Call for Abstracts and Special Session Proposals

It is our pleasure to announce the 25th APDR Congress, to be held at the Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal, from July 5 to July 6, 2018.

Theme of the Conference:
Circular Economy, Urban Metabolism and Regional Development: Challenges for a Sustainable Future

The call for papers and Special Session Proposals is open and your participation is very welcome!

Themes of specific interest are:

RS01 - Conceptualisation and models in regional development
RS02 - Territorial development policies for circularity
RS03 - Strategies of Circular Economy
RS04 - Technological innovation, new products and business models
RS05 - Regional innovation, clusters and ecosystems
RS06 - Reverse cycles and innovation in logistics
RS07 - Sectoral policies and circularity
RS08 - Circular Economy and labour markets
RS09 - Circular Economy and promotion of territories
RS10 - Management of urban and peri-urban metabolism

RS11 - Energy production and consumption for a sustainable future
RS12 - Urban regeneration, real estate markets and Circular Economy
RS13 - Cities and spatial planning in the Circular Economy
RS14 - Management of resources and natural systems
RS15 - Conserve and sustainable use of the oceans, seas and marine resources
RS16 - Production, consumption and food waste in the context of the Circular Economy
RS17 - Circular Economy and Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)

Deadline for Special Session proposals: March 31th, 2018. Proposals should be sent by to the secreta-riat of the Congress (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

Deadline for Abstracts submissions: May 6th, 2018. Abstracts should be submitted electronically, using the platform available on the Conference website: https://events.digitalpapers.org/apdr2018/

All information at the congress website: http://www.apdr.pt/congresso/2018/

Looking forward to meeting you in Lisbon!

The Organizing Committee and the Board of APDR
25th APDR Congress

VERY GOOD NEWS FROM PIRS AND RSPP

An increase of 10k download likely to be attributed to the publication of articles in the Brexit special issue of PIRS.

RSPP exceeded 10k downloads for the first time in 2017. We must follow the example of PIRS responding on time to the emerging issue of the territory.

Call for Papers - Conference on Rural-Urban Linkages for Sustainable Development:  An Economic Geography Perspective

Sponsored by the International Geographic Union (IGU), Commission on the Dynamic of Economic Spaces, July 19 – 21, 2018 Innsbruck (Austria)

More information available at https://www.uibk.ac.at/congress/igu-rural-urban-linkages/

Southern Regional Science Association
2018 Barry M. Moriarty Graduate Paper Competition
Papers due by February 15, 2018

(Authors must also meet the January 16, 2018 abstract submission deadline).

If you did not make the January 16th abstract submission ACT TODAY!

The Southern Regional Science Association (SRSA) awards an annual cash prize to the graduate student submitting the best paper in Regional Science. In 2018, the prize is $1,000.
Papers on any Regional Science topic may be entered into the competition. Papers should represent original research. Maps, illustrations and other audio-visual materials should be designed or constructed by the author.
The following qualifications apply:

• The student must be enrolled full-time at an accredited academic institution for some or all of the year following March 2018. The graduate student must still be enrolled at the time his or her paper is submitted;

• The student must be the sole author and must be sponsored by a member of SRSA; and

• The winning student must present the paper at a session of the 57th Annual Meeting of the SRSA, March 15 - 17, 2018, in Philadelphia, PA, using the award to defray costs of attending.

Papers should be double-spaced, no more than 25 pages in length, and written in the style of the SRSA’s Review of Regional Studies. A cover page should include the paper's title and abstract and, for both the author and the sponsor, full names, addresses, telephone numbers, and e-mail addresses.
A copy of the paper must be submitted via e-mail to Steven Deller (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.), 2018 Graduate Paper Honors Chair.

Deadline for submission: February 15, 2018.
(Authors must also meet the January 16, 2018 abstract submission deadline).

Please share with others who might be interested.

Information on the Southern Regional Science Association is available at: https://www.srsa.org/

  2018SRSA Conference
March 15 – 17, 2018 
Philadelphia, PA

RPER n.º 47 is available online!

Content

"Regional Convergence and Productive Structure in Iberian Regions: A Spatial Approach"
Elías Melchor-Ferrer

"Presión Demográfica Sobre el Recurso Hídrico y Su Relación Con la Sostenibilidad de los Destinos Turísticos. Un Análisis Para el Sur de Ecuador"
Priscilla Massa-Sánchez, Juan Arteaga-Marín, Christian Viñán-Merecí, Valentín-Alejandro Martínez-Fernández

"Principales Causantes de la Actitud de los Residentes: Comparativa entre Dos Destinos de Playa"
José Ramón Cardona, Daniel Álvarez Bassi, María Dolores Sánchez-Fernández

"Promoção Turística nos Websites Municipais: O Caso da Região do Douro (NUT III)"
Gonçalo Mota, Nieves Losada

"A Financeirização das Famílias e a Desigualdade Socio-económica e Territorial em Portugal"
Raquel Ribeiro, Ana C. Santos

"Redes de Inovação Territoriais na Região de Aveiro - Os Instrumentos de Apoio da Agência de Inovação (ADI)"
Ricardo Fernandes, Rui Gama, Cristina Barros

http://www.apdr.pt/siteRPER/numeros/RPER47/RPER47.pdf

http://www.apdr.pt/siteRPER/PT/revista.html

The December 2017 NARSC Newsletter is available. It can be found at http://www.narsc.org/newsite/home/blog/.

Dear professors and fellow graduate students,

West Virginia University will host the 11th Annual Midwest Graduate Student Summit on Applied Economics and Regional and Urban  Studies (AERUS) on April 7-8, 2018.  

The summit is designed for graduate students to initiate intellectual dialogue on a wide array of research areas and spur future research collaborations among participating scholars in a welcoming environment.  Work at any stage will be accepted, including completed research, research in progress, and research idea/proposal.

Attached you can find our call for abstracts.  Please help us circulate this message among your colleagues and students.

The deadline for submission is February 23rd. Please submit your abstracts to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Guidelines for submission can be found on the official AERUS website: https://sites.google.com/view/aerus2018

If you have any questions, please contact us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., or visit our website: https://sites.google.com/view/aerus2018 

Regards,

AERUS 2018 Local Organizing Committee

Dear NECTAR colleagues,

Please find enclosed the call for papers of NECTAR CL7 – Social and Health Issues in Transportation.  The workshop will take place in Utrecht (NL), during June 7-8, 2018.

Extended deadline February 15, 2018

Kind regards 

--

Ana Condeço-Melhorado

NECTAR Secretary

12th RSAI Congress, Goa, India

Spatial Systems: Social Integration, Regional Development and Sustainability

Less than five days left... Submit NOW!

Last Call! The deadline to enter submissions for RSAI2018 is approaching quickly.

Don't miss this chance to submit your abstract  by this coming Sunday 21 January.

You can follow updated information at the congress website: www.regionalscience.org/2018worldcongress

or contact us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

With warmest regards,

The Organizing Committee

GRAN SASSO SCIENCE INSTITUTE: 3 POSTDOC POSITIONS IN URBAN STUDIES AND REGIONAL SCIENCE, DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION: MARCH 2ND.

The positions are for two years and the monthly (net) salary is 2360 euros. We are particularly interested in applied economists, economic geographers and urban planners.

For details and applications please visit: http://www.gssi.it/postdoc