Edward Furia ( left ) and Austan Librach ( right ) in a meeting in early 1970 with the Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce, in which they raised $ 30, 000 to fund Earth Day activities and expose the city's worst polluters

1991 Yale University: David Gray and Austan Goolsbee

The previous two Chairs, Austan Goolsbee and Christina Romer, resigned their posts in August 2011 and September 2010, respectively to return to positions in academia.

The name of Aust is first recorded in 794 as Austan.

Rubin, alongside Austan Goolsbee and Paul Volcker, was one of Obama's economic advisers.

In 1991 he and his partner came in second to Austan Goolsbee and partner David Gray.

The " Road of the lasers ", a major project of regional planning, promotes regional investment in optical and laser related industries leading to the Bordeaux area having the most important concentration of optical and laser expertise in Europe.

A strong chain of regional offices was set up within its planning ministry to provide a strong lead in regional development policies.

* Edward Soja ( born 1941 ), noted for his work on regional development, planning and governance, along with coining the terms synekism and postmetropolis.

While the 1997 Labour government devolved power to Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, it refused to created a devolved Assembly or parliament for England, planning instead to introduce eight regional assemblies around England to devolve power to the regions.

These form key transport arteries between the distinct towns and regional centres as laid out in Singapore's urban planning, with the main purpose of allowing vehicles to travel from satellite towns to the city centre and vice-versa in the shortest possible distance.

It is a strategic regional authority, with powers over transport, policing, economic development, and fire and emergency planning.

The regional forester has broad responsibility for coordinating activities among the various forests within the region, for providing overall leadership for regional natural resource and social programs, and for coordinated regional land use planning.

It encompasses " military theory, military history, strategic studies, regional studies, applied strategy, campaign planning, and practical work in joint planning ", and involves " extensive travel ".

If the area affected by the boundary includes multiple jurisdictions a special urban planning agency may be created by the state or regional government to manage the boundary.

It is the transfer of responsibility for the planning, financing and management of public functions from the central government or regional governments and its agencies to local governments, semi-autonomous public authorities or corporations, or area-wide, regional or functional authorities.

Today there are dwindling numbers of regional scientists from academic planning programs and mainstream geography departments.

Regional science's founder, Walter Isard, never envisioned regional scientists would be political or planning activists.

Though now out of fashion, the faith in indicative planning as a pathway to growth, embodied in the DEA and Mintech, was at the time by no means confined to the Labour Party – Wilson built on foundations that had been laid by his Conservative predecessors, in the shape, for example, of the National Economic Development Council ( known as " Neddy ") and its regional counterparts ( the " little Neddies ").

It was the first large regional planning agency of the federal government and remains the largest.

Regional authorities are primarily responsible for environmental management, including water, contaminant discharge and coastal management, river and lake management including flood and drainage control, regional land management ; regional transport ( including public transport ) and harbours, biosecurity or pest management ; while territorial authorities are responsible for: local-level land use management ( urban and rural planning ); network utility services such as water, sewerage, stormwater and solid waste management ; local roads ; libraries ; parks and reserves ; and community development.

Indeed, engineers, agronomists, chemists, geologists, physical geographers, ecologists, biologists, microbiologists, sylviculturists, sanitarians, archaeologists, and specialists in regional planning, all contribute to further knowledge of soils and the advancement of the soil sciences.

The Denver Regional Council of Governments ( DRCOG, pronounced Doctor Cog ) is a regional planning and inter-governmental coordination organization in a nine-county region.

* Atlanta Regional Commission, a regional planning and intergovernmental coordination agency

Local jurisdictions of Fairfax County, Arlington County, and the cities of Alexandria and Falls Church agreed to appropriate $ 3 million to purchase land adjacent to Mason to provide for a Fairfax Campus in 1966 with the intention that the institution would expand into a regional university of major proportions, including the granting of graduate degrees.

In addition to regional accreditation, the undergraduate and graduate programs in business are accredited by AACSB, and the professional education graduate programs are accredited by NCATE.

Many are also joint graduate schools from several regional universities, sometimes in association with other international higher education networks.

In regards to graduate programs, SAU offers the Master of Business Administration, Master of Arts in Family Studies, Master of Arts in Education, Master of Science in Management and Master of Arts in Counseling degrees through some of its regional off-site campuses.

Graduate students can pursue eight graduate programs: five regional studies programs as well as the Master of Science in Foreign Service ( MSFS ), Master of Arts in Global Human Development and the Master of Arts in Security Studies Program.

Graduate students can pursue eight interdisciplinary graduate programs: five regional studies programs ( Arab Studies ; Asian Studies ; German and European Studies ; Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies ; Latin American Studies ; the Master of Science in Foreign Service ( MSFS ); the Master of Arts in Security Studies Program ; and Master of Arts in Global Human Development.

Within the last half century, the University of North Alabama has developed into a comprehensive regional university exerting a major influence over the cultural, social and economic life of Northwest Alabama and providing educational opportunities for students pursuing undergraduate and graduate majors offered through the colleges of Arts and Sciences, Business, Education and Nursing and Health.

WSSU is a recognized regional institution offering baccalaureate and graduate programs to a diverse student population.

The university is composed of eight undergraduate colleges and schools: the College of Liberal Arts ( COLA ), the College of Fine Arts ( COFA ), the College of Education and Human Services ( COEHS ), the College of Information Technology and Engineering ( CITE ), the Elizabeth McDowell Lewis College of Business ( LCOB ), the College of Science ( COS ), the College of Health Professions ( COHP ), and the W. Page Pitt School of Journalism and Mass Communications ( SOJMC ), and four graduate colleges, the general Graduate College, the Graduate School of Education and Professional Development, the School of Pharmacy, and the Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine, a regional center for cancer research which has a national reputation for its programs in rural health care delivery.

The college operates in co-operation with the local Stanthorpe State High School, as well as other regional schools, providing secondary, undergraduate, and graduate certification related to wine and tourism industries.

IADT does not have regional accreditation thus many regionally accredited schools are reluctant to accept their credits in transfer or recognize their degrees for entry into graduate programs. The School itself claims that it is up to the accepting institution to make the final decision on the transferability of credits.

His graduate thesis was in regional theory and policy and he was asked to draft papers for the Department of Economic Affairs which became the analytic basis of regional planning in the 1965 National Plan.

Unlike most other international affairs graduate schools that offer professional Master degrees, SAIS requires its Master of Arts candidates to fulfill the International Economics program along with their chosen functional or regional concentration ; to complete a foreign language proficiency examination ; and in lieu of a customary Master thesis, to pass a 1-hour capstone oral examination synthesizing and integrating knowledge from the student's regional or functional concentration and International Economics.

The university also contributes to regional studies, with graduate courses in international and regional studies.

The Research Manpower Development Center for Mechanical Part Industry, which was initiated and is supported by the Ministry of Education & Human Resources Development as the second phase of Brain Korea 21 ( BK21 ), plays an important role of specializing and enhancing the research capacity of regional graduate schools, thereby tries to develop regional R & D personnel clusters in local industry.

The School of Display and Chemical Engineering ( DsChE ) and The Department of Information and Communication Engineering at Yeungnam University has been selected as one of the second phase BK21 ( Brain Korea 21 ) programs in the Chemical Engineering and Telecommunication areas respectively, which was supposed to educate the graduate students to provide the creative research resources for the regional IT industries.

The 1995 Knight vs. Alabama remedial decree transformed ASU into a comprehensive regional institution paving the way for two new undergraduate programs, four new graduate programs, diversity scholarship funding and endowment, funding to build a state-of-the art health sciences facility and a facility renewal allocation to refurbish three existing buildings.

The Department's partnerships with locally and globally operating IT companies such as Siemens, Wincor Nixdorf, and SD & M as well as with the strong regional mechanical engineering industry in embedded systems, gives the students the unique opportunity of getting to know prospective employers even before they graduate.

A graduate in Philosophy, he made a successful debut in the Italian media as editor-in-chief on the regional newspaper La Voce della Campania (" Voice of Campania ") and collaborating with some other national newspapers and magazines like Il Mattino, L ' Unità and Epoca.