The last few decades have seen the world experience a decrease in between-country income inequality accompanied by an increase in within-country income inequality. This is associated with the rapid development of emerging economies. There is also pronounced variation in inequality between regions within countries. High inequality has raised the issue of social justice in many countries.

Theories explaining the increase in income inequality, particularly in emerging countries, can be found in the literature.  One of the early theories was Kuznets Hypothesis arguing that there is an inverted U-shaped relationship between economic growth and income inequality. Another area of the literature has focused on social injustice as the cause of income inequality. The central argument proposes that lack of equal access to education, medical service, and energy among others, induces inequality within countries.

This special issue wishes to discuss the elements that explain the increase or decrease in income inequality. We are calling for all empirical analyses, independent of place or time, which can help the understanding of the complex issues of income inequality.

Authors are kindly invited to send their 500-1,000 words abstract by the 15^th of June 2017 to the editor of this special issue. It would be appreciated if the authors of selected papers could present their abstracts in the Indonesian Regional Science Association (IRSA) International Institute in Manado, Indonesia, on 17-18 July 2017.  There will be up to two special sessions dedicated for this special issue.  We expect to receive the full papers by 31^st of October 2017. The authors of these selected papers will have to work for the regular review process of the journal  (Regional Science Policy & Practice - RSPP).

Coordinator of this Special Issue Editor:

Budy P. Resosudarmo (Associate Professor at the Australian National University)

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The Master Class will enable 30 PhD students and early-career researchers to be selected and have the chance to participate in the 5th edition of this Master Class to be held between 8 and 12 October 2017.

The Master Class is a unique format to connect young researchers and will include presentations of papers by the participants as well as lectures and panel debates with policy makers, EU officials and senior academics to improve understanding of and research on EU Cohesion Policy.The EWRC is the biggest event world-wide on regional and urban development.

Applications must be accompanied by abstracts of papers to be developed on one of these themes:

1) Resilient regions and cities: What local and regional strategies have proved successful in addressing the economic crisis and providing resilience? What lessons have regional and local authorities learned from the crisis and how has EU Cohesion Policy contributed to these lessons?

2) Governance of regional local development: How does EU Cohesion Policy influence “good governance” and innovation in the public sector?

3) Sharing knowledge across borders: How does EU Cohesion Policy facilitate learning between regions and cities and what are future directions in this respect?

Interested PhD students and early career researchers are requested to submit applications by the deadline of 9 May 2017, 3pm BST.

Please note that the organisers will cover travel and accommodation expenses of all participants.

More info:  http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/regions-and-cities/2017/index.cfm

Greetings from St. Peter’s Engineering College. We are happy to inform you regarding our International Conference on "Current Research on Human Rights and Social Justice (CRHS-2017)”. In the course of 26^th to 28^th October. All the approved papers are planning to submit in Springer Journal of "Global Social Welfare".

Deadline for Abstract/Full Paper Submission: 20^th May 2017.

For more details: http://ow.ly/4HZI30bfulA

We are pleased to announce that the deadline of abstract submission has been extended up to May 5 in response to numerous requests and due to the increased interest in the 24th APDR Congress, to be held at the University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal, from July 6 to July 7, 2017.

Special Sessions
SS01 - Entrepreneurship in sustainable and creative territories
SS02 - Asymmetries in metropolitan areas: measuring, correcting, rethinking
SS03 - Cultura e desenvolvimento regional: As contribuições da arte, do folclore e de outras mani-festações artísticas para o progresso regional
SS04 - Mega-events legacy on hosting cities
SS05 - Segurança e desenvolvimento regional: Correlações económicas, culturais e políticas com progresso regional
SS06 - Creative tourism in small cities and rural areas
SS07 - Territorial innovation models, smart specialisation and public policies
SS08 - Support of higher education institutions to regions’ intellectual capital: Is it true?
SS09 - Vine and Wine Economics
SS10 - Entrepreneurship, gender, and regional development
SS11 - Knowledge cities: Updating the state of the art
SS12 - Desenvolvimento Regional e Governação Integrada em Territórios de Baixa Densidade
SS13 - Social entrepreneurship, social innovation and regional development
SS14 - Air Transport and Regional Development
SS15 - Knowledge, Creativity and New Urban Dynamics: What Opportunities for Low Density Regions?
SS16 - IC: Critical perspectives

Regular Sessions:
RS01 – Models for Regional Development
RS02 – Regional and Local Development Policies
RS03 – Regional Intellectual Capital
RS04 – Financing of Economic Growth
RS05 – Regional Innovation Systems, Clusters and Ecosystems
RS06 – Regional and Local Public Finance
RS07 – Sectoral Policies and Regional Dynamics
RS08 – Infrastructure, Transportation Networks and Regional De-velopment
RS09 – Labour Markets and Development
RS10 – Entrepreneurship and Regional Development
RS11 – Quality of Life and City Planning
RS12 – Services, Tourism and Sustainable Regions
RS13 – Education, Innovation and Territory
RS14 – Rural Development and Agrarian Economy
RS15 – Regional and Urban Planning and Regional Development
RS16 – Sports and Regional Development
RS17 – Low Density Regions and Development
RS18 – Bartolomeu Award

NEW Deadline for Abstracts submissions: May 5, 2017. Abstracts should be submitted electronically, using the platform available on the Conference website: https://events.digitalpapers.org/apdr2017/

All information at the congress website: http://www.apdr.pt/congresso/2017/

Looking forward to meeting you in Covilhã!

The Organizing Committee and the Board of APDR
24th APDR Congress

Two Special Academic Sessions (SASs):

Session I: 14.00 – 15.30

Room: Urban Planning 50118

Session II: 16.00 – 17.30

Room: Urban Planning 50120

Venue:
National Cheng Kung University, Tainan

See attachments

Join us in Vancouver, British Columbia for the 64th North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International (RSAI) sponsored by the North American Regional Science Council (NARSC).  The conference will be held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, November 8–11th, 2017.  You can learn more about the conference, submit an abstract, and register for the conference and workshops at the NARSC Website at http://www.narsc.org/.

Click on the link to the conference section for general information on the conference.  To register for the conference or submit an abstract/session online you must first login to the User Area. If you attended a NARSC conference over the past couple of years or are a member of a North American regional science organization, when you reach the login page of the User Area, you will be asked to enter your provided username and password.  Otherwise, when you reach the login page of the User Area, you will be asked to click on a link and enter your e-mail address so we can check if you are already in our database. If you are in our database, your username and password will be e-mailed to you so you can login. If you are not in our database, you will need to register for a free NARSC user account and then you will be able to register for the conference and submit an abstract.

Once logged, you can change your password, update your profile, submit an abstract/session, register for the conference, and check the status of your registration.  You will be able come to your account in the User Area subsequently using your valid username and password.  In case you forget your password, just contact technical support at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with your e-mail address and your password will be e-mailed to you so you can login.

Please note that there is a surcharge for individuals who are not members of RSAI. When you are ready to register for the conference please check your RSAI membership status using the search engine available on the RSAI website - http://www.rsai.uac.pt/. If you have any questions regarding your RSAI membership status or would like to join RSAI please contact Elisabete Martins (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) at the RSAI Central Office.

Individual papers and organized sessions must be submitted online in the abstract submission section of the website between now and JULY 1, 2017. The conference registration section is open and allows secure electronic financial transactions. Information about the workshops will be posted in May. If you are potentially interested in attending any workshops it is suggested that you wait until information about them is available before registering for the conference. Be sure to consult the conference website for additional information and details.

Conference organizers welcome individual papers and organized sessions relating to a wide variety of topics that are included within the diverse realm of regional science.  We are an international scholarly organization that focuses on regional analysis, ranging from urban and spatial theory to applied problems in regional development, sustainability, environmental management, and rural land use.  We are an interdisciplinary association, with members representing fields as diverse as economics, agricultural economics, public policy, urban planning, civil engineering, geography, finance, and demography.  The annual North American RSAI conference is the premier regional science meeting in North America and attracts scholars and practitioners from around the world.  

A block of rooms have been reserved at the Hyatt Regency Hotel at the rate of $189 Canadian per night for a single or a double (plus applicable taxes and fees).

If you have questions, here is contact information:

Local arrangements:

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

Program Chair:
Hanna Maoh (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Overall Arrangements
Neil Reid, (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

We look forward to seeing you in Vancouver.

PRSCO Session is held on 6th, 7th and 8th October (Fri-Sun), 2017.

Call for paper has been announced already and the deadline is on 29th May, 2017.

The detail can be accessed at: http://jsrsai.jp/en/

We also opened the Facebook page for the meeting: https://www.facebook.com/日本地域学会第54回年次大会-1273186102802365/?ref=settings

Walls are identifying marks in space, made by humans; they are expressions of sovereignty, of power and independence. The walls recall us the existence of borders. Borders express the controlling of space. The defence of borders (limit of the territory, of an empire or a State) was quite usually made by walls during the long history of the humanity from the China’s Great Wall or Greek City-States through the Berlin Wall till the today’s constructed walls in Eastern Europe. However, walls exist in different forms, in different places, and in different ages on our Earth.

One can find many theories about the borders in the relevant literature. The common point about the existing conceptions of borders is its functions: separation, connection, filter function. The time of wall constructions is always the sign the strengthening of the separation function; while the demolition of the wall can show the coherence of territories, togetherness of different nations, natural, social, or economic spaces.

Fundamental social, economic and geopolitical transformations have taken place in the past decades on all territorial level. The year of 2015 seems to be crucial from wall constructions process in Europe caused by the migrant crisis, but the vote for Brexit in 2016 also has launched a wall building process in a figurative sense. The list of unsolved questions and walls arise from day to day in many case of the world: Why walls in Mediterranean, Pakistan, Palestine, Korea, US, English Channel exist and how we can manage these urgent issues?

The special issue wishes to work with the elements of this long-run dynamics. We are waiting for all empirical analysis independently of place or time; and theory which can help the understanding of the complex dynamics process around the walls.

The authors are kindly invited to send their full papers till 25^th of August 2017 to the editor of the special issue. The authors of selected papers will be asked to submit their work for the regular review process of the journal  (Regional Science Policy & Practice - RSPP). 

Special Issue Editor:

Andrea Székely, Associate Professor (University of Szeged)

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Dear Colleagues,

2 positions in Applied Economics are offered by the GSSI Research Area in Social Sciences (L’Aquila, Italy). The positions are intended for researchers working in areas and themes of interest of the GSSI Social Sciences unit which include: resilience and natural disasters, public policy evaluation, rural-urban migration, the knowledge economy (especially with a focus on peripheral areas). 3 Post-Doc positions in URBAN STUDIES are also available at the GSSI (L’Aquila, Italy). Applications from researchers with a background in the fields of urban studies, urban planning, anthropology, human geography, urban sociology and policy studies are welcome.

For further information: www.gssi.it/postdoc/ 

Deadline for applications: 15 May 2017

The annual gross salary is € 36.000,00.

Each research grant is for two years.

Engines of Urban and Regional Development

6th Central European Conference in Regional Science

September 20 – 22, 2017 Banska Bystrica, Slovakia

on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Faculty of Economics, Matej Bel University in Banska Bystrica

Keynote speakers

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  Prof. Daniela L. ConstantinAcademy of Economic Studies of Bucharest, Romania

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  Prof. Manfred M. FischerVienna University of Economics and Business, Austria

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  Prof. Peter NijkampTinbergen Institute Amsterdam

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  Assoc. prof. John ÖsthUniversity of Uppsala, Sweden

CALL FOR PAPERS: http://www.cers.umb.sk/call-for-papers-2/