Overriding Boundaries – About the Relational Nature of Regions
Friday, 14. October 2016 | 11:00 Uhr
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In her presentation, Dr. Kristina Zumbusch, Assistant Director of the Institute for Systemic Management and Public Governance of the University of St.Gallen (IMP-HSG) provided insight into her work at HSG in the field of regional development.
How do regions define themselves? What influence do borders have on the development of a region? To what degree are regions able to handle conflict?
Kristina Zumbusch demonstrated how the interests and criteria of regions in Switzerland differ. Using the example of the Lake Constance region she also showed how heterogeneous the needs are within given regions.
Learn more about her studies in this video.
Kristina Zumbusch
Born in 1974 in Vienna (Austria), she studied Spatial Planning and Spatial Development at the Technical University of Vienna and at the Institut d’Urbanisme de Grenoble (France), and subsequently obtained her Ph.D. focusing on regional governance from the University of Dortmund (D).
From 1999 to 2003, she was research assistant at the Department of Spatial Planning in Europe, University of Dortmund, interrupted by research stays for several months in the US and in Brussels. In the following years, she was research assistant at the Institute for Technology and Regional Policy, Joanneum Research ForschungsgesmbH (2003-2007) and at convelop gmbh (2007-2009) in Graz (Austria).
Since 2009, Dr. Kristina Zumbusch has been Senior Researcher and since summer 2015, Vice Director of the Institute for Systemic Management and Public Governance in the Competence Center for Regional Science at the University of St.Gallen (IMP-HSG).
Her teachings, which include numerous publications and extensive (basic and applied) research, focus on the fields of regional economy, regional innovation and technology policy, European regional policy, cross-border co-operations, and regional governance.
