments and dacha-areas?

Structural change, innovation and regional/local development
- Geographic proximity and economies of scale in a low density populated regions
- The limits of economic resilience of regions
- Climate change and the future of the Baltic Sea resource based regional economies
- Restructuring of "traditional? industries dominated settlements/regions
- Changing geography of foreign direct investment in the Baltic and CEE countries
- The dynamics of local and regional labour markets
- Networking and regional clusters of firms
- Possibilities for knowledge-based economy in geographic peripheries
- Post-productivism: cultural and tourist economies and rural development futures
- Territorially embedded NGOs - driving forces of local development
- Regional policy in Eastern Europe: National or European issue


Organisers and Relevant Addresses

The Conference will be organised by the Department of Geography of the Faculty of Sciences and Technology in collaboration with Faculty of Economics of the University of Tartu, Faculty of Social Sciences of Tallinn University of Technology, and the Institute of Humanities of the University of Tallinn. Conference has been supported by the Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences and Estonian Science Foundation.

Organising Committee
Prof REIN AHAS, Professor, Dep. of Geography, University of Tartu, Chairman of the NOC
Dr. HARDO AASMÄE, Estonian Encyclopaedia Publishers
Prof. JUSSI S. JAUHIAINEN, Dep. of Geography, University of Turku
Prof. OTT KURS, Professor emeritus, Dep. of Geography, University of Tartu
Mrs. PILLE METSPALU, Chairperson of Association of Estonian Planners
Dr. JÜRI KÕRE, Ass. Professor, Institute of Sociology, University of Tartu
Prof RIHO NÕMMIK, Institute of Nuclear Physics, Moscow State University
Prof TIIU PAAS, Faculty of Economics of the University of Tartu
Prof. HANNES PALANG, Head of the Institute of Humanities of the University of Tallinn
Dr. GARRI RAAGMAA, Researcher, Dep. of Geography, University of Tartu

Organising Team
Garri Raagmaa, co-ordinator
Department of Geography, University of Tartu
Vanemuise 46, 51014, Tartu, ESTONIA
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E-mail: garri@ut.ee



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