With academic origins, it has expanded and evolved to embrace people who implement regional policies and projects.
ANZRSAI Inc. has managed to maintain its appeal to an increasing mixture of members whose backgrounds and professional activities include geography, economics, politics and planning, all with some degree of regional interest.The implementers have equally diverse backgrounds and employment status, providing a comprehensive mixture of public, private and research interests.
This extraordinary mixture has an unusual, perhaps unique, quality which is the attraction to its members, a feature which accurately reflects the width and dynamics of regionalism itself.
Notice
The Australian and New Zealand Regional Science Association International is sad to report the passing of Emeritus Professor Rod Jensen on 23 August after a long illness.
Rod was one of the earliest founders of regional science in Australia, and was particularly influential in the development of input-output modelling. He was President of ANZRSAI from 1983 to 1986.
Rod played a leading role in ensuring regional science in Australia was strongly connected with international scholars. In 1990 he was elected President of Regional Science Association International, the first Australian to hold this position.
The recent PRSCO international conference hosted on the Gold Coast included two special sessions on input-output modelling in honour of Rod Jensen. During those sessions, many of his former colleagues and students spoke appreciatively of Rod’s scientific contributions and leadership.
The ANZRSAI Council expresses its condolences to Enid and their family.
