The 16^th Pacific Regional Science Conference Organization Summer Institute

New Landscape of Data and Sustainable Development

Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

July 25-27, 2019

The Summer Institute is hosted by the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Faculty of Architecture, Chulalongkorn University and co-hosted by the Faculty of Architecture and Planning, Thammasat University. The program will feature presentations by leading scholars from more than 20 countries, panels of experts, workshops, and countless opportunities for networking. The attendees at the Summer Institute come from around the world, representing North America, Latin America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific countries.

The Summer Institute will feature several world-renowned keynote speakers on cutting-edge urban and regional science and policy issues, expert panels, research presentations and posters. It will be attended by delegates from the worldwide community of regional scientists.

Research topics related to the theme of the Summer Institute are particularly welcome, but the conference will be open to other topics within the broader contours of the regional science, urban and regional studies, geographical sciences and planning, and development. Anticipated sub-themes of the conference include the following:

Big Data in regional science
Emerging challenges for regional development
Vision and management of sustainable cities
Energy, development, and sustainability
Rural and local development
Accessibility, infrastructure and regional economic growth
Social capital and regional development
Agglomeration, clusters, congestion and policy
Globalization and regional competitiveness

Migration, cultural networks and regional development
Social segregation, poverty and social policy
Climate change and sustainable regional development
Innovation, knowledge economy and regional development
Geographical information science and spatial analysis
Spatial econometrics
New frontiers in regional science: theory and methodology
Infrastructure, transportation and communication

Land use, real estate and housing markets
Tourism, cultural industries and regional development
Urban governance and cities regeneration
City systems and systems of cities
Advances in I-O and CGE modeling
Food security
Global cities
Southeast Asian regional economic integration

Selected papers presented at the conference will be invited to publish in a special issue of Regional Science Policy & Practice (indexed in SCOPUS and Web of Science).