RSPP Call for Papers

Special Issue on Modelling place attractiveness in the era of Big and Open data

From hedonic house price models on micro-scales to estimations of regional economic resilience on the macro-level, an understanding of the spatial distribution of amenities and the local composition of neighbours and jobs is of key importance. Some of the amenities or attributes that are commonly used in house price modelling, such as quality of housing, job- accessibility as well as proximity to railway stations or nature are relatively easy to measure and integrate in an empirical modelling framework. Factors relating to perceptions about neighbourhood characteristics, status or even architecture may be far more difficult to account for in a satisfactory way. Moreover neighbourhood characteristics, amenities and prices are partly linked by circular causation.

In recent years, an increasing amount of spatio-temporal data have been made publically and openly available for research, particularly in online map-databases and through API: s. This development enables researchers to connect weather, transport schedules, and detailed geocoded databases listing a wide range of amenities to data on urban form, street-networks and housing. The new data sources enable us to reformulate the way we measure and use amenities in econometric models.

In this call we invite presentations that problematize and develop methods and theories that can be used to better understand and define amenities in studies of housing markets or place attractiveness.

We specifically invite papers that address questions relating to:

• Combining hedonic price house price models and spatial analysis
• The study of temporal variations, including yearly, seasonal and diurnal patterns, of availability and attraction of amenities
• Theory and methods for the measure of accessibility to green and blue resources using spatial analysis and GIS
• Enriching models on mezzo- and macro-scales using disaggregate spatial and temporal data for the creation of variables.
• The use of international resources and classifications of data that could be integrated in comparative modelling.
• Usage of data from demographic and socio-economic micro-data registers, and the creation of bespoke neighbour statistics.
• Usage of Big data, smart data and qualitative methods
• Integrating mobility and the ambient population in measures of place attractiveness
• Architecture, space syntax, and urban form – what are the connections between the spatial form of the urban landscape and place attraction?
• The modelling of causal impacts rather than correlations, as well as of endogenous amenities
• Modelling approaches focusing on location choice and selection processes in view of idiosyncratic amenities.

Interested scholars are encouraged to submit an article in the platform of Regional Science Policy and Practice (https://rsaiconnect.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/17577802) until September 12, 2020. The papers will be on-line after accepted by a blind peer review process. The accepted paper will be compiled in a special issue.

Editors: John Östh (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.), Umut Türk and Jie Huang

RSPP Call for Papers on

Understanding the Spatial Dynamics of Social Unrest

According to Albert Hirschman (1970) when people or places perceive decreases in their quality of life they can respond in a number of ways. Individuals can take no action, stay and advocate for change, or exit and move to another place (Hoffmann, 2008). The exit of people, although worthy of ongoing study, has received profound treatment in migration studies. The exit of places through secession has been an interesting topic for regional science (McCann, 2018; Suriñach and Dentinho, 2019). The voice of populist or discontent voters has gained traction and is getting increased attention (Van-Leeuwen & Halleck-Vega, 2020).

There is a regional science literature on Social Unrest. Glaeser and Di Pasquali (1998), on the Los Angeles Social Unrest of 1992, used different explanatory variables, finding ethnic diversity, but not poverty, to be important. Collins and Margo (2007) analysed the negative consequences of Social Unrest on real estate values, demonstrating that it is better to take no action than to be protester. While protests may start in a particular place, they can quickly diffuse to other parts of a city or country, or even internationally.

To better comprehend protests it is important to get an improved understanding of the perceived spatial and social dysfunctions that ignite and fuel them, and result in them occurring in particular places at particular moments in time. Recently, we have witnessed protests in Baghdad, Paris, Barcelona, Hong Kong, Quito, Caracas, and the United States. In recent years, it seems that protests have not only become more frequent but damages they inflict have become much more considerable (Yeo, 2019).

The aim of this Call for Papers is to understand the spatial conditions that ignite protests and the spatial impacts of these events.

Interested scholars are encouraged to submit an article in the platform of Regional Science Policy and Practice (https://rsaiconnect.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/17577802) until November 22, 2020. The papers will be on-line after accepted by a blind peer review process.  

The RSPP Editorial Team

Call for Papers: “The potential of small-scale spatial data’’
Special Issue of the Review of Regional Research

Guest editors: Rolf Bergs (PRAC Bergs & Issa Partnership Co.) and Rüdiger Budde (RWI-Leibniz-Institute for Economic Research)

A major constraint in spatial analysis has been the information deficit at small-scale spatial level. The use of official area-wide regional data, as provided by Destatis, Eurostat or others, is hampered by the fact that these data, being resolved at NUTS 2 or NUTS 3 level, are too coarse to allow sufficiently precise estimates of certain relationships and impacts or a truly functional classification of space. This has often hampered policy to conclude with targeted interventions into the economy, social affairs, the labour market or the environment.

Since around 2010 the improved provision of small-scale data at neighbourhood level, grid data at one square kilometre resolution or satellite data at a resolution of few hectares has opened doors to stronger empirical precision. Meanwhile, many EU countries grant free access to grid data on population density. In some Nordic countries, further differentiated datasets at grid or small-scale level are available. In Germany, commercial data sets with certain socio-economic contents now supplement official statistics. In addition, there is ubiquitous free access to various sorts of satellite imagery such as e.g. VIIRS (14-bit night satellite images with rich socio-economic and environmental information). Those data processed with novel sophisticated spatial analysis methods, such as supervised or unsupervised spatial clustering or advanced spatial econometrics may largely contribute to evidence-based policy in various fields.

This special issue is intended to contribute to the required knowledge base and to provide new evidence on the advantages of small-scale spatial or grid data. Potential topics include (but are not limited to):
• Generation of small-scale neighbourhood and grid data
• Relevant statistical and econometric methods
• Functional segmentation of space
• Spatial heterogeneity and dependence
• Spatial interaction (e.g. rural-urban)
• Cross-sectional neighbourhood effects (education, health, labour market, investment, environment, living, wealth)
• Policy impact estimated with small-scale spatial data
• Epidemiological research of space

Submission via Editorial Manager opens 1 November 2020 and closes 31 March 2021

Expected publication: August 2022

Literature

Dubé, J, Legros, D (2014) Spatial Econometrics using Microdata, London and Hoboken: Iste and Wiley

Fernández-Vázquez E, Rubiera Morillon F (2012) Defining the Spatial Scale in Modern Regional Analysis: New Challenges from Data at Local Level. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer

van Ham M (2012) Neighbourhood Effects Research: New Perspectives. Dordrecht: Springer

Zhang J, Atkinson PM, Goodchild MF (2014) Scale in Spatial Information and Analysis, Boca Raton: CRC Press

ISSUE INFORMATION

Issue Information

Pages: 403-404 | First Published: 28 May 2020

FULL ARTICLES

Relatedness in the implementation of Smart Specialisation Strategy: a first empirical assessment

Diego D'Adda, Donato Iacobucci, Roberto Palloni

Pages: 405-425 | First Published: 16 November 2019

The impact of uncertainty on production relocation: Implications from a regional perspective

Jesús F. Lampón

Pages: 427-446 | First Published: 13 November 2019

The contribution of the spatial dimension to inequality: A counterfactual analysis for OECD countries

Luis Ayala, Javier Martín‐Román, Juan Vicente

Pages: 447-477 | First Published: 12 December 2019

The long‐term relationship between economic development and regional inequality: South‐West Europe, 1860–2010

Alfonso Díez‐Minguela, Rafael González‐Val, Julio Martinez‐Galarraga, M. Teresa Sanchis, Daniel A. Tirado

Pages: 479-508 | First Published: 14 November 2019

Open Access

Regional income and wave energy deployment in Ireland

Niall Farrell, Cathal O'Donoghue, Karyn Morrissey

Pages: 509-531 | First Published: 05 November 2019

Turnout, political strength, and cost efficiency in Spanish municipalities of the autonomous region of Galicia: Evidence from an alternative stochastic frontier approach

Enrique J. Buch‐Gómez, Roberto Cabaleiro‐Casal

Pages: 533-553 | First Published: 05 November 2019

Well‐being in European regions: Does government quality matter?

Jesús Peiró‐Palomino, Andrés J. Picazo‐Tadeo, Vicente Rios

Pages: 555-582 | First Published: 29 November 2019

The variegated role of proximities in acquisitions by domestic and international companies in different phases of economic cycles

Viktor Kvĕtoň, Aleš Bĕlohradský, Jiří Blažek

Pages: 583-602 | First Published: 17 January 2020

Winners and losers of rapid growth in Turkey: Analysis of the spatial variability of convergence

Burhan Can Karahasan

Pages: 603-644 | First Published: 12 December 2019

Are eco‐labels good for the local economy?

Cristina Bernini, Augusto Cerqua

Pages: 645-661 | First Published: 17 December 2019

Measuring spatial concentration: A transportation problem approach

Mauro Ferrante, Giovanni Luca Lo Magno, Stefano De Cantis, Geoffrey J.D. Hewings

Pages: 663-682 | First Published: 23 October 2019

Analytical framework for ex‐post evaluation of transport projects: Lessons learnt on retrospective CBA

Silvia Vignetti, Francesco Giffoni, Chiara Pancotti, Francesca Pagliara

Pages: 683-703 | First Published: 12 December 2019

Has highway construction narrowed the urban–rural income gap? Evidence from Chinese cities

Zhenxiong Huang, Hangtian Xu, Jianming Li, Nengsheng Luo

Pages: 705-723 | First Published: 04 January 2020

Economies of agglomeration and their relation with industrial productivity in Brazilian municipalities

Augusta Pelinski Raiher

Pages: 725-747 | First Published: 06 November 2019

Segregation and urban spatial structure in Barcelona

Miquel‐Àngel Garcia–Lopez, Rosella Nicolini, José Luis Roig

Pages: 749-772 | First Published: 21 October 2019

The impact of immigration on housing prices in Australia

Morteza Moallemi, Daniel Melser

Pages: 773-786 | First Published: 22 December 2019

Labour market effects of urban riots: An experimental assessment

Emmanuel Duguet, David Gray, Yannick L'Horty, Loïc du Parquet, Pascale Petit

Pages: 787-806 | First Published: 21 October 2019

Local financialization, household debt, and the great recession

Luke Petach

Pages: 807-839 | First Published: 13 January 2020

Open Access

The evolution of Zipf's Law for U.S. cities

Angelina Hackmann, Torben Klarl

Pages: 841-852 | First Published: 12 December 2019

UPDATE: APDR CONGRESS POSTPONED TO 10-11 SEPTEMBER 2020 (participation in place or on webinar).

Considering the evolving nature of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) outbreak, APDR has chosen to proactively postpone the APDR 2020 Annual Conference. The conference, previously scheduled for July 9-10, will now be held September 10-11, 2020.

Call for Papers

The APDR invite regional scientists, economists, economic geographers, urban planners, policy makers, and researchers of related disciplines to participate in the 27th APDR Congress that will be held from 10 to 11 of September, 2020, at the Centro Cultural e de Congressos de Angra do Heroísmo (CCCAH) in Terceira Island, Portugal. The participation can be in place or on webinar.

Beyond the various themes related to regional science this congress will focus on the emerging topic of Sustainable Management of the Sea for Sustainable Regional Development. With the enlargement of the ocean areas managed by countries it is important to know what are the aims? What the management tools are? And what the impacts are for human communities?

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

Special Sessions:

SS01 - Demografia e Economia dos Açores

SS02 - Creative tourism and local/regional development

SS03 - Transport Infrastructure, Accessibility and Regional Development

SS04 - The spatial management in the cultural landscape of Pico Island

SS05 - Variability and Change on Hydro-Meteorological Extremes and Hazards

SS06 - Estratégias de Desenvolvimento Regional nos Países Africanos de Língua Oficial Portuguesa (PALOP)

SS07 - Driving forces of Urban Transformation: data, models and tools

SS08 - Smart Specialisation and Place-based Innovation Policies for Sustainable Regional Development in Islands and Remote Territories

SS09 - Bioremediation as a solution for regional environmental issues

SS10 - Regional Drivers Effects and Policies of Coronavirus

Regular Sessions:

RS01 - Sustainable Management of the Sea for Sustainable Regional Development

RS02 - New Urban Agenda and Sustainable Development Goals

RS03 - Circular Economy at Regional, National and International Level

RS04 - Migration, Integration, Growth and Welfare

RS05 - Social, Economic and Environmental spatialized impacts of tourism and sports

RS06 - Spatial Aspects of the Green Deal

RS07 - Climate change mitigation and adaptation

RS08 - Spatial Allocation of Public Goods and Services

RS09 - Regional resilience and crisis

RS10 - Low-density regions and development

RS11 - Big and Available Data for regional science

RS12 - Geographic Information Systems and location modelling

RS13 - Systemic Analysis of Transport and Communication Networks

RS14 - Methodological approaches to Innovation and Entrepreneurship

RS15 - Operational Models for Cities and Regions

RS16 - Qualitative analysis of spatial interaction within space

RS17 - Spatial econometrics

RS18 - Ecological Economic Approaches and Methods

RS19 - Tools to analyse, evaluate and Manage Ecosystem Services

RS20 - Urban design and city competitiveness and sustainability

Deadline for Abstracts submissions: June 26, 2020. Authors should submit their abstracts through online submission system by following the link https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/APDR2020.

All information at the congress website: http://www.apdr.pt/congresso/2020

Looking forward to meeting you in Angra do Heroísmo!

The Organizing Committee and the Board of APDR

27th APDR Congress

The PhD call is available at the following web-site (along with the other GSSI PhD programs): https://applications.gssi.it/phd/docs/2020/Call%20PhD%20XXXVI.pdf  (Deadline: June, 11th, 2020).

A presentation of the program is available at the following web-site: https://www.gssi.it/education/regional-science-economic-geography

First Webinar of the Latin American and Caribbean Regional Science Association (LARSA).

El COVID-19 en América, la visión desde la economía regional.
Desafíos y oportunidades, para la salud y la economía de las regiones de América, desde la perspectiva y la visión de la economía regional.

- Primer Seminario Virtual Internacional de la Latin American and Caribbean Regional Science Association (LARSA).
- Organizada por la Sociedad Argentina de Economía Regional (SAER) y el Área de Extensión de nuestra Universidad.
- Auspiciado por la Regional Science Association International (RSAI).
  
Coordinador: Pedro Elosegui (Presidente SAER – BCRA - UMAI).
Panelistas:
- Regiones de Argentina: Carlos Seggiaro (Universidad Nacional de Villa Maria, Córdoba) y Alejandro Danón, Sebastián Mena y Andrés Ramasco (UNT, Tucumán).
- Regiones de América: Eduardo Haddad (USP, Nereus, Presidente de RSAI - Brasil), Serena Eréndira Serrano (CRIM, UNAM - México), Jaime Bonet (Banco de la República - Colombia), Santiago Pinto (Banco de la Reserva Federal de Richmond - USA), Patricio Aroca (Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez - Chile).
Invitado especial: Geoffrey Hewings (University of Illinois at Urbana, Champaign, RSAI) (en inglés).
Cierre: Políticas públicas y la relación Nación Provincias en Argentina por Roberto Arias (Secretario de Política Tributaria, Ministerio de Economía)
Moderadores: Esteban Cassin (UMAI) y Evelyn Colino (UNRN).

La cita es el miércoles 27 de mayo, a las 18 hs.


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El link para la charla será habilitado en el momento que inicie la charla:  https://www.youtube.com/maimonidesvideo/  

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¡Te esperamos!

Call for papers for RSPP Special Issue on

Spatial Aspects of Migration, Borders and Integration

Globalization and urbanization interrelates with migration, borders and integration. Issues managed by far away and suffered in proximity that deserve regional science scrutiny able to inform sensible policies.

The aim of this special issue is to look into migrant flows, barriers and integration and their impacts on sustainable development of source, passage and destiny regions.

The special issues associates with a Workshop in Tijuana and a Special Session in NARSC Congress.

Topics include but are not limited to, the following:

• Regional economic growth
• International and cross-border trade
• Environmental issues of border
• Cross-border Governance, cooperation and administration
• Migration, third country safe, asylum and refugees

Scholarly articles focus on policy issues in Latin America are especially encourage, but any work with related topics are welcome.

Papers can present the results of research, discuss conceptual approaches to policy implications, describe work in progress or raise issues for debate.

Interested scholars are encouraged to submit an article in the platform of Regional Science Policy and Practice (https://rsaiconnect.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/17577802) until September 11, 2020. The papers will be on-line after accepted by a blind peer review process.  

Coordinator of this Special Issue:

Rafael Garduño-Rivera This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Regional Science and Tourism in the Era of Global Uncertainty

(NECTAR Special Session in North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International RSAI 2020)

NECTAR Clusters 5-6 Special Session

San Diego, CA, USA
November 11-14, 2020

Call for papers

As part of the Annual Meetings of 2020 North American Regional Science Council (NARSC) in San Diego, CA from November 11 to 14, 2020, we would like to invite you to special session(s) for “Tourism and Regional Science in the Era of Global Uncertainty” that Nectar clusters 5 and 6 are organizing jointly with the NARSC and RSAI.

The website for submission is now open in the User Area of NARSC website (https://www.narsc.org/newsite/userarea/UserArea.php). Short abstracts as well as full papers (also in draft format) will be accepted for the Special Session.

If you are interested in presenting your research in this special session, please submit an abstract (2,000 to 5,500 characters and spaces) through the conference portal. Information on how to do that can be found here. Upon submitting your abstract, you will receive an abstract ID number (e.g. P12345). Please send your abstract ID number and a copy of your abstract to Jaewon Lim, University of Nevada Las Vegas (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.), Juan Carlos Martin, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) and Luca Zamparini, University of Salento (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) no later than June 30, 2020.

Selected full papers will be invited for publication in a special issue of the Regional Science Policy & Practice Journal, following standard review/revision procedures.

(https://rsaiconnect.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/17577802).   

Main topic

Christaller (1964) was probably one of the first regional scientists who analysed, after the conference held in Lund during 1963, the patterns on geographical location of tourist activity. Christaller found that “It is typical for places of tourism to be on the periphery. In this way, regions economically benefit from factors which cannot be utilized otherwise: high mountain chains, barren, rocky landscapes, heather, unproductive dunes.” (p.86). Since then, the tourism industry has changed dramatically. It is not so much the activity to move away from each other but instead to be with each other visiting their places and new places, also being involved with tourists in our own places because the we, and the places we live, are nice. That is why regional science – the study of human interaction within space with sound methods – has a say that can change the scientific perspectives on tourism that often miss space and the relation with each other. Regional Science as a discipline needs to analyse multiple strategies, policies and trends that are critical for tourist destinations that aspire to position and to consolidate their image in the world-wide network of tourist destinations at different geographical levels, urban or rural, within a framework of tough global competition. However, as world is currently experiencing, the unexpected events including but not limited to pandemic contagious diseases, regional political instabilities, safety issues with terrorist attacks, make the future of tourism uncertain. Due to the increasing concerns for mobility across space with the growing global uncertainty, tourism activities are expected to get downward pressure, while the increasing demand for various types of experience in tourism destinations may boost the worldwide growth of tourism in the future.

For this reason, potential topics discussed at the Special Session include:

• How can tourism studies benefit from Regional Science?
• Quantitative methods of Regional Science applied to Tourism
• Pandemic Diseases and Tourism Industry
• Consumer Behavior & Tourism Analysis
• From Well-Being and Happiness of tourists to Quality of Life of host residents.
• New Directions and Paradigms in Regional Science applied to Tourism
• From Decision Making to Travel Behavior
• Regional Science and Hospitality Research. The notion of industrial clusters.
• Tourism Infrastructure. Natural and Cultural Endowments
• Tourism Flows. Place, Time and Activities
• National and Regional Tourism and Travel Competitiveness
• Tourism Trends. Climate Change and Sustainable Tourism
• Tourism Demand: Demographic, Behavioral and Social Changes.

The abstracts/papers will be reviewed by the Organizing Committee and the notification of paper acceptance will be distributed by July 15^th, 2020.

Organizing committee. For more information or questions please contact Jaewon Lim, University of Nevada Las Vegas (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.), Tomaz Dentinho, University of the Azores (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.); Juan Carlos Martin, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) and Luca Zamparini, University of Salento, (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

NECTAR is a European-based scientific association. The primary objective is to foster research collaboration and exchange of information between experts in the field of transport, communication and mobility from all European countries and the rest of the world. It is a multidisciplinary social science network. It brings together a wide variety of perspectives on transport and communication problems and their impacts on society in an international perspective. For further information see: http://www.nectar-eu.eu

The Gran Sasso Science Institute in L’Aquila, Italy has launched a new Discussion Paper Series in Regional Science and Economic Geography.
With an article that relates the spatiality of COVID-19 to the structure of local economies, the GSSI area of Social Sciences launches a Discussion Paper series in Regional Science & Economic Geography (RSEG), which aims at providing a forum for debating initial research outcomes of high quality standard.

It hosts contributions on a wide range of topics within and across regional science and economic geography, encouraging a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives on socio-economic phenomena with an inherently spatial nature. Each article undergoes a light and fast review process managed by a Scientific Committee within the GSSI area of Social Sciences (for this and other info about how to submit a contribution, visit the website).
The Discussion Papers address some of the most urgent issues and trends of the 21st century, like socio-spatial (income/wealth) inequalities, migration flows and labour mobility, disasters (natural, environmental and health) and resilience, globalisation vs. localisation patterns, the political economy of urban and regional development, the geography of innovation and entrepreneurship, tech-driven urban and regional economies (e.g. platform urbanism), the shifting location of economic activity and new technologies, just to mention a few.

The series is inaugurated by the paper “The geography of COVID-19 and the structure of local economies: The case of Italy”, in which Andrea Ascani, Alessandra Faggian and Sandro Montresor (GSSI Social Sciences) develop an analysis of the relationship between the geography of COVID-19 and the structure of local economies, by focusing on the case of Italian provinces. In order to explain the striking spatial unevenness of COVID-19, the paper hypothesises and offers preliminary evidence that locations specialised in economic activities that are characterised by high geographical concentration might be subject to relatively higher infections due to the agglomeration advantages characterising these industries.

More details and submission guidelines can be found here