Dear all,

The new RSAI Newsletter November 2015 can now be found under

http://www.regionalscience.org/images/PDF/newsletter_RSAI_November2015.pdf

The Founder's Medal was established to recognize lifetime contributions to the field of Regional Science and to the Association. It is still the only honour conveyed by the Association as a whole. Previous recipients include Walter Isard, Martin J. Beckmann, William Alonso, Jean H. P. Paelinck, David E. Boyce, Peter Nijkamp, Antoine Bailly and Arthur Getis.

Individuals are invited to submit nominations/self-nominations for the RSAI Founder’s Medal. The nominations should be sent to the RSAI Selection Committee (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.), which consists of Andrés Rodríguez-Pose, Antoine Baily, Arthur Getis, Jean-Claude Thill and Emmanouil Tranos. The Committee will select three (3) nominees recommended as potential recipients of the Founder’s Medal based on the below criteria. Then, past recipients of the Founder’s Medal will be invited to recommend the recipient from the list of three nominees compiled by the Committee. The announcement of the recipient will take place during the next World RSAI Congress in Istanbul (25-28^th April, 2016).

A written nomination/self-nomination of a candidate for consideration for the RSAI Founder’s Medal should articulate the merit of the nominee for receiving the Founder’s Medal. It must include a detailed statement of the nature of the lifetime contribution a candidate has made to RSAI. The nomination/self-nomination must explain how and why that contribution of the nominee meets the criteria of the RSAI Founder’s Medal outlined below:

• The recipient should be a senior scholar who has contributed in an important way to the field of Regional Science in a scholarly sense;
• The recipient should have been active in the RSAI for a sustained period, but not necessarily active at the time of the award; also, the award is not given posthumously;
• The recipient should be a person with whom many members can identify; his/her contributions could be a major work in one area or many works in several areas;
• The contribution need not be limited to one type of contribution; it might be theory, method or policy, for example;
• It is recognized that the native country and language of scholars affect the extent to which they are known by the membership, and an effort should be made to take this into account.

More information about the Founder’s Medal can be found on the RSAI web page.

On behalf of the Organizing Committee of the IV World Planning Schools Congress in Rio de Janeiro, we are pleased to inform you that the information regarding the registration fees is now available (for Europe see Regions 1 and 2 below).

Registration Fees

Paying the fee includes access to all sessions and events of IV WPSC, the Opening Reception Cocktail and four Luncheon tickets for Monday until Thursday as well as daily coffee breaks in the morning and snack breaks in the evening.

Does not include events hosted by special interest groups, mobile workshops and other tours.

For the fees there will be Regional Differentiations and distinctions between Early Bird, Ordinary and On Site Registration.

REGION 1: USA, Canada, European Union (except Greece), Norway, and Switzerland

REGION 2: Rest of Europe and Greece

REGION 3: Asia, Oceania, New Zeeland and Australia

REGION 4: Latin America (except Brazil) and Africa

REGION 5: Local participants (Brazil)

YOU CAN ACCESS MORE DETAILED INFORMATION IN HERE.

Please also note that, the extended deadline for abstract submission is October 19th, 2015.

Thanks in advance for spreading out these informations in your schools and among your colleagues.
Looking forward to seeing you all in Rio de Janeiro.

Dear Colleague,

We hope to see you in Évora, Portugal, September 2016, in the 1st World Congress on Silvo-Pastoral Systems:

http://www.silvopastoral2016.uevora.pt/

Silvo-Pastoral Systems in a changing world: functions, management and people

»» Focusing on silvo-pastoral systems.

»» Creating a fertile interdisciplinarity research context leading to progress in knowledge and new adaptative management solutions.

»» Bridging science to practice.

On behalf of the Organizing Committee, Teresa Pinto-Correia

SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS NOW OPEN: http://www.silvopastoral2016.uevora.pt/

Call for papers

“Niss(i)ology and Utopia: back to the roots of Island Studies”

ISISA (International Small Islands Studies Association) Islands of the World XIV Conference

In association with RETI (Excellence Network of Island Territories)

23 - 27 May 2016

Mytilini, Lesvos Island, Greece

On behalf of the Organizing Committee of the IV World Planning Schools Congress in Rio de Janeiro, may I remind you that the CALL FOR ABSTRACTS IS OPEN FOR ONE MORE WEEK ONLY.

The extended deadline for abstract submission is October 19th, 2015

So far more than 220 authors from more than 90 institutions have already submitted their abstracts.

The call for abstracts is available in detail by each track, so please click on tracks for descriptions.

To submit an abstract please enter the home page of the Congress site and click the LOGIN | REGISTER button on the top right side of the page. After registering you can submit your abstracts.

The procedures are explained in Call for Papers and Submissions

WAYS TO SUBMIT EXTENDED ABSTRACTS
The tracks accept proposals of extended abstracts for: (i) Individual submission (with several co-authors) for a particular track as oral presentation of a full paper (non peer review); and (ii) proposals for the collective organization of Roundtable/Panel within a track, which features contributions from several authors. (iii) Other modalities like Poster Presentation or Specially Convened Sessions – (a) academic only; (b) policy research only; and (c) academic and policy research - have to be combined directly with the co-chairs of the tracks. Those, who want to participate in these modalities, must be registered necessarily for attendance.

SUBMISSION RULES
All abstracts and papers presented must be written in English. Unfortunately, any other language will not be accepted.
The extended abstracts submitted may not have less than 4000 characters, approximately 700 words, not including bibliography and illustrations. It should be written in Word (.doc), with Times New Roman, size 12 with simple interline and justified margins.
All abstracts sent to the organizing committee which do not obey these limitations will not be considered for presentation, without obligation of the organizing committee to send any notification to the authors that violate this requirement.
Abstracts should contain a clear statement of the problem, objectives, methodology and main results and contributions.
In case of a submission of a Round Table/Panel it is necessary to inform, in the text of the abstract, names of colleagues and their institutional linkages from those who will participate.
Each author is entitled to present a maximum of two abstracts.

Please also note that, every five years when World Planning Schools Conference is held, AESOP does not hold its annual congress in Europe but instead joins the global planning community at the WPSCs. Therefore, in 2016 we will not be organising an AESOP congress in Europe and invite you all to join the WPSC2016.

Thanks in advance for spreading out these informations in your schools and among your colleagues.

Looking forward to seeing you all in Rio de Janeiro.

11th AFRICA-EUROPE Training Course for Youth Organisations   to be held between 8 November and 15 November 2015 Nairobi, Kenya   In the framework of the 7th African University on Youth and Development The training course aims...

11th AFRICA-EUROPE Training Course

for Youth Organisations

to be held between 8 November and 15 November 2015

Nairobi, Kenya

In the framework of the 7th African University on Youth and Development

The training course aims to:

• strengthen the role of youth organisations as civil society actors and enable youth to organise and take action;
• reinforce its political participation in Africa-Europe co-operation;
• promote the global citizenship of young people in Europe and Africa.   

All information at http://www.aeyco.com/opportunities/view/3317/call-for-participants-11th-africa-europe-training-course-for-youth-organisations

Dear colleagues!

The Department of Human Geography and Regional Studies, the School of Geology, Geography, Recreation and Tourism, V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University (Ukraine) invites you to take part in the International Scientific and Practical Conference «Region-2015: Optimal Development Strategy» and to publish your articles in the scientific journal «JOURNAL OF HUMAN GEOGRAPHY», included in the scientometric base Index Copernicus. The information letters are in the attached files.

The web-site of the journal: http://hgj.univer.kharkov.ua/index.php/en/

If you have any questions, please, write to the following e-mails:

This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. – on publishing theses to the conference.

This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. – on the publishing manuscripts in the journal.

The web-site of the department:

 http://soc-econom-region.univer.kharkov.ua/index.php?lang=en

Sincerely, Ludmila Niemets,

Head of the Department of Social and Economic Geography and Regional Studies, School of Geology, Geography, Recreation and Tourism, V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University

Building bridges in regional science

2016 conference participation support

The RSAI will facilitate the participation of researchers from low-income and lower-middle-income economies (as defined by the World Bank:  http://data.worldbank.org/about/country-and-lending-groups#Low_income) at the three largest Regional Science Conferences in 2016: World Congress (May), PRSCO( July),  ERSA (August) and NARSC (November).

The RSAI will provide a subsidy of USD 500 (or the equivalent in other currencies) to selected researchers. This is likely to cover the conference registration fee and some local travel costs. Alternative means of financing will have to be sought for international travel and accommodation.

Only one author of a submitted paper presentation proposal can apply for a subsidy.

Interested researchers should upload a two-page CV plus a one-page motivation –  including a budget with proposed sources of funding of the conference-related registration, travel and accommodation costs – within 30 days of receiving confirmation of the acceptance of the researcher’s abstract by the conference organizers.

Applications can be uploaded using the following link.

Applicants should have had a paper accepted for presentation at the conference.

All applications will be reviewed by the RSAI Executive, who will make a decision on the candidates to fund. Their decision will be final.