PRESENTS AND FUTURES OF LOCAL AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT. MULTI-LEVEL INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES WITHIN INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT
Journal Title: Revue Roumaine de Géographie/Romanian Journal of Geography - Year 2018, Vol 62, Issue 2
Abstract
In view of it, the International Geographical Union's (IGU) Commission on Local and Regional Development provides an international forum of scholars aimed at advancing research, scholarship and knowledge in a variety of domains concerning local and regional development: reorganization of space, local development in the urban and rural space, and the role of institutions and agencies in developing and reshaping the settled space (http://igu-clrd.igipz.pan.pl/home.html). In 2017, a Thematic Conference on Land Use/Cover Changes, Biodiversity, Health and Environment, Local and Regional Development gathering four commissions of the IGU – Land Use and Cover Change, Local and Regional Development, Biogeography and Biodiversity and Health and the Environment – took place in Bucharest and in Tulcea. The event was organized jointly by the Institute of Geography, Romanian Academy and the Faculty of Geography, University of Bucharest. A large number of participants, including prominent IGU members, were present. The Conference gathered representatives of science and practice involved in various research disciplines who, during subsequent sessions, presented their researches on issues such as: ecosystems, global environmental changes and socio-economic developmental challenges, and discussed jointly matters regarding the relationships between society and the environment.
Authors and Affiliations
JERZY BANSKI, INES GRIGORESCU
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