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

Regional Science Policy & Practice (RSPP)

Call for papers for RSPP Special Issue on Pathbreaking trajectories: Socio-economic and Institutional de-peripheralization of marginal areas

In recent decades, economic and political inequalities between different macro-areas of the world have increased. Moreover, spatial inequalities within macro-areas have also grown. In this scenario, the relations between economy-politics-society at the local level have become more kaleidoscopic and entropic than in the second half of 20th Century.

Against this background, new scholarly and policy attention has been devoted to peripheral, marginal, or ‘left-behind’ areas, i.e., those territories in which the economy is struggling, institutions are producing vicious lock-in type cycles, social elites are strengthening themselves through extractive and appropriative orientations towards public goods, and de-anthropization and depopulation are growing. At the same time, it becomes urgent to investigate further the reverse processes, i.e., under what circumstances peripheral areas can extract themselves – at least partly – from their marginality.

The time is, indeed, ripe to solicit a comprehensive and in-depth international examination of a counterintuitive and unexpected puzzle: what are the economic, social and institutional mechanisms that make it possible for peripheral areas to regain centrality and vitality unexpectedly, even in a short time span?

This special issue aims to collect contributions concerning these unexpected phenomena of pathbreaking trajectories that is the economic and institutional de-peripheralization of marginal areas. To this end, we intend to bring together scientific contributions from interconnected research fields mainly related to geography, sociology, political science and public policy, political economy, and anthropology – shedding new light on the processes that the de-peripheralization of marginal areas rely upon. This reasoning is based on a general assumption according to which simple geographic features do not determine per se socio-spatial divisions and peripheralization. Peripheral areas are not natural; they emerge as a result of (not neutral) processes that imply hierarchical and power relationships. This has been emerging in a contradictory scenario. The world is increasingly global, but balkanized nonetheless; suffice it to say that new fractures between Northern and Southern Europe have occurred, intersecting with those between East and West Europe; North America-Central America; Rural and urban China, etc.

In other words, peripheral spaces are produced; they can be the outcomes of more or less intentional construction processes pertaining to institutional and political assets, relational patterns and social norms, and the unequal allocation of economic resources. It therefore becomes essential to observe how and if multidimensional socio-economic changes may occur within peripheral areas deconstructing their marginality. In the literature, the attempt of demarginalization of peripheral areas have been often analyzed with respect to top-down initiatives; that is initiatives coming from political center(s) and directed towards peripheries (i.e., development aid programs, exogenous investments, national and international cooperation to support disadvantaged places, etc.). By contrast, this Special Issue intends to systematize and promote those studies that assume an internal point of view to peripheral areas, focusing on autonomous dynamics that are mainly endogenous to those contexts.

Strictly speaking, we invite papers including, but not limited to, contributions on the following aspects:

1. Institutional changes making a given area or region less marginal. These dynamics occur through the displacement of institutional assets or their more or less intentional adaptation/conversion to some shifts of the socio-economic Therefore, we are soliciting papers that analyze the mechanisms leading to the formation in peripheral areas of political economy structures overcoming previous consolidated weaknesses so that the institutional assets become more robust.
2. Collective actions and 'self-governance' processes at the local level. Here we refer to papers investigating the determinants of the emergence in peripheral areas of “social molecules or groups” enhancing the governing of common and public goods that can help to enlarge social well-being and reduce economic In this respect, investigations are relevant about different types of government and production of ‘common goods’ emerging from below that assert themselves as local resistance entities against hegemonic forms of
3. Changes in the relational networks of elite groups. It can be said that how elites are interconnected internally and tied to economic and political spheres vary in different In this respect, marginal areas are often characterized by: i) restricted and mutually disconnected elite circles, with a predatory orientation, thus subjugating the economic and political spheres; ii) elite networks that can penetrate politics and economics circles, so to establish mutual dependence and patronage patterns of resource Hence, it is relevant to consider investigations reconstructing the dynamics through which relational patterns of the elites that are less hostile towards the general interest can be established. More precisely, we refer to papers investigating how and if elite networks marked by “embedded autonomy” – which favor a developmental orientation from the State, links between economy-politics-society in the light of mutual independence – occur.
4. Economic renewal and innovation. A way through which peripheral areas redeem themselves concerns the economic renewal of abandoned industrial sectors and spaces, the new emergence of craftsmanship sectors, and other types of economic Reorientations that result in lasting development processes are rare and difficult to To understand success cases in the light of examples of failure, there needs to be empirical investigations on how the strategies of political economies support the formation of new relational patterns between the actors of innovation and the different institutions at the spatial level. Also, evidence is needed on where and how spontaneous dynamics of economic renewal or industrial reconversion or revitalization emerge. Hence, the demarginalization processes of peripheries re-orienting their development path is a way to observe the social and political/institutional re-embedding of economic activities.

We invite papers from a range of perspectives, different disciplines, and from around the world. Contributions combining empirical investigations well framed in clear conceptual frameworks are well- suited for the Special Issue. Comparative papers suggesting some policy orientations will be also highly appreciated.

Authors are invited to submit an abstract by the 15th of April 2022 to Luca Storti (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.), Giulia Urso (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) and Neil Reid (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.). Abstracts should be between 250 and 500 words in length. We will inform everyone on or around May 1, 2022, as to whether their abstract has been accepted for the special issue. Full papers are expected by 1st  December 2022, and publication expected in fall 2023, following the peer review process.

Submission of complete papers

to: https://rsaiconnect.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/17577802, at the submission add in the cover letter that is for the Special Issue on: Pathbreaking trajectories: Socio-economic and Institutional de-peripheralization of marginal areas

Join us for the 61st Annual Meeting of the Southern Regional Science Association at the Sheraton Austin Hotel at the Capitol April 7-9, 2022 

Submit Individual Abstracts and Organized Sessions by February 1st at www.srsa.org 

Upcoming Deadlines 

Early Bird Registration Discount: February 1st 

Moriarty Graduate Student Paper Award: February 15th 

William H. Miernyk Research Excellence Medal: February 24th

Additional information can be found at 2022 SRSA Conference Website 

We are so excited to share the good news with you: RSAI is organizing its first film festival! If you are a Regional Science enthusiast, join the “Space Odyssey International Film Festival” and share your passion to our discipline. Choose one of the four awards categories to address to a wide audience of non-specialists different aspects of Regional Science:

My research in Regional Science:  Let us learn about your research! You could focus on the results of a specific paper, your thesis or dissertation, or even an ongoing research project or idea. Why not telling us about your preferred method and how you use it to understand regional science topics? It is your call!

What is Regional Science?: Can you answer this question by explaining to a broader audience what Regional Science is about? Or do you prefer addressing it to an initiated community? In any case, there are many people eager to learn what we do. Let them know!

Regional Science applications in the Global South: Spatial, interregional, and regional analytic approaches can be used and, if necessary, adapted, to realize much more probing attacks on regional and spatial problems in the developing world. Can you share specific case studies and/or applications of Regional Science methods to countries/regions in the Global South?

Regional Science sections and centers around the globe: Are you a proud member of a national section? Are you part of a research group engaged in the field of Regional Science? Why don’t you share the information about your section or research center? We bet many people in our community would benefit from that!

Below you can find the rules for participation in the film festival “Space Odyssey” and all the details about registration, requirements, participation and awards. For any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Awards categories: (i) My research in Regional Science; (ii) What is Regional Science?; (iii) Regional Science applications in the Global South; (iv) Regional Science sections and centers around the globe

My research in Regional Science:  Let us learn about your research! You could focus on the results of a specific paper, your thesis or dissertation, or even an ongoing research project or idea. Why not telling us about your preferred method and how you use it to understand regional science topics? It is your call!

What is Regional Science?: Can you answer this question by explaining to a broader audience what Regional Science is about? Or do you prefer addressing it to an initiated community? In any case, there are many people eager to learn what we do. Let them know!

Regional Science applications in the Global South: Spatial, interregional, and regional analytic approaches can be used and, if necessary, adapted, to realize much more probing attacks on regional and spatial problems in the developing world. Can you share specific case studies and/or applications of Regional Science methods to countries/regions in the Global South?

Regional Science sections and centers around the globe: Are you a proud member of a national section? Are you part of a research group engaged in the field of Regional Science? Why don’t you share the information about your section or research center? We bet many people in our community would benefit from that!

Rules

1. PURPOSE OF THE FILM FESTIVAL

“Space Odyssey” is the first International Film Festival organized by the Regional Science International Association (RSAI), which asks all participants to tell creatively their research, discovery, or new ideas related to the field of regional science.

The participants shall create a film of a maximum duration of 4 minutes and 55 seconds. All audiovisual techniques are accepted: from cartoon to keep/stop motion, from an amateur film (shot with the phone) to a professional movie.

The submission of the films starts on 15 February 2022 and ends at midnight on 15 June 2022. From 15 April 2022, in chronological order, the films will be uploaded to the platform channel “Space Odyssey - RSAI” before verification by the Organizing Committee.

2. WHO CAN PARTICIPATE

The film festival is open to students, graduates, researchers, professionals, and regional science enthusiasts of all ages, who may participate individually or in groups. All participants more than 35 years old must be members in good standing of one of the RSAI national associations. Those willing to participate that are not yet members can join RSAI through its universal membership (please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.). No membership requirement applies for participants less than 35 years old.

Each participant makes the RSAI and all those who help organize and conduct this competition festival, free from any liability, civil or criminal, related to the video film production and publishing. Each participant responds directly to any claim or request for damages by third parties concerning production, publishing, or distributing the video film.

By participating in the competition and submitting the videofilm, each participant confirms full and unconditional legal and material ownership of the same and the ownership of all the relevant authorizations given by all persons who, for whatever reason, are portrayed in the film clips.

3. TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF PARTICIPATION

Each participant can submit only one film. Participants must submit their films through the online registration platform (available soon), by midnight on 15 June 2022, CET. Primary and secondary school students and university and graduate students will have to declare their status in the registration form. The films published on the platform channel will be introduced and closed with an image of the festival, which will contain the logos of RSAI and its supranationals, and any sponsors.

By 15 July 2022, the selected finalist films will be announced for evaluation by the public. The Panel of Judges (see point 7), after verification of the voting process, will award the prizes during the Award Ceremony at the 61st ERSA Congress in Pecs, Hungary, 23-26 August 2022.

4. FILM REQUIREMENTS

The films will be used on the internet or in other public screenings and events, and it is advised to submit an HD version (1920x1080).

Films will adopt an aspect ratio 16:9. Allowed formats are: .MOV, .MPEG4, .MP4, .AVI, .WMV; Admitted Frame rate: 24, 25, 30, 48, 50, o 60; Audio codec: AAC-LC. The recommended video BitRate is 12 Mbps; The recommended audio BitRate is 384 Kbps.

The films can be submitted in any language. English captions must be provided in all films.

5. AWARDS

All prizes are awarded to the film independently from the number of authors. The prize for the best films Space Odyssey 2022, in each category, consists of US$ 500. In addition to the money prizes, there is a two-year free annual membership to RSAI (for all winning authors) and a congress fee waiver (one by winning film) to be used in 2023 for one of the RSAI congresses organized by one of its supranationals (NARSC, ERSA, PRSCO, LARSA). The possible mentions do not include a money prize.

6. DISCLAIMERS

Films that are found not eligible to be published or for which the authors have misconduct will be excluded or removed from the dedicated channel at any time.

Whenever the film on the paltform channel receives comments containing abusive or discriminatory content or which may offend or damage the reputation of others, the comments will be removed and blocked.

At any time, without that participants can make any claim, demand, or compensation, the RSAI reserves the right:

1. not to proceed with the awarding of prizes in case no film is considered suitable or appropriate to the criteria;
2. to proceed or not to proceed with the award if there is only one film in the competition;
3. to suspend the contest or not to award any prize.

7. THE EVALUATION PROCEDURE, THE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE, AND THE PANEL OF JUDGES

The evaluation procedure for awarding the prizes involves three stages: the first by the Organizing Committee, the second by the general public, and the third by a Panel of Judges. The members of these boards will not receive any remuneration for their activities.

All films will be evaluated for conformity to the festival requirements and suitability for online publication at the sole discretion of the Organizing Committee. Participants will be informed by email about the main steps of the video management: reception, non-conformity to requirements, requests for modifications/supplements.

In addition, the Organizing Committee will verify the absence of abusive or discriminatory content or that may offend or harm the reputation of others; irrelevant to the subject of the Video Film Festival (off-topic); promotion or supporting illegal activities or any form of crime; defamation or threats.

It will also verify the absence of personal attacks of any kind or any direct or indirect abusive comments directed at any ethnic group, political or religious minorities or specific or able to harm in any way the rights of every single individual; as well as the absence of details in the promotion of products or services, sexual content or sexual content links, trade promotion, and comments that present sensitive data in violation of the Privacy Act.

The Panel of Judges will validate the conformity of the voting process, confirming the selected films by the general public in each category and award the prizes.

During the Award Ceremony, the audience will have the opportunity to vote for their favorite candidate among the four winning films. The votes will be computed together with online votes to select the Jury Prize. The winner will receive an additional certificate.

8. USE RIGHTS

Participation in the Film festival implies the transfer of usage rights of the RSAI for any online and offline promotional purposes, including events, exhibitions, and conferences, related to the theme of regional science.

More specifically, the transfer of use and property rights involves the authorization to use the audiovisual material produced and involves the grant of a license, unlimited in time in favor of the RSAI, the product material and is inclusive, but not limited to, the following rights and powers: the right of publication, the right of reproduction and with any audiovisual support, correct transcription, editing, adaptation, processing and/or reduction, the right of communication and distribution to the public or in spheres and spaces open to the public non-profit, the right to publish in electronic format via the public network, the institutional intranets and social networks.

The Film Festival participants guarantee as of now:

1. audiovisual footage are originals and copyright free and/or legally bought materials, images, and sounds, for which participants have acquired all editorial rights, relieving as of now the RSAI from any claim made by third parties;
2. the audiovisuals created will not include any audio or visual element that has an advertising nature, according to current regulations, or otherwise unlawful under applicable regulations;
3. for individuals, possibly represented, and/or portrayed and/or interviewed in the audiovisual coverage will grant the right of exploitation of their image free of charge, assuming that the RSAI guarantee as of now that by that the use of their image rights will not result in injury or harm to the honor, reputation, and dignity of the person portrayed;
4. for individuals under age, possibly represented, and/or portrayed and/or interviewed in the audiovisual footage, participants will ensure the acquisition of consent from the parent or legal tutor, be it a natural or legal person, assuming that the right of exploitation of' picture of the child will be free of charge and that as of now the RSAI guarantee that the use of image rights will not result in injury or harm to the honor, reputation, and dignity of the child;
5. when submitting the audiovisual footage participants have been obtained by all subjects eventually recovered and/or present in the filming, all permissions, and clearances necessary and to be able to provide at the request of the RSAI the relevant proof documents no later than ten days from the request also made by email.

The films will not be returned and will be made available, in full or in part, by citing the authors as promotional materials of regional science culture and projections in the RSAI supranational and national sections, events fairs, and conferences.

Dear RSAI members,

I hope this email finds you well.

The new year starts with yet another initiative from the Association, promoted by its President, Prof. Eduardo Haddad. The RSAI is happy to announce the first edition of the RSAI Film Festival!

If you are a Regional Science enthusiast, join the “Space Odyssey International Film Festival” and share your passion to our discipline. You can choose one of the four awards categories to address for a wide audience of non-specialists different aspects of Regional Science:

My research in Regional Science: Let us learn about your research! You could focus on the results of a specific paper, your thesis or dissertation, or even an ongoing research project or idea. Why not telling us about your preferred method and how you use it to understand regional science topics? It is your call!

What is Regional Science?: Can you answer this question by explaining to a broader audience what Regional Science is about? Or do you prefer addressing it to an initiated community? In any case, there are many people eager to learn what we do. Let them know!

Regional Science applications in the Global South: Spatial, interregional, and regional analytic approaches can be used and, if necessary, adapted, to realize much more probing attacks on regional and spatial problems in the developing world. Can you share specific case studies and/or applications of Regional Science methods to countries/regions in the Global South?

Regional Science sections and centers around the globe: Are you a proud member of a national section? Are you part of a research group engaged in the field of Regional Science? Why don’t you share the information about your section or research center? We bet many people in our community would benefit from that!

Check the rules of the Space Odyssey here.

We look forward to watching your movies soon,

Kind regards,