Abstract
This paper introduces a collection of short essays on “New Directions in Regional Science” based on commentaries delivered at the 37th annual meeting of the Southern Regional Science Association in Savannah, Georgia, 1998. In response to the idea of crisis in earlier reviews of regional science, I also suggest that ongoing methodological debates in geography and economics provide many opportunities for regional science in the future. Others are optimistic about an applied regional science.
Highlights
The 1990s have been a decade of reflection for regional science as members of our community have pondered the past and anticipated the future
This southern location is appropriate because much of the intellectual soul searching that has taken place was started by Andy Isserman's 1992 presidential address to the Southern Regional Science Association (SRSA) in Charleston, South Carolina, and published in this journal
Before moving on to the other essays, I will take this opportunity to share my own initial concerns about the future of regional science and discuss how they become outnumbered by the opportunities afforded us by the evolving methodological debates in our two core disciplines: economics and geography
Summary
The 1990s have been a decade of reflection for regional science as members of our community have pondered the past and anticipated the future. While many of these contributions did reflect a pessimistic concern for the future, our sessions in Savannah focused more on the potential that regional science still offers as an intellectual force and as a practical endeavor.
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