RSA Australasia Conference 2019
Urban and Rural Wellbeing, First Nations Economies
and Global Value Chains for Regional Sustainability
11th-13th February 2019
Ngāi Tahu Research Centre, University of Canterbury,
Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand
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CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
RSA Australasia Conference 2019
Urban Wellbeing, First Nations Economies and Global Value Chains for Regional Sustainability
North Arts Lecture Theatre Block and Ngāi Tahu Research Centre
University of Canterbury, Aotearoa New Zealand
11th-13th February 2019
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Conference Overview
MONDAY 11TH FEBRUARY
15:00-18:00 City Walking Tour – Pre-registration required
18:00-19:30 Mayoral Welcome Reception – Refreshments and Networking
Christchurch City Council Function Room (53 Hereford Street)
TUESDAY 12TH FEBRUARY
08:30
Registration opens
North Arts Lecture Theatres Foyer, University of Canterbury
09:00-09:15 Welcome and start of the conference
09:15-9:45 Keynote Speech
Chair:
Speaker: Te Maire Tau, Ngāi Tahu Research Centre, Aotearoa New Zealand –
‘What a Tribal Economy Will Be and How We Will Build It’
9:45-11:00 Plenary Session [1] First Nations Economies
Chair:
Speaker: Michelle Thompson-Fawcett, University of Otago, Aotearoa New
Zealand – ‘“We are Carrying our Weight of Expectations”: Indigenous-led Urban Property Development’
Speaker: Chris McDonald, OECD, France – ‘Linking Indigenous Communities with Regional Development’
Early Career Speaker: Skye Akbar, University of South West Australia, Australia –
‘Applying a Mixed Methods Research Indigenist Agenda in Remote Economic
Development Research’
Room: A1
11:00-11:30 Refreshment Break
11:30-13:00 Parallel Sessions [A]
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 Parallel Sessions [B]
15:30-16:00 Refreshment Break
16:00-18:00 Parallel Sessions [C]
19:00-22:00 Conference Dinner – Pre-registration required
WEDNESDAY 13TH FEBRUARY
09:00 Registration desk open
North Arts Lecture Theatres Foyer, University of Canterbury
09:30-10:00 Keynote Speech
Chair: TBC
Speaker: Fletcher Tabuteau, Under Secretary for Regional Development, Aotearoa
New Zealand
Room: A1
10:00-11:30 Parallel Sessions [D]
11:30-12:00 Refreshment Break
12:00-13:30 Parallel Sessions [E]
13:30-14:30 Lunch
14:30-15:45 Plenary Session [2] Regional Resilience and Wellbeing
Chair: Paul Dalziel, Lincoln University, Aotearoa New Zealand
Speaker: Melissa Nursey-Bray, University of Adelaide, Australia
‘Connection, Country and Cassandra: Achieving Socially just Climate Governance
in Urban and Regional Australia’’ Speaker: Bruce Wilson, European Union Centre, RMIT, Australia
‘Regional Resilience and Wellbeing: The Relevance of the Sustainable Development Goals’
Speaker: Gus Charteris, General Manager, Just Transitions Unit at Ministry of
Business, Innovation and Employment, Aotearoa New Zealand
Title TBC
Room: A1
15:45-16:00 Conference Close
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Conference Programme Monday 11th February
15:00-18:00 City Walking Tour
Participants are asked to gather in front of the Anglican Cathedral in
Cathedral Square at 15:00. The RSA hosts will be obvious. The
walking tour will begin at 15:15, moving at a slow pace, with stops
for commentary at significant places around the inner city. It will
finish at the venue for the Reception for Delegates by 18:00.
18:00-19:30 Mayoral Welcome Reception – Refreshments and Networking
Christchurch City Council Function Room, 53 Hereford Street
Tuesday 12th February
08:30-16:00
Registration – North Arts Theatres Foyer
09:00-09:15 Conference Introduction and Welcome Room: North Arts
Lecture Theatres: ARTS 1
09:15-09:45 Keynote Speech
Chair: John Reid, University of Canterbury, Aotearoa New Zealand
Speaker: Te Marie Tau, Ngāi Tahu Research Centre, Aotearoa New
Zealand – What a Tribal Economy will be and how we will Build it?
Room: North Arts
Lecture Theatres: ARTS 1
09:45-11:00 Plenary [1] First Nations Economies
Chair:
Speaker: Michelle Thompson-Fawcett, University of Otago,
Aotearoa New Zealand – “We are Carrying our Weight of
Expectations”: Indigenous-led Urban Property Development Speaker: Chris McDonald, OECD, France – Linking Indigenous
Communities with Regional Development Early Career Speaker: Skye Akbar, University of South West
Australia, Australia – Applying a Mixed Methods Research Indigenist Agenda in Remote Economic Development Research
Room: North Arts
Lecture Theatres: ARTS 1
11:00-11:30
Refreshment Break - North Arts Theatres Foyer
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Tuesday 12th February
11:30-13:00 Parallel Sessions [A]
Session Title: Regional Development I Room: North Arts Lecture
Theatres: ARTS 1
Chair:
Eunji Choi; Seongwoo Lee, Seoul National University,
Republic of Korea
The Effect of the Rural Development Policy on Agricultural
Income in South Korea
Changhong Miao; Xiaofei Chen, Henan University,
China
Flexibility of Labor Market and Local Embeddness of
Transnational Corporations: Case from Foxconn’s
Investment in Henan Province, China
Iqbal Dawam Wibisono; Nur Cahyadi; Ekki
Syamsulhakim, The National Team for the Acceleration
of Poverty Reduction (TNP2K), Indonesia
Poverty Alleviation Policy: Towards a Robust Spatial
Targeting
Session Title: Regional Resilience and Wellbeing I Room: North Arts Lecture
Theatres: ARTS 2
Chair:
Philip Morrison; Victoria University of Wellington,
Aotearoa New Zealand
Ascertaining Local Wellbeing - The Hidden Minefield
Michael Nadler, TU Dortmund, Germany
Claudia Nadler, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Promoting Citizens´ Well-being and Quality of Life through
Financial Engineering Instruments – Replicating the
Innovative EU Policy Approach?
Tasos Kitsos; Raquel Otega-Argiles, City-REDI,
University of Birmingham, UK
Nicholas Kacher; Luke Petach; Stephan Weller,
Colorado State University, USA
Examining the Interplay between Resilience and
Entrepreneurship: Evidence from the US and the UK
Session Title: Smart Cities Room: North Arts Lecture
Theatres: ARTS 3
Chair:
Holly Randell-Moon, Charles Sturt University, Australia The Gigatown Competition in New Zealand: Competition
as Digital Infrastructure Allocation?
Surajit Chakravarty; Priya Seetharaman, IIM Calcutta,
India
Jocelyn Cranefield, University of Wellington, Aotearoa
New Zealand
Catapulting Over Complexity: An Assessment of India’s
Smart Cities Mission
Ellen Hughes, University of the West of England, UK “I Knew Something about the City”: Designers’
Migration into Bristol 1975-1985
Khoirunurrofik Khoirunurrofik; Ayu Dwi Putri, Universitas
Indonesia, Indonesia
Economic Performance of Cities in Indonesia: An Impact
Analysis of Smart City Concept Implementation
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Tuesday 12th February
11:30-13:00 Parallel Sessions [A]
Session Title: Spatial Justice and Inequality Room: To Ao Marama:
SEMINAR ROOM Chair:
Xuefeng Wang, Newcastle University, UK Governance, Institutions, and Urbanisation Fuzzy in
China: An Internal Colonialism Perspective
Junxi Qian, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong,
China
Commodity Relations at the Margin: Indigenous
Modernisation as a Machine of Difference
Gergely Tagai, MTA KRTK, Hungary The Role of Locally Provided Services of General
Interest in Delivering Spatial Justice
13:00-14:00
Lunch - North Arts Theatres Foyer
14:00-15:30 Parallel Sessions [B] Session Title: Room: North Arts Lecture
Theatres: ARTS 1 Chair:
Session Title: Regional Resilience and Wellbeing II Room: North Arts Lecture
Theatres: ARTS 2 Chair: Tasos Kitsos, City-REDI, University of Birmingham, UK
Eilya Torshizian; G Chaplin, NZ Institute of Economic
Research, Aotearoa New Zealand
K Lai; J Chapman, Tamaki Regeneration Company,
Aotearoa New Zealand
Empirical Wellbeing Approach to Total Impact
Reporting
Wayne Beyea; Elena Cangelosi; Joel Arnold, Michigan
State University, USA
Resilience through Built Environment Interventions in a
Rural Context: Using Deliberation with Analysis to
address climate and health impacts in the Great Lakes
Region
Jennifer Joynt, Auckland Council, Aotearoa New Zealand Development of the Auckland Heat Vulnerability Index
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Tuesday 12th February
14:00-15:30 Parallel Sessions [B]
Session Title: Global Cities and Regional Capitals Room: North Arts Lecture
Theatres: ARTS 3 Chair:
Irina Turgel; Elizabeth Ulyanova, Ural Federal University,
Russia The Largest Regional Capitals: Transformation and
Development
Norbet Csizmadia, PAIGEO – Pallas Athene Innovation and
Geopolitical Foundation, Hungary
Geofusion: Cities, Regions, Nations in the Geoeconomy
Age the Power of Geography
Miguel Hidalgo Martinez, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool
University, China
The ‘Territoriality’ of Three Mega-city Regions in
Western China: Comparative Administrative
Restructuring and Economic Emergence of Chongqing,
Xi’an and Lanzhou
Session Title: Global Connections Room: To Ao Marama:
SEMINAR ROOM Chair:
Tao Song, Sichuan Agricultural University, China The Role of Position in Global Value Chain on
Agglomeration by Export Destinations -- Evidence from
China’s Firm Level Data
Innocent Daudu, University of Pretoria, South Africa Africa's Instrastructure Cum Development Narrative: A
Mediation
Oscar Tiku, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan Interregional Repercussion Effects of Tourism
Consumption:
Case of Tokyo Metropolitan and the Rest of Japan
15:25-15:55
Refreshment Break - North Arts Theatres Foyer
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Tuesday 12th February
16:00-18:00 Parallel Sessions [C] Session Title: Special Session: Supporting Success in Regional Settlements Room: North Arts
Lecture Theatres: ARTS 1 Chair: Harvey Perkins, University of Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand
Arthur Grimes, Motu Research, Aotearoa New Zealand
Kate Preston; David Maré, Motu Economic & Public Policy Research, Aotearoa New Zealand Stuart Donovan, Vrije Univesiteit, The Netherlands
Amenities and the Attractiveness of New Zealand Cities
Jonathan Kilgour, University of Waikato, Aotearoa New
Zealand
Sense of Place, Connectedness, Belonging, Mana
Whenua and Ukaipōtanga as Elements in the Creation of
Better Towns for Māori
Harvey Perkins; Deborah Levy; Raewyn Hills, University
of Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand
Malcolm Campbell; Laura Dance, University of
Canterbury, Aotearoa New Zealand
Michael Mackay, Lincoln University, Aotearoa New
Zealand
Tourism-led Regeneration: The Need for Leadership and
Strategic Thinking in Small Regional Towns
Deborah Levy; Raewyn Hills; Harvey Perkins, University
of Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand
Mike Mackay, Lincoln University, Aotearoa New
Zealand
Malcolm Campbell, University of Canterbury, Aotearoa
New Zealand
Property-led Regeneration: Understanding and
Supporting Small Town Commercial Property
Development Initiatives
Nick Taylor, Nick Taylor Associates, Aotearoa New
Zealand
Michael Mackay; Karen Johnston, Lincoln University,
Aotearoa New Zealand
Harvey Perkins, University of Auckland, Aotearoa New
Zealand
Regeneration in the Town of Oamaru
Sean Connelly; Etienne Nel; Ann Pomeroy; Michelle
Thompson-Fawcett, University of Otago, Aotearoa New
Zealand
Harnessing the Hinterland: Structural Change and Local
Response in Rural and Small-town New Zealand
Etienne Nel, University of Otago, Aotearoa New Zealand
& University of Johannesburg, South Africa
Sean Connelly University of Otago, Aotearoa New
Zealand
Rediscovering the Regions: A New Era of Regional
Policy Intervention in New Zealand
Ruth Berry, Building Better Homes Towns and Cities
National Science Challenge, Aotearoa New Zealand
Building Better Homes, Towns and Cities – National
Science Challenge: The future strategy
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Tuesday 12th February
16:00-18:00 Parallel Sessions [C]
Session Title: Housing Issues Room: North Arts
Lecture Theatres: ARTS 2 Chair: Melissa Nursey-Bray, University of Adelaide, Australia
Jennifer Joynt, Auckland Council, Aotearoa New
Zealand
Unpicking the Constructive Development Pipeline: A
Community Housing Provider Perspective
Andrew Beer, UniSA Business School, Australia The New Spaces of Housing Affordability in Australia:
Unpacking the Role of Local Government
John Martin, La Trobe University, Australia The Role of Locally Provided Services of General
Interest in Delivering Spatial Justice
Jeffrey McNeill; Gerard Prinsen, Massey University,
Aotearoa New Zealand
Vacating Place. Vacated Space
Session Title: Urban Rural Connections Room: North Arts
Lecture Theatres: ARTS 3 Chair: Gergely Tagai, MTA MRTK, Hungary
Kane Pham, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Alternative Perspectives of Everyday Spaces:
Introducing a Multiperspectival Framework of
City-regional Change
Charlotte Jayne Hoole, University of Sheffield, UK What's the Deal for Peripheral Places in City-region
Devolution in England?
Shenjing He, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong,
China
Yuting Liu, South China University of Technology, China
“Villages of the City”: Reshaping Rurality and
Rural-urban Relationship in Post-productivist Pearl River
Delta, China
Sahar Zavareh; Gordon Winder, University of Munich,
Germany
The Challenges Posed by UN-Habitat’s Rural-Urban
Linkages in a Sustainability Transition Agenda: The Case
of the Christchurch, New Zealand Rebuild
16:00-18:00 Parallel Sessions [C]
Session Title: Agri-food Value Chains Room: To Ao Marama:
SEMINAR ROOM Chair:
Tiffany McIntyre, AERU, Lincoln University, Aotearoa
New Zealand
The Governance of Land-Based Value Chains: Attributes
for Value Creation and Value Capture
Peter Tait, AERU, Lincoln University, Aotearoa New
Zealand
Wine Consumer Preferences for Sustainability
Attributes: A Discrete Choice Experiment of Californian
Sauvignon Blanc Purchasers
John Saunders, AERU, Lincoln University, Aotearoa
New Zealand
Long-term Modelling for Agricultural International Trade
Caroline Saunders, AERU, Lincoln University, Aotearoa
New Zealand
Unlocking Export Prosperity for Regional Development
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Tuesday 12th February
19:00-22:00
Conference Dinner – Pre-registration was required for this event
The Shiling Club, Ground Floor, James Hight Library, University of
Canterbury
Wednesday 13th February
09:00-16:00
Registration – North Arts Theatres Foyer
09:00-09:30 Chair: Andrew Beer, UniSA Business School, Australia
Speaker: Sally Hardy, Regional Studies Association, UK – Regional Studies
and Gender in Publishing
Room: North Arts
Lecture Theatres:
ARTS 1
09:30-10:00 Keynote Speech
Chair: Etienne Nel, University of Otago, Aotearoa New Zealand
Speaker: Fletcher Tabuteau, Under Secretary for Regional Development,
Aotearoa New Zealand – Title to follow
Room: North Arts
Lecture Theatres:
ARTS 1
10:00-11:30 Parallel Sessions [D]
Session Title: Regional Development II Room: North Arts Lecture
Theatres: ARTS 1
Chair:
Chaolin Gu; Rong Feng; Yue Zhang, Tsinghua
University, China
Xian Hu, Three Georges University, China
Ian Cook, Liverpool John Moores University, China
A New Rural Planning Based on Subsidies for Rural China
Govinda Prasad Paudel; Krishna K. Shrestha; Hemant
Raj Ojha; Ian Nuberg, The University of New South
Wales, Australia
Naya Sharma Paudel, ForestAction, Nepa
Promised much Delivered Little: A Story of Forest-based
Enterprise in the Himalaya
Malcolm Campbell; Hamish McNair, University of
Canterbury, Aotearoa New Zealand
Michael Mackay, Lincoln University, Aotearoa New
Zealand
Harvey Perkins, People and Places Ltd, Aotearoa New
Zealand
Is Accommodation ‘Sharing’ Disrupting the Regional Housing
Market?
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Wednesday 13th February
10:00-11:30 Parallel Sessions [D]
Session Title: Regional Resilience and Wellbeing III Room: North Arts Lecture
Theatres: ARTS 2
Chair: Hidekazu Ito, Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan
Samantha Sharpe, University of Technology Sydney,
Australia
Forced Innovation: Small Business Preparedness and
Response to Natural Disasters
Anna Mikhaylova, Institute for Public Finance Reform,
Russia
Subsidization as a Factor of the Resilience of Regional
Economic Systems in Russia
Vladimir Klimanov, Institute for Public Finance
Reform, Russia
Regional Resilience in Strategic Plans in Russia
10:00-11:30 Parallel Sessions [D]
Session Title: Research on Metropolitan Issues Room: North Arts Lecture
Theatres: ARTS 3
Chair: Melissa Nursey-Bray, University of Adelaide, Australia
Raquel Moreno-Penaranda, The University of Tokyo,
Japan
Urban Agriculture in Japan: Challenges and Opportunities for
Sustainability and Local Wellbeing
Ling Xue; Chao Yang, Peking University, China
Jiayu Wang, University of International Business and
Economics, China
Non-equilibrium Dynamic Simulation of Spatial Evolution of the
Polycentric Structure in Metropolitan Area in China
Oxana Klimanova, Institute for Public Finance Reform,
Russia
Eugeny Kolbowsky; Olga Illarionova, Lomonosov
Moscow State University, Russia
Ecological Framework of the Largest Cities in Russia
Session Title: Initiatives for Sustainability Room: To Ao Marama:
SEMINAR ROOM
Chair: Caroline Veldhuizen, University of Melbourne, Australia
Rima Rubčinskaitė, Vilnius University, Lithuania
Regional Resilience to External Shocks: Does & How the
Economic Structure Matters
Ben Anderson, University of Southampton, UK Small Area Temporal Household Electricity Demand Models
for New Zealand
11:30-12:00
Refreshment Break - North Arts Theatres Foyer
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Wednesday 13th February
12:00-13:30 Parallel Sessions [E]
Session Title: Regional Development III Room: North Arts Lecture
Theatres: ARTS 1
Chair:
Rima Rubčinskaitė, Vilnius University, Lithuania
Agglomeration, Clusters and Productivity: A Case of Small
European Region
Koech Cheruiyot, Gauteng City-Region Observatory,
South Africa
Exploring Evidence of Spatial Economic Agglomeration in
Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality, Gauteng, South Africa
Using Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis Approaches
Hidekazu Ito, Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan
The Inventory Management and On-time Delivery of
Auto-parts’ Suppliers: Evidence from Japanese Automotive
Industry
Session Title: Modelling Spatial Development Room: North Arts Lecture
Theatres: ARTS 2
Chair: Eilya Torshizian, University of Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand
Mirjam Schindler; Rita Dionisio; Simon Kingham,
University of Canterbury, Aotearoa New Zealand
A Critical Reflection on the Implications of the Choice of Urban
Decision-support Tools on Urban Outcomes
Magali Talandier, University of Grenoble Alpes,
France
Renewing the Theory of Economic Base: A New Approach to
Measure Local Economic Development
Stefanie Dühr, University of South Australia, Australia
Policies and Instruments for Balanced Spatial Development:
European Lessons for Australia
Session Title: New Urban and Regional Paradigms Room: North Arts Lecture
Theatres: ARTS 3
Chair:
Yanheng Lu, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong,
China
Architectural Experiment in Rural China: Materiality,
Post-rurality and Planetary Urbanisation
Kate Mackness; Rachel Dyer; Mark Dyer, University of
Waikato, Aotearoa New Zealand
Urban Narrative: Case Studies of Capturing Community
Perspectives through Digital Ethnographic Tools
Jane Zhuang; Yuting Zhuang, Shanghai Lixin
University of Accounting and Finance, China
Andre Everett, University of Otago, Aotearoa New
Zealand
Hedging Cultural Geography and Economic Geography for
Clustering Theorisation: A Longitudinal Analysis Adopting
Formal Grounded Theory Methodology
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Wednesday 13th February
12:00-13:30 Parallel Sessions [E]
Session Title: Smart Specialisation Room: To Ao Marama:
SEMINAR ROOM
Chair:
Bruce Wilson; Emma Shortis; Todd Williams,
European Union Centre at RMIT, Australia
Governance Challenges for Regional Innovation in Australia:
The Hunter Valley and Latrobe Valley Experiences with Smart
Specialisation
Johanna Juselius, Helsinki-Uusimaa Regional Council,
Finland
In it Together: Smart Specialisation and Place-based Branding
– The Case of Helsinki-Uusimaa Region
Caroline Veldhuizen; Lars Coenen; Leo
Goedegebuure, University of Melbourne, Australia
Bruce Wilson, European Union Centre at RMIT,
Australia
Smart Specialisation in Australia: Policy Mobility or
Experimentalist Policy?
13:30-14:30
Lunch - North Arts Theatres Foyer
14:30-15:45 Closing Plenary [2] Regional Resilience and Wellbeing
Chair: Paul Dalziel, Lincoln University, Aotearoa New Zealand
Speaker: Melissa Nursey-Bray, University of Adelaide, Australia –
Connection, Country and Cassandra: Achieving Socially just Climate Governance in Urban and Regional Australia
Speaker: Bruce Wilson, European Union Centre, RMIT, Australia - Regional Resilience and Wellbeing: The Relevance of the Sustainable Development
Goals
Speaker: Gus Charteris, Just Transitions Unit at Ministry of Business,
Innovation and Employment, Aotearoa New Zealand – Title to follow
Room: North Arts
Lecture Theatres:
ARTS 1
15:45-16:00 Conference Close