The Department of Applied Economics at Oregon State University is seeking to fill two tenure-track faculty positions at the rank of Assistant Professor with a start date of September 2022.  The focus areas for the faculty positions are:  agricultural production including agricultural and food business management; and regional/community economic development.  Both positions afford the opportunity to integrate an extension/outreach emphasis with applied research and teaching and build working relationships with other faculty across campus and across the state.  The positions are addressing a broad range of issues relevant to Oregon’s urban and rural communities and innovative agricultural and food industries and are supported from the Oregon cooperative extension service, the College of Agricultural Sciences  experiment station research, and university teaching resources.

Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Applied Economics.  Focus area:  agricultural economics and agricultural and food economics and business management.  The Department of Applied Economics at Oregon State University seeks to hire a faculty member at the rank of Assistant Professor, tenure-track, to engage in extension, outreach and applied scholarship, and teaching with a strong emphasis on food and agribusiness economics and management and/or agricultural production.  Position posting: https://jobs.oregonstate.edu/postings/110147.

Assistant Professor (tenure-track) Applied Economics.  Focus area:  Regional and Community Economic Development. The Department of Applied Economics at Oregon State University seeks to hire a faculty member at the rank of Assistant Professor, tenure-track, to engage in extension/outreach, research and teaching in the area of regional and community economic development including applied policy analysis .This is a faculty position with significant responsibility in developing an integrated extension and research program to address sustainable development using economic foundations, quantitative methods and data-informed analytics.  Position posting: https://jobs.oregonstate.edu/postings/110134. 

Priority consideration:  search committee will review applicants starting December 15, 2021. Full consideration:  submit application materials by January 15, 2022.  Please email search committee chair Susan Capalbo at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with position-related questions.

Oregon State University's 2019-23 strategic plan (SP4.0): Transformation, Excellence and Impact articulates the university’s distinctive focus on academic excellence in all aspects of learning, discovery and engagement. Faculty are committed to innovation and collaboration with other faculty and students within their department and across the university.  Outputs and impacts from faculty efforts to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion are included in promotion and tenure dossiers. OSU is also committed to addressing the needs of faculty, including  dual career and spousal accommodations. For further information about our commitments to well-being and healthy work-life opportunities please visit our resource page

The College of Agricultural Sciences is committed to enhancing student success by engaging students in quality academic, research, internships, global studies, and other experiential learning opportunities. Positions with primary responsibility for extension and outreach are likewise committed to learner success through programming appropriate for diverse audience.

Dear RSAI members,

I hope this email finds you well.

I am pleased to write you to send you the newest issue of the RSAI Newsletter (download). This marks another step forward for our association. On the one hand, it lands on your desks while the first in-presence meeting of the North American Regional Science Council in two years is taking place in Denver, Colorado. Moreover, it is also the first issue of the newsletter co-edited by Mina Akhavan, whom the RSAI Council chose to join Martijn Smit in drafting this important vehicle of information for our members. Welcome Mina!

Enjoy the read, and please do not hesitate to get in touch with Martijn (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) and Mina (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) to propose new material for the newsletter.

Kind regards,

Andreas Diemer is chosen as the winner of the RSAI dissertation award in 2021 for his work "Essays in the Spatial Economic Analysis of Social Interactions."

The dissertation develops an interdisciplinary approach to identify the role of social networks in determining economic outcomes of both people and places, and discusses how social and geographical spaces interact to shape the fortunes of individuals and regions, using big data.

The committee found his dissertation to be novel and creative in the research framework, analysis and implications.

He received his Doctorate from London School of Economics, and was supervised by Professor Simona Iammarino and Prof. Michael Storper. Dr. Diemer is now at Swedish Institute for Social Research.

Congratulations!

52nd Regional Science Conference

on

Resurgence of Regions

To be held at

The Institute of Development Studies Kolkata (IDSK), Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Call for papers for the

RSPP Special Session on

Sustainable Development of Afghanistan

by

Abdul Shaban

Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai and

Rohina Zaffari

University of Kabul, Kabul

Human capital, democracy, peace, economic openness, and physical resources play determining role in the development of any country or region. Afghanistan, a country with about 39 million population, is endowed with enormous natural resources. The country is located on the crucial crossroad of China, India, Central Asia, and the Middle East. Notwithstanding its geopolitical significance and the rich mineral resources, the political and social instabilities have acted as barriers to the economic development of the country. The war over the years and conservative social practices have kept Afghanistan economically deprived. It is not surprising that today’s Afghanistan is one of the least developed countries of the world. Scarce data reveal that about 38% of the population of the country lived below the poverty line in 2010, and per capita income was only US $461 in 2020. Because of war and poverty, the net migration in 2020 was -315 thousand.

Given, the difficult political history and development situation, Afghanistan requires deeper analysis of its existing situation and human practices to learn and track itself on the path of sustainable development. The major challenge before the country is how to evolve a war-torn economy into a peaceful, prosperous, and sustainable economy?

This proposed special session will attempt to understand the possibilities of development of Afghanistan in the context the regional history and current realities, with the following major subareas (though not limited to),

• From war to peace, prospects for regional development in Afghanistan
• Regional philosophy of peace and development and spatial practices
• Economic structure and potentials of growth
• Inequality, poverty, and potential for sustainable community development
• The role of trade, especially the regional trade (India, Pakistan, China, Iran, and Central Asian Countries), and investment in development,
• Urban centres, regional growth (including rural-urban), and development
• Educational Institutions, skills, and human capital
• Women and development
• Sustainable Development Goals in the Regions of Afghanistan

Submission of abstract for the special session

For the special session, we invite an abstract of 250-500 words from prospective authors highlighting the research problem, data, methods, major findings, and policy suggestions. The last date of submission of the abstract is 25 November 2021. Author(s) of papers will be communicated about the suitability of their abstracts, with suggestions if any by 23th November 2021. This Special Session will be held online on 10th December 2021

The authors presenting paper in this special session will have an opportunity to submit their paper for special issue of the Journal Regional Science Policy & Practice. For details see,

https://regionalscience.org/index.php/news/journals/item/2872-rspp-call-for-papers- special-issue-on-sustainable-development-of-afghanistan.html

The abstract can be emailed to  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with copy (cc) to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Please mark in Subject Line “Abstract for RSPP Special Session”

The authors of the abstracts will be requested to register for the conference once their abstract is accepted.

https://forms.gle/DZs66yTYvDKyZYTT8 

The conference will be held in online mode.

Cornell’s Department of City and Regional Planning is hiring an Assoc. Dean for Diversity and Inclusion

https://jobs.acsp.org/job/aap-associate-dean-for-diversity-and-inclusion/58942593/

Cornell’s Department of City and Regional Planning is pleased to announce two tenure track Assistant Professor (or early stage Associate Professor) positions at Cornell.  One position is part of a Cohort hire on Social Justice and Equity, and the other position is a collaboration with humanities to address Planning in the Digital Realm.   

The  full job descriptions are found at the links below.

• Social Justice and Equity - Cohort https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/20244
• Planning and the Digital Realm - CIVIC  https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/20253

If a candidate wishes to be considered for both jobs, they must apply separately for each. Review of applications will begin on Nov 22, 2021.

Please find enclosed the call for papers to a workshop of NECTAR Cluster 4 which will be held at Université Gustave Eiffel, Marne-la-Vallée, France, March 17-18 2022. The workshop is about "Teleworking, commuting and the housing market in the post COVID19 era".

Also note that the meeting can be combined with an UERA Thematic Working Group on Accessibility that is planned the day before the event, March 16, on the quarter-hour city, also in Marne-la-Vallée.