1st CONGRESS OF REGIONAL SCIENCE AND DEVELOPMENT OF GUINEA-BISSAU

PLEASE NOTE: We want the Congress of Gabu constitutes an important milestone in the launch of Regional Science in Guinea, West Africa and Africa. As yet not all conditions are met, in terms of funding the event, to ensure this, the Organization of Congress decided to postpone the Congress until such conditions are achieved, which is expected soon. Indeed, the occurrence of Tunisia postponed the application process for the African Development Bank (ADB). We apologize for the inconvenience.

The Challenges of Regional Science in West Africa

Framed by Regional Science Association International (RSAI), the Associations of Regional Science from the entire world integrate researchers from different disciplines to address issues of regional development. The proximity and complexity of human and territorial systems induce interdisciplinary and plurality approaches of the regional sciences whose consistency is operationalized for the accuracy and capability of analytical methods and the constant need for knowledge and understanding of the processes of decision making of those involved and interact in the territory.

The organization of this Congress of Regional Science in Guinea-Bissau aims to launch the Regional Science in the country, in the African Region were is located and in Africa, and is interconnected assumptions: i) know-how, knowledge and information are essential to sustainable development of people and places; ii) know-how, knowledge and information must be created locally and globally integrated, iii) and the regional science allows - supplementing and complementing other approaches - to scale and integrate the various disciplinary knowledge and plural of Guinea-Bissau making them more effective in terms of sustainable development of people and places in the country.

The choice of Gabú as the meeting place has foundation. In fact, the administrative region of Gabú integrates the symbolic place of the Madina de Boé, birthplace of the founding of Guinea-Bissau. On the other hand, Gabú is close to one of the more important distribution centers of Africa, in the separation of the environmental basins and civilization of the rivers Geba, Gambia, Senegal and Niger. Finally, because starting from the people there taken root if they established relationships with Universities and Centers of Scientific Research of Gambia, Senegal, Guinea Conakry, Mali, Niger, Algeria, of Angola and Mozambique and, naturally, of Cape Verde.