The seminar will take place in UCD and is open to all students pursuing a post graduate research degree in the subject areas of agriculture, the environment, rural development, food marketing, supply chain management, land use, development economics and rural sociology.

Some of the specific issues to be considered are: - What are the forces driving urbanization and how do they differ from one region to another? - What are the economic and environmental costs and benefits of urban agglomerations? - What is the link between urban infrastructure and poverty...

For the Regional Science, some of the topics are: 1) Regional Development Strategy 2) Natural Resources and Regional Development 3) Agglomeration and Technology Policy 4) Spatial Statistics and Econometrics.