On behalf of Christa Court. John Leatherman
From: Court,Christa [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, August 11, 2017 9:10 AM To: John Leatherman <[email protected]> Subject: Water and Regional Science at 2018 UF Water Symposium: Solicitation of Interest Hi John, The Southern Regional Science Association is sponsoring the 2018 University of Florida Water Symposium, hosted by the UF Water Institute in an effort to bring more attention to social science aspects of water-related issues. Details can be found in the solicitation of interest below. Could you potentially distribute this announcement via the MCRSA distribution list? The more water-related regional science submissions, the merrier! Thank you in advance, Christa Christa D. Court, Ph.D. Assistant Scientist and Assistant Director of the Economic Impact Analysis Program University of Florida-Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences Food and Resource Economics Department Gainesville, Florida Tel 352-294-7675 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [Image removed by sender. https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a843be43c66903a7edb372402/images/2e1a8470-36e9-41ec-9da1-a29581526c34.gif] Water and Regional Science at 2018 UF Water Institute Symposium ________________________________ The 6th biennial University of Florida Water Institute Symposium, held in Gainesville, FL on February 6-7, 2018, will bring together individuals from a broad range of disciplines and organizations to explore water issues from multiple perspectives. The Symposium, titled "Sustainable Water Resources: Complex Challenges, Integrated Solutions - Shaping our Water Future", will focus on current water use, conservation, restoration, and adaptation efforts and challenges while envisioning ways of sustaining our water systems. Innovative science, technology, cultural, policy, and management solutions will be explored through presentations, poster sessions and panels in the following areas: * Drivers of social, hydrologic, ecologic, and economic change * Impacts to coastal, surface water, spring, and aquifer systems * Tradeoffs among use, conservation, restoration, and adaptation * Solutions through science, technology, cultural, policy, and management approaches This year, the Symposium will include a Special Session/Panel Session on Water and Regional Science, sponsored by the Southern Regional Science Association (SRSA) and organized by Christa Court. Economic prosperity, quality of life, and the environment are all inextricably linked by water. Availability, quality, and use of water are regional by nature and though interregional trade in water is possible, regional variations in natural and historical resource allocations will continue to play roles in regional development and will likely become more important over time. Absent improvements in water management and efficiency improvements related to water use, additional stress on water resources might lead to reduced economic development potential (even the possibility of negative growth), poorer quality of life, and environmental hazards across regions within the U.S. and around the world. The interdisciplinary field of regional science – with its focus on the important roles of local and regional processes to socioeconomic performance and sustainability, its explicit treatment of spatial relationships, and its increasing attention devoted to modeling the linkages between the human system and the environment – is ideally suited to contribute high quality, policy relevant research on water. One session within the Symposium will include an introductory presentation that will introduce the field of regional science and its potential for contributions to water-related research to Symposium participants, select regional science research presentations, and a briefing on plans for a special issue on water within SRSA’s official journal, the Review of Regional Studies. All additional accepted regional science presentations will be interwoven throughout other interdisciplinary sessions according to the research topic area. During abstract submission, potential SRSA participants will be asked to identify “SRSA Submission” at the beginning of their abstract so that accepted abstracts can be easily identified by Symposium participants. Student poster submissions are also encouraged and will be eligible for the three “Best Poster” awards and a prize of $1,000. Dates of Interest: * Call for abstracts August 18, 2017 * Abstract submission deadline October 12, 2017 * Online registration opens November 10, 2017 * Early registration deadline January 7, 2018 * 6th Biennial Water Symposium February 6-7, 2018 SRSA members that are interested in this opportunity are encouraged to contact Christa Court at [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> for additional information and to be added to the mailing list for distribution of the official Call for Abstracts. ________________________________ Please share with others who might wish to attend. 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