Special Issue of Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science on: The Science of Space
Special Issue of Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science on: The Science of Space
There is nowadays a rising interest in theoretical frameworks for regional science. The Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science (Springer-Nature) has just released a series of articles on this topic, in a special issue edited by Peter Nijkamp, Karima Kourtit and Soushi Suzuki (vol. 5. no.1, March 2021).
You are cordially invited to visit these contributions at: https://link.springer.com/journal/41685/online-first. Also access to: https://rdcu.be/cd1QG
The New Issue of Regional Statistics is already Available! (2021, VOL 11, No 1)
THE NEW ISSUE OF REGIONAL STATISTICS IS ALREADY AVAILABLE!
We are pleased to inform you that a new issue of the Regional Statistics has been released and now it’s avaiable online.
http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2021/eterstat2101.pdf
REGIONAL STATISTICS, 2021, VOL 11, No 1.
STUDIES
Pandelis Mitsis: Examining the environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis using Bayesian model averaging
http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2021/rs110102.pdf
Gianluca Egidi – Magda Edwards – Sirio Cividino – Filippo Gambella – Luca Salvati: Exploring non-linear relationships among redundant variables through non-parametric principal component analysis: An empirical analysis with land-use data
http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2021/rs110105.pdf
Osama Alhendi – Lóránt Dénes Dávid – Gyula Fodor – Gogo Fredrick Collins Adol – Péter Balogh: The impact of language and quality education on regional and economic development: a study of 99 countries
http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2021/rs110101.pdf
Róbert Tésits – Tibor Zsigmond – Levente Alpek – Gábor Hoványi: The role of endogenous capital factors in the territorial development of the Sellye District in Hungary
http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2021/rs110103.pdf
Mustafa Kırca – Mustafa Özer: The effects of tourism demand on regional sectoral employment in Turkey
http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2021/rs110104.pdf
Nilanjan Banik – Buddhadeb Ghosh – Rahul Roy Choudhury : Impact of MGNREGA on labour wage rate dynamics in India
http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2021/rs110106.pdf
Inna V. Mitrofanova – Tatjana В. Ivanova – Elena V. Kleitman – Elena R. Mkrtchan: The ‘Smart city‘ concept and its implementors: On the way to the information control in Volgograd Russia
http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2021/rs110108.pdf
Y Nguyen Cao: Modelling firm relocation decision behaviour in the Tokyo metropolitan region, through discrete choice theory
http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2021/rs110107.pdf
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Call for paper | 17th PRSCO Summer Institute, 11-13 August 2021
Conference website: https://www.rmit.edu.vn/17th-prsco-summer-institute
NECTAR CL1 CfP - Critical Discourses on Transport and Urban Development
Please find enclosed a CfP for an online workshop, organized by Robin Hickman (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) and Christine Hannigan (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) University College London around the subject "Critical Discourses on Transport and Urban Development".
Deadlines
- Abstract submission: 26 March, 2021
- Notification of acceptance: 9 April, 2021
- Submission of draft paper: 1 June, 2021
- Online workshop: 15 June, 2021
In memory of Professor Johannes Bröcker (1950-2021)
Call for participation - XV World Conference of the Spatial Econometrics Association Tokyo, (Japan), 26th - 28th May 2021.
Call for participation - XV World Conference of the Spatial Econometrics Association Tokyo, (Japan), 26th - 28th May 2021.
Due to COVID-19 outbreaks all sessions will be in a real time online format without video presentations. Your slot will be allocated considering your time zone.
Important Dates:
· Abstract submission: March 1, 2021 (300-600 words).
· Notification of acceptance: April 10, 2021
· Deadline for registration: May 20, 2021
· Deadline for full paper submission to the Special issue of the
Journal of Spatial Econometrics August 1, 2021 (state it
explicitly in the abstract).
· Jean Paelinck prize for young researcher, full paper by March 1,
2021
Note: Time zone of the dates above is Japan Standard Time (JST: GMT+09:00).
Plenary/Invited Speakers:
· Noel Cressie, University of Wollongong
· Jean Paul Elhorst, University of Groningen
· Alan E. Gelfand, Duke University
· Virgilio Gómez-Rubio, The University of Castilla-La Mancha
· Daniel A. Griffith, The University of Texas at Dallas
Registration Fees:
· FREE for all SEA members who pay their membership fees before March 31, 2021.
· 6,000 JPY (about 58 USD and 48 EUR) for SEA members who don’t pay their membership fee for 2021.
· 7,000 JPY (about 67 USD and 56 EUR) for non-members of SEA.
· 3,000 JPY (about 29 USD and 24 EUR) for students.
Conference registration fees include:
· Annual membership to the Spatial Econometrics Association
(SEA);
· Free subscription to the Journal of Spatial Econometrics ;
· Free participation to the (fully online) Spatial Econometrics
Advanced Institute (SEAI) summer school - https://www.spatialeconometricsassociation.org/home-advanced/
More details at the conference webpage: https://confit.atlas.jp/guide/event/sea2021/top
Second and Extended Edition of the Handbook of Regional Science is now officially published!
Second and Extended Edition of the Handbook of Regional Science -- a large, multi-volume major reference work with a total of 2,318 pages -- is now officially published!
Handbook of Regional Science
Manfred M. Fischer, Peter Nijkamp (Eds.)
- Covers well-established and newly emerging topics
- Accessible and relevant to both students and researchers
- Prepared by respected scientists in the field
The Handbook of Regional Science is a multi-volume reference work providing state-of-the-art information, prepared by respected scientists in the field. This second edition includes new sections on the history of regional science, and on regional policy. It has been thoroughly updated to reflect new developments, including new chapters on R&D collaboration networks, knowledge spillovers, web-based tools for exploratory spatial data analysis, fuzzy modeling, multivariate spatial process models, heterogeneous coefficient spatial regression panel models, and endogeneity in spatial models, among others. The multi-volume handbook covers the field of regional science comprehensively, including topics such as location and interaction, regional housing and labor markets, regional economic growth, innovation and regional economic development, regional policy in emerging markets, new economic geography and evolutionary economic geography, environmental and natural resources, spatial analysis and geocomputation, as well as spatial statistics and spatial econometrics. The book is intended to serve the needs of graduate students, beginning and experienced scientists in regional science and related fields with an interest in exploring local and regional socio-economic issues.
TU Wien: Full professor for Urban and Regional Research
University Professor
for the specialist field of urban and regional research
This is a professorship regulated by § 98 of the 2002 Universities Act (UG).
The position as professor for Urban and Regional Research has been allocated in TU Wien’s development plan to the research focal areas “Energy and Environment”, “Information and Communications Technology” and “Additional Fields of Research”.
We are looking for a personality who has already succeeded in making outstanding scientific achievements in the field of urban and regional research. Candidates are expected to have international-level expertise in relevant theoretical approaches and urban and regional research concepts. Other essential requirements also include having a sound knowledge of the broad range of methods used in quantitative urban and regional analysis. Candidates should be well-versed in designing and applying digital methods (such as in the field of Geographic Information Systems) for visualizing, explaining and modelling spatial structures, developments and transformation processes. Knowledge of spatial development policy and participation in corresponding international professional discourses are also desirable. In doing so, they should have demonstrated that they are able to apply this knowledge innovatively and taking account of the interfaces between quantitative and qualitative analysis methods (mixed methods) for issues related to spatial planning. Within the framework of this theoretical and methodological focus, the candidate is also expected to make excellent contributions to publications, funding and teaching work, support intra- and inter-faculty cooperation, and foster international research and teaching ties for scientific activities in the field of research.
The duties of a university professor at TU Wien include, in addition to research, teaching activities (in German and in English) in the Bachelor, Master and PhD degree programmes, as well as collaboration in the management of the institute and the faculty. The future incumbent will be expected not only to have relevant teaching experience but also to show a high level of commitment to research-led academic teaching, which requires the development of corresponding subject teaching models. Expertise and openness to interdisciplinary collaboration, as well as the ability to work in a team, are also required.
RSPP Call for Papers | Special Issue on Urban Future in the Global South
RSPP Call for Papers
Special Issue on
Urban Future in the Global South
The Global South is undergoing an urban revolution with profound consequences to its society, economy, culture, polity, demography, human behaviour, and built and natural environments. Many associates this urbanism to arrhythmic (Lefebvre, 2004; Shaban and Datta, 2019) development of Global South through ‘fast urbanization’ (Datta and Shaban, 2017) based on ‘fast policies’ (Peck and Theodore, 2015) from Global North, while others locate the changes in the paradigm of new economic development and social liberation (Brugmann, 2009). Some studies have located the urbanization in the Global South within the essence of northern urbanity or ‘planetary’ urbanism (Brenner and Schmid, 2015), while others have differentiated its character and called it ‘Southern Urbanism’ (Schindler, 2017). ‘Fast’ urbanization and city building is seen as utopia by the post-colonial states of the Global South to overcome their economic underdevelopment. The amassed investments in cities by both the private sector and the entrepreneurial states are sharpening the rural-urban divides in development with massive consequences to both the poverty and aspiration led migration to urban centres, especially to the mega cities. Theme based urbanism and city building from garden city, ecocity, intelligent city to smart city has emerged as a trope for urban future and sustainability.
This urban moment in the Global South is caught in many contradictory processes: slow societies with fast urbanism; burgeoning urban system with imbalanced hierarchies of cities; increased city building and rising houselessness and inadequate social and physical infrastructure; rising means of transport with increased traffic congestions; economic growth with increased inequalities; increased accumulation of wealth in urban centres with increased dispossession of the rural; increased nationalism with increased exoticism; increased emphasis on democracy with decreased citizens’ participation; increased size of government with declining social welfare; increased planning with rising informality; rising economic development with increased adverse environmental consequences; rising middle class with sharpening ethnic divides; increased policing with rising crimes, etc.
In the above context, we invite well-researched papers and case studies from the Global South (Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Oceania) around the following sub-themes (with discussion on implications to the urban future),
- Urban planning and local context
- Urban infrastructure (including digital Infrastructure)
- Urban mobilities
- Urbanization and democratic participation
- Socio-spatial segregation and exclusion in cities
- Urban violence and community resilience
- Urban environment and climate action
- Engagement with sustainable urbanization
The papers with peer review process will be published in special issue of the journal Regional Science, Policy and Practice (of the Regional Science Association International).
Editors
Abdul Shaban, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai [This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.]
Tomaz Ponce Dentinho, University of the Azores, Angra do Heroísmo [This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.]
Planning
- Expression of interest until February 15th 2021
- Full paper submission July 31st 2021
- Online publication date, one month after the paper is accepted
- Expected Compiled Publication July 2022
References
Brenner N and Schmid C (2015) Towards a New Epistemology of the Urban? City 19 (2-3): 151–182.
Brugmann J (2009). Welcome To Urban Revolution: How Cities Are Changing The World. New Delhi: HarperCollins.
Datta A and Shaban A (eds) (2016) MegaUrbanization in the Global South: Fast Cities and New Urban Utopias of the Postcolonial State. New York: Routledge.
Lefebvre H (2004) Rhythmanalysis: Space, Time and Everyday Life (Translated by Stuart Elden and Gerald Moore). Paris: Continuum.
Peck J and Theodore N (2015) Fast Policy: Experimental Statecraft at the Thresholds of Neoliberalism. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Schindler S (2017) Towards a paradigm of Southern urbanism. City 21(1): 47-64.
Shaban A and Datta A (2019) Towards 'Slow' and 'Moderated' Urbanism. Economic and Political Weekly 54(48):36-42.
RSPP Webinar (January 29, 14:00 (CET) | Design, Implementation and Evaluation of Territorial Inequalities Policies
RSPP WEBINAR | Design, Implementation and Evaluation of Territorial Inequalities Policies
Friday, January 29, 2021
14:00 (CET) [13:00 (GMT) | 13:00 (UTC) | 08:00 (EST)]
Register in advance for this meeting:
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAudumvpj0jEtwajuVWGMgDP3cEWxGICl2j
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
RSPP-EUREAL initiative coordinated by Ana Viñuela
14:00-14:15 | Welcome, by Eduardo Haddad, RSAI President
14:15-14:30 | Introduction, by Ana Viñuela and Tomaz Ponce Dentinho
14:30-15:00 | Understanding the experiences of indigenous minorities through the lens of spatial justice: the case of Orang Asli in Peninsular Malaysia, by Masni Mat Dong and Maria Plotnikova
15:00-15:30 | Policy design to address territorial inequalities in multi-sectoral political systems, by Paul Cairney, Sean Kippin and Emily St Denny
15:30-16:00 | Regional inequality, spatial dependence and proximity structures, by Domenica Panzera, Alfredo Cartone and Paolo Postiglione
16:00-16:30 | Au revoir Paris! Spanish regions closer to the EU average and further away from the leaders, by Alicia Gómez-Tello, María José Murgui-García and María Teresa Sanchis-Llopis
16:30-17:00 | Productivity and agglomeration economies in manufacturing of the metropolitan areas of Mexico, 1998-2013, by Jaime A. Prudencio Vázquez, Fernando Rubiera Morollón and Esteban Fernández Vázquez
17:00-17:30 | Inequality as a determinant of migration decisions, by Magdalena Ulceluse, Bettina Bock and Tialda Haartsen
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The Regional Science Association International (RSAI), founded in 1954, is an international community of scholars interested in the regional impacts of national or global processes of economic and social change.