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Conference Themes and Submitted Titles

Plenary speakers
Theories and discourses of economic geography
Culture and ethnicity in economic geography
Engendering economic geography
Consumption and economic geography
Finance and economic geography
Geography of service economies
Organising industrial spaces
Labour geographies
Development geography
Geographies of international trade and investment
Dynamics of urban and regional development
Geographies of transitional economies
Economy and the environment
Virtual economies
Uneven geographies of global capitalism
Innovation, learning, and communities of practice
Rural and resource economies

The following is a list of papers submitted thus far for the Global Conference on Economic Geography. Where no theme was given in the submission, we have tentatively placed papers under the seemingly most relevant section. Email addresses are given to enable coordination and discussion between delegates with similar interests. This listing will be updated regularly until registration closes.

Last modified: 6 September 2000

Important note: this is only a preliminary listing of papers, and subject to change. Please contact us if your title changes, if you would like to be moved to a more appropriate theme, or if you would like to suggest a new theme or special session.

Four plenary speakers have been confirmed:

Ash Amin, Department of Geography, University of Durham, Durham, England (Ash.Amin@durham.ac.uk)

Walden Bello, FOCUS on the Global South, Bangkok, Thailand (walden@csi.com.ph; W.Bello@focusweb.org)

Trevor Barnes, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada (tbarnes@geog.ubc.ca)

Katherine Gibson, Department of Human Geography, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia (katherine.gibson@anu.edu.au)

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Theories and discourses of economic geography

John Allen, The Open University, UK (J.R.allen@open.ac.uk)
Power/economic knowledge: living on thin abstractions

Trevor Barnes, University of British Columbia, Canada (tbarnes@geog.ubc.ca)
Making Numbers Count

Ray Hudson, University of Durham, UK (ray.hudson@durham.ac.uk)
Why economic geography still needs Marxian political economy

Weidong Liu and Dadao Lu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China (liuequn@public.east.cn.net)
A Review of the Development of Economic Geography in China

Fujio Mizuoka, Hitotsubashi University, Japan (fmizuoka@econgeog.misc.hit-u.ac.jp)
The demise of a critical institution of economic geography in Japan

Fredrik Sjoholm, National University of Singapore (ecssf@nus.edu.sg) and 
Orjan Sjoberg, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden
Common ground? Prospects for integrating the economic geography of geographers and economists

Chris Webster, University of Wales, Cardiff, UK  (Webster@cf.ac.uk)
Cities of Clubs

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Culture and ethnicity in economic geography

Harald Bauder, University of British Columbia, Canada (hbauder@geog.ubc.ca)
Immigration and Integration of labour in Vancouver, Canada

Peter Dorrenbacher, Universitat des Saarlandes (p.doerren@rz.uni-sb.de) and
Christian Schulz, University of Cologne, Germany (ch.schulz@uni-koeln.de)
The emergence of a cross-border production system and its cultural dimension: 
the case of the car manufacturing industry in Saar-Lorraine (Germany/France)

Johannes Hamhaber, Universitaet zu Koeln, Germany (j.hamhaber@uni-koeln.de)
The Geography of Energy as Geographies of Power: New York State Electricity Imports and Cross-Cultural Conflict

You-tien Hsing, University of British Columbia, Canada (yhsing@geog.ubc.ca)
Ethnic Identity and Business Solidarity: Chinese Capitalism Revisited	

Louise Johnson, Deakin University, Australia (lcj@deakin.edu.au)
The city of spectacle, cultural capital and the politics of difference

George C.S. Lin, University of Hong Kong (gcslin@hkucc.hku.hk)
Identity, mobility and the making of the Chinese diasporic landscape: the case of Hong Kong

Katharyne Mitchell, University of Washington, USA (kmitch@u.washington.edu)
Transnationalism, citizenship, and the politics of place

John Pickles, University of Kentucky, USA (geg198@pop.uky.edu)
Mobilizing Social Networks: Ethnicity, Violence, and Neoliberal Transitions 

John Douglas Porteous, University of Victoria, Canada
Globalizing Easter Island: Chileans Vs Rapanui

Allen J. Scott, University of California at Los Angeles, USA (ajscott@geog.ucla.edu)
Capitalism, cities, and the production of symbolic forms

Lotte Thomsen, Centre for Development Research, Copenhagen, Denmark (lth@cdr.dk)
Private sector development in Vietnam. The role of ethnicity and business-state 
relations in a Southeast Asian economy in transition

Patrick Webb, Tufts University, USA (pwebb@infonet.tufts.edu)
Hungry People of Hungry Places?

Yushi Utaka, Hiroshima University. Japan (utaka@hiroshima-u.ac.jp)
The Conservation and Development for Buffer Zone of The World Heritage
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Engendering economic geography

Katarina Pettersson (Katarina.Pettersson@kultgeog.uu.se)
Images of 'competitive regions' - Economic geography and representations of gender

Helen Jarvis, University of Newcastle, U.K. (helen.jarvis@ncl.ac.uk)
Zen and the art of livelihood maintenance: issues of "quality" in household home-work-gender relations

Robin Law, University of Otago, New Zealand (robin.law@geography.otago.ac.nz)
Work and daily mobility for men and women in urban space: a century of change.
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Consumption and economic geography

Ulrike Gerhard, Geographisches Institut (u.gerhard@uni-koeln.de)
Shopping and Leisure: New Patterns of Consumer Behaviour in Canada and Germany
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Finance and economic geography

Pierre Agnes, Macquarie University, Australia (pagnes@ocs1.ocs.mq.edu.au)
Local Embeddedness in Global Financial Services

Neil Argent, University of New England, Australia (nargent@metz.une.edu.au)
Virtual Finance and Real Geographies of Financial Exclusion and Inclusion in Post-Deregulation Australia

Jonathan Beaverstock, Loughborough University, UK (j.v.beaverstock@lboro.ac.uk)
Expatriate Labour in International Financial Centres: Evidence from New York City

Gordon Clark, University of Oxford, UK (gordon.clark@geog.ox.ac.uk)
Pensions, retirement income and the new map of European financial services

Milford B. Green, University of Western Ontario, Canada (mbgreen@julian.uwo.ca)
Changes in inter-corporate ownership and aggregate industry diversification in the Canadian economy, 1976-1995

Iain Hay, Flinders University, Australia (iain.hay@flinders.edu.au)

Seiko Kitajima, Hirosahi University, Japan (seiko@cc.hirosaki-u.ac.jp)
Dealing with the internationalization of financial capital: the state and local interests over the banking crisis in Japan

John Langdale, Macquarie University, Australia (JOHN.LANGDALE@MQ.EDU.AU)

Vivien Lo, Universitaet Frankfurt, Germany (V.Lo@em.uni-frankfurt.de)
And Michael H. Grote, Universitaet Frankfurt, Germany (grote@stud.uni-frankfurt.de)
Where traders go when stock exchanges go virtual: urbanisation, localisation, virtualisation and what next?

Niall Majury, Queen's University of Belfast, UK (niall@geog.leeds.ac.uk)
Risk management and the re-scaling of international finance: Technology, the diffusion of trust and geographies of risk

Andrew W. Mullineux, University of Birmingham, UK (A.W.Mullineux@bham.ac.uk)
Global Trends in Finance & Corporate Governance (Is there still scope for regional variation?)

Phillip O'Neill, University of Newcastle, Australia (ggpmo@cc.newcastle.edu.au)
Analysts, journalists, managers and the investment strategies of a large corporation

Adam Tickell, University of Southampton, UK (a.tickell@soton.ac.uk)
Framing regulation: policy development and policy transfer in international finance

David Wadley, University of Queensland, Australia (d.wadley@mailbox.UQ.edu.au)

Dariusz Wójcik, University of Oxford, UK (dariusz.wojcik@jesus.ox.ac.uk)
Size and structure of European stock markets: Geography of difference

Neil Wrigley,  University of Southampton, UK (N.Wrigley@soton.ac.uk)
Globalising retail

Matthew Zook, University of California at Berkeley (zook@socrates.berkeley.edu)
Grounding Capital: The Geographic Nature of Venture Financing in the United States
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Geography of service economies

Claes G. Alvstam, Göteborg University, Sweden (claes.alvstam@geography.gu.se)
The volatile location of value added in cross-border professional business services transactions

William B. Beyers, University of Washington, USA (beyers@u.washington.edu)
Services and the New Economy: Elements of a Research Agenda

Margareta Dahlstrom, University of Birmingham, UK (M.dahlstrom@bham.ac.uk)
The role of the service sector in the restructuring of old industrial regions - the case of the West Midlands

Peter Daniels, The University of Birmingham, UK (p.w.daniels@bham.ac.uk) and Kelvin O'Connor, Monash University, Australia
Globalisation, Producer Services and the Asian City

Gernot Grabher, University of Bonn, Germany (grabher@giub.uni-bonn.de)
The organisation of creativity - heterarchies in the media industries

Thomas A. Hutton,University of British Columbia, Canada (thutton@interchange.ubc.ca)
Service industries and urban transformation within the Asia-Pacific

Sebastian Kinder, University of Oxford, UK (sebastian.kinder@geography.oxford.ac.uk)
Industrial districts in a Global City: Networking amongst advanced producer service companies in Singapore

Kentaro Kuwatsuka, Hiroshima University, Japan (hkuwa@ipc.hiroshima-u.ac.jp)
Corporate networks and the geographical agglomeration of Japanese firms in Singapore

Thomas R Leinbach, University of Kentucky, USA (leinbach@pop.uky.edu)
John Bowen, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, USA (BowenJ@VAXA.cis.uwosh.edu)
Air Cargo Services and Competitive Advantage in Industrializing Economies

Nooriah Yusof, Universiti Sains Malaysia (nooriah@usm.my) 
Producer services in metropolitan Kuala Lumpur : locational characteristics, trade pattern and service strategy

Kris Olds, National University of Singapore (geoko@nus.edu.sg)
Elite Architects in the Asia-Pacific: Dilemmas of the Heteronomous Service Class 

Ratna Saraswati and Sugeng Rahardjo, University of Indonesia (rsaraswati@hotmail.com)
The Development of Economic Service Centre in the Depok Area

Peter Sjoholt, The Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, Norway (Peter.sjoholt@nhh.no)
Knowledge transfer by business related services. Prerequisites and constraints

Richard Smith, University of Leicester, UK (rgs10@le.ac.uk)
A Cinderella story: the rise of global law firms

Anthony Yeh, University of Hong Kong (hdxugoy@hkucc.hku.hk)
Competitive advantages of cities in producer services
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Organising industrial spaces

Ali B Najib, Uppsala University, Sweden (Ali.Najib@kultgeog.uu.se)
The Geography of Immigrant Firms in Sweden

Sergio Conti, Universita di Torino, Italy (contise@econ.unito.it)
Local development and competitiveness - New discourses in economic geography

Richard Le Heron, University of Auckland, New Zealand (r.leheron@auckland.ac.nz)
Global value chains and networking: a critical perspective on learning challenges in the New Zealand dairy and meat commodity chains

Martin Hess, University of Munich, Germany (Hess@bwl.uni-muenchen.de)
Life Sciences and Biotechnology in Germany ­ spatial structures and developments

Ian Maclachlan, University of Lethbridge, Canada (maclachlan@uleth.ca)
Dynamics of Meat Packing in Canada

Uma Sankar Malik and Anil Baran Mandal, Visva-Bharati, India (uma@vbharat.ernet.in)
Contemporary Structural Transformation and Spatial Disposition of Indian Industries

Andrew M. Marton, University of Nottingham, UK (andrew.marton@nottingham.ac.uk)
Globalization and the Indigenous Dynamic in Taiwan's Industrial Transformation

Sam Ock Park, Seoul National University, South Korea (parkso@snu.ac.kr; parkso@plaza.snu.ac.kr)
Dynamics of Economic Space: New Opportunity for Economic Geography in the New Century

C J Pen, University Groningen, The Netherlands (C.J. PEN@frw.rug.nl)
Strategic Decision Making on Firm location choices (Location Theory in a Behavioural Perspective)

Nick Phelps, University of Wales, UK (PhelpsN@cardiff.ac.uk)
Contrasts in agglomeration: proto industrial, industrial & post industrial forms compared

Special session organised by Robert Lewis

Richard Harris, McMaster University, Canada (harrisr@mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca)
Flexible Construction: Modernisation and the House-Building Industry, 1940s-1960s

Robert Lewis, University of Toronto, Canada (lewis@cirque.geog.utoronto.ca)
Flexible Manufacturing : Factories, Urban Spaces

Gordon Winder, The University of Auckland, NZ (g.winder@auckland.ac.nz)
Building Business Networks: Organising International Production and Sales Networks, 1850-1914

Christian Zeller, University of Hamburg, Germany (zeller@geowiss.uni-hamburg.de)
Restructuring and re-scaling of production and research in the pharmaceutical industry
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Labour geographies

Stephen J. Appold, National University of Singapore (appold@nus.edu.sg)
Entrepreneurship and Labor Markets: Is An Innovative Singapore Possible?

Chris Benner, University of California, Berkeley (cbenner@socrates.berkeley)
Economic Opportunity in a Volatile Labor Market: Labor Market Intermediaries in Silicon Valley

Kam Wing Chan, University of Washington, Seattle, USA (kwchan@u.washington.edu)
Institutional Barriers and Migrants in the Chinese Urban Labor Market

Neil Coe and Philip F. Kelly, National University of Singapore (geoneilc@nus.edu.sg)
Dissipating dissent? Crisis management and the Singapore labour regime, 1997-1999

Thomas J. Cooke, University of Connecticut, USA (tcooke@uconn.edu)
With Adrian J. Bailey and Megan Blake, School of Geography, University of Leeds
The Trailing Wife Hypothesis: A Biographical Approach

Liisa Cormode, University of Calgary, Canada (lcormode@hotmail.com)
At the top of the pile: highly-skilled international labour migrants and Canadian public policy

Stuart Dawley, CURDS, University of Newcastle (s.j.dawley@ncl.ac.uk)
Labour market responses to foreign direct investment, disinvestment and reinvestment:
the case of the microelectronics industry in the north east of England, 1989-2000

Chloë Flutter, University of Oxford, UK (chloe.flutter@hertford.ox.ac.uk)
Can the French 35 hour week policy survive within the EMU?

John Holmes, Queen's University, Canada (holmesj@post.queensu.ca)
NAFTA, Lean Production and Autoworkers' Unions: Reshaping the Labour Geography of the North American Auto Industry

Andy Jonas, University of Hull, UK (A.E.Jonas@geo.hull.ac.uk)
A Place for Locality in Labour Geographies? Globalisation, Local labour Control Regimes, and Locally-Emergent Properties

Philip F. Kelly, National University of Singapore (seapfk@nus.edu.sg)
Spaces of labour control in Southeast Asia

Cleophas Lado, University of Western Cape, South Africa (clado@uwc.ac.za)
The transition and prospects of labour geographies in the era of economic globalisation in Nigeria and South Africa

Wendy Larner, University of Auckland, New Zealand (w.larner@auckland.ac.nz)
Globalisation and governmentality: creating a call centre labour force

Philip S. Morrison, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand (philip.morrison@vuw.ac.nz)
Globalization and the labour market

Alan Nash, Concordia University, Canada
The geographical impact of business migration programs: a critique and a re-evaluation of their effects 
on both sending and receiving countries

Jamie Peck, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA (jpeck@geography.wisc.edu)
Zapping labor III: three moments of restructuring in the American job market

Anita POECKL, University of Vienna, Austria (anita.poeckl@univie.ac.at)
The "Brain Drain Phenomenon": Skilled emigration from less-favoured regions in the European Union ­ a case study from Austria

Susan M. Roberts, University of Kentucky, USA (geg207@pop.uky.edu)
Geo-politics of outrage and action: the child labor issue

Stavros Rodokanakis, The London School of Economics, UK (srodokanakis@hotmail.com)
Human Capital in Greece: Comparative Analysis Between Employed and Unemployed in Urban, Semi-Urban and Rural Areas

David Sadler, University of Durham, UK (d.w.sadler@durham.ac.uk) and Bob Fagan, Macquarie University, Australia (rfagan@laurel.ocs.mq.edu.au)
Australian labour and discursive representations of the spatiality of power: contesting the "third wave" of legislative reform

Elissa Sutherland, University of Newcastle, Australia (ggeas@cc.newcastle.edu.au)
The chameleon state: policy and strategies for governing home-based outwork in the Australian Clothing Industry 

Jane Wills, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, UK (j.wills@qmw.ac.uk)
Social movement, trade unionism and international capitalism

Gisèle Yasmeen, University of British Columbia, Canada (gisele@interchange.ubc.ca)
Innovative Labor Organizing Strategies: Women in the Food Sector in South & Southeast Asia
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Development geography

Mohammad Jahangir Alam Chowdhury, University of Stirling, Scotland (mjac2@stir.ac.uk)
Micro-Credit and Poverty Alleviation in Bangladesh

Abdul Aziz Kaloko, University of Brunei, Brunei (kaloko@ubd.edu.bn)
Globalization and the economic development of small states in the New Millennium

M.M. Karunanayake and M.D.C. Abhayaratna, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka (mabhaya@lanka.ccom.lk)
Re-defining regional development in Sri Lanka	

Ali Mohammad, Aligarh Muslim University, India (khanmazhar@123india.com)
A regional dimension of population and food security in South Asia

Sergio Conti and Paolo Giaccaria, Dipartimento Interateneo Territorio, University and Polytechnic, Italy (giaccaria@econ.unito.it)
Is local development a new paradigm for development studies? Some theoretical reflections

George Curry, Curtin University of Technology, Australia (curryg@spectrum.curtin.edu.au)
Markets and pre-capitalist exchange

Bob Gwynne, University of Birmingham, UK (r.n.gwynne@bham.ac.uk)
Contract farming and land markets in Latin America

Hafid Setiadi, University of Indonesia (hafid_setiadi@hotmail.com)
Spatial Framework and Strategy for Economic Development: Study case in Bengkulu Province, Indonesia

Sarwar Jahan and Md. Abdur Rouf, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (sjahan@urp.buet.edu)
Urbanization in Bangladesh: patterns and process

Jamshed Ahmad Khan, A. M. U. Aligarh, India (cc.5946@amu.up.nic.in)
Rurul Development through Better Use of Natural Resources in India: A Case Study

Juan-Luis Klein, Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Canada (klein.juan-luis@uqam.ca)
Socio-Economics and Local Development: The Case of Quebec in Canada

Stein Kristiansen, Agder University College, Norway (Stein.Kristiansen@hia.no)
The Role of Small-Scale Entrepreneurs in Changing Indonesian Contexts

Marianne Nylandsted Larsen, Centre for Development Research, Denmark, (mnl@cdr.dk)
Globalisation and African Agriculture: restructuring of the cotton marketing system in Zimbabwe

Claes Lindberg, Shanta Wijesinghe and Ali B. Najib, Uppsala University, Sweden (Clas.Lindberg@kultgeog.uu.se)
The Role of Small Enterprises in the Household and National Economy in Sri-Lanka

Mokbul Morshed Ahmad, National University of Ireland (dgg3mma@hotmail.com)
NGOs, the state and donors in Bangladesh

Ben N. Mosiane, University of North-West, South Africa (nbmgeo@unibo.uniwest.ac.za)
Promoting growth and development in South Africa's peripheral regions: the case of the North-West Province

Francoise Orban-Ferauge, University of FUNDP, Belgium (francoise.orban@fundp.ac.be)
How Geography can contribute to a sustainable equitable planning-oriented development

Suriati Ghazali, Universiti Sains Malaysia (suriati@usm.my)
Kut (rotating credif fund) in the livelihood strategies of the urban households in Malaysia

Janet Townsend and Emma Mawdsley, Durham University, UK (e.e.mawdsley@durham.ac.uk)
Whose Ideas?  Development Charities talking, from the grassroots to the internet

Sarah Turner, University of Otago, New Zealand (s.turner@geography.otago.ac.nz)
Small scale entrepreneurs in Hanoi, Vietnam. Changing Times, Changing Challenges.

AHM Zehadul karim, Rajshahi University, Bangladesh (rajucc@citechco.net)
The socio-economic condition and the subsistence activities of the santals in the adjoining Rajshahi Periurban areas of Bangladesh
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Geographies of international trade and investment

Proinnsias Breathnach, National University of Ireland, Ireland (Proinnsias.Breathnach@may.ie)
The changing locational behaviour of transnational corporations: 
Towards an explanation of the recent inward investment surge in the Republic of Ireland

Jess Browning, University of Washington, USA (jessb@u.washington.edu)
Globalization, Transportation, and Supply Chain Management

Neil Coe, National University of Singapore (geoneilc@nus.edu.sg)
Mapping globalisation in the Asia-Pacific: IT sector linkages between Southeast Asia and the USA

Niels Fold, Copenhagen University, Denmark (nf@geogr.ku.dk)
Restructuring in the European chocolate industry and effects in the cocoa producing countries

Sung-Hoon Jung, University of Sussex, UK (S.Jung@sussex.ac.uk)
The Global-Local Interplay of Samsung's FDI in Billingham, the Northeast of England, UK: Geographies of a Floating Plant

Inge Ivarsson, Göteborg University, Sweden (Inge.Ivarsson@geography.gu.se)
TNCs, local business networks and the development of technology

Erja Kettunen, Helsinki School of Economics, Finland (ekettune@hkkk.fi)
EU-ASEAN trade policies 

Yeong  Kim, Ohio University, USA (kimy1@ohio.edu)
Multinational Corporations in Trouble - Hyundai Motor India and Local Settings

Kristiina Korhonen, Helsinki School of Economics, Finland (kkorhone@hkkk.fi)
Change in Korean investment policy

Anders Larsson, University of Göteborg, Sweden (anders.larsson@geography.gu.se)
Local effects of global sourcing: a study of Volvo automotive suppliers in Sweden.

Jakob Lindahl, Roskilde University and Centre for Development Research, Copenhagen, Denmark (lindahl@ruc.dk)
Linking up to East Asian production networks:  regional investment and its impact on industrial upgrading in Vietnam

Xiaojian Li, Henan University, China (xjli@server200.henu.edu.cn)
Globalization and spatial restructuring of China's stated owned enterprises: company case studies from central China

Becky Mansfield, University of Oregon, USA (bkm@oregon.uoregon.edu)
Linking economic and cultural processes of globalization: development of the global surimi seafood industry

Winnie Pang and Xu Gang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (ps7797142d@ntu.edu.sg; agxu@ntu.edu.sg)
Determinants of Japanese Foreign Direct Investment in East Asia

Bill Pritchard, University of Sydney, Australia (b.pritchard@geography.usyd.edu.au)
Global discourse, global strategy and the putative global tomato

Michael M. Roche and Megan K.L. McKenna, Geography Programme, School of Global Studies, Massey University, 
New Zealand (M.McKenna@massey.ac.nz)
Core-Periphery Trade for New Zealand Apples:  the case of Asia

Grete Rusten, Foundation for Research in Economics and Business Administration (SNF), Norway (grete.rusten@snf.no)
Foreign Direct Investments and regional effects (empirical evidence from Norway)

Jonathan M. Scott, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland (JM.SCOTT@ULST.AC.UK)
Industrial Trade and Competition between Northern Ireland and Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs)

James D Sidaway and John R Bryson, University of Birmingham, UK; Michael  Pryke, The Open University, UK (sidawajd@hotmail.com)
Constructing knowledges of 'emerging markets': geographies and sociologies

Bert van der Knaap, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands (vanderknaap@few.eur.nl)
Regional change and the dynamics of energy consumption

Eirik Vatne, Norwegian School and Economics and Business Administration, Norway (eirik.vatne@nhh.no)
Global markets - local competence? Internationalisation of the Norwegian petroleum industry

Xu Gang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (agxu@ntu.edu.sg)
Why Japanese Companies Invest in Singapore

Michael Webber and Sally Weller, University of Melbourne, Australia (mjwebber@myriad.its.unimelb.EDU.AU)
Trade and inequality
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Dynamics of urban and regional development

Scott Baum, University of Queensland, Australia (s.baum@mailbox.uq.edu.au) (with Robert Stimson and Kevin O'Connor)
Agglomeration effects and socioeconomic differentiation: the Australian megametro hierarchy

Andrew Beer, Flinders University, Australia (andrew.beer@flinders.edu.au)
On Wine, Rents and Regions: Governance and Economic Restructuring in Non-Metropolitan Australia 

Martin Bickl, Technische Universitat Munchen, Germany (martin@bickl.de)
Image and inward investment: strategies and impacts of place marketing

Peter Cabus, Flanders' Social and Economic Council, Belgium (pcabus@serv.be)
The emergence of the network enterprise and agglomeration economies

Muriel Charras, CNRS LASEMA (Laboratoire Asie du Sud Est), France (charras@ext.jussieu.fr)
The umbalanced regional development of Indonesia

Eric Clark, Lund University, Sweden (Eric.Clark@kulekgeo.lu.se)
Hans Thor Andersen and Anders Lund, Copenhagen University, Denmark
Social-spatial fragmentation, globalization and the 'new spirit' of urban governance in Copenhagen

M.H. Dewi Susilowati & Tito Latif Indra, University of Indonesia (ppgtui@indosat.net.id)
Land use changes in Jakarta

Saidov Firuz, Strategic Research Center, Tajikistan (fsaidov@td.silk.org)
Economic Growth and Regional Income Difference in Market Economy Condition

Martina Fromhold-Eisebith, University of Technology Aachen, Germany (mfeisebith@geo.rwth-aachen.de)
Globally Oriented Foreign MNCs as Agents of local learning in less developed countries? 
Insights from two Asian technology regions (Bangalore, India and Bandung, Indonesia)

Amy Glasmeier and Lawrence Wood, Penn State University, USA (akg1@ems.psu.edu)
Growing apart: globalization's effects on regional economic change

Stephen Graham, University of Newcastle, UK (s.d.n.graham@ncl.ac.uk)
Constructing glocal scalar fixes: infrastructure networks, urban economic development, and the splintering of cityspaces

Mia Gray, University of Cambridge, UK (pmg27@cam.ac.uk)

Brita Hermelin, Uppsala University, Sweden (brita.hermelin@kurtgeog.uu.se)
Growing industries in the urban economy ­ a place perspective

Susanne Heeg, University of Hamburg, Germany (s_heeg@yahoo.com)
Regionalization and metropolitan regions: the case of Berlin-Brandenburg

Greg Heys, University of Newcastle, Australia (gheys@mail.newcastle.edu.au)
Will Patched Old Wine Skins Contain the New Vintage?

Lubna J. Khan, International Institute for Aerospace Surveys and Earth Sciences (ITC), The Netherlands (ljkhan@itc.nl)

Arnoud Lagendijk, University of Nijmegen (A.Lagendijk@mailbox.kun.nl) and
Paivi Oinas, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands (oinas@few.eur.nl)
Combatant Companies contra Content Communities 

Roger Lee, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, UK (r.lee@qmw.ac.uk)
Are local economic geographies possible?

Lia Warlina, University of Indonesia (liaagma@indo.net.id)
Urban spatial organization: case of Bandung commercial zone

Anders Malmberg, Uppasala University, Sweden (anders.malmberg@kultgeog.uu.se)
The elusive concept of agglomeration economies: theoretical principles and empirical paradoxes

Alaric Maude, Flinders University, Australia (Alaric.Maude@flinders.edu.au)
The region as a source of firm competitiveness: biotechnology firms in Australia

Toshio MIZUUCHI,  Osaka City University, Japan (mizuuchi@lit.osaka-cu.ac.jp)
Success or failure; regional and urban development in Osaka metropolitan region

Heather N. Nicol, State University of West Georgia, USA (hnicol@westga.edu)
The Caribbean Basin in Global Context

Jan Nijman, University of Miami, USA (nijman@miami.edu)
The Rise of the Global CBD: Mumbai's Space-Economy at the Turn of the Century

Urban Nordin, Stockholm University, Sweden (Urban.Nordin@mail.humangeo.su.se)
Does an improving communications network marginalize the urban periphery? 

Triarko Nurlambang, University of Indonesia (arinas@indo.net.id)
The future spatial economic development in Indonesia

Xiaomin Pang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China (pangxm@dls.iog.ac.cn)
Changing Inter-regional Relationship and Regional cooperation in China

Donghyun Park, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (adpark@ntu.edu.sg)
Inter-Regional Distribution of World Income, 1960-1995

Balaji Parthasarathy, Indian Institute of Information Technology, India (pbalaji@uclink4.berkeley.edu)
Information Technology, The State and Regional Development in Bangalore, India

Jorma Pietala, Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration, Finland (pietala@hkkk.fi)
The residential status and consumer behaviour in Helsinki metropolitan area

Peter Rimmer, Australian National University, Australia (primmer@coombs.anu.edu.au)
Howard Dick, Melbourne University, Australia (h.dick@ecomfac.unimelb.edu.au)
Capitalising urbanisation: Asia's mega cities as platforms for globalisation

Miguel Rivas, Instituto de Fomento de Andalucia, Spain (mrivas@central.ifa.es)
Cluster development from a policy perspective

Dmitry Romanov, St. Petersburg State University, Russia (romanovds@mail.ru)
The creation of  a Coastal Industrial Transport Zone in the Saint Petersburg region in order to stimulate investment and regional development

Jonathan Rutherford, University of Newcastle, UK (J.A.Rutherford@newcastle.ac.uk)
Urban telecommunications strategies and economic development in Paris and London

Shen Jianfa, Chinese University of Hong Kong (jianfa@cuhk.edu.hk)
Spatial transformation and regional integration in Hong Kong-Zhujiang Delta region

John R. Short, Syracuse University, USA (jrshort@maxwell.syr.edu)
Globalization and The City: Extending The Research Frontier

Guenter Spreitzhofer, University of Vienna, Austria (guenter.spreitzhofer@univie.ac.at)
Globalizing urbanization in western Java: Aspects of economic transformation and ecological disaster in Jabotabek 

Syed Kausar Shamim, Aligarh Muslim University, India (ggr008@amu.up.nic.in)
Dynamics of regional imbalances in socio-economic development in India

Anthony M Townsend, New York University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA (amt@mit.edu)
Information and Communications Flows in the Integration of Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta Region

Wei-Bin Zhang, National University of Singapore (ecszwb@nus.edu.sg)
Regional Development with Knowledge and Human Capital

Special session organised by Peter Kresl:

Peter Kresl, Bucknell University, USA (KRESL@BUCKNELL.EDU)
Urban Competitiveness in North America

William F. Lever, University of Glasgow, UK (w.f.lever@socsci.gla.ac.uk)
Measuring the comparative advantage of the knowledge base in European cities

Fei Ni Peng, Nankai University (gaohaiyi@263.net)
Urban Competitiveness in China

Special session organised by Amy Glasmeier:

Amy Glasmeier, Penn State University, USA (akg1@ems.psu.edu)
Creating community resiliency in an era of globalization: A research agenda
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Geographies of transitional economies

Michael Bradshaw, University of Birmingham, UK (M.J.Bradshaw@bham.ac.uk)
Globalisation, economic transformation and regional change in Russia

Jarmo Eronen, Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration, Finland (eronen@hkkk.fi)
Central Asian states: geopolitical and foreign trade reorientation

Sun Sheng Han, National University of Singapore (bemhanss@nus.edu.sg)
State policy and market power: the transformation of Shanghai under economic reform

Pengfei Ni, Nankai University, China (nipengfei@hotmail.com)
Research on China's urban competitiveness

Markku Tykkylainen, University of Joensuu (Markku.Tykkylainen@joensuu.fi)
Economic Restructuring of the Russian Barents territories-theory and practice

Wang Hesheng, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China (xjduan@niglas.ac.cn)
Xu Gang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (agxu@ntu.edu.sg)
Spatial Patterns and Dynamics of Urban-Industrial Clusters in the Yangtze River Basin, China

Michael Taylor, University of Portsmouth, UK (mike.taylor@port.ac.uk)
Enterprise, embeddedness and exclusion: business relationships in a small island developing economy

Fulong Wu, University of Southampton, UK (F.Wu@Soton.ac.uk)
Shanghai: Urban development in a global context
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Economy and the environment

David P. Angel, Clark University, USA (dangel@clarku.edu)
Industry and environment in East Asia: policy approaches

David Gibbs, University of Hull, UK (d.c.gibbs@geo.hull.ac.uk)
Governance and regulation in local environmental policy making

Jean Hillier, Curtin University, WA (hillier@arch.curtin.edu.au)
When is a tree not a tree?

Hamirdin B. Ithnin, University of Malaya, Malaysia (f3hamir@umcsd.um.edu.my)
Economic Implications of the Degradation of the Environment in Malaysia

Khizer Farooq Omer, IUCN 'The World Conservation Union', Pakistan (farooq@iucn.khi.sdnpk.undp.org)
Interdependence of Economy and Environment, from a Systems Perspective

Jerry Patchell, HKUST, HK (sopiggy@ust.hk)
The Ecology of External Economies

Michael Roche, Massey University, NZ (M.M.Roche@massey.ac.nz)
Food systems and the global apple industry

Bjørnar Sæther, University of Oslo, Norway (bjornar.sather@sv.uio.no)
The environment, territoriality and economic geography

Sanjeev Singh and Martin Perry, National University of Singapore (artp8322@nus.edu.sg; geomp@nus.edu.sg)
Transnational corporations and voluntary environmental initiatives in Southeast Asia

Christian Schulz, University of Cologne, Germany (ch.schulz@uni-koeln.de) and 
Dietrich Soyez, University of Cologne, Germany (d.soyez@uni-koeln.de)
Agents of greening: the dual role of environmental service providers

Dietrich Soyez, University of Cologne, Germany (d.soyez@uni-koeln.de)
The Impact of Transnational Environmental Lobbying on Industrial Production Systems

Iain Wallace, Carleton University, Canada (iwallace@ccs.carleton.ca)
The sustainability of the "geo" in economic geography
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Virtual economies

Kenneth E. Corey, Michigan State University, USA (Kenneth.Corey@ssc.msu.edu)
Ecommerce:  a primer for local and regional development planning

Andrew Gillespie, The University of Newcastle, UK (andy.gillespie@ncl.ac.uk)
The Urban and Regional Geography of the Virtual economy

Bob Jessop, University of Lancaster, UK (b.jessop@lancaster.ac.uk)
The Contradictions of a Globalizing Knowledge-Driven Economy

Aharon Kellerman, University of Haifa, Israel (akeller@research.haifa.ac.il)
The Rise of Information Society

Andrew Leyshon, University of Nottingham, UK (andrew.leyshon@nottingham.ac.uk)
Time, space and (digital) compression: software formats and the re-organisation of the music industry

Edward J. Malecki, University of Florida, USA (MALECKI@GEOG.UFL.EDU)
The Internet: its economic geography and policy implications

Andrew Murphy, University of British Columbia, Canada (andrewmu@interchange.ubc.ca)
Banking and grocery shopping online

Grahame A. O'Leary, University of Newcastle, Australia (gggao@cc.newcastle.edu.au)
Beyond flexible accumulation: the new economy, digital convergence and the Australian communications and information technology sector

Lambert van der Laan, Erasmus University, the Netherlands (vanderlaan@few.eur.nl)
Measuring the  knowledge economy: information workers, knowledge industries and sweet talk

Mark Wilson, Michigan State University, USA (wilsonmm@msu.edu)
Chips, Bits, and the Law: An Economic Geography of Internet Gambling

Xu Gang and Wang Ruifang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (agxu@ntu.edu.sg; arfwang@ntu.edu.sg)
IT, the Market, and Competitive Marketing Strategy
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Uneven geographies of global capitalism

Glenn Banks, University of New South Wales, Australia (Glenn.Banks@adfa.edu.au)
Re-presenting Mining Multinationals in the Asia-Pacific

Andrew Byerley, Stockholm University, Sweden (andrew.byerley@humangeo.su.se)
Looking over the factory gate: modes of provisioning in a declining African Town: The case of Jinja, Uganda.

Padraig Carmody, University of Vermont, USA (pcarmody@zoo.uvm.edu)
The Globalization of Industrial Restructuring

Jim Glassman, Syracuse University, USA (glassman@geog.ubc.ca)
The spaces of economic crisis: reconfiguring Marxian crisis theories in the time of Southeast Asia's economic reconfiguration

Richard Grant, University of Miami, USA (rgrant@miami.edu)
Economic globalization in the lesser developed world

Alex Hughes, University of Newcastle, UK (alex.hughes@newcastle.ac.uk)
Organisation Geographies of Ethical Commodity Chains

Alexandre Kokcharov, St. Peter's College (alexkokcharov@hotmail.com)
Regional economic integration and uneven development

Michal Lyons, South Bank University, U.K. (lyonsm@sbu.ac.uk)
Are global cities really different? An analysis of the home ownership market at three levels of the urban hierarchy in England

Megan K.L. McKenna and Michael M. Roche, Geography Programme, School of Global Studies, Massey University, 
New Zealand (M.McKenna@massey.ac.nz)
Rethinking Risk: socio-economic constructions of risk in New Zealand's global apple industry

Robert J Pokrant, Curtin University of Technology, Australia 
Peter Reeves, National University of Singapore (saspr@nus.edu.sg)
The global food industry and the emergence of an export-oriented shrimp sector in Southeast Bangladesh

Michael Shin, University of Miami, USA (shinm@miami.edu)
Measuring economic globalization:  Spatial hierarchies and market topologies

Tsui-Auch Lai Si and Yong-Joo Lee, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (alstsui@ntu.edu.sg; ayjlee@ntu.edu.sg)
A Reappraisal of Development Theories after the Asian Economic Crisis
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Innovation, learning, and communities of practice

Bjorn Asheim, University of Oslo, Norway (b.t.asheim@tik.uio.no)
Keith Smith, The STEP Group, Norway (keith.smith@step.no)
Innovation, cluster and context: The knowledge base of firms in a globalising learning economy

Yuko Aoyama, Clark University, U.S.A. (yaoyama@clarku.edu)
Institutions and the new economy: Entrepreneurship in the context of Japan's inter-firm networks 

Timothy G. Bunnell and Neil M. Coe, National University of Singapore (geotgb@nus.edu.sg)
Spaces and scales of innovation

Louise Crewe, University of Nottingham, UK (Louise.crewe@nottingham.ac.uk)
The spaces of creative work: retro fashion retailers, re-commodification and the discursive production of alternative consumption

Javier Revilla Diez, Universitat Hannover, Germany (DIEZ@MBOX.WIGEO.UNI-HANNOVER.DE)
Networks and partial proximity-empirical evidence from Europe

Betsy Donald, Queen's University, Canada (bd5@qsilver.queensu.ca)
Innovation, City-Regions and Systems of Governance: thinking about the new innovative urban political economy in Ontario, Canada. 

Maryann P. Feldman, Johns Hopkins University, USA (maryann.feldman@jhu.edu)
University Knowledge Spillovers and National Systems of Innovation

Meric S. Gertler, University of Toronto, Canada (Gertler@cirque.geog.utoronto.ca)
Social structures of learning: the firm, the region, and national institutional frameworks

Robert Hassink, University of Bonn, Germany (hassink@giub.uni-bonn.de)
Regional Innovation Support Systems in East Asia and Europe Compared

Jinn-yuh Hsu, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan (jinnyuh@cc.ntnu.edu.tw)
A late-Industrial district: the construction of learning networks in Hsinchu-Taipei corridor in Taiwan

Ola Jonsson, Lund University, Sweden (ola.jonsson@kulekgeo.lu.se)
Innovative firms and ICT - redefining the meaning of local space?

Matthias Kiese, University of Hannover, Germany (fbav1@nus.edu.sg)
Singapore's Innovation System Between Local and Global Networks: Findings from an Empirical Survey

Jong-Ho Lee, University of Durham, UK (j.h.lee@durham.ac.uk)
Geographies of corporate learning and adaptation

Peter Maskell, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark (MASKELL@CBS.DK)
Towards a learning-based theory of the cluster

Mads H. Odgaard, Roskilde Univesity, Denmark (ODGAARD@RUC.DK)
A globalising knowledge-based economy: out goes the significance of 'geographical' proximity as it is usually understood
­ in goes the significance of 'geographical' proximity in another and accentuated form

Aya Okada, Nagoya University, Japan (p1okadaa@m.gsid.nagoya-u.ac.jp)
Production Networks and Training under Globalization: Lessons from India

David Rigby and Jürgen Essletzbichler, University of California, LA (RIGBY@GEOG.UCLA.EDU)
Technological variety, technological change, and the geography of production techniques

Rolf Sternberg, University of Cologne, Germany (sternberg@wiso.uni-koeln.de)
Knowledge Creation By New Firms - the Regional Perspective

Kenji Yamamoto, Hosei University, Japan (keny@mt.tama.hosei.ac.jp)
Innovation and learning of SMEs in Japan: a case study of Suwa-Okaya District

Yu Zhou, Vassar College, USA (YuZhou@vassar.edu)
Zhong Guan Cun and the development of China's computer industry
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Rural and resource economies

Ateeque Ahmad, A. M. U. Aligarh, India (c.5946@amu.up.nic.in)
Techno-institutional and socio-economic determinants of agricultural development and their correlation with the adoption innovations in India

Ben Bradshaw, Simon Fraser University, Canada (bbradsha@sfu.ca)
Business cycles and agricultural resource use

Frederic Durand, University Toulouse 2-Le Mirail, France (durand@univ-tlse2.fr)
Socio-economics stakes of Land Management in Rural Vietnam

Charles Eaton, University of Western Australia, Australia (charles@gis.uwa.edu.au)
Implications of contract farming for small scale farmers

Aake Forsstroem, Goteboorg University, Sweden (Aake.Forsstroem@geography.gu.se)
Rural population change and roadnet accessibility: Spatial analysis of roadnet impact on migration processes in a rural, Swedish region  

Roger Hayter, Simon Fraser University, Canada (hayter@sfu.ca)
Glocalization on the Resource Periphery: The Remapping of British Columbia

Amit Hazra, Visva-Bharati University, India (ahazra@vbharat.ernet.in)
Intensive subsistence agriculture through land reforms: An Indian experience

Douglas C. Johnston, University of Canterbury, New Zealand (d.johnston@geog.canterbury.ac.nz)
The effects of transport situation on rural mobility: A synchronic analaysis from villages in rural Java

Lia Warlina and Endang Saraswati, University of Indonesia (watisur@indo.net.id)
Ecotourism potency in Indonesia: special case of Pulau Dua and Pulau Rambut

Heather Myers, University of Northern BC, Canada (myers@unbc.ca)
Making our way through the woods: small-scale forest-based enterprises in northern BC

FAZLUR RAHMAN, A. M. U. Aligarh, INDIA (ggr008@amu.up.nic.in)
Irrigation and variation in wheat productivity; are they co-terminous? A study of regional dimension in 
wheat production potential in Uttar Pradesh (India)

Siddique & Mumtaz Ahmad, A.M.U.Aligarh, India (mumtaz99@mailcity.com)
Water Resource of India : Problems and Solutions

Mame Arame SOUMARE, UniversitÈ catholique de Louvain, Belgium (s.mamearame@demo.ucl.ac.be)
Which control of water in the Sahel?

V. Subramanian, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India (subra@jnuniv.ernet.in)
Water Resources of South Asia
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