2001-1995 Seminars
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2001
- Fernanda Jose, the Assistant Director of the Center of Investigation and Documentation for Integral Development (CIDDI) in the Catholic University of Mozambique, "GIS and Education in Sofala Province-Mozambique, " June 18, 2001.
- Abeda Dawood, the Deputy Director of the Centre for Environmental Studies in the Department of Zoology and Entomology, at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, "Biodiversity Conservation Challenges in Post-Apartheid South Africa, " May 30, 2001.
- Peter V. Schaeffer, Director, Division of Resource Management and Professor of Resource Economics, West Virginia University, "Research in Migration," April 25, 2001.
- Richard Healey, Professor of Geography, University of Portsmouth, UK, "Business Decision-Making and Regional Dynamics: A Case Study of the 19th Century Pennsylvanian Anthracite Coal Industry,"April 23, 2001.
- Randall W. Jackson, Associate Professor of Geography, Ohio State University, "A Model of Spatial Competition," April 11, 2001.
- Shuming Bao, Senior Research Associate, China Research Data Center, University of Michigan, "Economic Geography and Regional Growth in China," March 9, 2001.
2000
- Christopher Williams, Senior Lecturer in History, Cardiff University, "Labour's Century: The Politics of the South Wales Coalfield," November 8, 2000.
- Kenneth Martis, Professor, Geography, West Virginia University, "Regions, Districts and Parties: The 2000 Election in Historical Context," November 3, 2000.
- Cindi Katz, Deputy Executive Officer, Department of Environmental Psychology, CUNY, "The Hidden Geographies of Social Reproduction," October 20, 2000.
- Randall Rosenberger, Assistant Professor, Agricultural and Resource Economics, West Virginia University, "Valuing West Virginia's Assets: Reaping What Others Know," October 6, 2000.
- Richard Couto, Professor, Jepson School of Leadership Studies, University of Richmond; Editor, Journal of Appalachian Studies, West Virginia University, "Building Civil Society in Appalachia: Social Capital and Non-Profit Organizations," September 29, 2000.
- Ge Lin, Assistant Professor of Geography, West Virginia University, "Access to Health Care: Geographic Information Perspective," September 22, 2000.
- David Freshwater, Professor of Agricultural Economics, University of Kentucky, "Ready or Not? The Rural South and its Workforce" (pdf file), September 8, 2000.
- Smile Dube, Associate Professor of Economics, California State University, Sacramento, "Zimbabwe's Economic Development Experience since 1980 " (pdf file), August 22, 2000.
- Grant Saff, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics and Geography, Hofstra University, "Urban Planning in South Africa: Lessons from the Past and Challenges for the Future," April 28, 2000.
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- Robert Hanham and Shawn Banasick, Professor and Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Geology and Geography, West Virginia University, Workshop: ""Modeling Local Area Manufacturing Employment Change in Japan in a Period of Global Restructuring?," April 24, 2000.
- Henri Nsanjama, Vice President, Africa/Madagascar, World Wildlife Fund, "Can Sustainable Development and Resource Utilization be Achieved in Southern Africa?," March 17, 2000. Click here for a high-speed LAN version video clip or click here for a slow-speed 56K video clip
- Lazaro Luis Gonzalez and Esteban Morales Domínguez, Economists, University of Havana, "Regional Economic Development in the Cuban Context," March 13, 2000.
- Elena Irwin, Assistant Professor of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics, Ohio State University, "Explaining the Evolution of "Sprawl" Land Use Patterns at the Urban-Rural Fringe," February 25, 2000. Click here for a high-speed LAN version video clip or click here for a slow-speed 56K video clip
- Joseph R. Oppong, Associate Professor, Geography, University of North Texas, " Structural Adjustment and the African AIDS Crisis ," January 28, 2000.
- Marty Dodson, Ph.D., Department of Economics, West Virginia University, Workshop: " Welfare Generosity and Location Choices Among New United States Immigrants ," January 26, 2000.
- Stephan J. Goetz, Director of the Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development and Professor of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, Pennsylvania State University, "Identifying Critical Rural Development Issues," January 25, 2000.
- John M. Gowdy, Professor of Economics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, "Weak versus Strong Sustainability: Beyond Economic Man," January 14, 2000. Click here for a high-speed LAN version video clip or click here for a slow-speed 56K video clip
1999
- Timothy J. Bartik, Senior Economist, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, "Jobs for the Poor: Labor Supply vs. Labor Demand Policies," November 18, 1999. Click here for a high-speed LAN version video clip or click here for a slow-speed 56K video clip
- Alaric Maude, Senior Lecturer and Head of the School of Geography, Flinders University, Australia, "What Helps a Regional Development Agency be Effective? Lessons from Australia," October 19, 1999.
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- Steve Wing, Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, "Environmental Injustice in North Carolina Swine Industries," October 8, 1999.
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- W. Graeme Donovan, Principal Economist, Eastern and Southern Africa, World Bank, Washington, DC, "Rural Development in Africa: A World Bank Perspective," October 1, 1999. Click here for paper pdf file
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- Clifford M. Johnson, Senior Fellow, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Washington, DC, "Public Job Creation: New Approaches in a New Era of Welfare Reform," September 28, 1999.
- Paul Robbins, Assistant Professor, Geography, Ohio State University, "Fixed Categories in a Portable Landscape: Exploring Contradictions in Land Cover Analysis in India," September 10, 1999. Click here for a high-speed LAN version video clip or click here for a slow-speed 56K video clip
- Ed Zahniser, Writer and Editor, National Park Service, "Educating for Wilderness and Wildness: Toward a Social Contract with the Land," April 27, 1999.
- Robert Hanham and Shawn Banasick, Professor and Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Geology and Geography, West Virginia University, Workshop: "Economic Crisis, Spatial Clustering and the Uneven Development of Manufacturing in Japan, 1985-95," March 12, 1999.
- Thomas F. Torries, Professor, Agricultural and Resource Economics, West Virginia University, "West Virginia Reserve Coal Valuation Model Applications," February 26, 1999.
- Thomas W. Ilvento, Associate Professor of Food and Resource Economics, University of Delaware, "Communication, Fairness, and Trust in Poultry Grower Contracts: The Growers' Perspective," February 19, 1999.
- Gregory Elmes, Professor of Geography, West Virginia University, Workshop: "Mapping Heart Disease Mortality in Appalachia: The Roles of Ethnic Status, Gender, Social Environment, and Access to Care," January 29, 1999.
1998
- Vito Perrone, Director of Teacher Education, Harvard University, "Policies that Support Good Rural Schools," November 20, 1998.
- Kenneth E. Stone, Professor of Economics and Extension Economist, Iowa State University, "The Future of Small Town Retail in a World of Giants," October 16, 1998.
- J. Bradford Jensen, Executive Director, Carnegie Mellon Census Research Data Center, "Exporting and Growth: Evidence from U.S. Manufacturing," October 2, 1998.
- Jesse L. White Jr., Federal Co-Chairman of the Appalachian Regional Commission, "Regional Development Policy in the U.S. in the New Century," September 18, 1998.
- David Greenstreet, Research Associate, Bureau of Business and Economic Research, West Virginia University, "The Use of the REMI Model for Regional Development Planners," April 24, 1998.
- John B. Engberg, Associate Professor of Economics, Carnegie Mellon University, "Enterprise Zones and Housing Markets," February 27, 1998.
- Carl Milofsky, Professor of Sociology, Bucknell University, "Building Social Capital: The Community Resource Exchange as a Virtual Organization," February 13, 1998.
- Joseph D. Coffey, Vice President of Economics and Strategic Initiatives, Southern States Cooperative, Inc., Richmond, VA, "Universities are Vital to Rural Vitality," February 6, 1998.
- Linda M. Lobao, Professor of Agricultural Education, Ohio State University, "Conceptualizations of Economic Change, Income Levels and Inequality: A National Analysis, 1970-1990," January 23, 1998.
1997
- Harry H. Kelejian, Professor of Economics, University of Maryland, and Dennis Robinson, Institute for Water Resources, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, VA, "Returns to Investment in Navigation Infrastructure," October 31, 1997.
- Zoltan Acs, Chief Economic Advisor, Office of Advocacy, U.S. Small Business Administration, Washington, DC, "Regional and Global Systems of Innovation," October 17, 1997.
- Carla Dickstein, Senior Development Officer, Research and Policy Development, Coastal Enterprises, Inc., Maine, "The Challenge of Sustainable Development in Practice: The Coastal Enterprises, Inc. Experience," September 19, 1997.
- Esther Wangari, Assistant Professor of Women's Studies, Towson University, "The Effects of Kenyan Land Reform on Female-Headed Households," September 12, 1997.
- Bill Bishop, Columnist and Associate Editor, Lexington Herald Leader, "Reflections and Conclusions about Appalachian Development," April 25, 1997.
- Sally Maggard and F. Carson Mencken, Associate Professor and Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, West Virginia University, Workshop: "The Informal Economy in West Virginia: Recent Evidence from the West Virginia Social Indicator Survey," April 11, 1997.
- Munroe Eagles, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, and Research Scientist, NCGIA, SUNY, Buffalo, "The Political Ecology of Local Party Organization: The Case of Canada," April 4, 1997.
- George Penick, President, Foundation for the Mid South, "Harnessing Private Wealth for the Common Good: The Story of the Foundation for the Mid South," March 21, 1997.
- Lionel J. (Bo) Beaulieu, Professor of Family, Youth, and Community Sciences, and Director of the Florida Inter-University Center for Child, Family, and Community Studies, University of Florida, "Building Human Capital to Sustain Communities: The Ingredients of School Success," February 28, 1997.
- David Rasmussen, Professor of Economics, and Director of the Policy Sciences Center, Florida State University, "Crime and Regional Development Policy," February 21, 1997.
- Cornelia B. Flora, Professor of Sociology, and Director of North Central Regional Center for Rural Development, Iowa State University, "Cooperation in the New Economy: How Social Capital Creates Wealth," January 24, 1997.
1996
- Cynthia Rogers and Stephen Ellis, Research Assistant Professor, Regional Research Institute, West Virginia University; Visiting Scholar, Rutgers University, Workshop: "Local Economic Development as a Game," November 22, 1996.
- Raymond Florax, Guest Speaker, Wageningen University, The Netherlands; Panelists: Luc Anselin, Research Professor, Regional Research Institute, West Virginia University; Attila Varga, Research Assistant, Regional Research Institute, West Virginia University, Workshop: "Role of Universities in the Regional Economy," November 13, 1996.
- Lisa Kelly, Assistant Professor of Law, West Virginia University, "Race and Place: Defining Community in the Post-Shaw Era," November 8, 1996.
- Kenneth C. Martis, Professor of Geography, West Virginia University, "Districts, Parties, and Voting: The Geography Behind the 1996 Elections," November 1, 1996.
- Robert Walker, Associate Professor of Geography, Florida State University, "Ecosystem Change and the Regional Economy: The Case of Human Encroachment into South Florida," October 25, 1996.
- Beth Barnett and Gregory Elmes, Assistant Professor of Community Medicine; Professor of Geography, West Virginia University, Workshop: "Defining Regions for Epidemiologic Studies of Uneven Development and Cardiovascular Disease," October 18, 1996.
- Roger Lohmann, Professor of Social Work, West Virginia University, Workshop: "Aging and Civil Society," October 11, 1996.
- Gary Hunt, Libra Professor in Regional Economics, University of Maine, "Are Native Workers Harmed by Immigration? Regional Labor Market Adjustment in the U.S." October 4, 1996.
- Paul Knox, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Professor of Urban Affairs, Director, Center for Urban and Regional Studies, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, "The New Urbanism: A Geographical Perspective" September 13, 1996.
- Amy K. Glasmeier, Professor and Head, Department of Geography, Pennsylvania State University, "How Do Firms Learn? Increasing Competitiveness and the Role of Internal and External Environments," April 26, 1996.
- Ann R. Tickamyer, Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Kentucky, "Public Policy and Private Lives: Social and Spatial Dimensions of Women's Poverty and Welfare Policy in Rural Appalachia," April 19, 1996.
- Lawrence A. Brown, President, North American Regional Science Council, President Elect, Association of American Geographers, Professor and Chair, Department of Geography, Ohio State University, "Recent Economic Change and Migration in the Ohio River Valley," March 22, 1996.
- Timothy J. Bartik, Senior Economist, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, "Guiding Principles for Effective Strategies for Local Economic Development," March 15, 1996.
- V. Kerry Smith, Director of the Center for Environmental and Resource Economics, Duke University, "The Role of Regional Relevance in Environmental Economics," February 16, 1996.
1995
- David M. Mark, Professor of Geography and Associate Director, National Center for Geographic Information Systems and Analysis (NCGIA), SUNY, Buffalo, "Representations in Language, Culture, and Geographic Information Systems," December 1, 1995.
- Altina L. Waller, Professor and Head, Department of History, University of Connecticut, "Hatfields and McCoys: Understanding Social Change in Appalachia," November 17, 1995.
- Roger E. Bolton, Brough Professor of Economics, Williams College, "An Economist's Interpretation of a 'Sense of Place'," October 27, 1995.
- Wilpen L. Gorr, Professor of Public Policy and Management Information Systems, H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University, "New Bayesian Methods for Regional Forecasting: Applications to Infant Mortality and Revenue Forecasting," October 6, 1995.
- Gerard Rushton, Professor of Geography and Hospital and Health Administration, University of Iowa, "Geographic Information Systems and Public Health," September 15, 1995.
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