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Collaboration with China: |
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The SRD research activity has revived
longstanding connections to colleagues in China, which had been
established during Gerhard Heilig's work on the
ChinaFood CD-ROM. In addition, we are
in the process of intensifying and establishing new contacts that
should lead to collaborative projects in the field of regional
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A new collaboration has
been established with Prof. Fan Jie, Head of the Department of Urban
and Regional Development at the Institute of Geographical Sciences and
Natural Resources Research (IGSNRR), Chinese Academy of Sciences,
Beijing. Plans for collaborating in the English version of the 2004
Report on Regional Development are discussed. Prof. Fan Jie will also
stay at IIASA for some time in early 2004. |
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There is also ongoing
collaboration with Prof. Xiubin Li, Deputy Director, Institute of
Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research (IGSNRR), Chinese
Academy of Sciences and Prof. Liu Hui also at IGSNRR. Currently,
colleagues of both researchers are working as research assistants at
IIASA's SRD research activity (see
SRD staff). |
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Initial contact has also
been established with Prof. Gu Chaolin, Department of Urban and
Resource Sciences at Nanjing University. We hope to start
collaboration with a YSSP student of his department coming to IIASA's
SRD research. |
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Collaboration within Europe: |
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As outlined in its Research Program, the
IIASA SRD activity is also continuing collaboration with some of the
members of the Europe-wide network of research centers and
universities in the field of rural development research that had been
established by the former ERD Project. This includes in particular the
following activities: |
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Participation as a
partner in the "Landscape
Tomorrow" research network, which is a cooperation of 29
partners in 18 countries for promoting landscape research and
identifying "strategies of sustainable rural development and
multipurpose land use." Gerhard Heilig is a member of the network's
Steering Committee (also see publication list). |
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We are collaborating
with an extended network of partners that is preparing a joint EU
proposal for an Integrated Project to the 6th Framework Programme (FP6
2nd call, Sub-Priority 1.1.6.3, area V.1 Sustainable Use of Land). SRD
is one of the partners in the SENSOR proposal (Sustainability
Impact Assessment: Tools for ENvironmental, Social and
EcOnomic Effects of Multifunctional Land Use in European Regions).
If the project is approved, SRD will contribute analyses and scenarios
on rural demography to the SENSOR project. |
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SRD is collaborating
with the EC Centre of Excellence of the PROLAND programme, which is
supported by the European Commission. Scientific coordinators are
Prof. Barbara Maliszewska-Kordybach and Prof. Tomasz Stuczynski. The
Centre, located at the Institute of Soil Science and Plant Cultivation
in Pulawy, Poland, deals with the "Protection of Land and Water
Quality and Sustainable Development of Rural Areas." Gerhard Heilig is
a member of the Centre's Scientific Supervisory Board. |
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There is also SRD
collaboration with the European Rural Development Network, the
Institute of Agricultural and Food Economics and the Institute of
Geography and Spatial Organization of the Polish Academy of Sciences
in Warsaw, Poland. Heilig has contributed to publications of the
network (see publication list). |
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In recent weeks, we have
also discussed possibilities for collaboration with the Institute of
East-Asian Studies of Vienna University. A first result of these
efforts is an international
workshop on "Strategies of Regional
Development in China" which we will jointly organize in mid-October
2004. |
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Please note that this network is a work
in progress. If you are interested to participate in our activities
please contact IIASA's SRD research. |
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