Call for Papers
URBE
URban freight and BEhavior change
October 1st - 2nd 2015, Rome, Italy
Conference organized by Department of Political Sciences and Centre for Research on the Economics of Institutions, University of Roma Tre
Website: http://host.uniroma3.it/eventi/urbe
We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the URBE - URban freight and BEhavior change Conference to be held in Rome, Italy, October 1st-2nd, 2015. Researchers, practitioners, politicians and public authorities are invited to use the conference as a platform for knowledge-exchange and transfer.
The conference is endorsed by: 1) Center of Excellence for Sustainable Urban Freight Systems (CoE-SUFS), 2) World Conference for Transport Research Society’s SIGB5 - Freight Modelling (WCTRS), 3) Italian Society of Transport Economics and Logistics (SIET), 4) Italian Society of Transport Politics (SIPOTRA), 5) Italian Association of Regional Science (AISRE).
Aims and scope
URBE aims at identifying the behavioral game changers capable of modifying the present trends and pro-actively responding to the sustainability challenges urban freight distribution poses to modern cities given the role it plays in linking production, logistics and society.
The conference, taking a trans-disciplinary approach, focuses on the various alternatives capable of stimulating stakeholders’ behavioral change and engagement for a sustainable urban freight distribution. In more detail, the main topics relate to the behavioral pros and cons of: stakeholder involvement methodologies, advanced modeling techniques, innovative organizational structures, policy appraisal and evaluation techniques.
Please find below a non-exhaustive list of possible subjects to be addressed.
Stakeholder involvement methodologies Advanced modeling techniques |
Policy appraisal and evaluation techniques Innovative organizational structures Areas of concern and possible solutions |
The official language of the Conference is English.
Submission
We are now inviting submissions for conference presentations. Extended abstracts (max. 2 pages, please follow the instructions on the website) should contain all relevant information to allow the peer review process, giving an overview of: (1) main objectives and motivations, (2) topics covered and methodology, (3) results obtained/expected and conclusions.
The deadline for abstract submission is April 1st, 2015. Abstracts should be sent to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., and will be assessed by the scientific committee within a double-blind-review.
Journal special issues
The intention is to organize special issues of selected papers in appropriate journals depending upon a critical mass of good papers.
Timeline
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE | |
Chandra Bhat The University of Texas at Austin – USA Michael Browne University of Westminster - United Kingdom Ennio Cascetta Federico II University of Naples – Italy Laetitia Dablanc IFSTTAR – France Romeo Danielis University of Trieste – Italy Gerard de Jong University of Leeds - United Kingdom Francesco Filippi Sapienza University of Rome - Italy Hanno Friedrich Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) – Germany Rodrigo Garrido Diego Portales University - Chile Valerio Gatta (local organizer) Roma Tre University – Italy Stephane Hess University of Leeds - United Kingdom José Holguín-Veras Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute – USA Gernot Liedtke Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) – Germany Cathy Macharis Free University of Brussels – Belgium |
Edoardo Marcucci (local organizer) Roma Tre University – Italy Vittorio Marzano Federico II University of Naples – Italy Alan McKinnon Kühne Logistics University - Germany Sandra Melo Instituto Superior Tecnico of Lisbon – Portugal Agostino Nuzzolo Tor Vergata University – Italy Matthew Roorda University of Toronto – Canada Francesco Russo Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria – Italy Amanda Stathopoulos Northwestern University – USA Eiichi Taniguchi Kyoto University – Japan Lóránt Tavasszy Delft University of Technology – Netherlands Eva Valeri European Commission, JRC, Seville – Spain Thierry Vanelslander University of Antwerp – Belgium Xiaokun Wang Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute – USA Johan Woxenius University of Gothenburg – Sweden |
We look forward to receiving your submissions and seeing you on October 1-2, 2015 in Rome, Italy
Sincerely,
Local Organizing Committee
Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Website: http://host.uniroma3.it/eventi/urbe
Dear All,
ESEE 2015: Transformations
The 11th international conference of the European Society for Ecological Economics will take place in Leeds, UK from 30 June – 3 July 2015.
The conference topics include: post-growth economics; natural resources, ecosystem services and environmental quality; development, consumption and well-being; power, politics, institutions and the reality of achieving change; new business models and understandings of human behaviour.
Reminder: The deadline for early bird registrations is 22 March.
To register, go to http://www.esee2015.org/ and log on to the submission/registration system.
We look forward to welcoming you to Leeds in June.
Best regards,
Tim Foxon
(Chair, ESEE 2015 Organising Committee)
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Papers in Regional Science
Volume 94, Issue 1 Pages i–ii, 1–228
ISSUE INFORMATION Article first published online: 13 MAR 2015 | DOI: 10.1111/pirs.12138
EDITORIAL Two goals to reinforce our journal: Efficiency and modernization(pages 1–2) Roberta Capello Article first published online: 13 MAR 2015 | DOI: 10.1111/pirs.12164
ARTICLES Impact of the global crisis on spatial disparities in Russia(pages 3–23) Konstantin Gluschenko Article first published online: 10 JUN 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/pirs.12030 Markus Grillitsch, Franz Tödtling and Christoph Höglinger Article first published online: 5 AUG 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/pirs.12050 Creative clustering: The location of independent inventors(pages 45–65) Paulo Guimarães, Johnathan Munn and Douglas Woodward Article first published online: 5 AUG 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/pirs.12052 Interregional labour migration and real wage disparities: Evidence from Japan(pages 67–87) Keisuke Kondo and Toshihiro Okubo Article first published online: 7 JUL 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/pirs.12055 Fiscal decentralization and regional disparities: The importance of good governance(pages 89–107) Andreas P. Kyriacou, Leonel Muinelo-Gallo and Oriol Roca-Sagalés Article first published online: 2 AUG 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/pirs.12061 Xingjian Liu, Ben Derudder and Yaolin Liu Article first published online: 6 AUG 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/pirs.12060 International relocation of production plants in MNEs: Is the enemy in our camp?(pages 127–139) Jesús F. Lampón, Javier González-Benito and José M. García-Vázquez Article first published online: 7 JUL 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/pirs.12056 Paola Bertolini, Michele Lalla and Francesco Pagliacci Article first published online: 5 AUG 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/pirs.12042 Exploring the urban system of von Thünen's isolated state(pages 161–175) John B. Parr Article first published online: 15 JUL 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/pirs.12057 Size distributions for all cities: Which one is best?(pages 177–196) Rafael González-Val, Arturo Ramos, Fernando Sanz-Gracia and María Vera-Cabello Article first published online: 10 JUN 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/pirs.12037 J. Sebastian Leguizamon and George W. Hammond Article first published online: 28 JUN 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/pirs.12053 Defining and measuring urban regions: A sensitivity analysis(pages 219–226) Tina Haisch and Urs Müller Article first published online: 26 MAY 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/pirs.12043
BOOK REVIEW Handbook of Regional Science. – Edited by Manfred M. Fischer and Peter Nijkamp(pages 227–228) Daniela-Luminita Constantin Article first published online: 13 MAR 2015 | DOI: 10.1111/pirs.12160 |
Dear Sir / Madam,
Following the first announcement on the 3rd International Conference on Urban and Regional Economics we highly encourage you to register for the event hosted by University of Economics in Katowice, Poland in cooperation with European Regional Science Association – Polish Section.
Submissions should focus on:
•functional urban areas and relevant policies (conference focus theme) •innovation in cities •regional specialization •interactions in regional development •land use policy for cities and regions •EU regional policy and its impact on cities and regions •urban and metropolitan governance •economic resilience of metropolitan regions and agglomerations •urban and regional regeneration •urban and regional competitiveness and entrepreneurship •urban and regional public services and infrastructure
The conference will be held in Katowice on June 11-12, 2015 and will host keynote speaker - PROF. JULIE LeGALLO from UNIVERSITÉ DE FRANCHE-COMTÉ CRESE.
Should you know young and talented Ph.D. students, do let them know about the ERSA young researcher prize. Two best papers are to be awarded with fee waiver and travel / accommodation refund up to 200 EUR.
For further details see the attached call for papers and submit the registration form to the local organising committee.
Do not hesitate to contact us for any further assistance and feel free to distribute the information within your professional and scientific networks.
We look forward to welcoming you to Katowice in June 2015.
Yours sincerely
Local Organizing Committee
Adam Polko, Department of Spatial Economics | University of Economics in Katowice Artur Ochojski, Department of Strategic and Regional Studies | University of Economics in Katowice
Call for Papers
Conference on Urban Development in China
25-26th June, 2015
Suzhou, Jiangsu, P. R. China
Along its fast paced economic growth in the last decades, China went through a fast urbanization process since 1977, going from a mostly rural country to an urban society. While China is not the only emerging economy that went through a fast paced urbanization process, some specificities of the Chinese context lead to unique features and challenges. Perhaps one of the best well known feature of the Chinese economy is the household registration system, hukou, which, by limiting mobility of migrants (both rural-urban and urban-urban), affects agglomeration economies and urban growth. Furthermore, the hukou system, by limiting access to public services for migrants, resulted in a segmented urban labour market, where migrants are at a disadvantage relative to local resident, leading to increased income inequality within cities. Another feature of the Chinese economy that has affected urbanization is the reliance on public investment by both public companies and local governments. This has lead to excess public investment in some cities, leading to appearance of "ghost towns", and well as a housing bubble in other places. The current investment policy has also affected the urban structure, with some excessively large cities, particularly when compared with the next level cities, leading to increasing income inequality across cities and provinces. Demographic changes, driven by the one child policy, will be one of the major challenges that China will face in sustaining economic growth and urbanization. To address these issues, the Chines Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology and Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Construction have launched projects under several smart cities projects, to make cities more efficient and competitive through the use of technology.
We would like to invite the submission of papers for the 2 day conference, to bring together Western and Chinese researchers to discuss the past of future of urban development in China. Contributions in the following areas are especially welcomed:
Keynote Speakers:
A joint conference organized by:
Hosted by:
Organizers:
Dates:
Submissions:
Researchers interested in participating should submit an abstract (up to 500 words) and full paper by the 15th of April through the following website - http://events.digitalpapers.org/udc. The working language of the seminar will be English. Only papers written in English will be considered. Presenters will be informed of the decision by the 1st of May.
Travellers to China are reminded that they must obtain a travel visa.
The PDF version of Call for Papers can be downloaded here
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Call for Applications
NEW DEADLINE FOR APLLICATIONS: 16th of March 2015.
RSAI Summer Course, on the theme Interdisciplinary Analysis and Policies for Regional Sustainability, that will be held from the 1st till the 5th of June 2015 at the “Tezh Ler” Resort, Dilijan, Armenia.
http://www.armenia2015.regionalscience.org/applications.html
Estimados,
adjuntamos el call for papers para el Workshop sobre Sistema Regionales de Innovación que se desarrollará en la universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina.
A disposición
Daniel Comba
We invite researchers, irrespective of their institutional or geographical affiliation, to submit theoretical, applied or policy-oriented papers in any field of economics to our conference.
The conference will be held at the University of Azores, Campus of Angra do Heroísmo in Terceira Island, Portugal, on July 3-5, 2015.
To submit a paper, send an e-mail to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. attaching the paper in pdf format. The deadline is March 15, 2015.
*Submission guidelines*
Papers should be written in English. Please make sure you add an abstract (up to 600 words), keywords, and JEL classification codes to the title page.
*Plenary session*
The Keynote Lecture will be delivered by Sergio Rebelo (Northwestern University, USA)
*Important dates*
Paper submission: until March 15, 2015
Communication of decisions: April 15, 2015
Early registration: until May 31, 2015
Deadline for presenters' registration: May 31, 2015
Conference: July 3-5, 2015
Note: presenters should register by May 31 for their papers to be included in the final program.
*Organization*
Matters related to submissions and papers will be handled by the scientific committee
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For other matters, please contact the local organizers
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Scientific Committee:
Local Organizers:
- Elisabete Martins, ACDA/APDR, Portugal
- Emiliana Silva, University of Azores, Portugal
- Susana Sardinha, CEEAplA, Portugal
- Tomaz Ponce Dentinho, ACDA/APDR/ University of Azores, Portugal
The conference is hosted by the Department of Agrarian Sciences of the University of Azores and organized by ACDA - Associação para a Ciência e Desenvolvimento dos Açores.
Journal website: http://www.springer.com/economics/journal/10258
For further details, please check http://www.apdr.pt/PEJ2015/
Tomaz PONCE DENTINHO (Chair of the LOC and President of APDR), is welcoming you all to attend to the 55th ERSA Congress and 21st APDR Congress in Lisbon
The Regional Science Association International (RSAI), founded in 1954, is an international community of scholars interested in the regional impacts of national or global processes of economic and social change.