Minutes of the PRSCO Council Meeting(Seoul, 12th July, 1999)(approved by the Council Meeting in Montreal on Saturday 13 November, 1999)

Held on Monday 12 July, 1999
At the Seoul Education and Cultural Center,Seoul

http://zoroku.agbi.tsukuba.ac.jp/CONFERENCE/sum 6th rst.html Aglossy (second call for papers" brochure would
be distributed soon. This meeting would
be held jointly with the annual meeting ofAMECIDER. However, sessions with foreign participants would be conducted in English and plenary sessions would have simultaneous translation in English/Spanish.
The theme of the conference is (Developing and developed regions in the Paci c Rim:interaction, networks and tasks". Subthemes
include: Interaction, networks and tasks;
Convergence or divergence among Paci c
Rim countries and regions; Regional dislocalization and re-localization of production processes; International economic andnancial integration; New initiatives for local development; and Sustainable cities andregions in the 21st century. There will also
be a special panel on the near future of linkages between Latin American countries andthe Paci c Rim. One of the main objectives of the meeting is to bring in scholars
from South America and, hence, build up aregional science community on that continent. The PRSCO Council meeting would
be held in the afternoon of Tuesday 13 June
2000, followed by a welcoming reception at
19:30. Plenary and concurrent sessions will
be held from Wednesday until Friday, withan excursion planned for Thursday afternoon. Post-conference excursions to e.g.
Teotihuacan, Tepoztlan or Taxco can be arranged. Participants will stay at quality
hotels (rates US 80-110 per night) at walking distance, such as the Radison ParaisoHotel.

Commencing at 2:00 PMa) Apologies received:

T Fukuchi, GJD Hewings (ex ocio and friends), P Morrison (exocio and friends), J Munro (CRSA), PNijkamp (ex ocio and friends), L SuarezVilla (WRSA), G West (ANZRSAI)b) Present (and con rmation of section repre-sentatives) ANZRSAI: DF Batten (repr. GWest), J Poot (chair) CRSA: - CRSA-T:
C Hua, SK Peng (repr. CC Mai) JSRSAI:H Kohno (repr. T. Fukuchi), Y Higano, M
Tawada, Y Miyata KRSA: YS Lee, SO ParkAMECIDER: J Serrano, S Rodriguez (repr.
A Corona) WRSA: LJ Gibson, JM Quigley,DA Plane, K Haynes (repr. L Suarez-Villa)
Ex-ocio and friends: PWJ Batey (Immediate Past President RSAI), KP Donaghy(Executive Secretary RSAI)c) Minutes of the PRSCO Council Meeting ofThursday 12 November 1998 These wereapproved. It was noted that the 2000 Summer Institute in Mexico-City would be heldin June, not July.

d) Report from the Chairman, LOC, 16th PRSCO

Conference SO Park reported on the conference organisation. The program consistedof 105 papers, of which 70 were o ered byforeign scholars and 35 by Korean scholars.
The conference organisers expected 162 participants (including 7 spouses). About halfof the participants came from 15 countries
outside Korea. PRSCO President J Poot
moved a vote of thanks for the excellent
conference organisation by LOC chairperson SO Park, Secretary-General S Choo,and their local team. This was carried withacclamation.

17th PRSCO Conference, Portland Oregon, USA, June 30 - July 4, 2001

D. Plane (chair, LOC) outlined the plansfor the 17th PRSCO conference. The themeof the conference would be related to thespecial features of Portland, for example its
experience with CBD revitalisation. Participants would be expected to arrive on
Saturday June 30. The PRSCO Council
meeting, a plenary session and a reception
would be held on Sunday 1 July. Paper sessions would be held on Monday 2nd July,Tuesday 3rd July and Wednesday 4th July.
In the afternoon of Tuesday 3rd July there
would be an excursion. The conference woulde) Update on forthcoming meetings
6th PRSCO Summer Institute, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Wednesday 14 - Friday 16 June, 2000

J. Serrano (chair, LOC) informed Councilabout the plans for the 6th PRSCO Summer Institute. An initial call for papers had
been made and a web page was established:1

sor Kang-Chung YANG, who is the chairman of the Geography Department at Beijing University. KC Yang visited Taipei
in January 1999. Mainland China regional
scientists would be invited to the CRSAT conference in 2000 and a delegation fromTaiwan would be invited to a mainland China
conference in 2001, both subject to Government approval. There are plans to set upa Chinese Association of Regional Science(CARS), which may join RSAI and PRSCO
in due course. Y Higano had written to KC
Yang to encourage him and his colleagues
to participate in PRSCO activities. It wasdecided that Y Higano would write anotherletter to KC Yang, in order to invite him toparticipate in the 1999 NARSC conferencein Montreal and be present at the PRSCO
Council meeting as an observer.

close with a BBQ on Wednesday 4th of July.
The reworks on this national holiday in
the USA would be a positive externality.
Conference sessions would be at the Embassy hotel, where the room rate is US $105
per night (including breakfast). For othermeals, there are many nice restaurants inthe area.
7th PRSCO Summer Institute, 2002

Suggested locations included Beijing, Bali(Indonesia) or a resort in Malaysia. A formal decision would need to be made at theCouncil meeting in Mexico-City in June 2000.
18th PRSCO Conference, 2003

Suggested locations included Japan, SouthAmerica (e.g. Chile), Canada or Taiwan.
A formal decision would need to be madeat the Council meeting in Mexico-City inJune 2000.

i)f) 1) Nomination of Executive Secretary for 2000-2001
President Poot thanked Y. Higano for hiswork in running the Secretariat of PRSCO
and nominated him to serve as Executive
Secretary for a 2nd term. This was carried
with acclamation.
2) Nomination of a PRSCO Councillor on
RSAI Council
The current PRSCO councillors on RSAICouncil are:1997-1999: CH Yang
1998-2000: H Kohno
1999-2001: JM Quigley
Council agreed that a nominee to replace
CH Yang would come from AMECIDER.
Following the meeting, it was resolved thatJ. Serrano would be nominated to serve on
RSAI Council for the years 2000-2002.

(Quo vadis PRSCO"

General discussion of this matter would bepostponed until a future meeting. D. Batten noted that, as participation of scholars from non-English speaking countries in
RSAI and PRSCO increased, consideration
should be given to compile sets of classic
and in uential articles in foreign languages
and publish these as edited volumes, after
translation into English. Certain publishers, such as Springer Verlag, may be interested in such ventures.

j) Date and location of the next meeting

The next meeting will be held on Saturday 13 November, 16:00-18:00 at the Delta
Montreal Hotel, Montreal, Canada and will
be followed by dinner.

k) Any further business.

There was no further business.

The meeting was closed at 4:30 PM.

g) Rati cation of the Constitution of PRSCO

The draft constitution was tabled. The nal document would be send to Councillors
within a few weeks after the meeting. It
would be formally moved at the PRSCO
Council meeting in Montreal on Saturday
13 November to adopt the constitution from1 January 2000. Consequently, PRSCO councillors would be responsible for rati cationof the Constitution in their Membership Section before 13 November 1999.

h) Scienti c collaboration with scholars from main-land China
C Hua reported on his contact with Profes-2