The Kyrgyz Republic is now a full member country of the International Geographical Union (proposal approved in the recent IGU General Assembly)
IGU Commission on Geography of Governance
Wednesday, 11 April 2018
Friday, 9 March 2018
NZGS/IAG Conference 2018 - Session sponsored by IGU Commission Geography of Governance
NZGS/IAG Conference 2018
‘Creative Conversations, constructive connections’
July 11-14, University of Auckland, New Zealand
After long neglect Antipodean politicians, the public and academics have rediscovered regions as geospatial entities that matter. Earlier work had shown their importance within national economies (OECD: Regions Matter, 2009). Recently, high city accommodation costs have raised public awareness about out-migration to the regions, while academics have raised the spectre of aging and shrinking ‘Zombie’ regions (S. Eaqub: Growing Apart: regional prosperity in New Zealand, 2014; P. Spoonley (ed): Rebooting the Regions, 2016). In response, New Zealand’s new government proposes a NZ$1 billion/year ‘Regional Development (Provincial Growth) Fund’. Similarly, Australia has embarked on its Regions 2030 – Unlocking Opportunity initiative.
‘Creative Conversations, constructive connections’
July 11-14, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Call for Abstracts
Session title: (Re)turn of the Regions? Deciding Antipodean
regional development
After long neglect Antipodean politicians, the public and academics have rediscovered regions as geospatial entities that matter. Earlier work had shown their importance within national economies (OECD: Regions Matter, 2009). Recently, high city accommodation costs have raised public awareness about out-migration to the regions, while academics have raised the spectre of aging and shrinking ‘Zombie’ regions (S. Eaqub: Growing Apart: regional prosperity in New Zealand, 2014; P. Spoonley (ed): Rebooting the Regions, 2016). In response, New Zealand’s new government proposes a NZ$1 billion/year ‘Regional Development (Provincial Growth) Fund’. Similarly, Australia has embarked on its Regions 2030 – Unlocking Opportunity initiative.
Neglected are the challenges of who decides where such support should be directed and whose actions are to be aligned and
coordinated to achieve regional growth or managed decline. Past reforms focused on functional theory to
determine geophysical decision-boundaries, but increasingly the regional
governance literature is exploring the postfunctionalist drivers – community
and identity (e.g. Hooghe and Marks: Community,
Scale, and Regional Governance).
The session sponsored by the IGU Commission on
Geography of Governance aims to discuss recent empirical evidence and
innovative perspectives on subnational regional governance. We welcome papers
on any aspect of the broad area of local and regional governance, country or
region reports, as well as comparative approaches, examining theoretical,
methodological, and/or empirical issues. We would particularly encourage papers
focused on, but not limited to, Australia and New Zealand.
Key-words: Region; governance; economic-development; local government
Session
convenor: Jeff McNeill, School of People,
Environment and Planning, Massey University, New Zealand
Session
sponsored by: IGU Commission Geography of Governance
For additional
information, please contact:
Jeff McNeill
School of People, Environment and
Planning, Massey University, New Zealand
E-mail: J.K.McNeill@massey.ac.nz
E-mail: J.K.McNeill@massey.ac.nz
Please send an abstract (150-200 words) with the
title, author name, institutional affiliation, and contact information to the
session convenor until 26 March.
Download Call for Abstracts (pdf) ->
Download Call for Abstracts (pdf) ->
NEW ZEALAND GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY -
http://www.nzgs.co.nz/nzgs-conferences/annual-general-meeting
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INSTITUTE OF AUSTRALIAN GEOGRAPHERS -
https://www.iag.org.au/nzgs-iag-conference-july-11-14-2018
IGU Commission Geography of Governance: https://sites.google.com/site/igugeogov/
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Thursday, 22 February 2018
International Conference “Understanding the Problems of Inland Waters: Case Study for the Caspian Basin”
International
Conference “Understanding the Problems of Inland Waters: Case Study for the
Caspian Basin”
Institute
of Geography of the Azaerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, together with ECO
SCIENCE FOUNDATION
Baku, 12-14
May 2018
Conference
Web-site: http://www.upcm2018.org
Wednesday, 14 February 2018
Sunday, 4 February 2018
Proceedings of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Geographic Series
Izvestiya Rossiiskoi AkademiiNauk, Seriya Geograficheskaya ->
(Proceedings of the Russian
Academy of Sciences, Geographic Series)
Editorial Board ->
Olga Glezer - Deputy Editor-in-Chief
Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Olga Glezer - Deputy Editor-in-Chief
Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Regional Research of Russia
Olga Glezer - Deputy Editor-in-Chief
Institute of
Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Member Steering Committee - IGU Commission Geography of Governance
International Journal of E-Planning Research (IJEPR)
Editor-in-Chief: Carlos Nunes Silva
Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, University of Lisbon, Portugal
IJEPR indexed in the Web of Science Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), in SCOPUS, and in 14 more Indices.


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Saturday, 13 January 2018
Checks and balances in planning decentralization: lessons from Ontario
Razin, Eran (2018). Checks and balances in planning decentralization: lessons from Ontario. In: Lehavi, A. (ed.) One Hundred Years of Zoning and the Future of Cities. Springer, pp. 177-199.
[Eran Razin - member IGU Commission Geography of Governance]
Cultural event management and urban e-planning through bottom-up user participation
Trono, Anna; Angelo Corallo; Laura Fortunato; Francesco Pettinato & Laura Schina (2018). Cultural event management and urban e-planning through bottom-up user participation. International Journal of E-Planning Research, Vol. 7 (1): 15-33.
[Anna Trono - member IGU Commission Geography of Governance]
Political geography: political ideologies, democracy and elections (in Slovak)
Buček,
J., Plešivčák, M., Przybyla V. (2017). Political geography: political ideologies, democracy and elections (in Slovak). Bratislava:
Comenius University.
[Jan Bucek - member IGU Commission Geography of Governance]
Self-government, Development and Political Extremism at the Regional Level: A Case Study from the Banská Bystrica Region in Slovakia
Buček J., Plešivčák, M. (2017). Self-government,
Development and Political Extremism at the Regional Level: A Case Study from the
Banská Bystrica Region in Slovakia,
Sociológia, Vol.49, No. 6, pp. 599-635.
Abstracts
This
article is a contribution to the debate on specific and interrelated problems
of regional government, regional development and the electoral success of
radical political forces in post-socialist Europe in the late transition times
and during the financial and economic crisis and its aftermath. We document
these issues based on the case of Banská Bystrica region, which is perceived as
one of the most problematic territories in Slovakia in terms of socio-economic
development. We attempt to explain the political success of the radical
far-right political party Kotleba – Ľudová strana Naše Slovensko, observable
since 2013, through an assessment of socio-economic data, in-depth interviews,
as well as statistical analysis. We suggest that the persistently difficult
social and economic situation, the contradictory population structure and
processes (ageing, migration, multi-ethnicity), less successful regional
development policies of central state and EU cohesion policy goals and
implementation, as well as the weaker position and capacities of regional self-government
have contributed to growing apathy and disillusionment in mainstream political
parties, rising Euroscepticism and finally the electoral success of the
far-right in this region.
Full text:
http://www.sav.sk/journals/uploads/12080909Ple%C5%A1iv%C4%8D%C3%A1k%20-%20zalomena%20OK%20autor.pdf
[ Jan Bucek - member IGU Commission
Geography of Governance]
In the centre, but still on the periphery: Is there any room for development of socio-economically deprived region in Slovakia?
Plešivčák, M., Buček, J. (2017). In the centre, but
still on the periphery: Is there any room for development of socio-economically deprived
region in Slovakia? International Journal of Social Economics, Vol. 44
Issue: 11, pp.1539-1558.
[ Jan Bucek - member IGU Commission Geography of Governance]
Local Government and UrbanGovernance in Europe
[Carlos Nunes Silva - member IGU Commission Geography of Governance]
[Jan Bucek - member IGU Commission Geography of Governance]Economic and Social Reforms in the North Caucasus: Goals, Limitations, Problems, and Results
Kolosov, V.A., Vendina, O.I., Gritsenko, A.A., Glezer,
O.B., Zotova, M.V., Sebentsov, A.B., and Panin, A.N. (2017). Economic and Social
Reforms in the North Caucasus: Goals, Limitations, Problems, and Results, Regional
Research of Russia, vol. 7, no. 3, pp.
259–270. DOI: 10.1134/S2079970517030029
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S2079970517030029
Farewell to Decentralisation: The Hungarian Story and its General Implications
Ilona Pálné Kovács; Ákos Bodor; István Finta; Zoltán Grünhut; Péter Kacziba & Gábor Zongor (2017). Farewell to Decentralisation: The Hungarian Story and its General Implications. Croatian and comparative public administration : a journal for theory and practice of public administration, Vol.16, No.4, pages 789-816.
Assessing land use plan implementation: Bridging the performance-conformance divide
Eran Feitelson, Daniel Felsenstein, Eran Razin, Eliahu
Stern (2017). Assessing land use plan implementation: Bridging the
performance-conformance divide, Land Use Policy, Volume 61, 2017, Pages
251-264
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264837716304550
Abstract
The assessment of land use plan implementation is a
contentious issue. The debate centers on whether the crucial evaluation element
is conformance of development to plan directives or alternatively, plan
performance, i.e. the degree to which the plan is actually used. An analytic
framework combining both conformance and performance in the evaluation of
(regional) land use plans is applied to the case of the Central District Plan
in Israel. Qualitative and quantitative simulation methods are exploited.
Qualitative analysis reveals that both performance and conformance are greater
than indicated by non-contextualized, numeric evaluations. Additionally, high
conformance does not necessarily imply good plan performance. Quantitative
simulation suggests that plan performance with respect to land values and
densities is initially pronounced as expectations for development are subdued
but subsequently tends to wane merging with the counterfactual trend. Findings
imply that plan assessment needs to consider the transaction costs of land use
re-designation and actors’ perceptions of the probability that plan amendments
will be approved. These perceptions differ across actors as a function of the
political influence that they wield.
Keywords: Plan implementation evaluation; Land use
planning; Regional planning; Israel
[Eran Razin - member IGU Commission Geography of Governance]
Inequality and Governance in the Metropolis, Regimes of Place Equality and Fiscal Choices in Eleven Countries
Sellers, J.M., Arretche, M.,Kübler, D. and Razin, E. (eds.) (2017) Inequality and Governance in the Metropolis, Regimes of Place Equality and Fiscal Choices in Eleven Countries,Palgrave Macmillan.
[Eran Razin - member IGU Commission Geography of Governance]
Cohesion Policy in Central and Eastern Europe: The Challenge of Learning
Kováks, Ilona Palné (2016). Cohesion Policy in Central and Eastern
Europe: The Challenge of Learning. In Simona Piattoni & Laura
Polverari (eds.). Handbook of Cohesion Policy in the EU. Cheltenham (UK) :
Edward Elgar, pp. 302-324.
[Ilona Palné Kováks - member IGU Commission Geography of Governance]
Participatory methods in urban planning
Jankowski, Piotr & Kaczmarek, Tomasz (eds.)
(2017). Participatory methods in urban planning. Rozwój Regionalny i Polityka Regionalna
(Regional Development and Regional Policy) No 35. Instytut Geografii
Społeczno-Ekonomicznej i Gospodarki Przestrzennej. Adam Mickiewicz University. Poznań.
Download: http://www.rr.amu.edu.pl/
[Tomasz Kaczmarek - member IGU Commission Geography of Governance]
[Tomasz Kaczmarek - member IGU Commission Geography of Governance]
Administrative division of Poland – 25 years of experience during the systemic transformation
Kaczmarek, Tomasz (2016). Administrative division of Poland – 25 years
of experience during the systemic transformation. EchoGéo 35/2016: 1-16.
Download full text (pdf): https://echogeo.revues.org/pdf/14514
[Tomasz Kaczmarek - member IGU Commission Geography of Governance]
Participation in public consultations on spatial planning documents. The case of Poznań City
Kaczmarek, Tomasz & Wójcicki, M. (2016).
Participation in public consultations on spatial planning documents. The case of Poznań City.
Quaestiones Geographicae, 35(2): 71-82.
Download full text (pdf): http://geoinfo.amu.edu.pl/qg/archives/2016/QG352_071-081.pdf
[Tomasz Kaczmarek - member IGU Commission Geography of Governance]
[Tomasz Kaczmarek - member IGU Commission Geography of Governance]
Territorial Governance across Europe: Pathways, Practices and Prospects.
Description
This book provides a comprehensive framework for analysing, comparing and promoting territorial governance in policy relevant research. It reveals in-depth considerations of the emergence, state-of-the art and evolution of the concept of territorial governance. A unique series of ten case studies across Europe, from neighbourhood planning in North Shields in the North East of England to climate change adaptation in the Baltic Sea Region, provides far-reaching insights into a number of key elements of territorial governance. The book draws generalised empirically-based conclusions and discusses modes of transferability of ‘good practices’. A number of suggestions are presented as to how the main findings from this book can inform theories of territorial governance and spatial policy and planning.
[Peter Schmitt
- member IGU Commission Geography of Governance]
Governing Urban Africa
Carlos Nunes Silva (ed.) (2016). Governing Urban Africa. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
[Carlos Nunes Silva - member IGU Commission Geography of Governance]
Urban Development Policy Challenges in East-Central Europe: Governance, City Regions and Financialisation
Urban Development Policy Challenges in East-Central Europe: Governance, City Regions and Financialisation
Quaestiones Geographicae. The Journal of Adam Mickiewicz University. Volume 35, Issue 2, June 2016 (Special Issue) Full texts available at: http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/quageo.2016.35.issue-2/issue-files/quageo.2016.35.issue-2.xml |
[Jan Bucek - member IGU Commission Geography of Governance]
IGU Commission Geography of Governance Annual Conference, 2015 - articles published in the IJEPR
International
Journal of E-Planning Research (IJEPR), 2015 & 2016 -
International
Conference "Local Government and Urban Governance: Citizen Responsive
Innovations in Europe and in Africa" (IGU Commission Geography of
Governance - Lisbon, 9-10 April 2015)
Tobias Vaerst,
Theresa Steffens & Robert Lokaiczyk (2015).Concerns Management,
E-Government and E-Participation: Experiences and Findings from Germany.
International Journal of E-Planning Research (IJEPR) 4(4): 36-49.
IJEPR website: http://www.igi-global.com/article/concerns-management-e-government-and-e-participation/139311
Carlo Francesco
Capra (2016).The Smart City and its Citizens: Governance and Citizen Participation
in Amsterdam Smart City. International Journal of E-Planning Research (IJEPR)
5(1): 20-38.
Lukasz Damurski
(2016). Recent Progress in Online Communication Tools for Urban Planning: A
Comparative Study of Polish and German Municipalities. International Journal
of E-Planning Research (IJEPR) 5(1): 39-54.
IJEPR website: http://www.igi-global.com/article/recent-progress-in-online-communication-tools-for-urban-planning/144772
[Papers from the IGU Commission
Geography of Governance Annual Conference, 2015]
Governance in Transition
Andrew Ryder
& Ján Buček (eds.) (2015). Governance in Transition. Springer
Netherlands, 341 pages, (hardcover ISBN 978-94-007-5502-4; eBook ISBN
978-94-007-5503-1)
View this title
online at: http://www.springer.com/us/book/9789400755024#aboutBook
[Jan Bucek - member IGU Commission Geography of Governance]
[Andrew Ryder - member IGU Commission Geography of Governance]Fiscal Austerity and Innovation in Local Governance in Europe
[Carlos Nunes Silva - member IGU Commission Geography of Governance]
[Jan Bucek - member IGU Commission Geography of Governance]Tuesday, 2 January 2018
World Urban Forum 2018
Cities 2030, Cities for all: Implementing the New Urban Agenda
Kuala Lumpur, 7 -
13 Feb 2018
"The Ninth Session of the World Urban Forum will
be the first session to focus on the implementation of the New Urban Agenda
adopted in Habitat III. WUF9 will be instrumental to substantively feed into
the inputs for the first report of the implementation of the New Urban Agenda."
IGU Commission Geography of Governance' 2018 Annual International Conference
"Local Governance in the New Urban Agenda" -->
Thursday, 21 December 2017
NZGS / IAG Conference 2018
NZGS / IAG
Conference
‘Creative
conversations, constructive connections’
July 11-14
2018
University of
Auckland, New Zealand
Joint conference of the New Zealand Geographical
Society and the Institute of Australian Geographers
Initial key dates:
Call for sessions opens December 18 2017
Call for sessions closes February 8 2018
Sessions listed and call for papers open February 15 –
March 31 2018
Conference e-mail: conference@nzgs.co.nz
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