RSAI Dissertation Award

There were a total of 15 submissions for the 2015 dissertation competition, in which eight from U.S. universities, two from Turkey, and one each from Belgium, Netherlands, Spain, India, and Israel. The final winner and two runner ups are presented as follows.

Final winner: Tate Twinam, University of Pittsburgh, with a thesis with the title “The Economics of Zoning” jointly supervised by Arie Beresteanu and Randall P. Walsh.

Two runner ups: Jianjun Tang, University of Groningen (Netherlands), with a dissertation with the title “Demand-oriented irrigation water management in North Western China” supervised by Henk Folmer; and Mona Kashiha, University of North Carolina at Charlotte with the title “Spatial competition based on customers' choice histories: A study of trade flows” advise by  Jean-Claude Thill.

Dear All,

The 12th European IFSA Symposium will take place at Harper Adams University, UK from Tuesday 12 - Friday 15 July 2016.The closing date for submission of abstracts is Monday 21 December 2015.

Ana, Jakub and I, are convenors of sub-theme:  5.3 Rural development policies in the peripheral Southern and Eastern European regions and we invite you to submit a paper in this workshop. For further information, please see the link: (http://www.harper-adams.ac.uk/events/ifsa-conference/sub-theme.cfm?id=26)

Best regards,

Emiliana Silva

Call for Special Session Proposals

ERSA is calling for special session proposals for ERSA 2016 in Vienna, Austria. If you want to organize a special session for this conference, please fill in the electronic form at http://vienna.ersa.org/special-sessions

Dear colleague:

We have just published a special issue of the journal Investigaciones Regionales / Journal of Regional Research (issue n. 32). It is now available both on line (www.journalofregionalresearch.org) and print version.

This issue includes the following contents:

Introduction:

Introduction: Rethinking industrial districts in the XXI Century- Rafael Boix, Fabio Sforzi, Francesc Hernández

Articles:

Rethinking the industrial district: 35 years later- F. Sforzi

Beyond geo-sectoriality: the productive chorality of places- G. Becattini

Giacomo Becattini and the Marshall’s method- J. Trullén

What about Industrial District(s) in Regional Science?- F. Sforzi, R. Boix

Three Generations of Industrial districts- M. Bellandi, L. De Propris

The international resilience of Italian industrial districts/clusters (ID/C) between knowledge re-shoring and manufacturing off (near)-shoring- F. Belussi

How do multinational enterprises co-locate in industrial districts? An introduction to the integration of alternative explanations from international business and economic geography literatures– J. L. Hervás Oliver

An industrial district around a mining resource: the case of marble of Macael in Almería– J. Á. Aznar-Sánchez, A. Carretero-Gómez, J. F. Velasco-Muñoz

In vino veritas: competitive factors in wine-producing industrial districts- M. J. Ruiz, F. Hernández, V. Soler i Marco

Investigaciones Regionales/Journal of Regional Research is ranked as Q2 by Scimago JRC (Scopus), in Economics, Econometrics and Finance, and indexed in other scientific and academic international databases.

To contact Us and Submit Manuscripts:

Investigaciones Regionales – Journal of Regional Research

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

Yours sincerely,

Andrés Maroto, PhD

Editorial Board

We have the pleasure of inviting you to the 6th Slovak Winter Seminar of Regional Science that will take place in the mountain resort of Low Tatras on 9th – 12th March 2016.

Enclosed you can find more information about the conference.

The main objective of the annual Winter Seminar is to bring creative academic debate on actual issues of regional science and practice of regional policy by an attractive environment and relaxed atmosphere.

Accepted articles will be published in the conference proceedings "6th Slovak Winter Seminar of Regional Science 2016” with ISBN. Selected papers will be invited to publish in the peer reviewed journal Region Direct in 2016.

Important Dates:

Abstract submission deadline:                       November 1, 2015 - December 31, 2015

Participation fee payment:                 November 1, 2015 - January 31, 2016

Paper submission deadline:                February 15, 2016

Winter Seminar:                                 March 9 - 12, 2016

One-page abstract should be sent to Valeria Szitasiova (e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) until December 31, 2015. In case of any questions, please, do not hesitate to contact us via e-mail This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Read more about our previous winter seminars on www.ersa.sk

Yours sincerely,

Winter Seminar´s Organizing Committee

Stefan Rehak, Miroslav Sipikal, Valeria Szitasiova, Tomas Cernenko, Veronika Fercikova Slovak Section of ERSA

Award of Stan Czamanski Prize in 2015

by David Boyce, Kieran Donaghy and Rachel Franklin

In mid-October, 2015, our committee met by telephone to recommend the winner of the 2015 award of the Stan Czamanski Prize for the best Ph.D. dissertation proposal approved during the period July 1, 2014 to June 30, 2015. The six candidates for this award were the following:

Steven R. Gehrke, PortlandStateUniversity, Portland, Oregon, USA

Sarah Howe, RMIT University, Victoria, Australia

Victor Iturra Rivera, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA

Dávid Krisztián Nagy, PrincetonUniversity, Princeton, New Jersey, USA

Natalya Rybnikova, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

Samuel Stehle, PennStateUniversity, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA

One other candidate by Xize Wang, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA, was submitted early for the 2016 competition. He was asked to resubmit his documents in June 2016. Finally, one additional candidate, Hyun Kim, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA, was submitted on September 30, 2015. This submission was not judged in the 2015 competition.

In reviewing the six submissions, the following statement was carefully considered:

“Professor Czamanski’s research exemplified the analysis of social problems with regional and spatial dimensions. In doing so, he chose judiciously the right combination of analytical and empirical research methods from his tool box to address the specific issue at hand. Many of his papers illustrated how particular combinations of methods could be used most aptly to study particular problems.”

In our review, we agreed unanimously that the proposal of Steven Gehrke best represented the approach of Professor Czamanski. Gehrke’s proposal was entitled “Active Travel Behavior and Spatial-temporalLand Use Mixing.” The letter by Professor Kelly Clifton was helpful in reaching this conclusion.

It is our pleasure to announce the SPECIAL ISSUE titledUrban freight, land use planning and public administration strategiesto be hosted byRegion

Important Dates

Submission opens: October 1st, 2015

Deadline for submission of full paper: November 27th, 2015

Feedback from first-round reviews: March 11th, 2016

Deadline for re-submission of papers: July 1st, 2016

Feedback from second-round reviews (if required): September 12th, 2016

Final manuscripts due: November 11th, 2016

Planned publication: 2017

Guest Editors: Edoardo Marcucci^è, Valerio Gatta^è, and Laetitia Dablanc^æ

^èDepartment of Political Science, University of Roma Tre, Italy

^æ  Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences, Free University of Bruxelles, Belgium

Well-being and economic growth are intertwined. Cities are the catalyst and engine of an innovation-based economy where new ideas represent the strategic input of production. It is no surprise that people tend to live in cities both in the developed and developing countries because this is where wealth is created, high quality services are available and life quality is comparatively higher with respect to other parts of the country.  While this is true, one has also to acknowledge the negative impacts such a concentration produces in terms of congestion, accidents, polluting emissions and so on. To be attractive cities need to be well functioning and thus an adequate in flow of goods, intermediate and final, and outflow of exports and waste has to be guaranteed so much that modern lifestyle is heavily reliant on well-functioning supply chains and freight transportation systems. 

Urbanisation is becoming more and more the manifestation of economic growth with rising percentages of city dwellers with respect to others living elsewhere. 

Modern urban policies are trying to foster the implementation of a mobility paradigm prioritising non-motorised modes, public transport use and the regeneration of urban space. While these actions seem, prima facie, appropriate to increase city liveability, at the same time, the lack of integrated, passenger and freight, policies is evident. This makes even more strident the problems arising from the single level of intervention perspective often adopted by policy makers. When adopting a mid- to long-term view on urban freight distribution issues one cannot avoid acknowledging the strong impact city planning plays. Under this respect one could use, as a mere explanatory example, the discussion pertaining to the integration of warehousing and logistics activities into local and regional policies making and planning processes.

This Call for Papers is linked to the Urban Freight and Behaviour Change (URBE) Conference held in Rome, October 1st and 2nd 2015 (http://host.uniroma3.it/eventi/urbe/). http://host.uniroma3.it/eventi/urbe/specialissues.php   

Scope of the Special Issue

This Special Issue will foster the understanding of the role alternative planning approaches, sustainability perspectives and various priorities have in determining the type of policies implemented, the way they are discussed among the interested stakeholders and how they are likely to be accepted and impact on behaviour change. 

This will be performed both by illustrating methodological innovations as well as presenting relevant case studies. Possible topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

1) Sustainable Urban Logistics Plans

2) Urban freight transportation planning and rational decision-making processes 

1) Planning practices and freight transport infrastructure and logistics sprawl

2) Project financing initiatives and infrastructure funding

3) Freight Planning and major urban infrastructure projects

4) Public space and land use planning 

5) Freight demand uncertainty and planning

6) Logistic platforms and facility location planning

7) Integrated passenger and freight planning

8) Technology and business models 

Submission Method

For this Special Issue, authors are encouraged to send their papers to: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..">This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..  All submissions will go through standard double-blind peer-review process. For guidelines to prepare your manuscript, please visit: http://openjournals.wu.ac.at/region/  

Inquiries

Prospective authors are encouraged to contact the Guest Editors for feedback and comments about the topics of the research papers. All enquiries regarding this call for papers should be directed to: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..">This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

The Review of Regional Studies

The Official Journal of the Southern Regional Science Association

The RRS is an Open Access journal with no subscription, submission, or publication fees of any kind! We are indexed on RePEc, ECONLIT, Cabell's, ABI/Inform, and EBSCO. Our RePEc Simple Impact Factor for August 2015 is 1.458, which ranks us in the top 20% of RePEc journals. Journal Archives

We especially encourage submission of articles presented at the SRSA Conference (March 31- April 2, 2016, Key Bridge Marriott, Washington, DC) and NARSC (November 11-14, 2015, in Portland, Oregon). You will need to create an account to submit articles. Please contact Mark Burkey or Michael Lahr if you have any questions.

Scanning Update: Scanned back issues from 1988-2002 are now up. Thanks to Geoffrey J.D. Hewings, the ERS, Dan Rickman, Michael L. Lahr, and the RRI for donating the 95 print-only issues of The Review of Regional Studies from 1970-2002. (ARCHIVES).

Vol 45, No 2 (2015)

Co-edited by Michael L. Lahr, Amanda Ross,  and Mark L. Burkey

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