INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Disasters have been happening all over the globe more frequently and more intensely during the recent years casing enormous material and human casualties and threatening sustainable development trajectory. Meanwhile, efforts to reverse the negative impacts of global warming, climate change and other environmental problems have not been enough to ensure sustainability. Moreover, development mechanisms in many parts of the developing world are still unable to appropriately alleviate poverty and minimize economic inequality. It is also worth mentioning that war, terrorism, and other socio-political conflicts have also been intensifying at local as well as global levels. It becomes apparent that challenges to sustainable development and planning are still there even in this era of common awareness in assuring intra- and inter-generational equity.