11th International Symposium on Spatial Accuracy Assessment in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences

Kellogg Conference Center, Michigan State University

East Lansing, Michigan, USA

July 8-11, 2014

Abstract submission is open! See the Call for Papers for details!

Welcome! Spatial Accuracy 2014 is the latest in an academic conference series held every two years since 1994 under the auspices of the International Spatial Accuracy Research Association (ISARA). The symposium attracts participants from all over the world, in a diverse range of academic and professional fields, including geography, statistics, and the environmental sciences. More information about the history of this series, including papers presented at previous symposia, is available at the main Spatial Accuracy website.

This is an era boasting unmatched availability of spatial data, ever-expanding computational capacity, and rapid development of complex environmental systems models. On the other hand, the challenges facing environmental science and natural resource management have never been more pressing. Spatial Accuracy 2014 aims to address a broad set of multidisciplinary issues related to a fundamental challenge: the mismatches between geographic reality and the data and models used to characterize that reality.

Communications on cutting edge basic research, as well as their creative and novel applications within this problem domain, are welcomed. Extended abstracts (due January 8, 2014) will be reviewed by the scientific committee; accepted abstracts will be revised as short papers, published in conference proceedings, and presented in oral or poster sessions at the symposium. In addition, the conference also includes workshops on new methods and applications. Post-conference publication options include special issues for two journals.

We hope to see you in East Lansing in July of 2014 to exchange ideas and comraderie! More information about the conference scope, format, publication outlets, and venue are available on this site: http://web2.geo.msu.edu/sa14/index.html

Ninth International Conference on "Geographical Analysis, Urban Modeling, Spatial Statistics" - GEOG-AND-MOD 14

http://oldwww.unibas.it/utenti/murgante/geog_an_mod_14/index.html

In conjunction with:

The 2014 International Conference on Computational Science and its Applications (ICCSA 2014)

June 30th - July 3th, 2014

University of Minho, Guimaraes, Portugal

http://www.iccsa.org/

Colleagues may be interested in Michael Batty's new book The New Science of Cities (just published in 2013 by MIT Press).

There is a detailed description on his web site www.complexcity.info of the book and its contents. There are two chapters on space syntax in the book http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/new-science-cities and http://www.amazon.com/The-Science-Cities-Michael-Batty/dp/0262019523 and Amazon in UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/New-Science-Cities-Michael-Batty/dp/0262019523/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1382270672&sr=1-1&keywords=new+science+of+cities

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Content

List of Figures

List of Tables

Preface

Acknowledgments

Preamble

I Foundations and Prerequisites

1 Building a Science of Cities

2 Ebb and Flow: Interaction, Gravity, and Potential 47

3 Connections and Correlations: The Science of Networks

II The Science of Cities

4 The Growth of Cities: Rank, Size, and Clocks

5 Hierarchies and Networks

6 Urban Structure as Space Syntax

7 Distance in Complex Networks

8 Fractal Growth and Form

9 Urban Simulation

III The Science of Design

10 Hierarchical Design

11 Markovian Design Machines

12 A Theory for Collective Action

13 Urban Development as Exchange

14 Plan Design as Committee Decision Making

Conclusions: A Future Science

References

Author Index

Subject Index

Dear colleague,

I would like to draw your attention to the announcement of the August Loesch Prize 2014, granted by the city of Heidenheim an der Brenz (Germany) and the August Loesch Association. Please write an E-Mail to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. if you would like to submit your work, to get further information about the submission process. The invitation of submissions is attached. Please forward it to anybody who might be interested.

Johannes Broecker

New deadline: December 20^th,2013

The Regional Science Association International (RSAI) invites regional scientists, policy makers and researchers of related disciplines to participate in the 10^th World Congress. The Congress will be hosted by the Faculty of Architecture and Planning, Thammasat University, Bangkok. It will be held at the Imperial Queen’s Park Hotel in Bangkok, Thailand, May 26-30, 2014 on the theme of Socioeconomic Integration and Transformation: Reshaping Local, Regional, and Global Spaces.

PLENARY SPEAKERS

Prof. Henk Folmer University of Groningen, The Netherlands	Dr. Chadchart Sittipunt Thailand Minister of Transport	Prof. Henry Yeung National University of Singapore
Others to be announced

The Congress will feature several world-renowned keynote speakers on cutting-edge urban and regional science and policy issues, expert panels, research presentations and posters. It will be attended by 500 delegates from the worldwide community of regional scientists.

Research topics related to the theme of the congress are particularly welcome, but the conference will be open to other topics within the broader contours of the regional science, urban and regional studies, geographical sciences and planning, and development.

We invite formal paper presentations as well as posters (new deadline - December 20^th, 2013). The abstract submission portal is open, along with the congress registration system. Full information on the venue, abstract submission, registration, schedule of events, accommodation and travel information is posted at http://www.2014worldcongress.regionalscience.org.

Delegates can already register for workshops and tutorials.

Workshops and Tutorials

Workshop 1:Introduction to Spatial Agent-Based Modeling(Full day)
Workshop Facilitator – Yuri Mansury, PhD (Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA)

Workshop 2:Exploratory Spatial Pattern Analysis: Revealing or Deceiving (Half-day/Afternoon)
Workshop Facilitator – David W. Wong, PhD (University of Hong Kong/George Mason University, USA)

Workshop 3:  Introduction to IMPLAN (Half-day/Morning)
Workshop Facilitator – Jenny Thorvaldson, PhD (IMPLAN Group LLC, Huntersville, North Carolina, USA)

Workshop 4:Land Use and Climate Change(Half-day/Afternoon)
Workshop Facilitator – B.Majumder, PhD (Asian University for Women, Chittagong, Bangladesh)

Workshop 5:Design flood estimation under climate change(Half-day/Morning)
Workshop Facilitator – Samiran Das, PhD (Asian University for Women, Chittagong, Bangladesh)

Publication opportunities will be available for papers accepted by the Program Committee. We plan to edits volume in the new book series published by Springer on New Frontiers in Regional Science: Asian Perspectives. All manuscript submitted for possible publication in this series will be subjected to the customary peer-review process. Also, a select number of manuscripts will be invited for publication in the international RSAI Journals Papers in Regional Science andRegional Science Policy and Practice.

Feel free to contact the secretariat of the Congress at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for further information.

We look forward to welcoming you in the dazzling city of Bangkok in May 2014.

Jean-Claude Thill, RSAI President

Tomaz Dentinho, RSAI Executive Director

Call for Papers – Family Business and Regional Development

Guest Editors

Rodrigo Basco (Witten/Herdecke University)
Joern Block (Universität Trier and Erasmus University Rotterdam)

Roger Stough (George Mason University)

Friederike Welter (Institut für Mittelstandsforschung Bonn and University of Siegen)

Karl Wennberg (Stockholm School of Economics)

Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of the Guest editors of Journal of Family Business Strategy, I would like to ask you if there is any possibility to help us to promote and disseminate the cal for papers entitled “Family Business and Regional Development”. The aim of this special issue is to examine the role of family firms in regional economic environments and to enhance our understanding of the ways family firms may (or may not) contribute to regional economic growth and development.

This special issue will consider qualitative and quantitative empirical studies, case studies, and more theoretical and conceptual research contributions. The cross-disciplinary nature of current research on family firms suggests that a new understanding of the role family firms play in regional economic development will likely come from a melding of theory and research across fields like regional economics, regional studies, entrepreneurship, geography, business, management, political science, psychology, and sociology.

Please note that the submission deadline is September 15^th, 2014. More information and  instructions for submission can be found here: Call for Papers. For questions regarding submissions or the content of this Special Issue, authors are welcome to write to one of the guest editors: Mr. Rodrigo Basco (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.), Mr. Joern Block (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.), or Mr. Karl Wennberg (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.). For general questions or inquiries about JFBS, please contact Torsten Pieper, the Assistant Editor, (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

Rodrigo Basco, Ph.D.

In this issue:

Original Paper

The Gini coefficient of inequality: a new interpretation

Peter A. Rogerson

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Original Paper

Human capital, knowledge spillovers, and one kind of semi-endogenous regional economic growth

Amitrajeet A. Batabyal & Hamid Beladi

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Original Paper

The roles of location and education in the distribution of economic well-being in Indonesia: hierarchical and non-hierarchical inequality decomposition analyses

Takahiro Akita & Sachiko Miyata

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Original Paper

The role of an intermediate market within the barbell model

Wen-Chung Guo & Fu-Chuan Lai

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Original Paper

Three-dimensional spatial correlation

Taro Takahashi , Takeshi Sato , Hideo Aizaki , Na Guo , Yasuhiro Nakashima , Shigeo Ogawa , Nanae Yamada & Xiaoyun Zheng

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