Are you a talented and enthusiastic Urban/regional economist/geographer, environmental economist and/or behavioral economist? Are you a team-player appreciating collaborating with a larger group of post-docs based in different social sciences groups to generate innovative and unexpected insights that will really make a difference to a better world?

The Urban Economics group at Wageningen University is looking for 2 post-doc researchers (3-year position). One focusing on ‘The role of cities in circular food systems’ (project 1) and one on ‘Consumer preferences for food choices across different dimensions: health, environmental outcomes, location of damages’ (project 8).

For more information, please contact Prof. Eveline van Leeuwen (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.). Submission deadline is January 19^th 2020.

https://www.wur.nl/en/article/We-are-looking-for-15-Postdocs-in-social-sciences.htm

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 27th APDR Congress that will be held from 9 to 10 of July, 2020, at the Centro Cultural e de Congressos de Angra do Heroísmo (CCCAH) in Terceira Island, Portugal.

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 and Special Session Proposals are open and your participation is very welcome!

Themes of specific interest are:

• 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 Special Session proposals: February 29, 2020. 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: March 30, 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

Dear all,
the Call is open - deadline January 15th - to send papers to Rhegion UN 2020 - 2030.
Because Rhegion is partner of New Metropolitan Perspectives Simposium and for reasons of publication, the Call follows the procedure of New Metropolitan Perspectives - registration, upload of the paper and then, after peer review, publication with Springer Editor- specifying that the paper is for Rhegion and making a choice priority among the 5 thematic areas (as proposed in the draft of the Program that will be defined in the next months):

1 - History and Nature draw the Landscape

Chair: Heritage, Architecture and Urban Planning Department - PAU 

2 - Environmental Resources, Sustainability, Technology

Chair: Civil Engineering, Energy, Environment and Materials Department - DICEAM, and Department of Information Engineering, Infrastructures and Sustainable Energy - DIIES

3 - The Forms of Sustainability

Chair: Architecture and Territory Department - dArTe

4 - Nature Resources and Anthropic Processes

Chair: Agricultural Department, Agriculture, Forestry, Environment, Food - Agraria

5 - Ethics, Aestetich, and Rights of Environment

Chair: Department of Law, Economics and Human Sciences - DiGiES

Each will be managed by a department of the University, having incorporated the two Engineering departments, which, however, if they are available, a further session can be created.

The links for it are
http://www.nmp.unirc.it/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/TS-25.pdf
http://www.nmp.unirc.it/edition-2020/

The link for the Workshop Call is
http://www.nmp.unirc.it/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Workshop-Call.pdf

A few months before the Event, a phase of diffusion in the city schools of the topics covered is foreseen.
Furthermore, the recognition of CFU for students will be required and, with the involvement of professional associations, of professional ones.

The Italian Ministry of the Environment for the protection of the territory and the sea, prof. Mark Catridge - President of the International Regional Science Association, prof. Andrè Torre - President of the European Regional Association, Vincent Kitio - Arch, PhD. | Chief, Urban Energy Unit |Urban Basic Services Branch | United Nations Human Settlements Programme, UN-Habitat | Nairobi, Kenya, Wang Xin - Doctor, Vice Dean, Associate Professor - TONGJI Institute of Environment for Sustainable Development, (IESD),  MOE Joint Lab for International Cooperation on Eco-Urban Design, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University, Shanghai, China, Legambiente, the National Council of Engineers - CNI, and the National Council of Architects, Planners, Landscapers, Conservators - CNAPPC, already have confirmed their presence.
Emeritus prof Federico Butera of the Polytechnic of Milano will participate.
And the two days of Rhegion Event, May 25 -26 and the Workshop, June 1-5, will probably be included among the events of the Sustainable Development Festival promoted by ASviS - of which we have patronage and participation - that takes place from May 20 to June 5, 2020, throughout Italy.
We are awaiting confirmation of Jeremy Rifkin. It is possible that the urban sociologist Saskia Sassen will also participate.

Rhegion United Nations 2020-2030: Territories And Cities, Material And Immaterial Heritage, Resilience And Ttransformation in the perspective of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals to change the world" is promoted by the Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria, Department Heritage, Architecture, Urban Planning - PAU, the International PhD Programme in Architecture of the University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, with the participation of New Metropolitan Perspectives and TREnD Project, the patronage of Ministry of the Environment and Protection of the Territory and the Sea - MATTM, National Union of Municipalities and Community of Mountain Authorities - UNCEM, Regional Science Association International - RSAI,  International Society of City and Regional Planners - ISOCARP, National Institute of Urban Planning - INU, Society of Italian Townplanners - SIU, Society of Territorialists - SdT, Italian Regional Science Association - AISRe, Legambiente, Italian Alliance for Sustainable Development - ASviS, National Council of Engineers - CNI, National Council of Architects, Planners, Landscapers, Conservationists - CNAPPC, National Institute of Bio-architecture - INBAr, Dwelling on Earth - Abitare La Terra, Aldo Della Rocca Foundation, Research Center for the Aesthetics of Law - CRED,  European Higher Institute of Political Studies - ISESP, Research Team for Mediterranean Entrepreneurship and Startups - RETMES,Order of Architects, Planners, Landscapers, Conservationists of Reggio Calabria Province, Confindustria Reggio Calabria, Touring Club Reggio Calabria.

We are waiting for the patronage of the European Regional Science Association - ERSA and other international as well as national bodies.

This initiative intends to propose Reggio Calabria as a cultural, scientific and operational reference, on a large scale, for the subjects covered by the UN 2020 - 2030 Agenda.

PS The Workshop Call is "in progress" due to the addition of the patronages that are continuing to arrive as well as that of Rhegion. The International Society of City and Regional Planners - ISOCARP and the Higher Institute for the Protection and Environmental Research - ISPRA are about to give their patronage and will partecipate in the works. 

Thank You very much.

For more information contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Best regards.

Stefano Aragona

****** REMINDER CALL FOR PAPER ******

Please be reminded for abstract submission for the 11^th Input-Output Workshop in Germany, Osnabrück.

The date of the Workshop has changed to March 12^th – 13^th 2020.

Deadline for submission is December 31^st, 2019.

Participants without abstracts are also welcome.

Please send your abstract and /or your interest in participation by Email to Anke Mönnig (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

Season greetings and happy New Year!

Yours

Anke Mönnig

Haotian Zhong is the 2019 Czamanski Dissertation Award for his dissertation entitled "Autonomous vehicles and urban form". He was supervised by Wei Li from Texas A&M University.

Congratulations!

Professor James LeSage, from Department of Finance and Economics, Texas State University, received the RSAI Jean Paelinck Award 2019.

The Jean Paelinck Award recognizes and honors the truly outstanding scholarly achievement of a senior and internationally recognized regional scientist in the field of Regional Science Methods and it is awarded with the nomination of five RSAI Fellows, with the selection of the Jury and with the approval by the RSAI Council.

In 2019 the winner of the RSAI dissertation prize was Mingshu Wang for his Thesis entitled “Polycentric Urban Development in China”. He was supervised by Professor Marguerite Madden from University of Georgia. Congratulations!

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