Dear Colleague,

The Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER), a world association of academics and researchers, organizes its 2^nd Annual International Conference on Small Societies-Small Business-Small Cities & Villages, 27-30 July 2015, Athens, Greece. Please submit a 300-word abstract before 6 April 2015, by email (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.), addressed to Dr. Gregory T. Papanikos, President, ATINER & Honorary Professor, University of Stirling, U.K.

Please include with this order: Title of Paper, First Name, Family name of all co-authors, Current Position of all co-authors, Institutional Affiliation (University/Organization) of all co-authors, Country of all co-authors, an email address of all co-authors and at least 3 keywords that best describe the subject of your submission. Decisions will be reached within four weeks of your submission.

Should you wish to participate in the Conference without presenting a paper, for example, to chair a session, to evaluate papers which are to be included in the conference proceedings or books, to contribute to the editing of a book, or any other contribution, please send an email to Dr. George Poulos, Vice-President of Research, ATINER & Emeritus Professor, University of South Africa, South Africa (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).      

The 2^nd IMASS Conference will take place in Poznan, Poland, in May 22-23.

The deadline for the submission of the abstract for the 2^nd IMASS International Conference:  “People, Goods and Regions in a Globalized World” has been extended until 29th of March. 

We welcome the submission of abstracts to the theme of the conference:

• Geo-computation, Spatial Analysis and Spatial Econometrics

• Economic Growth and Development

• Land use science

• Knowledge Creation and Innovation Activities in Space

• Location, Transportation and Interaction

• Metropolitan Regions and Spatial Agglomerations

• Social Segregation, Poverty and Social Policy

• Regional Cooperation and Competition

• Transitional Economies

For more information about abstracts submissions and registration, please visit the conference website at: http://imass.ca/imass/conference/

Many thanks,

The Organizing Committee

Secretariat
IMASS - Methods and Analyses in Social Sciences
GTA, Ontario | Canada
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Web: http://imass.ca/imass/ 

RSAI is pleased to announce the election of the following Fellows in 2015:

Kieran P. Donaghy Cornell University, USA

Raymond J.G.M. Florax Purdue University, USA

Jacques Poot University of Waikato, NEW ZEALAND

Call for Papers

URBE 
URban freight and BEhavior change 

October 1^st - 2^nd  2015, Rome, Italy
 
Conference organized by Department of Political Sciences and Centre for Research on the Economics of Institutions, University of Roma Tre
 
Website: http://host.uniroma3.it/eventi/urbe

We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the URBE - URban freight and BEhavior change Conference to be held in Rome, Italy, October 1^st-2^nd, 2015. Researchers, practitioners, politicians and public authorities are invited to use the conference as a platform for knowledge-exchange and transfer.

The conference is endorsed by: 1) Center of Excellence for Sustainable Urban Freight Systems (CoE-SUFS), 2) World Conference for Transport Research Society’s SIGB5 - Freight Modelling (WCTRS), 3) Italian Society of Transport Economics and Logistics (SIET), 4) Italian Society of Transport Politics (SIPOTRA), 5) Italian Association of Regional Science (AISRE).

Aims and scope

URBE aims at identifying the behavioral game changers capable of modifying the present trends and pro-actively responding to the sustainability challenges urban freight distribution poses to modern cities given the role it plays in linking production, logistics and society.

The conference, taking a trans-disciplinary approach, focuses on the various alternatives capable of stimulating stakeholders’ behavioral change and engagement for a sustainable urban freight distribution. In more detail, the main topics relate to the behavioral pros and cons of: stakeholder involvement methodologies, advanced modeling techniques, innovative organizational structures, policy appraisal and evaluation techniques.

Please find below a non-exhaustive list of possible subjects to be addressed.

The official language of the Conference is English.​

Submission
We are now inviting submissions for conference presentations. Extended abstracts (max. 2 pages, please follow the instructions on the website) should contain all relevant information to allow the peer review process, giving an overview of: (1) main objectives and motivations, (2) topics covered and methodology, (3) results obtained/expected and conclusions.

The deadline for abstract submission is April 1st, 2015. Abstracts should be sent to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., and will be assessed by the scientific committee within a double-blind-review.

Journal special issues
The intention is to organize special issues of selected papers in appropriate journals depending upon a critical mass of good papers.

Timeline

• 01 April, 2015 – Submission of extended abstracts
• 01 May, 2015 – Notification of abstract status
• 01 July, 2015 – Early registration deadline
• 01 September, 2015 – Submission of full papers and registration deadline for Authors
• 01-02 October, 2015 – Conference in Rome, Italy

We look forward to receiving your submissions and seeing you on October 1-2, 2015 in Rome, Italy

Sincerely,

Local Organizing Committee

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

Website: http://host.uniroma3.it/eventi/urbe​​​​​

Dear All,

ESEE 2015: Transformations

The 11th international conference of the European Society for Ecological Economics will take place in Leeds, UK from 30 June – 3 July 2015.

The conference topics include: post-growth economics; natural resources, ecosystem services and environmental quality; development, consumption and well-being; power, politics, institutions and the reality of achieving change; new business models and understandings of human behaviour.

Reminder: The deadline for early bird registrations is 22 March.

To register, go to http://www.esee2015.org/ and log on to the submission/registration system.

We look forward to welcoming you to Leeds in June.

Best regards,

Tim Foxon

(Chair, ESEE 2015 Organising Committee)

Dear Sir / Madam,

Following the first announcement on the 3rd International Conference on Urban and Regional Economics we highly encourage you to register for the event hosted by University of Economics in Katowice, Poland in cooperation with European Regional Science Association – Polish Section.

Submissions should focus on:

•functional urban areas and relevant policies (conference focus theme) •innovation in cities •regional specialization •interactions in regional development •land use policy for cities and regions •EU regional policy and its impact on cities and regions •urban and metropolitan governance •economic resilience of metropolitan regions and agglomerations •urban and regional regeneration •urban and regional competitiveness and entrepreneurship •urban and regional public services and infrastructure

The conference will be held in Katowice on June 11-12, 2015 and will host keynote speaker - PROF. JULIE LeGALLO from UNIVERSITÉ DE FRANCHE-COMTÉ CRESE.

Should you know young and talented Ph.D. students, do let them know about the ERSA young researcher prize. Two best papers are to be awarded with fee waiver and travel / accommodation refund up to 200 EUR.

For further details see the attached call for papers and submit the registration form to the local organising committee.

Do not hesitate to contact us for any further assistance and feel free to distribute the information within your professional and scientific networks.

We look forward to welcoming you to Katowice in June 2015.

Yours sincerely

Local Organizing Committee

Adam Polko, Department of Spatial Economics | University of Economics in Katowice Artur Ochojski, Department of Strategic and Regional Studies | University of Economics in Katowice

Call for Papers

Conference on Urban Development in China
25-26th June, 2015
Suzhou, Jiangsu, P. R. China

Along its fast paced economic growth in the last decades, China went through a fast urbanization process since 1977, going from a mostly rural country to an urban society. While China is not the only emerging economy that went through a fast paced urbanization process, some specificities of the Chinese context lead to unique features and challenges. Perhaps one of the best well known feature of the Chinese economy is the household registration system, hukou, which, by limiting mobility of migrants (both rural-urban and urban-urban), affects agglomeration economies and urban growth. Furthermore, the hukou system, by limiting access to public services for migrants, resulted in a segmented urban labour market, where migrants are at a disadvantage relative to local resident, leading to increased income inequality within cities. Another feature of the Chinese economy that has affected urbanization is the reliance on public investment by both public companies and local governments. This has lead to excess public investment in some cities, leading to appearance of "ghost towns", and well as a housing bubble in other places. The current investment policy has also affected the urban structure, with some excessively large cities, particularly when compared with the next level cities, leading to increasing income inequality across cities and provinces. Demographic changes, driven by the one child policy, will be one of the major challenges that China will face in sustaining economic growth and urbanization. To address these issues, the Chines Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology and Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Construction have launched projects under several smart cities projects, to make cities more efficient and competitive through the use of technology.

We would like to invite the submission of papers for the 2 day conference, to bring together Western and Chinese researchers to discuss the past of future of urban development in China. Contributions in the following areas are especially welcomed:

• Regional and Urban Growth
• Demography, Internal Migration and Urban Labour Markets
• Inter and Intra Regional Income Inequality
• Smart Cities, Innovation and Competitiveness
• Urban Housing Markets
• Transport and Infrastructure
• Regional Policies in China

Keynote Speakers:

• André Rodriguez-Pose - Professor of Economic Geography at London School of Economics; President of the Regional Science Association International
• Kaizhong Yang – Professor of School of Government at Peking University; President of the Regional Science Association of China
• Mark Roberts – Senior Economist at the World Bank

A joint conference organized by:

• Regional Science Association International (RSAI)
• Regional Science Association of China (RSAC)
• Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy, and Society (CJRES)

Hosted by:

• International Business School Suzhou (IBSS)
• Xi'an Jiao tong – Liverpool University (XJTLU)

Organizers:

• Steven Brakman, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
• Tiago Freire, International Business School Suzhou, China
• Charles van Marrewijk, International Business School Suzhou, China
• Kaizhong Yang, School of Government, Peking University, President of Regional Science Association of China, China
• Jiuwen Sun, School of Economics, Renmin University of China, Excutive President of Regional Science Association of China, China.
• Yuyuan Wen, School of Economics, Renmin University, China

Dates:

• Thursday, 25^th of June, 2015
• Friday 26^th June, 2015

Submissions:
Researchers interested in participating should submit an abstract (up to 500 words) and full paper by the 15^th of April through the following website - http://events.digitalpapers.org/udc. The working language of the seminar will be English. Only papers written in English will be considered. Presenters will be informed of the decision by the 1^st of May.

Travellers to China are reminded that they must obtain a travel visa.

The PDF version of Call for Papers can be downloaded here

Transportation instruction can be downloaded here

If you need to book car service, please complete  the form here, and submit it to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Should you have any questions, please contact Dr. Tiago Freire at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

See more at: http://academic.xjtlu.edu.cn/ibss/research/conference?menuCode=040.005#sthash.AIvRs3lS.Z0zzkNV6.dpuf

Call for Applications

NEW DEADLINE FOR APLLICATIONS: 16th of March 2015.

RSAI Summer Course, on the theme Interdisciplinary Analysis and Policies for Regional Sustainability, that will be held from the 1st till the 5th of June 2015 at the “Tezh Ler” Resort, Dilijan, Armenia.
http://www.armenia2015.regionalscience.org/applications.html