Mid-Continent Regional Science Association 50th Annual Conference

~ June 4-6, 2019 ~ Madison, Wisconsin ~

Call for Papers

Economic Development Quarterly

Economic Development Quarterly (EDQ) is seeking research manuscript proposals for a special issue on the impact of an aging workforce and population on regional economic development. The regional impact of the aging workforce and general population has received considerable attention in the popular media. While fast-growing regions are competing for young, educated adults, other communities, particularly in rural areas, are facing declines in their overall workforce and increases in the demand for services for their older residents. In addition, the never-ending advancement of technology requires the retraining of older workers, many of whom face the real possibility of being “structurally unemployed.”

EDQ would like to encourage researchers to further our understanding of the economic development implications of the demographic shifts on states and local areas by soliciting research proposals for a special issue of the journal. EDQ is the premiere applied academic journal publishing research on domestic U.S. economic and workforce development issues. Its mission is to promote research supporting the formulation of evidence-based economic development and workforce development policy, programs, and practice in the United States.

Purpose and Process

The call for paper proposals is the first step in the process of compiling high-quality research for the special issue. Senior authors of selected proposals will be invited to attend a two-day research workshop at the Upjohn Institute in Kalamazoo, MI to present their research questions, data sources, analytical methodology, preliminary results, and potential policy implications on this topic and receive feedback from other invited senior authors and outside experts. As the second step, authors will be given time to prepare their final manuscript on their chosen topic, which (once submitted) will be required to go through the journal’s peer review process for inclusion in the special issue.

Possible Topics

EDQ is seeking research proposals that will probe the fundamental questions related to the regional impact of the aging workforce and general population. Possible research areas could include:

How does the demand for older workers vary by region and to what extent does this variation explain differences in regional economic development?
Are individuals, in all age groups, less mobile than before and how is that impacting local economies?
What education and training policies and programs seem to be effective in increasing the labor participation rate of older/aging workers?
How are current employment policies impacting (positively or negatively) older/aging workers?
What would be the characteristics of an economic development initiative targeted toward older workers?
What industries are more likely to create employment opportunities and good wages for older/aging workers?
What is the impact of business-incentive economic development policies on an aging workforce?
Are there regional policies that can promote or enhance retirement persons back into productive employment? What are the implications of those policies?
9. Are there regional policies that can promote or enhance gradual retirement options, such as phased retirement, bridge employment, and reentry?
10. What role does workplace flexibility play in promoting economic development at the regional level, with an emphasis on older workers?

Of course, many other topics related to the general theme of the special issue may be offered.

Submission Guidelines

Interested authors should submit paper proposals not exceeding three pages, double-spaced, describing the proposed research, data, and methodology. The proposed research must address key issues and suggest policy implications that inform U.S. regional/state economic development practices. Authors must also submit a current curriculum vitae.

Submitted paper proposals should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere.

Timeline

Paper proposals must be emailed to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by MARCH 1, 2019.

EDQ editors Timothy Bartik and George Erickcek will select authors based on their proposal submissions to participate in a two-day research workshop at the W.E. Upjohn Institute in Kalamazoo, Michigan, on May 9-10, 2019, where they will present their research questions, data sources, analytical methodology, preliminary results, and potential policy implications and receive feedback from invited discussants. A full paper is NOT expected at the May conference. We understand that the findings will be preliminary and encourage authors to revise their manuscripts as they receive constructive feedback from invited discussants. The senior author of the paper is expected to present at the workshop. Lodging will be paid for selected authors and transportation for selected authors will be reimbursed.

Authors will then be asked to submit their completed papers to EDQ no later than December 1, 2019. Papers will be required to go through the journal’s peer review process for inclusion in the special issue.

Paper proposals due by March 1, 2019
Selected authors notified by March 15, 2019
Workshop held on May 9-10, 2019
Completed research papers submitted to EDQ no later than December 1, 2019
Target release of EDQ special issue is November 2020 (but may be published online in advance)
Sponsors

The workshop is sponsored by the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan, independent research organization devoted to investigating the causes and effects of unemployment (www.upjohn.org). The Institute houses EDQ, which is published by Sage Publications, and both are committed to advancing applied research on economic development and workforce development that can inform policy and improve practices on those key topics.

https://journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cmscontent/EDQ/Call%20for%20Papers-Aging.pdf

Call for Papers

Advances in portable sensing methodologies for urban environments: Understanding cities from a mobility perspective

To be published as a Special Issue of

Computers, Environment, and Urban Systems (CEUS)

Special issue editors: Amit Birenboim1, Marco Helbich2, Mei-Po Kwan3

1 Department of Geography and the Human Environment, Tel Aviv University

2 Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning, Utrecht University

3 Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign

Recent years saw a surge in the development of lightweight and relatively cheap portable sensors of various kinds that can be carried by people or vehicles. The resulting continuous stream of fine grained data in space-time that these sensors generate brings new opportunities for understanding urban environments and urban living. In particular, these sensors allow capturing the behaviors and status of mobile humans and non-human objects in cities and their continuous interaction with physical, built, and social environments. The new type of sensor-based in situ information facilitates the development of new methodological approaches and analytical frameworks that can help address old and new urban issues.

Portable sensors include various types of devices that may record the behavior and status of the people or objects that carry them (e.g., intensity of activity, physical status) and characteristics of their surrounding environment (e.g., noise, temperature). While portable sensors are part of the data-intensive science paradigm and big data era, the technology and the data that it generates require special attention for at least the following reasons. First, in order to be useful for urban analytics, it is necessary to record the mobility patterns of moving agents along with other sensor information. Therefore, relevant data will rely on the integration of location tracking technologies such as GPS and RFID. Second, the collected information is of high temporal and spatial resolution. Consequently, a central advantage of the technology is that it allows the dynamic representations and analysis of urban environments and their inhabitants. Third, compared to stationary sensors, portable sensors tend to have lower data integrity. This is a limitation that needs to be addressed.

This special issue seeks to attract papers that examine the recent developments in the methodologies, analytical frameworks, and applications of state-of-the-art portable sensor technology in the context of urban research, management, and planning. It considers portable sensing in a broad sense, which includes both ‘classical’ passive sensing (i.e., opportunistic sensing) and more active sensing approaches that require input from users (i.e., participatory sensing). The special issue emphasizes the usage of these novel methodologies, analytical frameworks or applications to the understanding of the dynamism of cities and the mobile agents that comprise it. We encourage submissions from a broad range of disciplines as long as they show clear relation to urban issues. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Implementation of emerging portable sensing technologies for studying mobile human and non-human objects in urban environments
• The use of portable sensor information in urban analytics and modeling
• Smartphone sensing techniques for a better understanding of cities and their inhabitants
• The usage of portable sensing techniques to the study of urban mobility and transportation
• The use of ambulatory sensing technologies in health and exposure research in cities
• Portable sensors and urban citizen science
• The relation between portable sensors and notions of smart cities
• Real-time city management (e.g., of transportations, mega events, disasters)

Submission procedure:

Interested authors should submit titles and 250-word abstract to Amit Birenboim (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) by April 22, 2019. Invitation to submit full manuscript will be sent to chosen abstracts by May 8, 2019. Deadline for submission of full length manuscript is January 13, 2020. Submissions must conform to CEUS submission guidelines and should be submitted through the journal's EVISE system. Manuscripts will undergo the standard CEUS review process.

Important dates:

April 22, 2019            Proposals (title and 250 words abstract) submission deadline

May 8, 2019               Invitation notification to submit full manuscript

January 13, 2020      Final manuscript submission deadline through the EVISE system

July 2020                    Publication of special issue in CEUS

For more information please contact one of the special issue editors:

Amit Birenboim (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Marco Helbich (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Mei-Po Kwan (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

47th ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Downing College, Cambridge
16-18 July 2019

Multilateral and direct cooperation between European regions and cities has in recent years developed in social and economic fields till the point at which it significantly affects not only politics and the economies of individual countries but also of the entire continent.
In these difficult times cities and regions are refuge of Europe which needs unity and solidarity.
The 5th European Congress of Local Governments is a meeting platform for local leaders and regional elites to exchange views with public administration, NGOs and business.

The diversified programme will consist of 5 thematic tracks, with more than 60 events: thematic blocks, panel discussions, workshops, lectures, presentations and receptions.

See more at: http://www.forum-ekonomiczne.pl/v-europejski-kongres-samorzadow-2/?lang=en

 Dear colleague:

We have just published a new issue of the journal Investigaciones Regionales - Journal of Regional Research (Special Issue Nº 42). It is now available both on line and print version.

About Investigaciones Regionales – Journal of Regional Research:

The founding aim of Investigaciones Regionales–Journal of Regional Research was to create a prestigious journal through which to disseminate quality research carried out in the broad academic and professional field of regional, urban and territorial studies. The review process of the papers submitted to the Journal follows international standards.

Investigaciones Regionales-Journal of Regional Research is ranked as Q2 by Scimago JRC (Scopus), in Economics, Econometrics and Finance, and indexed in other scientific and academic international databases (Emerging Source Citation Index (ESCI), EBSCO, ProQuest, EconLit, RePec, DOAJ, Redalyc, Latindex, Fuente Académica,…).

The Journal has a multidisciplinary approach, welcoming submissions from fields such as Economics, Geography, Sociology, Land Planning and Political Science, whose scientific focus, originality and added value contribute to the dissemination of new ideas and methodological approaches, strengthening and improving the quality of the publication, via its link

The contents of this issue are:

Introduction:

·         Special Issue on Tourism Competitiveness in the Digital Economy

Articles:

·         The challenge of long-term tourism competitiveness in the age of innovation: Spain as a case study - Luis Moreno-Izquierdo, Ana Ramón-Rodríguez, María Jesús Such-Devesa

·         Venice: the problem of overtourism and the impact of cruises - Ana Trancoso González

·         Public support for entrepreneurship, human capital and talent in the context of Spanish tourism - Saúl Cobo-Soler, Andrés Fernández-Alcantud, José María López-Morales, Marta Santamaría-García

·         Tourism accessibility competitiveness. A regional approach for Latin American countries - Natalia Porto, Ana Clara Rucci, Matias Ciaschi

·         Hotel online pricing policy: A review and a regional case study - Manuela Pulina, Valentina Santoni

·         Exploring the use of artificial intelligence in price maximisation in the tourism sector: its application in the case of Airbnb in the Valencian Community - Luis Moreno-Izquierdo, Galina Egorova, Alexandre Peretó-Rovira, Adrián Más-Ferrando

·         Smart tourism experiences: conceptualisation, key dimensions and research agenda - Francisco Femenia-Serra, Barbara Neuhofer

·         Smart sustainability: a new perspective in the sustainable tourism debate - José Francisco Perles Ribes, Josep Ivars Baidal

·         From smart destinations to smart tourism regions - Ulrike Gretzel

·         Foundations and relevance of delimiting local tourism destinations - Yurena Rodríguez Rodríguez, Raúl Hernández Martín

To contact Us and Submit Manuscripts:

Investigaciones Regionales – Journal of Regional Research

Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

The article will be sent through the portal Open Journal System (OJS) of the Spanish Repository of Science and Technology (RECYT): https://recyt.fecyt.es/index.php/IR/login . 

Yours sincerely,

Investigaciones Regionales – Journal of Regional Research

Dear Colleagues,

I would like to raise your attention for a symposium on the Policy and Governance Innovation in Agricultural Landscapes, at the next IALE (International Association for Landscape Ecology) World Conference in Milano (Italy), 1st-5th July 2019. 

The symposium is entitled "Policy and governance innovation in agricultural landscapes: Recent trends and future pathways towards enhanced sustainability and  food security". A full description can be found here: http://www.iale2019.unimib.it/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2018/11/SYMP53.pdf

Conveners are José Munoz-Rojas and Teresa Pinto-Correia (ICAAM, Évora), Isabel Loupa-Ramos (IST-Lisbon), Rafael Mata Olmo (UAM-Madrid) and Lone Kristensen (U. Copenhagen)

A Special Issue will be published in either Sustainability (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability) or Land (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/land)

For submission of abstracts, please go to the following website and submit by the 25th February 2019: http://www.iale2019.unimib.it/abstract-submission-form/  (and select SYMP53)

For any queries, please do not hesitate to contact me or any other co-convener directly

Looking forward to receiving your contributions

The International Congress on Sustainable Development, Public Management and Territorial Governance

WSB University, Faculty of Applied Sciences 28-31 May 2019, Dąbrowa Górnicza, Poland

The International Congress on Sustainable Development, Public Management and Territorial Governance is organized in cooperation:

-  WSB University,Poland

- University of Extremadura,Spain

-  Polytechnic Institute of Portalegre,Portugal

- University of Madeira,Portugal

-  FISAT. 

The congress will take place between 28 and 31 May 2019, at the Faculty of Applied Sciences, WSB University, in Dąbrowa Górnicza, Poland.

This event will explore the ongoing dynamic, emerging issues and future challenges regarding territorial governance and public management as well as the other fields of research that may have an influence on sustainable development.

Contextually, several themes will be addressed, namely: Public Management; Territorial Governance and Strategies; Cross-Border Cooperation and Inter-Regional Cooperation; Inter- Organizational Cooperation; Sustainable Planning; Sustainable Development; Smart Cities; Biodiversity Policies and Strategies; Accessibility and Connectivity Transport Systems; Sustainable Tourism Management; Sustainable Culture Management; Renewables Energies; Circular and Green Economy; Environmental Rights and Legislation; Migratory fluxes - Strategies, Management and Planning.

Keynote speakers:

- Elisabete A. Silva, University of Cambridge, Great Britain 

- Christophe Sohn, Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research, Luxembourg

- Martin Klatt, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark

- Ana Vulevic, Institute of Transportation CIP, Serbia

- Hana Stverkova, VŠB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic

- Fernández, Jeri, António, FISAT, Peru

Working agenda:

28thMay
Opening Ceremony & Gala Dinner (starting at 7 p.m.) 

29thMay

Plenary session, parallel sessions (from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.), trip to Katowice, social dinner at 7 p.m.) 

30thMay

Parallel sessions, poster session, workshop with scientific journals’ editors  (from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.), social dinner at 7 p.m. 

31stMay

Closing session, trip to Cracow with Gala Lunch (ending at 5 p.m.)

Early registration should be open until February 17, 2019. However, late registration will be possible as well. The registration deadline is April 30, 2019. Registration forms should be sent to the following address www.wsb.edu.pl/congress (conferenceregistration).

Registration fees:

Early Registration – 280,00 €;

Late Registration – 350,00 €;

Student (subject to confirmation) – 200,00 €.

The payment should be made by April 30, 2019.

in euro - Akademia WSB w Dabrowie Gorniczej / WSB University in Dabrowa Gornicza 

ING Bank Śląski S.A.; 40-086 KATOWICE UL.SOKOLSKA 34; Poland

IBAN / account number: PL 05 1050 1227 1000 0023 3028 9576  

code BIC (SWIFT)  INGBPLPW

in zloty -Akademia WSB w Dąbrowie Górniczej 

IBAN / account number: 64 1050 1272 1000 0008 0063 3554  

Transfer name: „Congress 2019” + the name of the participant

The participants should send the payment confirmation to the congress email address: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Abstracts and papers in English, Portuguese or Spanish should be submitted to the following e-mail address: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

The submitted abstracts will be reviewed by the Congress Scientific Committee, according to the adequacy of the contents of the Congress topics. Please submit an abstract of no more than 200 words, before the 17^thof February, for prior evaluation. Posters may also be submitted – the authors should use the specific format available on the congress website. The submission process will take place between November 1, 2018, and April 30, 2019. Successful applicants will be informed on a regular basis, no later than May 5, 2019. The deadline for full papers is May 24,2019.

Congress languages: preferably English, however Polish, Portuguese and Spanish can also be used (especially during parallel sessions).

The publication of the works in a Book of Abstracts (with ISBN) is foreseen as the Congress outcome.

The best works will be invited to be published - as a book chapter - by the prestigious publisher “Thomson Reuters” (7th  worldwide position in scientific publications) – an additional  payment      of 300,00€ - the guidelines for authors could be found on the eventwebsite.

Other works will be reviewed for possible publication in Scientific Journals associated with the event:

Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050) – special issue: Sustainable Cross-Border Cooperation: Common Planning, Policies, Strategies, Methods and Activities (Editors: Joanna Kurowska-Pysz, Rui Alexandre Castanho, Luís Loures) – publication fee according to the price list

Regional Science Policy & Practice (ISSN 1757-7802) – special issue: New trends and Dynamics on Territorial Management and Governance (Editors: Rui Alexandre Castanho, Joanna Kurowska-Pysz, Katarzyna Szczepańska-Woszczyna) – publication fee according to the price list

Forum Scientiae Oeconomia (ISSN 2300-5947), an international journal published in Poland, indexed in: EBSCO, ARIANTA, BazEkon, CEEOL, ERIH Plus, Google Scholar, Index Copernicus, PBN - Polska Bibliografia Naukowa, DOAJ (accredited by Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education – 7 points) - no publication fees.

Revista Monfragüe Desarrollo Resiliente (ISSN 2340-5457) - the journal focuses on scientific works regarding the approach of resilience, as a more concrete approach than the traditional concept     of "Sustainability". Thus, the journal provides an open space of reflection and rigorous debate,     for those who intend to enter the study of the resilient development - no publicationfees.

Congress participants shall cover the publishing costs and pay fees directly to the publishers after the paper has received positive reviews.

If the proposal is accepted and the participant cannot attend the event, it is possible to send the poster – still, the registration payment is required.

Accommodation costs are not included in the congress fee. Suggested accommodation:

Holiday Inn**** Dąbrowa Górnicza https://hidabrowa.pl/en/ booking - until places are empty, 15th April at latest

please contact with the hotel using e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.in the correspondence use the contact password: WSBUniversity

the prices: 229 pln single / 279 pln double

Pogoria Residence*** Dąbrowa Górnicza http://www.pogoriaresidence.pl/en/

booking - until places are empty, 15th April at latest

please contact with the hotel using its online booking system

in the correspondence use the contact password: WSBUniversity the prices: 179 pln single / 233 pln double

Suggested airports in Poland, with the best access to the congress venue: 

Katowice Airport https://www.katowice-airport.com/en/

Kraków Airport http://www.krakowairport.pl/en/

Warsaw Chopin Airport  https://www.lotnisko-chopina.pl/en/index.html

Chairpersons (contact persons): 

Joanna Kurowska-Pysz, Rui Alexandre Castanho, Julian Mora Aliseda 

e-mail address: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Hope to see you in Poland.

Professor of Human Geography (Regional Studies)

The University of Eastern Finland, UEF, is one of the largest multidisciplinary universities in Finland. We offer education in nearly one hundred major subjects, and are home to approximately 15,500 students and 2,500 members of staff. We operate in Joensuu and Kuopio. In international rankings, we are ranked among the leading universities in the world. 

The Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies operates on two campuses of the University of Eastern Finland – in Joensuu and Kuopio. The faculty trains experts in the fields of history, geography, economics and business administration, law, social sciences,and social and health management. The faculty's research is closely linked to the research areas identified in the university's strategy. The faculty has approximately 4,300 Bachelor’s and Master’s degree students and approximately 450 postgraduate students actively pursuing their studies. The faculty has approximately 300 staff members. www.uef.fi/yhka 
 
We are now inviting applications for 

a Professor of Human Geography (Regional Studies) position, Department of Geographical and Historical Studies, Joensuu Campus 

The focus of the professorship is regional studies in the context of human geography. A re-gion is defined as a broad concept that offers perspectives on, e.g., scales, territorialism, re-gional development and regional policy, as well as on border studies and health geography. In the framework of human geography, research should be based on strong social theoretical and spatial approaches; the application and development of various qualitative and quantitative methods, including geoinformatics, are central to this framework.

A description of the post has been  prepared for the purposes of describing the professorship/ filling the  professorship. This description of the post specifies the professor's  duties, qualification requirements and appendices to be included in the  application. The description of the post is available on the website at http://www.uef.fi/en/web/guest/uef/open-vacansies/instructions.

The position will be filled with an open-ended contract as from 1 August 2019.

The salary of the position is determined in accordance with the salary system of Finnish universities and is based on levels 8 - 11 of the job requirement level chart for teaching and research staff (€4,771.69 – 7,031.37/month). In addition to the job requirement component, the salary includes a personal performance component, which may be a maximum of 50 % of the job requirement component.

Further information:

Dean Sari Rissanen (+358 405943774 / This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.); Head of the Department of Geographical and Historical Studies Minna Tanskanen (+358 503728884 /This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.). Further information relating to the application procedure can be obtained from Executive Head of Administration Ulla Hurskainen (+358 5125238 /This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) 

A probationary period is applied to all new members of the staff 

The electronic application is required to contain the following appendices:

1) a resume or a curriculum vitae compiled in accordance with the template for researcher’s curriculum vitae of the Finnish Advisory Board on Research Integrity (http://www.tenk.fi/en/template-researchers-curriculum-vitae) 
2) a portfolio of teaching merits (http://www.uef.fi/en/web/guest/uef/avoimet-tyopaikat/liitteet --> Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies -> Portfolio instructions) 
3) a complete list of publications compiled in accordance with the publication classification of the Ministry of Education and Culture (https://www.aka.fi/en/funding/how-to-apply/application-guidelines/guidelines-for-list-of-publications/) 
4) a plan (no more than 4 pages) of the applicant's views on how to develop the field with regard to research, education and societal interaction 
5) a. a separate, numbered and indexed list of a maximum of 10 publications with which the applicant wishes to demonstrate his or her qualifications and merits for the post; 
b. copies of the publications referred to in the list. 
6) copies of the applicant’s academic degree certificates / diplomas 
7) copies of certificates / diplomas relating to the applicant’s language proficiency, if not indicated in the academic degree certificates / diplomas. 

The application needs to be submitted no later than 20.2.2019(by 24.00 hours Finnish time)by using the electronic application form.

https://www.uef.fi/en/web/guest/uef/en-open-positions

https://rekry.saima.fi/certiahome/application_edit_welcome.html?field_id=0&job_name=Professor+of+Human+Geography+%28Regional+Studies%29&job_id=6802&jc=16&lang=en&place_id=114&did=5600