The Economic Studies Department of the Colegio de la Frontera Norte (COLEF) and Universidad Panamericana (UP) invites scholars to join our conference “Spatial Aspects of Migration, Borders and Integration”.

Topics include but are not limited to, the following:

• Regional economic growth
• International and cross-border trade
• Environmental issues of border
• Cross-border Governance, cooperation and administration
• Migration, third country safe, asylum and refugees

Scholarly articles focus on policy issues in Latin America are especially encourage, but any work with related topics are welcome.

Papers can present the results of research, discuss conceptual approaches to policy implications, describe work in progress or raise issues for debate.

This workshop seeks to gather a group of researchers, academics, and students working in regional economy development topics to discuss research done in the field. It will also contribute to build a network of Latin American economists interested in regional economic development.

Special Issue

The workshop will invite those papers selected and presented at the workshop to the RSPP Special Issue on “Spatial Aspects of Migration, Borders and Integration”.

Keynote Speakers:

In addition to selected paper, presentations there will be four keynote speeches by:

Patricio Aroca      Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez

Mark Partridge    The Ohio State University

Tomaz Dentinho  University of Azores

Neil Reid             University of Toledo

Costs:

There is no fee, but registration to the workshop is required by October 10, 2020.

Language:

All Workshop sessions will be held in English.

Submissions:

Prospective participants should submit a full version of the paper in English NLT September 11th, 2020 to: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . Authors will be notified of the final decision by September 30, 2020.

Please feel free to make any inquiries about the event at the above email address or visit our website https://realmexico.com.mx/

Call

1st AISRe Summer School 2020 | European territorial challenges and regional policy: theories and methods

Venue  Milan (IT). Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Di.SEA.DE 

Dates 6-10 July 2020 

Objectives and themes 

The Summer School will focus on the most relevant theoretical concepts and analytical models in order to understand the implications of the recent territorial challenges in Europe. The goal of the Summer School is to teach a research method for studying complex issues, both positive and normative, with advanced theoretical and methodological tools. Within this framework, the Summer School will address the following topics: 

• Development and growth: a comparison between old and new indicators 

• Global challenges (migration and global value chain) 

• Changing territorial structure (urban regions and major cities) 

• Regional policy: instruments, modelling and assessment 

Structure of the Program 

Each topic will be developed along one day through lessons, seminars on specific topics and tutorial sessions according to the following scheme: 

9.30-12.30 a.m. lesson 

14.00-16.00 p.m. lesson/seminar/tutorial session 

16.30-18.30 Students’ presentation 

Confirmed senior scholars with high reputation on the topics of the Summer School will deliver lectures, while experts will conduct seminars and tutorial sessions. All presentations will be in English. 

Speakers: 

• Development and growth: a comparison between old and new indicators (Paolo Veneri, OECD; Camilla Lenzi, Politecnico di Milano) 

• Migrations and globalization: two challenges for territorial development (Alessandra Faggian, GSSI; Laura Resmini, Università di Milano Bicocca; Andrea Ascani, Utrecht University)) 

• Changing territorial structure (Ezio Micelli, IUAV, Venezia) 

• Regional policy: instruments, modelling and assessment (Fabio Mazzola, Universita di Palermo; Andrea Conte, EC-JRC, Sevilla; Simona Comi, Università di Milano-Bicocca; Luca Bettarelli, Università di Milano-Bicocca) 

Local Organizing Committee 

Laura Resmini, Università di Milano-Bicocca (Co-ordinator) 

Luca Bettarelli, Università di Milano-Bicocca 

Simona Comi, Università di Milano-Bicocca 

Scientific Committee 

Roberta Capello (Politecnico di Milano); Cristina Bernini (Università di Bologna); Marusca De Castris (Università degli Studi Roma Tre); Alessandra Faggian (Gran Sasso Science Institute – GSSI); Patrizia Lattarulo (IRPET); Ilaria Mariotti (Politecnico di Milano); Rosanna Nisticò (Università della Calabria); Andrea Omizzolo (EURAC); Guido Pellegrini (Università di Roma La Sapienza); Giovanni Perucca (Politecnico di Milano); Davide Piacentino (Università di Palermo); Vincenzo Provenzano (Università di Palermo); Elena Ragazzi (IRCrES - CNR); Francesca Silvia Rota (IRES Piemonte); Domenico Scalera (Università del Sannio). 

How to participate 

PhD students and early career researchers with less than 3 years of postdoctoral experience, from Italian universities and research centres can apply to this call. 

Candidates must send their CV (Europass format, maximum 5 pages) and an abstract of a research project/paper on which they are currently working (maximum 2,000 words). The selection committee will evaluate the applications on the basis of the documentation submitted. The CV and the quality of the abstract, as far as its consistency with the topics of regional and urban sciences, are the only criteria for the selection. 

Candidates have to send their application to the following email address: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by March 20th 2020. In the object of the email, please specify “NAME OF THE CANDIDATE – Application to the AISRe summer school”. 

A maximum of 25 candidates will be selected for participation, and they will receive an email notification by 15th April 2020. 

There are no registration fees. Travel, meals and accommodation are at the expense of the participant. Options for accommodation at affordable prices in the university campus will be discussed after the selection of the participants, based on the number of bed places available. Once selected, participants are requested to register as individual member of the Association. Information about membership fees can be found on the Association website (https://www.aisre.it/en/association/membership-and-fees). AISRe membership also includes: 

- a subscription to Scienze Regionali (Italian Journal of Regional Science) for the following calendar year (https://www.mulino.it/riviste/issn/1720-3929); 

- the volumes of the Regional Science Series (FrancoAngeli) published during the business year; 

- the registration to the Regional Science Association International (RSAI), which includes an online subscription to the journals Papers in Regional Science and Regional Science Policy & Practice for the following calendar year; 

- the opportunity to pay a reduced fee at the annual conferences of the international associations: European Regional Science Association (ERSA) (www.ersa.org) and Regional Science Association International (RSAI) (https://regionalscience.org/). 

A certificate of attendance will be issued at the end of the school, for full participation only. 

More at: https://www.aisre.it/en/workshops/aisre-summer-schools?fbclid=IwAR28NWRI2jYmOIZft7m1HCAqNkqHjbHo3m3NAYKbwNUggCkleSNvm3QAnqY

This fully funded PhD project will use a combination of econometric and computable general equilibrium (CGE) modelling techniques to look at the impact of high-tech new businesses on employment in local and regional economies.
 
This project aims at capturing and measuring the impact of new businesses generation on local and regional economies in the UK. Attracting new, particularly high productivity, businesses is a policy priority of the UK government and underpins the UK Government’s Industrial Strategy. One reason for this is that when new businesses are started in local area, new jobs are created both in the same industry and in other industries, due to the increase in demand for local goods. This is known as the local employment multiplier effect.
 
The hope of government is that by attracting new, high productivity, firms to parts of the UK which lack these sorts of jobs, that this will create spillover employment effects throughout regional and local economies. However, these positive impacts may be offset by a series of general equilibrium forces that could result for example in an overall increase in the cost of living in the area.
 
This project will combine detailed microeconometric work and multi-sectoral multi-regional CGE modelling to produce a strong evidence base on the magnitude of UK local employment multipliers. The first part of this work will involve the use of firm—level and individual level microdata to better understand and model key inputs to the assessment of local employment multipliers. The second part of this work will develop and use a multiregional CGE model of the UK to capture induced and general equilibrium effects.
 
More information can be found here:

https://www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/postgraduateresearchopportunities/businesspgropportunities/economicspgropportunities/canlocalareasgainnewjobswhennewhigh-techbusinessesareattracted/
 
The deadline to apply is: 30 April 2020
 
Supervisors: Gioele Figus, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and Stuart Mcintyre, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Call for papers for the conference

Living together in the city of Tomorrow

Lyon 9-10 September 2020

Colloque de la Chaire Habiter Ensemble la Ville de Demain

Appel à Communications

Titre : Habiter ensemble la ville de demain

Résumé :

Dans les sociétés occidentales où le mode de vie urbain est devenu largement dominant, les modalités de bâtir et d’habiter la ville sont soumises à des injonctions et des tensions complexes, comprenant entre autres l’adaptation au changement climatique et la lutte contre les inégalités socio-spatiales. Ces questions transversales affectent toutes les dimensions de l’évolution urbaine. L’accent est mis dans ce colloque sur la dimension résidentielle du changement urbain, les modalités de bâtir et d’habiter la ville. On interrogera notamment la production de logements abordables, le renouvellement urbain, la densification, les évolutions du logement social, la demande de participation dans la conception de l’habitat et plus largement dans l’habiter. L’interrogation transversale qui parcourt le colloque est celle du rôle de l’habitat dans le devenir des sociétés urbaines, sa capacité à renforcer ou restaurer des formes de cohésion sociale et spatiale. Partant des questions qui ont nourri ses travaux, la Chaire de recherche du Labex Intelligences des Mondes Urbains « Habiter Ensemble la Ville de Demain » (HEVD) élargit ses réflexions à d’autres terrains, d’autres expériences pratiques et scientifiques à l’occasion de ce colloque.

Annonce :

Dans les sociétés occidentales où le mode de vie urbain est devenu largement dominant, les modalités de bâtir et d’habiter la ville sont soumises à des injonctions et des tensions complexes, comprenant entre autres l’adaptation au changement climatique et la lutte contre les inégalités socio-spatiales. Quelles sont et quelles seront les conditions de possibilité d’un « Habiter ensemble » dans la ville de demain ? La réponse à cette question peut emprunter de multiples voies, tant la notion d’habiter est transverse et englobe très largement la manière d’« être au monde ». Nous adoptons ici une acception du verbe « habiter » dans sa relation directe avec l’habitat, la composante résidentielle de la ville, qui constitue la très grande majorité de l’espace bâti et du paysage urbains. Comment l’habitat, dans sa dimension matérielle, morphologique, mais aussi politique et sociale est-il en mesure d’apporter des réponses aux défis de la cohésion sociale et spatiale en milieu urbain ? Le « vivre ensemble », demeure en effet un horizon d’attente, toujours discuté, rarement atteint ; pour s’en approcher, on peut convoquer des mesures relevant de multiples registres : éducatives, culturelles, politiques, fiscales, etc... L’habitat, qui répond à un besoin fondamental, joue un rôle essentiel. La manière dont il est conçu, produit, financé, mis sur le marché, peuplé et habité, détruit et reconstruit, oriente en effet la qualité de vie, la résorption des inégalités à la fois sociales et spatiales. Mais jusqu’à quel point ?

Pour cela il faut s’intéresser à la question de l’habitat à différentes échelles. La question de l’ « habiter ensemble » peut s’entendre sur un territoire d’observation vaste, de dimension métropolitaine, mais peut également être questionné à des niveaux d’observation plus fins, comme le quartier, l’immeuble, voire la cage d’escalier. Entre des quotas de logement sociaux atteints ou pas dans les communes d’une communauté d’agglomération et les partages de l’espace au sein d’un immeuble répondant à un programme mixte d’habitat en copropriété et d’habitat social, la question est au fond la même : comment s’assurer d’une cohabitation effective, constructive et sereine de catégories de logements et de ménages que les logiques de marché et des choix politiques tendent à séparer ? La lancinante question de la proximité spatiale, dont on sait bien qu’elle ne produit pas nécessairement de fortes interactions sociales, et ceci à diverses échelles là aussi, mérite toujours d’être posée. Cette observation multi-scalaire des dynamiques résidentielles sera menée à la fois en ce qui concerne la production de l’espace habité et la transformation de l’existant à travers les opérations de renouvellement urbain.

Une autre entrée majeure sera celle des acteurs susceptibles de transformer les situations héritées et d’orienter l’habitat et l’habiter du futur. On le sait, ils sont multiples et en pleine évolution en ce début de XXI° siècle. Les acteurs politiques ont leur part, à différents niveaux d’intervention : l’État dans les pays où celui-ci accorde une attention soutenue au logement, les régions dans d’autres cas. Partout s’ajoutent à ces niveaux définissant les stratégies et orientations les acteurs politiques investis des compétences d’aménagement et d’urbanisme au plus près du terrain, les élus et techniciens locaux. Les acteurs économiques jouent un rôle non moins important, qu’il s’agisse de grands groupes ou de petites entreprises, dans la production, la commercialisation et la gestion de l’habitat. Les choix techniques, organisationnels, économiques des constructeurs, promoteurs, architectes, urbanistes et bailleurs sont des éléments clés car ils définissent une offre, des prix, des logiques d’aménagement et de peuplement. Les collectifs associatifs et citoyens s’investissent également de plus en plus dans la conception de l’habitat ou les modalités de l’habiter, seuls ou en partenariat avec des acteurs économiques et politiques, dans un dialogue apaisé ou revendicatif, pour agir sur l’évolution de l’espace habité constitué.

Plusieurs axes de réflexion sont proposés dans ce colloque. Les communications proposées peuvent faire état de situations françaises ou étrangères, et relever d’un large spectre disciplinaire des SHS (urbanisme, géographie, économie, sociologie, anthropologie, architecture, …).

• Orienter

La manière de construire la ville, des immeubles d’habitation, s’appuie sur des orientations, des choix issus des acteurs mentionnés plus haut. Selon leur position, leur capacité d’agir, ceux-ci sont en mesure d’orienter le devenir de l’habitat et de l’habiter, dans une relation mutuelle de complémentarité, de dialogue, ou de tension. Cette orientation prend des formes d’actions très diverses : gouvernement, conception, peuplement, allocation (de ressources foncières, de logements), participation, contestation, adaptation (aux contraintes énergétiques, de changement climatique, de mobilité), innovation.

• Former

Cet axe insiste sur les formes de l’habitat et leur capacité à renforcer ou recréer une ville cohésive et solidaire, mais aussi à répondre aux attentes sociétales et à des contraintes structurelles. Là aussi la démarche multi-scalaire invite à observer les tendances actuelles ou passées dans la forme de l’habitat à l’échelle micro (celle de l’immeuble) mais aussi à l’échelle de l’espace urbanisé (communauté d’agglomération, métropole). Quelles sont les attentes de la société, les offres des acteurs face à la forme de l’habitat, à la fois en ce qui concerne son emprise au sol (densité vs étalement) et ses volumes (habiter en hauteur) ?

• Partager

En ce début de XXIème siècle, plusieurs postulats de la ville moderne ont été profondément remis en cause, comme celui de la séparation fonctionnelle de l’espace urbain. La mixité fonctionnelle, sociale, résidentielle impose de partager les ressources foncières, résidentielles à différentes échelles. Quelles réponses apportent à l’habiter ensemble la mixité d’usages dans la promotion résidentielle, la conception d’espaces partagés dans les immeubles, très prisée dans les projets d’habitat participatif, la mixité habitat social/en accession au sein des programmes immobiliers ?

Cet axe sera également ouvert à des interventions réfléchissant sur l’intérêt de partager des connaissances théoriques et empiriques, des expériences de recherche et des pratiques : quels sont les apports, les innovations issues du dialogue science –société ? Quelles en sont aussi les difficultés du côté du partage des rôles ? Ces questions se posent à propos d’interventions conjointes entre acteurs politiques ou économiques et chercheurs, mais aussi de celles impliquant chercheurs et collectifs associatifs voire militants.

Modalités pratiques 

-28 février 2020 : date limite de remise des propositions de contribution de 500 mots au maximum, en français, en indiquant dans quel axe se situe la communication. Prière d’envoyer les communications à l’adresse suivante : This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Chaque proposition de communication sera évaluée de façon anonyme par deux lecteurs du comité scientifique à partir d’une grille d’analyse.

-20 avril 2020 : Confirmation des propositions retenues

-9 et 10 septembre 2020 : Colloque à Lyon

Conseil scientifique :

Manuel Appert, École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Lyon, UMR EVS

Jean-Yves Authier, Université Lumière Lyon 2, UMR Centre Max Weber

Loïc Bonneval, Université Lumière Lyon 2, UMR Centre Max Weber

Jean Cavailhès, INRA, UMR Cesaer, Dijon

Lydia Coudroy de Lille, Université Lumière Lyon 2, UMR EVS

Jean-Claude Driant, École d’Urbanisme de Paris, Lab’Urba

Yankel Fijalkow, École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris Val de Seine, UMR LAVUE

Florence Goffette Nagot, CNRS, UMR GATE

Magda Górczyńska, Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Econonomic Research

Christine Lelévrier, École d’Urbanisme de Paris, Lab’Urba

Aurore Meyfroidt, POPSU

Christelle Morel Journel, Université Jean Monnet Saint-Étienne, UMR EVS

Vincent Veschambre, Le Rize, UMR EVS

Comité d’organisation :

Manuel Appert, École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Lyon, UMR EVS

Lydia Coudroy de Lille, Université Lumière Lyon 2, UMR EVS

Guénola Inizan, Université Lumière Lyon 2, UMR EVS

Anne-Cécile de Giacomoni, Université de Lyon, Lyon Ingénierie Projet

Véronique Sanvoisin, INSA Lyon, LabEx IMU

Lieu : Lyon

Dates : 9 et 10 septembre 2020

ISSUE INFORMATION

Issue Information

Pages: 1-2 | First Published: 24 January 2020

FULL ARTICLES

Open Access

Impacts of EU funded R&D networks on the generation of key enabling technologies: Empirical evidence from a regional perspective

Iris Wanzenböck, Martina Neuländtner, Thomas Scherngell

Pages: 3-24 | First Published: 14 August 2019

What kinds of R&D consortia enhance SMEs productivity? A hierarchical Bayesian approach for the analysis of a regional innovation policy

Annalisa Caloffi, Marco Mariani, Alessandra Mattei, Fabrizia Mealli

Pages: 25-53 | First Published: 05 September 2019

Knowledge networks and industrial structure for regional innovation: An analysis of patents collaborations in Italy

Niccolò Innocenti, Francesco Capone, Luciana Lazzeretti

Pages: 55-72 | First Published: 13 September 2019

Open Access

Economic growth through entrepreneurship: Determinants of self‐employed income across regional economies

David B. Willis, David W. Hughes, Kathryn A. Boys, Devin C. Swindall

Pages: 73-95 | First Published: 21 October 2019

Related to what? Reviewing the literature on technological relatedness: Where we are now and where can we go?

Adam Whittle, Dieter F. Kogler

Pages: 97-113 | First Published: 19 November 2019

Inter‐regional networks and productive efficiency in Japan

Akihiro Otsuka

Pages: 115-133 | First Published: 14 August 2019

Open Access

Are functional regions more homogeneous than administrative regions? A test using hierarchical linear models

Alexandra Wicht, Per Kropp, Barbara Schwengler

Pages: 135-164 | First Published: 23 July 2019

Upward pressure on wages and the interregional trade spillover effects under demand‐side shocks

Patrizio Lecca, Martin Christensen, Andrea Conte, Giovanni Mandras, Simone Salotti

Pages: 165-182 | First Published: 31 July 2019

Spatial effects on local government efficiency

Raffaella Santolini

Pages: 183-200 | First Published: 14 August 2019

Factors influencing farmers' intentions for urban–rural harmony in metropolitan fringes and regional differences therein

Wei Cao, Shenglu Zhou, Shaohua Wu, Chaoye Song

Pages: 201-224 | First Published: 08 September 2019

Regional diffusion of military regimes in sub‐Saharan Africa

Raul Caruso, Nicola Pontarollo, Roberto Ricciuti

Pages: 225-244 | First Published: 09 October 2019

Universities and the Formation of Edge Cities: Evidence from China's Government‐led University Town Construction

Yuan Wang, Wei Tang

Pages: 245-265 | First Published: 09 October 2019

Call for Papers and Special Session Proposals

The APDR invite regional scientists, economists, economic geographers, urban planners, policy makers, and researchers of related disciplines to participate in the 27th APDR Congress that will be held from 9 to 10 of July, 2020, at the Centro Cultural e de Congressos de Angra do Heroísmo (CCCAH) in Terceira Island, Portugal.

Beyond the various themes related to regional science this congress will focus on the emerging topic of Sustainable Management of the Sea for Sustainable Regional Development. With the enlargement of the ocean areas managed by countries it is important to know what are the aims? What the management tools are? And what the impacts are for human communities?

The call for papers and Special Session Proposals are open and your participation is very welcome!

Themes of specific interest are:

• RS01 - Sustainable Management of the Sea for Sustainable Regional Development
• RS02 - New Urban Agenda and Sustainable Development Goals
• RS03 - Circular Economy at Regional, National and International Level
• RS04 - Migration, Integration, Growth and Welfare
• RS05 - Social, Economic and Environmental spatialized impacts of tourism and sports
• RS06 - Spatial Aspects of the Green Deal
• RS07 - Climate change mitigation and adaptation
• RS08 - Spatial Allocation of Public Goods and Services
• RS09 - Regional resilience and crisis
• RS10 - Low-density regions and development
• RS11 - Big and Available Data for regional science
• RS12 - Geographic Information Systems and location modelling
• RS13 - Systemic Analysis of Transport and Communication Networks
• RS14 - Methodological approaches to Innovation and Entrepreneurship
• RS15 - Operational Models for Cities and Regions
• RS16 - Qualitative analysis of spatial interaction within space
• RS17 - Spatial econometrics
• RS18 - Ecological Economic Approaches and Methods
• RS19 - Tools to analyse, evaluate and Manage Ecosystem Services
• RS20 - Urban design and city competitiveness and sustainability

Deadline for Special Session proposals: February 29, 2020. Proposals should be sent by email to the secretariat of the Congress (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

Deadline for Abstracts submissions: March 30, 2020. Authors should submit their abstracts through online submission system by following the link https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/APDR2020.

All information at the congress website: http://www.apdr.pt/congresso/2020

Looking forward to meeting you in Angra do Heroísmo!

The Organizing Committee and the Board of APDR

27th APDR Congress

Dear All,

As always I am pleased to invite/remind you to send your abstracts to our annual RSAI-BIS conference.

After the success of last years conference in Cambridge for its 2020 conference the RSAI-BIS will host its 48th Annual Conference at Stirling University and the Stirling Court Hotel  from the 7th to the 9th of July 2020.

The call for abstracts is now open and conferences themes include (but are not limited to):

• · Spatial analysis of productivity and labour markets
• · Higher education and impact of universities on regional economies
• · Migration, refugees, and integration
• · Spatial analysis of voting behaviour and political outcomes
• · Regional science in business (retail and geodemographics)
• · Transportation networks and their regional economic impact
• · Regional disparities in health and well-being outcomes
• · Spatial analysis of marine economies and renewable energy
• · Scottish devolution, the UK and Brexit
• · Urban futures (and sustainable cities)
• · Inequalities in subjective wellbeing
• · Social welfare assistance and reform

Abstract submissions can be made online at http://www.rsai-bis.org/online-abstract-submission.html

Abstract submission closes on 21st February 2020.

If you have any questions please contact us by e-mail (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.), or via Twitter (@BISmemberSec).

Looking forward to seeing everyone in Stirling.

Karyn

Dear Regional Science community,

I am writing you because, following the request of many of you, the deadline for submitting your abstracts and special session proposals for the RSAI World Congress in Marrakech, June 2-5, has been further extended to February 7, 2020. This will be the final deadline.

We hope this will allow many of you to finalize your work to participate in this great scientific event: 49 Countries represented so far, 7 keynote speakers, cutting-edge research on the frontier of Regional Science, and the possibility to network with colleagues from all over the world.

Looking forward to seeing many of you in Marrakech,

Kind regards,

--
Andrea Caragliu
Executive Director, Regional Science Association International
Associate Professor of Regional and Urban Economics
Politecnico di Milano
ABC Department
Piazza Leonardo da Vinci, 32
20133 Milan (MI)
Italy

Call for Abstracts and Special Session Proposals

The Regional Science Association International (RSAI) and the Moroccan Regional Science Association (AMSR) invite regional scientists, economists, economic geographers, urban planners, policy makers, and researchers of related disciplines to participate in the 13th World Congress of the Regional Science Association International, with the main theme "Smart Regions – Opportunities for sustainable development in the digital era". The Congress will be hosted by the Moroccan Regional Science Association.

We invite formal paper presentations and Special Session Proposals (deadline of February 7, 2020). The abstract submission portal is now open. Full information on the venue, abstract submission, registration, schedule of events, accommodation and travel information is posted at https://www.regionalscience.org/2020worldcongress

About the Focal Theme

The congress is open for the world-wide diverse audience of regional scientists including academics, policy makers and practitioners and aims to bring together the key elements of multidisciplinary regional science research and to provide a scientific platform for presenting and discussing research at the frontiers of the spatial sciences in a broad sense. The themes which will be addressed zoom in particular on the pressing challenges of meeting the 2030 Agenda of Sustainable Development Goals, in both developed and developing economies. As a new challenge to regional science research is formed by the emerging digital technology and its implications for analysis, monitoring, evaluation and forecasting spatial dynamics at all levels, the theme chosen for the congress is ‘Smart Regions- Opportunities for Sustainable Development in the Digital Era’. Therefore, the potential of spatial and temporal big data, machine learning, artificial intelligence, social media information, and of the new spatial maps emerging from digitization and robotization will be addressed by the congress as well, as these forces will have far-reaching impacts on human behaviour and interaction in space. Topics such as urban-rural development, migration, spatial and resources (al)location, border effects, urbanization, sustainable cities, mobility, land use, environmental quality, disaster management, energy transition, culture, poverty, segregation, spatial modelling are important issues covered in the 2020 RSAI World Congress.

Themes of specific interest are:

RS01 - Entrepreneurship

RS02 - Infrastructure, transportation and accessibility

RS03 - Knowledge and innovation

RS04 - Local finance

RS05 - Location theory and applications

RS06 - Methods in Regional Science and Urban Economics

RS07 - Migration and regional labor markets

RS08 - Real estate and housing

RS09 - Regional and urban policy

RS10 - Regional development

RS11 - Rural development

RS12 - Spatial implications of climate and environmental change

RS13 - Spatial planning

RS14 - The spatial dimension of sustainable development

RS15 - Theoretical and empirical urban economics

RS16 - Tourism

RS17 - Globalization and territorial intelligence

RS18 - Resilience and Risk Management

RS19 - Green economy and complexity of socio-ecosystems

RS20 - Biodiversity, ecosystems and ecosystem services

RS21 - Agriculture, fisheries and food security

RS22 - Nexus: water, agriculture and energy

We look forward to welcoming you in the dazzling city of Marrakech in June 2020.

With warmest regards,

The Organizing Committee