Division of Regional Economy and Spatial Planning is enganged with studies on regional economic and development, as well as regional and spatial planning policy. Since the establishment, numerous studies have been accomplished by the division in collaborative scheme with many institutions, for instance: planning agency on national and regional level, ministry of environment, ministry of agriculture, national land agency, coordinator ministry of economic affairs, etc. Some researches have been carried out, funded by the Ministry of education and also from some international institutions i.e. The Sumitomo Foundation, OSI Budapest, JIRCAS-Japan and SLUAS-Japan.