Global Challenges for Regions and Cities: Adaptation, Development, Governance

The RSA Russia Division and the Ural Federal University, Graduate School of Economics and Management are partnering in 2017 as part of the XII annual conference Russian Regions in the Focus of Changes on 16-18 November 2017.

As part of this conference, the RSA Russia Division will organise a one-day workshop (17th November) with a focus on Global Challenges for Regions and Cities: Adaptation, Development, Governance.

We welcome papers addressing the following themes:

• New challenges and pressures for regions and cities
• Macroeconomic processes and global trends: regional projection
• Regions and cities: models of adaptation for new economic reality. Urban and regional leadership
• New forms of industrial development and policies. Competitiveness of industrial regions and cities in modern conditions.
• Unemployment, migration, demographic shifts: hardship and social tensions
• Policies for shrinking cities
• Rural areas under new pressures. Marginalization of rural peripheries. Suburbanization processes
• Financial crisis, resilience and recession: impacts for regions and cities, factors of disparities
• Austerity and the financing of urban and regional investment
• Public-private financial investments and ventures for regional and urban development
• City and region building: governance and institutions
• Regional policy in post-soviet countries: old legacies and new challenges
• Trust and accountability as factor of territorial development, participatory democracy, participatory budgeting

We kindly invite researchers, experts, young scientists, policy makers, representatives of the government, local authorities and business community who are interested in the thorough understanding of issues concerned with regional and city development, as well as the search for appropriate models of adaptation to the new economic reality.

Plenary Speakers RSA Russia Workshop 2017:

• Prof Natalia Zubarevich, Professor, Department of Geography, Lomonosov Moscow State — «Capitals of the CIS countries»
• Prof Leonid Limonov, Director General, ANO ICSER «Leontief Centre»; Professor, HSE Campus in St. Petersburg — «Evaluation of impact of the public financial institutions investment projects on territorial development — case of Vnesheconombank»
• Prof Alex Singleton, Professor of Geographic Information Science at the University of Liverpool — «Urban data and applications»
• Dr Oleg Golubchikov, Senior Lecturer in Human Geography — «Urban challenges on post-Soviet space».