It is our pleasure to announce the 1st Moroccan Regional Science Association(AMRS) Congress and 23rd Portuguese Association for Regional Development (APDR) Congress, to be held at Marrakech, Morocco, from May 30 to 31, 2016.

Theme of the Conference: Sustainability of Territories in the Context of Global Changes

The Congress will work through plenary sessions, conferences and round tables and parallel sessions. Parallel sessions will include: i) abstracts submitted to Regular Sessions (RS), proposed by the organization; and ii) abstracts submitted to Special Sessions (SS), proposed by participants. Sessions can be either in English, French or Portuguese.

 

The call for abstracts is open and your participation is very welcome!

 

Special Sessions


SS01 - Regional Science in Africa

Organizers: Cássio Rolim and Tomaz Ponce Dentinho

SS02 - Asymmetries in metropolitan areas: measuring, correcting and rethinking

Organizer: Jorge Gonçalves

SS03 - Sustainable Tourism in the Age of Globalization

Organizers: Oliver Fritz and Martin Falk

SS04 - Entrepreneurship in sustainable and creative territories

Organizer: Luísa Carvalho

SS05 - Cultural Tourism and Regional Development

Organizers: Paula Remoaldo, Laurentina Vareiro and José Cadima Ribeiro, University of Minho

SS06 - Contributions of higher education institutions (HEIs) for territorial development: building bridges between the local and global

Organizer: Conceição Rego

SS07 -Sustainable Built Environments for a better Human Health

Organizers: Elisabete Freire and José Luís Crespo

SS08 - Participatory Planning and Sustainable Built Space

Organizers: José Luís Crespo and Elisabete Freire

SS09 - Adapting to global change at the coast

Organizers: Nadia Mhammdi and Abdellatif Khattabi

SS10 - Adapting to climate change through improved watershed management and payment for environmental services

Organizer: Abdellatif Khattabi


Themes of Regular Sessions:


  1. Agriculture, fisheries and food security
  2. Climate change mitigation and adaptation
  3. Climate risk management in the perspective of human security
  4. Economics of Environmental and Natural Resources
  5. Education, health, wealth, and human welfare
  6. Environmental services and their attractiveness to private sectors
  7. Financial System and Regional Development
  8. Green growth in energy, transport and infrastructures
  9. Green growth in natural resources
  10. Local Reactions to Global Changes
  11. Mediterranean Renaissance
  12. Migration and urban vitality
  13. Migration, Urbanization and Spatial Justice
  14. Natural resources, biodiversity, environment and sustainable development
  15. Opportunities and constraints for innovation in green enterprises
  16. Poverty, social policy in space and environment
  17. Regional Cooperation and Development
  18. Regional Development in Africa
  19. Rural Development and Agriculture Economics
  20. Spatial Dimensions of the Financial and Monetary Crises
  21. Territorial Multi functionality and, Sustainable Regional Development
  22. Theory, Methods, Data and Reality in Regional Science
  23. Bartolomeu Award*


Deadline for Abstracts submissions:April 20, 2016 (NEW DATE). Abstracts should be submitted electronically, using the platform available on the Conference website: https://events.digitalpapers.org/amsr_apdr

 

All information at the congress website: http://www.apdr.pt/congresso/2016/

 

Looking forward to meeting you in Marrakech!

 

Abdellatif Khattabi

Chair of the Local Organizing Committee

*The Bartholomew award is awarded to scientists aged less than 33 years (including co-authors) on the 15th of July each year, presenting a paper in a session of APDR Congress. The prize is awarded by a jury of appreciation by the Director of the Portuguese Journal of Regional Studies and two scientists appointed by him. The assessment criteria are: conceptual coherence, relevance to regional science and its impact on regional development.

Dear all,

It is with great pleasure that I am sharing with you the programme of the conference which will take place on the 4th of May. 

If you have any comments or questions, please do not hesitate to let me know. 

Looking forward to seeing you on May the 4th.

 

Papers in Regional Science

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March 2016, Volume 95, Issue Supplement S1, Pages S1–S226Volume 95, Issue Supplement S1, Pages S1–S226

 

 

Parte superior do formulário

 

ARTICLES

Firm heterogeneity and the localization of economic activities (pages S1–S26)

Pamela Bombarda

Article first published online: 22 APR 2014 | DOI: 10.1111/pirs.12116

Capturing the benefits that emerge from regional sustainability networks: The Castile–La Mancha network of sustainable cities and towns (pages S27–S49)

Carmen Echebarria, Jose M. Barrutia, Itziar Aguado, Vanessa Apaolaza and Patrick Hartmann

Article first published online: 9 APR 2014 | DOI: 10.1111/pirs.12110

Examining homelessness in Germany: The impact of regional housing market conditions on homelessness in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany (pages S51–S69)

Alexandra Kröll and Oliver Farhauer

Article first published online: 12 MAR 2014 | DOI: 10.1111/pirs.12111

The size distribution of exporting and non-exporting firms in a panel of Chinese provinces (pages S71–S85)

Guohua Peng and Fan Xia

Article first published online: 30 APR 2014 | DOI: 10.1111/pirs.12119

Inter-provincial migration and 1975–2005 regional growth in Indonesia (pages S87–S105)

Yogi Vidyattama

Article first published online: 15 APR 2014 | DOI: 10.1111/pirs.12120

Social capital and immigrants' labour market performance (pages S107–S126)

Matloob Piracha, Massimiliano Tani and Matias Vaira-Lucero

Article first published online: 25 MAR 2014 | DOI: 10.1111/pirs.12117

Modelling regional lottery sales: Methodological issues and a case study from Spain (pages S127–S142)

Rose Baker, David Forrest and Levi Perez

Article first published online: 15 APR 2014 | DOI: 10.1111/pirs.12118

Natural disasters and social capital formation: The impact of the Great Hanshin-Awaji earthquake (pages S143–S164)

Eiji Yamamura

Article first published online: 22 APR 2014 | DOI: 10.1111/pirs.12121

Quality, distance and trade: A strategic approach (pages S165–S191)

Emanuele Bacchiega, Antonio Minniti and Arsen Palestini

Article first published online: 9 APR 2014 | DOI: 10.1111/pirs.12113

Strategic delegation under spatial price discrimination (pages S193–S213)

John S. Heywood and Zheng Wang

Article first published online: 21 MAR 2014 | DOI: 10.1111/pirs.12115

Location choices with a non-linear demand function (pages S215–S226)

Stefano Colombo

Article first published online: 22 APR 2014 | DOI: 10.1111/pirs.12122

 

Papers in Regional Science

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Special Issue: Agglomerations and the Rise of Urban Network Externalities

March 2016, Volume 95, Issue 1, Pages 1–198

Issue edited by: Evert Meijers, Martijn Burger

ISSUE INFORMATION

Issue Information (pages 1–2)

Article first published online: 29 MAR 2016 | DOI: 10.1111/pirs.12191

 

EDITORIAL

Moving ahead for other three years (pages 3–4)

Roberta Capello

Article first published online: 29 MAR 2016 | DOI: 10.1111/pirs.12220

 

INTRODUCTION

Agglomerations and the rise of urban network externalities (pages 5–15)

Martijn J. Burger and Evert J. Meijers

Article first published online: 29 MAR 2016 | DOI: 10.1111/pirs.12223

 

ARTICLES

Urban networks: Connecting markets, people, and ideas (pages 17–59)

Edward L. Glaeser, Giacomo A. M. Ponzetto and Yimei Zou

Article first published online: 29 MAR 2016 | DOI: 10.1111/pirs.12216

Disentangling agglomeration and network externalities: A conceptual typology (pages 61–80)

Michiel van Meeteren, Zachary Neal and Ben Derudder

Article first published online: 29 JAN 2016 | DOI: 10.1111/pirs.12214

Supply chain internationalization in East Asia: Inclusiveness and risks (pages 81–100)

Masahisa Fujita and Nobuaki Hamaguchi

Article first published online: 25 NOV 2015 | DOI: 10.1111/pirs.12183

Determinants of city growth in Colombia (pages 101–131)

Gilles Duranton

Article first published online: 29 MAR 2016 | DOI: 10.1111/pirs.12225

Static vs. dynamic agglomeration economies. Spatial context and structural evolution behind urban growth (pages 133–158)

Roberto Camagni, Roberta Capello and Andrea Caragliu

Article first published online: 26 OCT 2015 | DOI: 10.1111/pirs.12182

Competitive network positions in trade and structural economic growth: A geographically weighted regression analysis for European regions (pages 159–180)

Mark Thissen, Thomas de Graaff and Frank van Oort

Article first published online: 29 MAR 2016 | DOI: 10.1111/pirs.12224

Borrowing size in networks of cities: City size, network connectivity and metropolitan functions in Europe (pages 181–198)

Evert J. Meijers, Martijn J. Burger and Marloes M. Hoogerbrugge

Article first published online: 24 NOV 2015 | DOI: 10.1111/pirs.12181

Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, San Francisco

Edward Elgar Publishing is delighted to be attending the 2016 Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting in San Francisco. Visit us at booth 303 for a significant discount off our latest publications, to discuss new book ideas and to find out more about our Geography, Urban and Regional Studies programme, including our exciting new book series:

New Horizons in Human Geography series
Series editor: John Agnew, Distinguished Professor of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles, US

Research Handbooks in Geography series
Series editor: Susan J. Smith, Honorary Professor of Social and Economic
Geography and The Mistress of Girton College, University of Cambridge, UK

Cities series
Series editor: John Rennie Short, Professor of Public Policy, University of Maryland, US

Transport, Mobilities and Spatial Change series
In association with the Transport Geography Research Group of the RGS-IBG
Series editors: Richard Knowles, Emeritus Professor, University of Salford
and Markus Hesse, Professor of Urban Studies, Université du Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Entrepreneurship, Space and Place series
Series editors: Darja Reuschke, School of Geography and Geosciences, University of St Andrews, Colin Mason, Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow, Stephen Syrett, Centre for Enterprise and Economic Development Research, Middlesex University, UK, Maarten Van Ham, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands and Duncan Maclennan, School of Management, University of St Andrews, UK

We look forward to seeing you in San Francisco!

Kind regards

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The Organising Committee of the XI Iberian Conference on Rural Studies invites the submission of abstracts for oral communication or poster presentation. The submission is open on the webpage of XICIER 2016(http://xicier2016.utad.pt), where you can consult the list of topics, as well as other relevant information about the event. The deadline for submission of abstracts is 31 March 2016.

The XICIER 2016 will be held from October 13 to October 15 at theUniversity of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD), at Vila Real, Portugal.It is organised by the Centre of Transdisciplinary Studies for Development (CETRAD), the Portuguese Society of Rural Studies (SPER) and the Spanish Association of Agricultural Economics (AEEA). Other partners of the organization of the XICIER 2016 are: the Spanish Association of Geographers, (AGE), the Groups of Rural and Food Sociology from the Spanish Federation of Sociology (FES), the Rural Studies Network (RER , Brazil), the Spanish Society of Agrarian History (SEHA) and the Brazilian Society of Economics, Business and Rural Sociology ( SOBER )

The overall theme of the XICIER 2016 is the Smart and inclusive development in rural areas, providing the opportunity to discuss and to analyse ideas, proposals and results of research and actual experience already obtained on the applicability and implementation of smart growth agenda and sustainable and inclusive development in rural areas in different geographical and socio-cultural contexts, especially in Europe and Latin America.

Keynote speakers include André Torre, Andrew Copus, Luis Miguel Albisu. See updates in the conference webpage and/or facebook.

Paper will be published in the proceedings book, best papers will selected for further book publication or for journals available to receive them (information will be released on the webpage)

We rely on your support and participation!

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Greetings from the Organising Committee!

Dear NECTAR friends,

NECTAR CL 6 is organizing a Joint meeting together with Regional Science Academy on “Geolocalized Data and Accessibility: Benefits and Threats”. 

This meeting will take place in Marne la Vallée, Paris (France), during the 2-4 of June 2016.

Abstracts should be submitted until March 31, 2016.

Find more details in the attached call for abstracts.

Kind regards

Ana Condeço-Melhorado

NECTAR secretary

In light of the March 13th terrorist attack in Ankara and the increasing concerns about security, the 11th World Congress of the RSAI, which was due to take place April 25-28, 2016 in Istanbul has been postponed to a later date. The postponement has been decided at the request of the Local Organizing Committee (LOC).

 

We are sorry to communicate this news, especially in light of all the enthusiasm and work that had been put into the preparation of the Congress. But you would appreciate that the security of delegates is of utmost concern to the LOC and the RSAI.

 

The RSAI is grateful to the LOC and, in particular, to its president, Professor Tüzin Baycan, for the excellent work done in the preparation of the Congress in what have proven to be increasingly difficult circumstances. We are also indebted to all members of the Scientific Committee and especially to its co-chairs, Professors Alpay Filiztekin and Raymond Florax, for their work in evaluating all submissions. We would like to extend also our heartfelt gratitude to the Turkish Ministry of Development for its generous support of the conference and hope that it will continue to support the celebration of the World Congress at a later date and the activities of the Turkish Regional Science Association.

 

A rescheduling of the congress is being reconsidered with the LOC in light of the evolving security situation.

 

Fees disbursed by participants will be reimbursed during the coming weeks.

 

Once again, many thanks for your understanding and support.

 

Andrés Rodríguez-Pose
President of RSAI

Call for Papers

 

The 10th Annual Meeting of the Portuguese Economic Journal, organized by CeBER, Center for Business and Economics Research, will take place at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra, on July 1-3, 2016. The Meeting webpage is http://www.uc.pt/en/feuc/PEJ2016 .

 

Submissions in all fields of Economics are welcome and should be made through Conference Maker, at

https://editorialexpress.com/cgi-bin/conference/conference.cgi?action=login&db_name=PEJ2016

until March 15, 2016. Papers should be written in English. The title page should contain the following elements: name of the author(s), affiliation(s), presenter, address(es), email(s), title of the paper, abstract (up to 600 words), keywords and JEL classification codes.

 

Keynote speaker    Pedro Carneiro    University College, London.

 

Portuguese Economic Journal website    http://www.iseg.ulisboa.pt/~pej

 

Important Dates      

Paper submission: until March 15, 2016

Communication of decisions: April 15, 2016

Early registration: until May 24, 2016

Deadline for presenters' registration: June 10, 2016

Late registration: as of May 25, 2016

Conference: July 1-3, 2016

 

Further information on registrationfeesvenue and accommodation can be found at the Meeting webpage.

 

Scientific Committee

Ricardo Reis (LSE, UK)

Guilherme Carmona (University of Surrey, UK)

Isabel Horta Correia (Banco de Portugal and Católica-Lisbon SBE, Portugal)

Joana Pais (ISEG-Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)

João Gomes (University of Pennsylvania, USA)

Leonor Modesto (Católica-Lisbon SBE, Portugal)

Luis Cabral (NYU, USA)

Miguel Ferreira (NOVA SBE, Portugal)

Miguel Portela (Universidade do Minho, Portugal)

Paulo Rodrigues (Banco de Portugal and NOVA SBE, Portugal)

Pedro Carneiro (UCL, UK)

 

Local Organizing Committee

José Murteira (U. Coimbra, Portugal)

Ana Margarida Monteiro (U. Coimbra, Portugal)

Óscar Lourenço (U. Coimbra, Portugal)

Pedro Godinho (U. Coimbra, Portugal)

 

Contacts

Faculdade de Economia, Universidade de Coimbra,

Av. Dias da Silva, 165

3004-512 Coimbra

Portugal

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

2nd European Congress of Local Governments
 Krakow 5th– 6th April 2016


"Local Government Today – People, Cooperation, Innovations"


Multilateral and direct cooperation between European regions and cities has been extremely intense in recent years. It affects not only politics and the economies of individual countries but also of the entire continent. The European Congress of Local Governments is a meeting platform for local leaders and regional elites to exchange views ace with public administration, NGOs and business. The Congress will be an opportunity for Polish and Central European local governments to discuss ways of increasing efficiency in using EU structural funds. It will also be an occasion to share experiences and make new contacts. The programme will consist of  5 thematic tracks, with more than 50 events: thematic blocks, panel discussions, workshops, lectures, presentations and receptions.

 

More information at: http://www.forum-ekonomiczne.pl/2nd-european-congress-of-local-governments/?lang=en#.VuFdC_mrQdU

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