The paper submission deadline for our 55th annual meeting on the Big Island of Hawaii, February 14-17, 2016, is extended to November 16, 2015. That day will be our hard deadline for papers, to allow time for manuscript review and preliminary program preparation. If your paper is ready to submit, please do go ahead and upload it. However, for those in need of the extra time to get their papers polished (or completed), we’re happy to be able to offer a few weeks of extra breathing room.

With regard to travel arrangements for the meeting, keep in mind that Hawaii in the winter is attractive to more than just regional scientists! Those booking on the earlier side will likely find better airfares and will have a greater choice of room types from our negotiated room block (this is especially true for those extending their stays beyond the dates of the meeting). See Hotel Information for room reservation instructions.

https://www.wrsaonline.org/newsite/annual-meeting/

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
&
47th Annual Seminar
THE REGIONAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION, INDIA
on
URBANIZATION AND REGIONAL SUSTAINABILITY
JANUARY 28-30, 2016

Date and Venue
The conference will be held during 28thJanuary to 30th January, 2016 at Kolkata, India. The venue of the Conference: Nano-Technology Campus, University of Calcutta, JD 2, Salt Lake, Kolkata: 700 098.

Submission of Abstracts
Abstracts of research papers and posters are welcome on the themes outlined for the conference. One can be the lead author for one paper or poster. Interested authors are requested to submit a fleeting abstract written in English within 300 words. The abstract should include the title of the paper, name(s) of author(s), presenting author, affiliation including proper e-mail address and key words. Subject specific and goal-oriented good quality abstracts will be selected by a review committee. Abstracts should be submitted by 15th November, 2015 via e-mail in Microsoft word format to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Acceptance of abstract along with tentative schedule will be sent by email by 30th November, 2015.

Important Dates
15thNovember 2015: Deadline for abstract submission
30thNovember 2015: Notification of abstract acceptance
15th December 2015: Deadline for registration
28th– 30thJanuary 2016: Conference meet

See attachment for more informations

Dear Colleagues,

We have already begun receiving draft contributions, and we hope to be seeing your rough draft during the next two months, and of course, sooner is better than later!

One thing to note is that the Springer contract requires a final manuscript submission at the end of May 2016.  This is consistent with the initial draft submission deadlines, but makes it imperative that authors meet the target dates.  In this regard, we will be sending out this week a more explicit timeline. 

WRSA and SRSA Opportunities

Some have suggested that although it was too late for NARSC, it would be possible to consider one or more special sessions devoted to the book contributions at both WRSA and SRSA. As Bruce Newbold suggested, these sessions might organized differently from regular sessions, either shorter presentations, panel, or discussion sessions, and "might highlight authors and build ‘buzz’ and discussion about the book. It might also be useful for other contributors to see what others are doing, which could help to tie the various contributions together.”  I think this is a terrific idea, so if you would be interested in participating in such sessions at either meeting, would you please email me to let me know? If there are sufficient numbers, I’ll happily organize sessions at one or both meetings — so be sure to let me know which meeting!  As a reminder, here are the details on the two meetings:

WRSA:     55th annual meeting on the Big Island of Hawaii, February 14-17, 2016, submission deadline is November 16, 2015. 

SRSA:       The 55th annual meetings of the SRSA will be held in Arlington, Virginia, USA, March 31- April 2, 2016.  First call for papers just issued.

{As an aside, note that the SRSA has a new email distribution list.  Sign up here if interested.}

Again, we are looking forward very efficient process so that the book  will be in print at the earliest possible date. As a reminder, here is our planned schedule -  note that the editorial process began in October!

June – October, 2015                    Solicit contributions

October 2015 –February 2016          Edit contributions

Obtain copyright releases

February – March, 2016                    Contributors revise manuscripts

April                                                   Final proofreading

May 15                                               Submit manuscript to publisher

May – July, 2016                                Final corrections and revisions

August-September 2016                     Book goes in production

In the Springer guidelines attached to this email, you will find templates for the preparation of manuscripts in Word and in TeX which can be used by the authors for preparing their contributions.  Attached, I am sending you as well Springer’s short manuscript submission information sheet which summarizes the main important information. 

Springer also provides manuscript templates in both Word and LaTex.  While it is not strictly mandatory, we strongly encourage you to use these, as this will give the resulting volume the greatest possible degree of consistency from chapter to chapter.  I also encourage you to please have a look at Springer’s manuscript guidelines for editors/authors.

We are looking forward to receiving your contributions!

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me.

Randall Jackson, Director

Regional Research Institute, WVU

http://www.rri.wvu.edu

Dear colleagues,
 
We are organizing the next INFER Annual Conference as part of the scientific activities supported by the CREIP research center (www.urv.cat/creip). INFER AC will take place in Reus, at the Faculty of Business and Economics of the Rovira i Virgili University in June 2016 (8th, 9th and 10th).
 
The INFER Annual Conference is open to contributions from all areas of economic research. However, we especially encourage submissions related to the following topics:

• Emerging markets economies and globalization
• Financial and Debt Crisis
• Economic Asymmetries
• Fiscal Policy and Public Finance
• Growth, Technical Progress and Innovation
• Entrepreneurship
• Industrial Economics and Microeconomics
• Housing Economics
• International Trade and Economic Geography
• Labour and Capital Markets
• Energy Economics
• Macroeconomic Policy
• Monetary and Financial Economics
• Public Economics
• Regional, Urban and Rural Economics

The INFER Annual Conference will include keynote speeches by Prof. GuillemLópez Casasnovas(Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Prof.Thierry Mayer (SciencesPo), and Prof.Diego Puga (CEMFI).
 
Please, find attached the Call for papers in which you will find all details about the conference. For further updates please visit:
 
http://wwwa.fundacio.urv.cat/congressos/infer-conference/

Special session proposals should be submitted to the INFER  Annual Conference organizers by November 20, 2015.
 
Kind regards,

 
Josep-Maria Arauzo-Carod
Universitat Rovira i Virgili & CREIP

It is our pleasure to announce the SPECIAL ISSUE titled Urban policy, freight distribution planning and behaviour change: stakeholders’ engagement, perception and reaction to be hosted by Italian Journal of Regional Science

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 Michael Browne^æ

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

^æSchool of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Freight transport systems are fundamental to guarantee urban sustainable development. In fact, their role is essential in harmonising economic growth while minimising territorial externalities so to attain a high level of life quality within cities. Territorial and economic planning coupled with effective management of freight distribution activities are necessary to foster the well-functioning of economic and social networks. City liveability is promoted by competitive transport costs, high logistics service levels, quite, clean, culturally rich, attractive and safe environment for city dwellers.

Improving city logistics performance and city quality of life depend on different interconnected factors. Modelling, planning and evaluating urban freight distribution policies are crucial activities to foster innovation and behaviour change. Under this respect it is appropriate to acknowledge that the same policy can be interpreted and evaluated from different perspectives. Taking a stakeholder-specific perspective is fundamental in determining urban freight distribution policy effects. Retailers, transport providers, local administration and citizen are commonly considered the four main macro-categories whose interests and behaviour should be investigated. This Special issue aims at providing all the necessary instruments to understand the background, objectives, methodologies and possible governance systems to deal with urban freight distribution from a stakeholders’ perspective.

The European White Paper on Transport underlines the relevance transport in urban areas plays and illustrates goals of carbon free city logistics by 2030, which are not seemingly achievable by employing the regulatory approach adopted so far. Various forms of public-private partnerships will have to be developed, adopted, implemented and managed. Stakeholders’ interactions while acknowledged as important and deep-rooted in this context are not sufficiently studied yet. Long-term relationships are less explored with respect to short-term measures, reciprocal stakeholders’ knowledge, awareness and trust need to be built and sustained if positive interactions ought to emerge and produce the desired results.

The relevant aspects considered and investigated relates to stakeholders’ engagement (e.g. methods, frameworks and management agreements), perception (e.g. problems faced and possible policies to be enacted) and reactions (e.g. evaluation methods, distributional considerations, fairness perception, etc.). Descriptions of case studies are welcome since they provide a benchmark for best-case experiences throughout the world and offer an understanding of real applications. Success and/or failure elements are investigated to discover, from single cases, similarities and differences stimulating critical reflections and guidelines for action. 

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/).

Scope of the Special Issue

It is anticipated that this Special Issue will advance the understanding of the role alternative stakeholders’ engagement, perception and reaction play in fostering the definition, implementation, management, evaluation and continuous improvement of long-term partnerships among different stakeholders in urban freight distribution systems and their role in determining the needed behaviour change.

The Special Issue will primarily, though not exclusively, focus on:

1. Pro-smart cities policies
2. Local policy makers’ role and engagement techniques
3. Reactions to innovative urban freight policies and sectorial inclination
4. Bottom up involvement techniques and cases
5. Gaming and community of practice theory to stimulate engagement
6. Dynamic policy analysis: from inception to involvement
7. Reactions to monetary and non-monetary stimuli to foster off-peak deliveries
8. Transport providers’ load factors determinants
9. Carriers’ responses to innovative policies
10. Retailers’ and carriers’ perceptions of new urban goods distribution initiatives

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.. All submissions will go through standard double-blind peer-review process. For guidelines to prepare your manuscript, please visit http://www.rivistasr.it/.

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..

RSAN/SDIN workshop
autumn day/najaarsdag

“Knowledge Creation and Neighbourhoods”

keynote by: Prof. Dr. Oliver Ibert, Freie Universität Berlin

location: Deprez building, near Tilburg CS, Lange Nieuwstraat 172-174

start 10:00, finish 17:00

€50 (€40 for RSAN members)

City neighbourhoods differ widely from one another, to the point where severe poverty and social deprivation may literally be just a few steps away from wealth and affluence, and where socio-culturally diverse cosmopolitan high grounds may neighbour inward-looking enclaves of ethnic minorities or lower working class white communities.

In general, cities seem to favour knowledge creation, because of their diversity of knowledge inputs, their diverse markets and outlets for new products and services, and their physical connectivity to global knowledge. However, knowledge creation only happens in a select number of privileged places within cities. This is because the knowledge workers involved in knowledge creation form distinct social and professional communities that occupy distinct physical places within the city. They work in universities, research centres and office buildings, they meet at airports, hotels and bars, they have a preference for high-end cultural and leisure amenities and they live in upscale residential areas. These are the physical places where knowledge creation happens.

This is sufficient reason to problemize the interaction between social space and physical place; the interaction between the professional communities and networks of knowledge workers and the physical places where they meet. The spatial scale on which knowledge creation happens may be smaller than the cities and regions of the “innovative milieu” and the regional innovation models. Clearly, with their diversity of neighbourhoods cities cannot be seen as integrated and coherent innovation systems. On the other hand, knowledge creation hot spots cannot exist without the less favoured neighbourhoods. To an important degree, that is where the “service workers” who “run” these hotspots, as cleaners, restaurant workers and security staff, live. This raises important questions regarding the interaction between social space and physical place for knowledge creation. What makes a place a knowledge creation hot spot? Can cities manipulate this? How are hot spots connected to global knowledge? But is also raises pressing questions on the relationship between knowledge creation hot spots and less favoured neighbourhoods. How do borders emerge between hot spots and the rest of the city? Can these borders be made more permeable? How much economic exchange (people’s jobs) exists between hot spots and less favoured neighbourhoods? What social and cultural functions do hots spots perform for the city in general?

It may be that, for knowledge creation, cities depend on a mosaic of attractive places within and beyond the city in order to attract knowledge workers. But at the same time, this trans-local mosaic must be integrated in a local web of economic and social city life if it is to remain vibrant.

You are warmly invited to submit an abstract to the organizers, Roel Rutten (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) and Martijn Smit (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

More information at: http://www.rsanederland.nl/en/bijeenkomsten/30-october-rsansdin-workshop-autumn-dag-najaarsdag/

Dear Colleagues,

We cordially invite researchers, scientists and experts to participate in the 15th Ernestas Galvanauskas’ International Scientific Conference„RETHINKING REGIONAL COMPETITIVENESS“, which will be held on 26th – 27th November, 2015 in Siauliai, Lithuania. Please find more information in the attached invitation.

Registration deadline – November 2, 2015. (http://smf.su.lt/registracijos/galvanausko)

We kindly ask you to forward this information to other colleaguesthat may be interested in the conference.

We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this mail.

We look forward to seeing you at the conference!

Best regards,

Conference Organizers 

As part of the Social Science Data Analytics initiative in the College of Social Science at Michigan State University, we are seeking to hire a full-time research associate to work within the Landscape Ecology & Ecosystem Science (LEES) Lab and to be a part of the Social Science Data Analytics initiative. The initial appointment will be for one year, with an option for reappointment on a year-to-year basis for up to three years, based on performance. 

We seek applicants that use data science tools to answer social science-relevant questions. We are particularly interested in candidates that can strengthen the University's research in Bayesian data analysis, machine learning approaches to prediction, text as data, and the analysis and visualization of complex multi-scale data. The successful candidate will be expected to work under the direction of the LEES Lab and actively contribute to the Social Science Data Analytics initiative at MSU. 

The successful candidate will join other research associates and faculty as members of the Social Science Data Analytics initiative. There is no teaching obligation for this position, but the successful candidate is welcome to contribute to the growing curricular and training options on Social Science Data Analytics at MSU.  

Please contact Dr. Jiquan Chen for more questions at:

Landscape Ecology & Ecosystem Science (LEES) Lab
Center for Global Change and Earth Observations (CGCEO), and
Department of Geography
1405 S. Harrison Road, Manly Miles Building, Room 218
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48823
Email:              This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 
Phone:            517-884-1884
Fax:                 517-353-2932
Web:               http://lees.geo.msu.edu/

Call for Papers

11th World Congress of the Regional Science Association International (RSAI)

April 25-28, 2016, Istanbul, Turkey

The Regional Science Association International (RSAI) and the Turkish Regional Science Association (Bölge Bilimi Türk Milli Komitesi - BBTMK) invite regional scientists, economists, economic geographers, urban planners, policy makers, and researchers of related disciplines to participate in the 11th World Congress of the Regional Science Association International. The Congress will be hosted by the Turkish Regional Science Association.

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.

The conference will be open to different research topics within the broader contours of the regional science, urban and regional studies, geographical sciences and planning, and development. Anticipated sub-themes of the congress include the following:

We invite formal paper presentations as well as posters (deadline of November 29th, 2015). Organizers of special session are also welcome. 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 www.2016worldcongress.regionalscience.org.

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. and to the Chair of the Local Organizing Committee 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 Istanbul in April 2016.

With warmest regards,

Tüzin Baycan

Chair of the Local Organizing Committee

Call for Special Session Proposals

11th World Congress of the Regional Science Association International (RSAI)

April 25-28, 2016, Istanbul, Turkey

Special sessions on cutting-edge and frontier topics in Regional Science and Regional Science Policy are welcomed by the organisers. Please contact (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) and Tüzin Baycan, Chair of the Local Organizing Committee (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) for proposals of special sessions.

Discussants are required for each presentation in special sessions.

Special Session Proposal Format

Proposals for special sessions should include:

The special session title

The name(s) of the organizer(s), with affiliation(s) and email(s) (identifying the chair)

The aim and scope of the special session (500 words)

Deadline

Special session proposals should be sent by November 1st, 2015 to the secretariat of the Congress at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and to the Chair of the Local Organizing Committee This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Abstracts Submission Process(see also the example of the call for paper)

Authors submit abstracts for special sessions through session Organizers.

The organizers of the special session should ask for:

• title;
• authors(s);
• affiliations and emails (indicate the presenter and corresponding author);
• three keywords;
• abstract (400-500 words).

Abstract submission deadline: November 29th, 2015

Notification of acceptance of abstract: December 20th, 2015

After the abstract submission deadline the organizer(s) should send all the submissions to secretariat of the Congress at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and to the Chair of the Local Organizing Committee This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

The secretariat will insert the data in the CONFERENCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM and give full access to the organizer for the management of the abstracts.

Details about the Conference: http://2016worldcongress.regionalscience.org/