Founded in 1961, the Western Regional Science Association is an international multidisciplinary group of university scholars and government and private-sector practitioners dedicated to the scientific analysis of regions. WRSA organizes an annual conference and provides awards for graduate students working in the field of regional science. Visit the WRSA website for details on upcoming conferences and other activities.
The WRSA publishes the Annals of Regional Science, a scholarly, peer-reviewed, journal that promotes high quality scholarship on the important theoretical and empirical issues in regional science. The journal publishes papers which make substantial contributions to the body of knowledge in which the spatial dimension plays a fundamental role. Visit the ARS website for details on article submissions and subscriptions.