Two copies of that report are enclosed with this report. For reasons of information access, the Chair currently serves as newsletter editor. In addition, we are striving to include more information about activities of analogous groups in other countries, within the IGU, and the Regional Science Association International. Important themes for sessions were the East Asian economic crisis, the transformation of urban and rural space in the PRC, and industrialization and the natural environment. This is up from 304 by the analogous period in 1998.
Participation is quite good.
Approximately 70 people participated in the sessions sponsored or co-sponsored by the EGSG at the Honolulu meetings, though some of these probably had their primary affiliations with other SGs. Thirty-three people attended the SB business meeting in Honolulu. The e-mail list does not get much traffic, but at least proves important in rapid dissemination of employment situations and special conferences. JW Harrington has long been the treasurer for the SG, as continuity is useful in that position. He is currently the only signatory for the accounts.