Joint Virtual Issue: Spatial Systems: Social Integration, Regional Development and Sustainability

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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1111/%28ISSN%291435-5957.RSAI_VirtualIssue

The Institute of Transport and Economics at TU Dresden invites applications for the Chair (W2) of Big Data Analytics in Transportation (W3 with tenure track) initially limited to a six-year contract, to be filled at the earliest possible date.

We are seeking a scientist who is internationally recognised and possesses the potential for scientific research at the highest international level. The prerequisites are a university degree, an excellent doctorate in economics or statistics, high-quality scientific publications, experience in the acquisition of third-party research funds and proven methodological competence in at least one of the following fields: statistics, econometrics, numerical simulations or optimisation methods

See: http://www.verw.tu-dresden.de/StellAus/Stellen.asp?strukturId=fakvw&lang=en&style=verw

Please direct informal inquires to the Managing Director of the Institute: Georg Hirte (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.; +49-351-46336788)

One of the stated aims of the European Association for South Asian Studies is to encourage and support young scholars working in the field of South Asian Studies. In pursuit of this aim, the Association is offering awards linked to its biennial conference. Awards are to be made for the most outstanding papers by currently registered research students presenting at the conference. At the 25th EASAS conference in Paris, up to three awards of €300 each will be made. All current PhD students fully registered and presenting at the conference may submit their paper for consideration. The submitted papers will be considered by a panel of judges selected by the EASAS Council. It is hoped that by offering three Awards, the competition will reflect the full range of disciplines represented at the conference.

Papers must be submitted by email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by 30 June 2018.

For more information please see the attached pdf.

No particular referencing style is prescribed, the paper must be in a selected style at ones own discretion.

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GRAN SASSO SCIENCE INSTITUTE: DEADLINE JUNE 20TH
PhD in Urban Studies and Regional Science: 7 scholarships; 

plus: PhD in Urban Studies and Regional Science – Center for Urban Informatics and Modeling (CUIM) project “Spatial, social and economic issues in post-disaster cities and regions”: 1 scholarship;

The aim of the PhD in Urban Studies and Regional Science is to address issues related to local and regional development. The methodological perspective of research and teaching is multidisciplinary, combining regional and urban economics, economic and human geography, spatial planning and sociology.

The PhD program lasts four years.
The Academic Year will start on November 1st 2018.

Scholarships

The GSSI provides all students with free accommodation and meals, plus a yearly scholarship of € 16.159,91 gross. An additional 50% on a monthly basis may be awarded for research period aboard if approved by the GSSI. 

More information:
http://gssi.it/phd/docs/2018/CallPhDXXXIV.pdf

http://gssi.it/communication/announcements/item/3307-phd-call-for-applications-2018-19-now-open

It is a pleasure to inform you that the issue nº. 48 (2018) of our journal (Portuguese Review of Regional Studies) is now available online. You can accede to it using the link:

http://www.apdr.pt/siteRPER/EN/revistaEN.html

The journal Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050; IF 1.789) is currently running a Special Issue entitled "Environmental Policy for Sustainability".

Dr. Julia Martínez-Fernández and Dr. Miguel Angel Esteve-Selma (University of Murcia, Spain) are serving as Guest Editors for this issue. We think you could make an excellent contribution, based on your expertise.

The present Special Issue will focus on environmental policies and how and they can improve overall sustainability at different scales, from global to local. Environmental policies, explicitly conceived to address different environmental problems, are generally considered a way to advance sustainability. However, relationships between environmental policies and sustainability goals have also evolved, as have related frameworks, methods, practical experiences, and open challenges. One key aspect of such an evolution has been the increasing need for an integrated approach over many different aspects. [...]

For further reading, please follow the link to the Special Issue Website at: http://www.mdpi.com/si/sustainability/Environmental_Policy_Sustainability

The submission deadline is 15 August 2018. You may send your manuscript now or up until the deadline. Submitted papers should not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. We also encourage authors to send a short abstract or tentative title to the Editorial Office in advance (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

Sustainability is fully open access. Open access (unlimited and free access by readers) increases publicity and promotes more frequent citations, as indicated by several studies. Open access is supported by the authors and their institutes. Article Processing Charges of CHF 1400 (APC) apply to accepted papers. You may be entitled to a discount if you have previously received a discount code or if your institute is participating in the MDPI Institutional Open Access Program (IOAP), for more information see: http://www.mdpi.com/about/ioap.

For further details on the submission process, please see the instructions for authors at the journal website (http://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/instructions).

We look forward to hearing from you.

Kind regards,

Ms. Melissa Ni
Assistant Editor

Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050; http://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability) is a journal published by MDPI AG, Basel, Switzerland. Sustainability maintains rigorous peer-review and a rapid publication process. All articles are published with a CC BY 4.0 license. For more information on the CC BY license, please see: http://creativecommons.org

To submit to the journal click here. 

.      Call for Papers for a Special Issue of The Review of Regional Studies -

Water and Regional Science

***DEADLINE EXTENDED***
 

Motivation and objective of the Special Issue:
 

Economic prosperity, quality of life, and the environment are all inextricably linked by water. Availability, quality, and use of water are regional by nature and though interregional trade in water is possible, regional variations in natural and historical resource allocations will continue to play roles in regional development and will likely become more important over time. Absent improvements in water management and efficiency improvements related to water use, additional stress on water resources might lead to reduced economic development potential (even the possibility of negative growth), poorer quality of life, and environmental hazards. The interdisciplinary field of regional science – with its focus on the important roles of local and regional processes to socioeconomic performance and sustainability, its explicit treatment of spatial relationships, and its increasing attention devoted to modeling the linkages between the human system and the environment – is ideally suited to contribute high quality, policy relevant research on water.

The Special Issue seeks to publish novel research and reflect the most recent advances on the latest contributions in the area of water and regional science, covering new modeling techniques and formulations, as well as innovative case studies.

Topic areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

Integration of economic and environmental models that consider water

Water-related determinants of migration patterns and land use change

Environmental impacts of social and economic change related to water

Regional valuation of water

Regional economic impacts associated with changes in water availability and use

Econometric and spatial econometric analyses of water-related issues

Water embodied in economic activity and/or trade 

Water-related determinants of industrial location

Regional ecosystems service valuations related to water

Contributions will be selected through a refereeing process consistent with the standard reviewing process of The Review of Regional Studies. Only high quality original contributions will be included. This Special Issue should be of interest to researchers and policymakers worldwide, wherever there is a need to overcome challenges related to water.

Planned schedule:
Paper submission deadline:     June 15, 2018 
Notification 1st review round:    August 15, 2018 
Resubmission revised papers: October 15, 2018 
Notification 2nd review round:   November 15, 2018 
Expected publication date:       1st Quarter of 2019
 

Guest Editor: Christa D. Court
Dr. Christa Court is an Assistant Scientist in the Food & Resource Economics Department at the University of Florida (UF), Institute of Food & Agricultural Sciences (IFAS). She serves as Assistant Director of the UF Economic Impact Analysis Program and holds affiliate faculty status with the UF Water Institute, the UF/IFAS Institute for Sustainable Food Systems, and the Regional Research Institute at West Virginia University.
 

Article Submissions
Those interested in submitting articles for this special issue please click here. Please indicate in your cover letter that you wish to be included in the special issue.
 

All questions about the special issue should be emailed to the guest editor:
Christa D. Court, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 

ICPSR 5-day workshop on Spatial-Econometric Analysis of Interdependence, July 9-13 at the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

Space is still available for the ICPSR 5-day workshop on Spatial-Econometric Analysis of  Interdependence, July 9-13 at the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor.

Spatial Econometrics

Instructor(s): Robert J. Franzese, University of Michigan

Do the outcomes in some units or individuals in your research analyses depend on outcomes in other units? That is, are the outcomes of interest in your studies likely contagious from units to neighboring units, or otherwise proximate or connected units? Do the processes you study diffuse across units in some manner? Are there spillovers across subjects? If you study anything in the social sciences, and likely most things beyond, almost certainly they are/do.

This workshop (July 9-13 in Ann Arbor) teaches empirical methods (focusing on spatial-autoregressive models) for modeling, for estimation, and for interpretation of such spatial (i.e., cross-unit) interdependence (a.k.a., contagion/diffusion/spillover/network-dependence...).

Applied (lab) sessions and exercises are bilingual, with lab scripts in Stata and R both available, and students are of course welcome to use other software as they prefer.

Register through the ICPSR Summer School portal, linked here:

https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/content/sumprog/registration.html

The course description from the ICPSR website is linked here & copied below:

http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/sumprog/courses/0129

Spatial Econometrics

Instructor(s):

Robert J. Franzese, University of Michigan

Cross-unit (i.e., "spatial") interdependence is ubiquitous throughout the social sciences, and beyond. Events or outcomes in one observational unit are almost always related to similar occurrences in other observational units. This is so for such diverse phenomena as disturbances and conflicts within and among nations; consumer, investor, and producer choices in markets; individuals' opinions and behavior in societies; crime, health, and environmental outcomes; voting by citizens in elections or by legislators in legislatures; and policies in political jurisdictions. In such contexts, "standard" statistical methods (which assume independent observations) are inappropriate, and design-based methods of "causal inference" are, at best, inadequate. This workshop introduces strategies appropriate for interdependent observations, emphasizing spatial and spatiotemporal models of interdependent continuous and limited outcomes.

The main objective of the workshop is to demonstrate how such spatial, cross unit, interdependence can be incorporated into empirical analysis most productively. Course participants will learn how to: diagnose spatial-correlation patterns; estimate spatial-regression models; distinguish between different sources of spatial correlation (common exposure, contagion, and selection); and calculate and present the spatial and spatiotemporal effects that empirical models which incorporate interdependence imply. Methods to be covered include: measures of spatial association; instrumental-variable and maximum-likelihood estimators for regression models with spatial interdependence; multiple-spatial-lag models; spatial interdependence in models with limited and qualitative dependent-variables; and models for coevolutionary processes.

Tags: spatial econometrics, interdependent observations, spatial interdependence, interdependence, contagion, spillovers, diffusion

Location: ICPSR -- Ann Arbor, MI

Date(s): July 9 - July 13

Time: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Daniel Crown of the Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics, The Ohio State University, to Receive the Eighteenth Annual Benjamin H. Stevens Graduate Fellowship in Regional Science

Daniel Crown, a Ph.D. candidate in agricultural, environmental, and development economics at The Ohio State University has been selected as the winner of the Eighteenth Annual Benjamin H. Stevens Graduate Fellowship in Regional Science. The Fellowship will provide a 2018–19 Academic Year stipend of $30,000 to support Mr. Crown in his dissertation research entitled, “Foreign-Born Graduates and Innovation at Domestic Institutions: Evidence from an Australian Skilled Graduate Visa Program.”

The research will investigate the effect of a unique Australian skilled visa program on the innovative output of domestic research institutions. The visa program grants foreign-born graduates temporary residency, post-graduation, and is one potential pathway to permanent residency.  The results will be of interest to policymakers around the world as they consider implementing or refining skilled immigration policies.

Mr. Crown’s doctoral research is supervised by Professor Mark Partridge, Swank Chair in Rural-Urban Policy at Ohio State.

Chair of the Selection Committee, Mario Polèse, Emeritus Professor at the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique-Urbanisation, Université du Québec, details why Daniel Crown’s proposal stood out among an extremely strong field of 36 candidates for the 2018 competition:

“Daniel’s proposal topic goes to the heart of one the main conceptual and empirical challenges in regional science: measuring knowledge spill-overs between skilled workers. Does the presence of skilled workers, foreign-born graduates in this instance, boost the productivity of other workers and, by the same token, their propensity to innovate? To answer the question, Daniel combines a unique dataset, drawn from Australian administrative files, for the full population of approved skilled visa applicants with institution-level data on innovation and start-ups. The use of micro-data allows Daniel to follow the mechanics by which the presence, after graduation, of foreign-born graduates in Australian universities influences the innovative output of domestic researchers.

The Selection Committee was equally impressed by the methodological rigor demonstrated by the proposal. Daniel’s empirical strategy overcomes the potential bias of high-skilled foreign-born students sorting into high-quality research institutions by the introduction of instrumental variables and the use of fixed effects regression models. His preliminary findings, reported in the proposal, show a positive impact on the productivity of domestic researchers.

Finally, the policy-relevance of Daniels’s research requires little comment in a period in which immigration and its presumed impacts are high on the political agenda, not only in North America but around the world.”

In addition to selecting the Fellowship recipient, the Selection Committee identified three applicants as meriting special recognition as Finalists in the 18^th Annual Competition: Wanyang Hu, Department of Urban Planning, UCLA, supervised by Rui Wang; Luke Petach, Department of Economics, Colorado State University, supervised by Stephan Weiler; and Seva Rodnyansky, Urban Planning and Development Ph.D. Program, University of Southern California, supervised by Marlon Boarnet.

The Fellowship is awarded in memory of Dr. Benjamin H. Stevens, an intellectual leader whose selfless devotion to graduate students as teacher, advisor, mentor, and friend continues to have a profound impact on the field of regional science. Fundraising efforts to increase the Fellowship’s endowment are ongoing. Donations should be sent to: The Stevens Fellowship Fund, First Financial Bank, Attn. Trust Department, 1205 S. Neil Street, Champaign, IL 61820 USA. Checks should be drawn to The Stevens Fellowship Fund. Donations may also be made by credit card through the NARSC website at www.narsc.org/newsite/donations2.php.

This most recent Stevens Fellowship competition was judged by a Selection Committee composed of: Daoqin Tong, Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, Arizona State University; Elena Irwin, Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics, The Ohio State University; Mario Polèse, Urban and Regional Economics, Université du Québec, Chair; Amanda Weinstein, Economics, The University of Akron; and Elizabeth Mack, Geography, Michigan State University. The Stevens Fellowship Committee administrates the Stevens Fellowship Fund on behalf of the North American Regional Science Council; its members are: Tony Smith, Chair; David Plane, Secretary; Michael Lahr, Treasurer; Janet Kohlhase; and Neil Reid, Executive Director of NARSC.

The Committee thanks the 36 students who entered the competition in 2018, as well as their dissertation supervisors. Faculty at all North American Ph.D. programs related to the interdisciplinary field of Regional Science are urged to encourage their best students to apply for the Nineteenth Annual Stevens Graduate Regional Science Fellowship. The winning student’s dissertation research in the field of Regional Science will be supported during the 2019–2020 year with a one-year stipend of $30,000. The application deadline is February 15, 2019. Full submission guidelines will be posted at www.narsc.org/newsite/awards-prizes/stevens-graduate-fellowship/.

May 2018

A joint PhD program involving the University of Azores, University of Lisbon and the University of Évora. A link between Regional Science, Ecological Economics, Conservation Biology and Landscape Ecology.

The program involves two weeks of compulsory courses in mainland Portugal, one month of optional courses in the Angra (Azores), Évora or Lisbon and three years of thesis development done in a monography or three published scientific paper.

You can apply for the PhD Program if you have a degree in Agronomy, Economics, Biology, Environment, Geography, Engineering, or related fields, or legally equivalent qualifications.

The objectives of the program are to develop methods and capacities to conceive and evaluate policy instruments suitable promote the multiple goods and services provided by the landscape. To develop competences in economics, geography, ecology, agronomy and political science and gain interdisciplinary capabilities for landscape management. To create scientific research in integrative approaches such as Regional Science, Ecological Economics, Conservation Biology and Landscape Ecology.

You will become manager of environmental goods and services supported by the landscape; modeller of ecological-economic systems; expert on participatory approaches, land use planning, environmental regulation and cost benefit analysis; and consultant in regional sustainable development.

For more information, send an email to Paulo Borges, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. , Teresa Pinto Correia This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or José Manuel Lima Santos This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

All the best. Tomaz Ponce Dentinho This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.