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Monday, 28 October 2019 09:17

RSPP Call for Paper | Special Issue on Evidence-Based Policymaking: the use of information for integrated territorial policy development

This special issue will focus on the challenges of territorialising public policies and on the role of (big) data, information and technologies in planning and regional development. The lack of the territorial dimension in the formulation and implementation of sectoral policies, currently, coexists with efforts to implement decentralized policies. In this context, the development and evaluation of public policies faces an increasing number of challenges, not only because of the multidimensional nature of the problems, but also because of the unpredictability of factors and the way in which they interact. This justifies the need to involve a diversity of actors and knowledge and the use of information to better inform and support decision-making. The ability to integrate and articulate technical and political criteria with motivational and preferential criteria of policy takers are necessary and required conditions to make collective decisions policy effective, efficient and sustainable. Additionally, new (big) data, continuously generated by information and communication technologies, justifies a major research effort to identify innovative and integrated methodologies for better using this type of input in the definition of regional and urban development policy, adapting them to specific territorial contexts.

Thus, this special issue emphasizes the interactions between three dimensions: i) data and information; ii) tools and models; iii) policies and instruments. More and better territorial information: in the context of the definition of regional development policies, discuss the big data and the existence of limitations in its use and availability and reflect on the use of small samples and adaptive models to support decision-making; ii) Better Methodologies (Innovative and Integrated): assess how information and communication technologies (ICT) can be used to meet the needs and expectations of populations and foster regional development dynamics; iii) More effective regional development policies: identify the needs and challenges posed by policy makers, institutions and enterprises, as well as society in general, for the qualification of the territories and improvement of people's living conditions. The editors invite proposals for this Special Issue relating to any area of the three previous topics

Papers should be submitted to the regular review process of the journal until December 30th of 2019 at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/rspp. With a regular review process it is expected that the papers will be publish on the 3rd Issue of 2020. For guidance from the editors abstracts can be send to Elisabete A. Silva <es424@cam.ac.uk> until December 15th of 2019.

The coordinators of the Special Issue

João Lourenço Marques jjmarques@ua.pt

Elisabete Silva es424@cam.ac.uk

Tuesday, 02 July 2019 09:15

RSPP Call for Paper | Special Issue on Urban Resurgence in European Cities

RSPP Call for Paper

Urban Resurgence in European Cities

Cities are drivers for economic growth and innovation that control knowledge, capital and communication on a global level. However, there are many challenges related to urban development within and across Europe cities. First, there are difficulties with achieving convergence across European areas. Some cities do not manage to benefit from the better economic, social or cultural structures nor from the improved living conditions related with urbanization and often experience a lack of economic growth, population loss and poverty. Second, cities that successfully underwent structural change and that manage to deal with technological transformation are experiencing not only the advantages of economic progress but also negative effects related with congestion, pollution, segregation, etc. The different historic and political background has led to different challenges that European cities face and also to different (institutional, financial, economic, social) resources available to appropriately enhance growth. In other words, European cities experience different type of challenges that require differentiated strategic approaches raising the standards in urban policy and planning requiring integrated, resilient, inclusive and sustainable solutions.

This special issue aims at contributing to the scientific discourse on urban development in Europe by emphasizing challenges and solutions for resurgence. Papers should have a focus on one of following topics:

Resurgence in shirking cities
Growth-oriented urban policies (Smart cities, innovation in cities)
Urban resurgence in small and mid-sized cities
The role of diversity and of the creative class for urban resurgence
Cultural tourism and hospitality as instrument for urban resurgence

Papers should be submitted to the regular review process of the journal until December 20^th of 2019. With a regular review process it is expected that the papers will be publish on the 1^st Issue of 2020.

The coordinators of the Special Issue

Alina Schoenberg (alina.schoenberg@fh-krems.ac.at)

Monday, 01 July 2019 11:31

Training Workshop on “Spatial Data Lab”

Training Workshop on “Spatial Data Lab”

Co-Organized by

China Data Institute

Geospatial Center for Social Sciences, Wuhan University

Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

Join us for the online workshop on July 8, 2019 at 8:30 PM EDT (New York Time)

Register Now!

· Open platform for spatial data sharing with WorldMap, Wendy Guan, Harvard University
· Open platform for data management with DataVerse, Gustavo Durand and Danny Brooke, Harvard University
· Spatial data analysis with GeoDa and GeoDaSpace, Xun Li, University of Chicago
· Drive data and AI with workflow tools, Alex Liu, RMDS/IBM
· Integrate, Automate, Innovate Self-Service Analytics, Sandeep Saini, Grazitti

Note: The web conference in the morning will be open to public. Please click here for the online registration. After registering, you will receive an email notice containing information about joining the webinar.

For the full agenda of the workshop onsite, please visit:

https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/chinadatalab/event/training-workshop-“spatial-data-lab”

Monday, 01 July 2019 11:28

Call for papers | "Resensitizing cities: Urban Ambiances and Senses", Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October 2-5, 2019

Dear colleagues,

Please find attached a call for papers for the conference "Resensitizing cities: Urban Ambiances and Senses" to be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from October 2 to 5, 2019

The deadline for the submission of full papers is 15 July 2019.

"Resensitizing cities" is an event that integrates the preparatory agenda for the UIA 2020, and will be promoted by LASC / Proarq UFRJ.

The aim of this conference is to investigate the practice of urban daily life and the study of rhythms of life, intertwined with the daily life of cities, on a small scale. Through the look at senses that interfere in uses and appropriations in the urban environment, we intend to deepen the thinking about strategies of articulation between the urban experience and the affectivity in the great metropolis.

The routine of the event includes the presentation of papers and also the accomplishment of experiences in the streets through a central result coming from the workshops of theoretical and practical reflections.

Conference web: https://workshoplasc2019.wixsite.com/ressensitizingcities?lang=en

Feel free to pass this notice on to colleagues and/or students! Thank you.

Cristiane Duarte and Ethel Pinheiro

RESENSITIZING CITIES urban ambiances and senses - october 2nd to 5th, 2019

RESSENSIBILIZANDO CIDADES ambiências urbanas e sentidos - de 2 a 5 de outubro, 2019

https://workshoplasc2019.wixsite.com/ressensitizingcities

lasc.fau.ufrj.br

Wednesday, 26 June 2019 10:20

The latest issue of Regional Science Policy & Practice are available! Volume 11, Issue 2 Pages 211-442, June 2019

Regional Science Policy & Practice
Volume 11, Issue 2

Pages: 211-442

June 2019

ISSUE INFORMATION

Issue Information

Pages: 211-212 | First Published: 25 June 2019

SPECIAL SECTION: INNOVATION PROCESSES IN RURAL AREAS

Innovation processes in rural areas

Lívia Madureira, André Torre

Pages: 213-218 | First Published: 25 June 2019

LEADER 2007–2013: An innovation dependent on local and national institutional arrangements? Some European illustrations

Pascal Chevalier, Dominique Vollet

Pages: 219-234 | First Published: 29 November 2018

Governance, institutions and innovation in rural territories: The case of Coruche innovation network

Maria de Fátima Ferreiro, Cristina Sousa

Pages: 235-250 | First Published: 25 October 2018

Shedding light on rural innovation: Introducing and applying a comprehensive indicator system

Teresa Maria Gamito, Lívia Madureira

Pages: 251-277 | First Published: 04 January 2019

Proximities and the role of relational networks in innovation: The case of the dairy industry in two villages of the “green municipality” of Paragominas in the Eastern Amazon

André Torre, Etienne Polge, Frederic Wallet

Pages: 279-294 | First Published: 19 December 2018

Innovative capabilities of users of agricultural R&D services

Rosmery Ramos‐Sandoval, José María García Álvarez‐Coque, Francisco Mas‐Verdú

Pages: 295-305 | First Published: 12 October 2018

Rural areas receptivity to innovative and sustainable agrifood processes. A case study in a viticultural territory of Central Spain

Rocío Losada, Almudena Gómez‐Ramos, Margarita Rico

Pages: 307-327 | First Published: 16 April 2019

On the trail of local welfare innovations in rural Finland

Niina Rantamäki, Mari Kattilakoski

Pages: 329-343 | First Published: 29 May 2019

Research internship at the OECD Trento Centre for Local Development

Dear Colleagues and Friends,

I would like to draw your attention to an opportunity of a research internship at the Spatial Productivity Lab, which is a part of the OECD Trento Centre for Local Development located in Trento, Italy. The application deadline is July 21^st. We are looking for candidates with solid quantitative background, god writing skills and interest in regional economic growth.

https://www.oecd.org/cfe/leed/internships-trento-call.htm

With best wishes,

Alexandra Tsvetkova | Economist/Policy Analyst

Trento Centre for Local Development || Spatial Productivity Lab

Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities

Friday, 21 June 2019 12:09

Call for Nominations The William Alonso Memorial Prize for Innovative Work in Regional Science

Nomination deadline coming up, July 1!

The William Alonso Memorial Prize for Innovative Work in Regional Science

The William Alonso Memorial Prize for Innovative Work in Regional Science was established in 1999 to honor the memory of a revered, pioneering scholar. In 1960 William Alonso was awarded the first Ph.D. in Regional Science by the University of Pennsylvania. The book based on his dissertation, Location and Land Use (Harvard University Press, 1964), is often credited with launching the field of urban economics. He made numerous major contributions to the study of migration, regional development, and the politics of numbers, and his work ranged from meticulous mathematical theory to far-ranging think pieces. William Alonso was Assistant and Associate Professor of Regional Planning at Harvard University (1959-67), Professor of Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley (1966-76), and Richard Saltonstall Professor of Population Policy at Harvard (1976-99).

The objective of the Prize is to recognize the recent innovative research contribution of Regional Science scholars in the spirit of Dr. William Alonso. Previous Prize Winners are:

2002 Masahisa Fujita and Paul Krugman, The Spatial Economy (MIT Press, 1999)

2004 Jacques-François Thisse, Economics of Agglomeration (Cambridge University Press, 2002)

2006 Luc Anselin, Local Indicators of Spatial Association (Geographical Analysis, 1995) Ann Markusen, Sticky Places in Slippery Space (Economic Geography, 1996)

2011 Michael Batty, Cities and Complexity (MIT Press, 2007)

2013 Robert Sampson, Great American City (University of Chicago Press, 2012)

2016 David Boyce and Huw Williams, Forecasting Urban Travel: Past, Present and Future (Edward Elgar, 2015)

Michael Batty, The New Science of Cities (MIT Press 2013)

The next prize is scheduled to be announced in 2019 at the North American Meetings in Pittsburgh.

Nominations for the prize to be announced in 2019 are invited by the Alonso Prize Committee. They may come from any individual or organization including book publishers, university departments, government agencies, and other public or private entities. Each individual or organization is limited to make two nominations for each occasion. The deadline for nominations is July 1, 2019.

The nominated work must be a book published in 2013 or later. An edited book will be considered only if it is tightly-integrated, not a loose collection of chapters.
The nominated work may have single or multiple authors.
Authors are encouraged to self-nominate, and jurors will not know which books were self-nominated.
Previously nominated books may be re-nominated and will be considered anew.
To nominate a book (1) send e-mails to neil.reid@utoledo.edu and jkohlhase@uh.edu with citation information, such as William Alonso, Location and Land Use, Harvard University Press, 1964, (2) attach up to three published book reviews, if available, using pdf files. No letters of nomination or support are required, and, if provided, will not be sent to jurors. The selection criteria are innovation and expected impact.

Although occasionally awarded to an article, the Alonso Prize is primarily a book prize. A book’s key idea might have been presented first in a journal article, such as Alonso’s “A Theory of the Urban Land Market,” Papers of the Regional Science Association, 1960, but its fuller development and synthesis with other work can make the book innovative and eligible for the Prize.

Members of the Prize Committee include:

Professor Janet Kohlhase, Chair, University of Houston, kohlhase@central.uh.edu

Professor Roberta Capello, Politecnico di Milano, roberta.capello@polimi.it

Professor Emeritus, Gordon Mulligan, University of Arizona, mulligan@email.arizona.edu

Professor David Plane, University of Arizona, plane@email.arizona.edu

Friday, 21 June 2019 12:04

REMINDER: workshop organised by NECTAR cluster 5

Dear colleague

The call for papers for the Conference "Sustainable Tourism in the Digital World" (24-26 September, 2019), to be held in the beautiful island of Gotland (Visby, Sweden) has been extended until July, 31.

The website of the conference has been updated with information about the preliminary programs and speakers:

http://www.fek.uu.se/research/sustainable-tourism/#anchor-778508

The conference will include a workshop organised by NECTAR cluster 5 (specific call attached) and a “Aim Day”, including a panel discussion with local tourism stakeholders. This will be an excellent opportunity to discuss the practical challenges in destination management for the sustainable development of a small island.

We look forward to meeting you in Visby.

Warm regards,

João Romão