Department of Regional Economics and the Environment Faculty of Economics and Sociology University of Lodz Lodz, Poland.

Position description:

The Department of Regional Economics and the Environment at the University of Lodz is willing to support two applications in the framework of the Ulam fellowship program (https://nawa.gov.pl/naukowcy/program-im-ulama) of the National Agency for Academic Exchange (https://nawa.gov.pl/nawa) in Poland, to carry out research. The successful applicants will work under the supervision of Prof. Mariusz Sokołowicz (http://www.region.uni.lodz.pl/zespol/dr-hab-mariusz-e-sokolowicz-prof-ul-kierownik-katedry/) and Prof. Bahman Amiri (http://www.region.uni.lodz.pl/zespol/dr-bahman-jabbarian-amiri-prof-ul/ .

The research topics are as follows:

1. Urban and Regional Economics
2. Spatial studies on institutions
3. Choice architecture in local governments
4. Ecosystem services and landscape metrics
5. Hydro-environmental regionalization

The position is a 24-month appointment, and the successful applicant will receive a monthly scholarship of PLN 10,000 (roughly equal to Euro 2,190) for the duration of the stay and a mobility allowance that will cover the costs of organizing the trip.

The positions can be tenured in October 2022.

Required qualifications:

• Ph.D. in economics, environmental planning, hydrology, geography, landscape ecology, and or related disciplines;
• Strong quantitative and analytical skills;
• Ability to write grant proposals and high-quality scientific papers
• Excellent written and oral communication skills

Application:

Applications should include a cover letter, full CV, brief statement of research accomplishments and a research plan outlines, and contact information for three references. Full application should be submitted as a single PDF file via email at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

O Núcleo de Economia Regional e Urbana da Universidade de São Paulo (Nereus) completa 20 anos em 2022 e presenteia os municípios da Serra da Mantiqueira com um Seminário Internacional onde ocorrerá a apresentação de 15 trabalhos de pesquisadores de Universidades do Brasil e do exterior.

Os trabalhos tratam de temas relacionados aos desenvolvimentos econômico, social e do meio ambiente. Serão analisadas as evoluções recentes das economias dos municípios da Serra da Mantiqueira e, também, as perspectivas e oportunidades para os próximos anos.

Acompanhe de perto e discuta com os mais destacados pesquisadores na área de Desenvolvimento de Economias Regionais. Saiba quais são as perspectivas para os municípios da Serra da Mantiqueira nos próximos anos e entenda a heterogeneidade do desenvolvimento na região.

Seguem os links da transmissão online do Seminário Internacional – A Economia da Mantiqueira.

09/03 – Manhã: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsjK7A_9zCI

09/03 – Tarde: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1Txz-RdHwI

10/03 – Manhã: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkMrTImx_N4

O programa completo dos trabalhos encontra-se no documento em anexo.

As inscrições para participar do evento são gratuitas e as atividades ocorrerão nos dias 09 e 10 de março de 2022 no Campus da Universidade Federal de Itajubá (Unifei).

Vagas limitadas - Faça sua inscrição para o evento no link: 

https://www.even3.com.br/Nereus_Mantiqueira 

Apoiam o evento:

Local das palestras: Av. BPS, 1303 – Auditório Aureliano Chaves – IEPG – Unifei. Itajubá – MG.

International conference on Regional Sustainable Development on 21st and 22nd of July 2022 in Danang (Vietnam), collaborating with the Institute of Social Sciences of the Central Region (ISSCR) and EM Normandie Business School. The main topics of the conference are:

1. Sustainable Agriculture
2. SMEs and Sustainable Entrepreneurship
3. CSR and Sustainable Development
4. Sustainable Supply Chain, Logistics, and Transportation
5. Sustainable Innovation

Note that a special issue of the Journal of Asia Business Studies is associated with the conference.

For more details, please see the Call for papers attached or visit the conference website: http://aissc.org.vn/index.php/en/ 

Regional Science Policy & Practice (RSPP)

CALL for Special Issue: UKRAINE: GEOPOLITICAL REALITIES AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT PERSPECTIVES

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

• The deadline for paper submission is December 31, 2023; however, early submissions are welcome and encouraged.
• The contributors are required to follow the authors’ guidelines, available at: https://rsaiconnect.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/17577802/homepage/forauthors.

Ukraine became independent in 1991 after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Like any country in the post-Soviet area it started to develop its own foreign policy, to conduct structural reforms to foster its economic development and it transformed to the key actor for ensuring internationally security, stability and prosperity. After the Euromaidan (2013) and the Revolution of Dignity (2013-2014), Ukrainian society clearly defined the main directions of its foreign policy leading to the incorporation of the European aspirations in the Constitution of Ukraine in 2019. However, independence of Ukraine became challenged by internal difficulties in reforming its political, economic and legal systems and external threats.

By addressing the internal developments in the country and external policies towards it by other international actors from an inter/multi/transdisciplinary perspective, this special issue addresses the new political, economic and societal transformations in Ukraine aimed at increasing stability, security and sustainable development inside the country, on the European continent and worldwide. Ukraine is trying to overcome different challenges caused by the geopolitical situation, geographical position and economic development, which cause many difficulties for achieving positive outcomes in economic and societal transformation processes internally and externally, especially in the cooperation with neighbouring countries. However, these challenges create new opportunity windows for deep and comprehensive internal transformations leading to the modernisation of all spheres of socio-economic and political life. These new opportunities cover such areas, but are not limited to good governance, strengthening democracy and capacities of political institutions, supporting regional development, ensuring resilience while reaching the sustainable development goals.  

It aims, therefore, to bring together papers on theoretical and empirical research results on Ukraine from the multidisciplinary perspectives of economy, governance, institutions, culture/identity/history, international relations, European integration, human security, political science, society and democracy, or environmental issues and how to connect them with the sustainable development and regional development.

Below are some examples of topics relevant for the special issue on Ukraine: geopolitical realities and regional development perspectives:

• Historical Analysis of Evolving Political Geographies and Geoeconomics;
• Actors, Institutions and Commitments: General Characteristics of the International Cooperation Practices of Ukraine;
• War/Conflict in the East of Ukraine: Looking for Multidisciplinary Solutions and Overcoming Challenges;
• Content Analysis of Media on the Conflict in the East of Ukraine and the Annexation of Crimea;
• Economic Development and Striving for Competitive Advantages on Global and Regional Markets;
• Going Digital: Ukrainian Perspectives on Digitalization of Public and Private Life;
• Ukrainian migration: economic, social and legal perspectives;
• Social Development and Spatial Integration in Ukraine;
• Regional Development in Ukraine: Internal and External Dimensions;
• Ukraine in the Baltic-Black Sea Region;
• Walls or Links of European Design;
• Russian Policies towards Ukraine;
• Ensuring Security, Stability and Resilience: Ukrainian and Global Perspectives;
• Tackling Environmental Issues: EU Green Deal and Combating Environmental Degradation;
• Transformation of Public Governance in Ukraine: Lost between European Perspectives and Soviet Legacy;
• Improving Energy Security in Ukraine for Boosting Economic Development and Stability;
• Ensuring Rule of Law in Ukraine: Trends, Achievements and Difficulties;
• EU and Ukraine: Challenge to Integrate;
• Boosting Innovations in Ukraine: The Role of Education, Research and Development policies;
• Overcoming COVID-19 in Ukraine: Reforming Public Health Sector.

By this special issue, we intend to contribute to a better understanding of geopolitical realities and regional development perspectives of Ukraine, focussing on processes, activities, linkages with the various actors and policies with high relevance for evidence-based policymaking.

NOTICE:

All submissions will undergo the double blind peer review process that is generally applied for the journal. To submit a manuscript, you will register and submit your paper online at: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/rspp. When making your submission, you have to indicate at the cover letter that is for the Special Issue entitled “Ukraine: geopolitical realities and regional development perspectives”.

SELECTED REFERENCES:

Workshop on “Chinese Migration, Diaspora and Mobility”

Pembroke College, Cambridge, 20 April 2022 (9am - 5pm)

China is currently experiencing a rapid and dramatic urbanisation process, with significant population movements between rural, semi-rural and urban areas, between large metropolitan areas, and to and from other countries. These migratory movements have in turn influenced institutional reforms, urban housing, and labour markets in China, and generated social dynamics. Sometimes heightened by policy changes and social constraints. International movements of students and workers, and a growing Chinese diaspora abroad, have also resulted in social, economic, and cultural changes both at home and within the diaspora.

The aim of the workshop is to highlight new research on the topic of human mobility within and to and from China, including the drivers of migration, outcomes for migrants and non-migrants, inequalities arising from migration processes, and the impact of migration on housing, labour markets, access to services and welfare, education, and crime, as well as economic growth in both urban and rural areas. Of particular interest are papers using innovative qualitative or quantitative research methods, new data sets, comparative case studies, and those discussing policy experimentation at the national, regional or city scale.

The workshop will take place in a hybrid format, with in-person presentations in Cambridge, and the possibility to join in with the discussion remotely via Zoom. There is no fee for attending the workshop, and meals and refreshments will be provided. There are also travel and accommodation bursaries available for presenters.

Authors are invited to submit an abstract by 18 February 2022 using this link: https://forms.gle/acdTwhhCMTaHh7hw8

Presenters and attendees will receive notification of acceptance by 1 March 2022. There will be a prize for the best presentation, awarded at the end of the workshop. 

The workshop will also tie in with a special issue on the same topic by the academic journal Regional Science Policy and Practice (RSPP), and presenters and attendees will have the opportunity to publish a paper in the special issue (subject to the usual peer review process).

Workshop organisers:

Sponsors:

More information at: https://workshopcambridge.weebly.com/

Graduate students enrolled in Ph.D. programs in North America are encouraged to apply for the Twenty-First Benjamin H. Stevens Graduate Fellowship in Regional Science, administered by the North American Regional Science Council of the Regional Science Association International (NARSC-RSAI).

https://www.narsc.org/newsite/awards-prizes/stevens-graduate-fellowship/applications/

Dear NECTAR colleagues,

Due to the travel restrictions and general uncertainty related to covid-19, the organizers of the workshop "Smart Transport for Sustainable Tourism" have  decided to postpone it to September 12-14 (Évora, Portugal). 

See the new call attached.

Best regards

--

Ana Condeço-Melhorado

NECTAR Secretary

https://www.nectar-eu.eu/

Call for Papers and Special Session Proposals

The APDR invite regional scientists, economists, economic geographers, urban planners, policy makers, and researchers of related disciplines to participate in the 29th APDR Congress with the theme "Islands and peripheral territories: challenges in a moving geography and changing "climate" patterns" that will be held from 29 to 30 of June, 2022, at University of Madeira (Colégio dos Jesuítas), Funchal, Madeira.

Islands economies (and peripheral areas in general) have been coping with a number of challenging issues, notably the overdependence on a few key sectors such as the tourism industry and an oversized and over subsidized public administration sector. To a certain extent, islands economies can be considered as a success story, because they succeed in defined the parameters of the overall image and political discourse being conveyed abroad by the local government and ONG at the international fora. However, the current trends in terms of climate change, natural disasters, and reduced mobility, change of the epicentre of the global economy from the North Hemisphere to the Pacific Basin and anti-globalization voices put the current narrative under pressure. A new paradigm is needed to provide a new understanding to the challenges faced by such regions. The overall aim of this conference is to bring ideas, theoretical approaches and examples of potential solutions.

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

Regular Sessions:

Deadline for Special Session proposals: March 13, 2022. Proposals should be sent by email to the secretariat of the Congress (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

Deadline for Abstracts submissions: May 8, 2022. Authors should submit their abstracts through online submission system by following the link https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/APDR2022.

All information at the congress website: http://www.apdr.pt/congresso/2022

Looking forward to meeting you in Funchal!

The Organizing Committee and the Board of APDR 29th APDR Congress