About the Journal

VIII International Regional Economics Conference (REC-2025) “Strategies of Spatial Development: Challenges and Prospects”

June 24-26, 2025

Website of the event: https://rec-conf.ru

The Regional Economics Conference is created to combine the efforts of the academia, government and business, with the purpose to solve the fundamental problem of overcoming challenges to the development of territorial communities of different levels. Within the framework of the Conference, a wide range of issues of the regional economy is considered, but every year the attention of the participants focuses on the one basic feature of regional development, a complex and debatable aspect.

Traditionally, the Conference is held in Ekaterinburg, Russia; the event is organized by the Institute of Economics of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences with the participation of other academic organizations.

In 2025, the Conference will consider the change management in the municipalities, regions and states.

The main topics are the following:

  • Spatial science: social and economic aspects
  • Allocation of territorial capital in the municipalities, regions, and states
  • Spatial development trends: features of identification and interpretation
  • Principles and priorities of spatial development
  • Spatial development management: policies, mechanisms, instruments

Publication

Conference venue
Institute of Economics of the Ural Brach of Russian Academy of Sciences
29, Moskovskaya str., Ekaterinburg, Russia

Conference languages: Russian, English
Participant format: face-to-face / online / video-presentation