with an area of study related to transnational illicit supply networks, starting August 16, 2020. The successful candidate’s broader research and teaching area of expertise will be in economic, political, and/or human-environment geography. The position is open regarding geographic area and illicit activity of focus. Research topics of specific interest include one or more aspects of illicit supply networks, particularly in relation to the spatiality of their operation, structural organization, and/or distribution of social and/or environmental harms. Topical specializations may include, but are not limited to: geographic information science, global commodity chain analysis, convergence with licit supply networks, financial transactions, social or trade network analysis, land and/or supply chain governance, or political corruption. Candidates with research interests that bolster the spatial analytic strengths of one or more of the Department’s broader research foci, including water resources, human-environment systems, transportation geography, and environmental impacts and management (see https://geography.ua.edu/), are particularly encouraged to apply. The ideal candidate’s professional accomplishments will include demonstrated ability or significant potential for securing external funding, establishing a nationally/internationally recognized profile, and a commitment to successful graduate student recruitment and mentoring to support our Ph.D. program in Geography. A Ph.D. in Geography or closely related discipline at the time of appointment is required.

Our new colleague will support the expansion of a collaborative research cluster with the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice and other campus partners to study international illicit supply networks. The Geography Department is a vibrant and growing departmental unit with 18 faculty that share a vision of bettering the world through discovery, application, and communicating knowledge about the environment and interactions between society and Earth’s natural systems. The University of Alabama is a Carnegie Classified Research 1 institution, is rapidly growing (38,392 students), and provides excellent faculty support. There are many opportunities to collaborate with scientists on the Tuscaloosa campus, including with the Remote Sensing Center, the Alabama Water Institute, and the Alabama Transportation Institute.

Applications received by November 15, 2019 will receive priority, and review will continue until the position is filled. Apply online at https://facultyjobs.ua.edu/postings/45791. Applicants must attach a cover letter, CV (including contact information for at least three references), and statements of research and teaching interests.  For additional information, contact the Search Committee Chair, Dr. Nicholas Magliocca (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

The University of Alabama is an Equal Employment/Equal Educational Opportunity Institution. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, genetic information, disability, or protected veteran status, and will not be discriminated against because of their protected status. Applicants to and employees of this institution are protected under Federal law from discrimination on several bases. Follow the link below to find out more.

 “EEO is the Law” http://www1.eeoc.gov/employers/upload/eeoc_self_print_poster.pdf

The Department of Applied Economics at Erasmus School of Economics invites applications for a six-year tenure-track faculty position at the Assistant Professor level in the field of Urban and Regional Economics. The research group on Urban and Regional Economics is embedded in the group of Organisation, Strategy, and Entrepreneurship at Erasmus School of Economics. Preferred starting date is September 2020. 

Job Description & requirements As an assistant professor, your role will include undertaking research within the field of Urban and Regional Economics or related research fields such as Transport Economics, International Economics, Development Economics or Economic Geography. You have the ability to conduct high quality, original research and to publish in high-ranked international journals. You will contribute to the courses in the BSc and MSc programmes offered by the department of Applied Economics and the supervision of bachelor’s and master’s theses. This calls for excellent teaching skills and the ability to supervise students to a successful completion of their programme.  Successful applicants are near completion or have completed a Ph.D., are able to demonstrate the potential for outstanding achievements in research and teaching, and are team players. A tenure decision will be made after five years, with the possibility of extension in case of pregnancy.

Erasmus School of Economics Based in the vibrant city of Rotterdam, the economic and logistics center of Europe, Erasmus School of Economics has provided outstanding education and produced excellent research for over a century. The school has played host to many of the world’s experts in their fields of research and boasts the first Nobel prize in economic sciences, awarded to Jan Tinbergen in 1969. Many successful careers have started here. One can recognize economists from Rotterdam by their effectiveness, drive, commitment and academic attitude. We not only devote attention to the issues of today, but we also focus on possible solutions to the problems of tomorrow.  In the most recent QS World University Rankings, Erasmus School of Economics is rated 2nd in Economics/Econometrics in the Netherlands, 17th in Europe and holds a top 50 ranking in the World. In the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, Erasmus School of Economics is rated 2nd for Economics and Business in the Netherlands, 7nd in Europe and 32th in the world. For more information about Erasmus School of Economics please visit https://www.eur.nl/en/ese/

Applied Economics at Erasmus School of Economics The Department of Applied Economics is one of the four departments at Erasmus School of Economics. The researchers within the Department are organised in three research groups, i.e. Organisation, Strategy & Entrepreneurship Economics, Behavioural Economics, and Health Economics. 

The research groups work in close cooperation with the Tinbergen and ERIM research institutes, two leading centres for Economics and Management research in Europe. For more information about the department see: https://www.eur.nl/en/ese/department-applied-economics 

Urban and Regional Economics at Erasmus School of Economics At Erasmus School of Economics, research in Applied Micro-Economics, International Economics, Transport Economics and Development Economics has a strong embedding in the growing discipline of Urban and Regional Economics research. The research group on Urban and Regional Economics is embedded within the group of Organisation, Strategy, and Entrepreneurship within the Department of Applied Economics. The research and teaching of Urban and Regional Economics focus on locational decision making and modelling of firms and households, transport economics, housing and real-estate economics, identification of place-based and network-based effects in economic development and growth, and the interrelation with sustainable development, urban and regional governance and policy. Research has a relatively large potential of societal impact. Research is published in high-impact journals of economic interest as well as in dedicated field journals in urban economics, regional science and economic geography. Teaching is mainly concentrated in the Major and Master programs in “Urban, Port, and Transport Economics” that are offered by Erasmus School of Economics. 

Conditions of employment: The appointment initially is a six-year position. The conditions of employment comply with the ‘CAO Nederlandse Universiteiten/Collective Agreement Netherlands Universities (CAO NU)’. Salary will be within the range of salary scale 10 when not having obtained PhD, to salary scale 11 for a full time appointment. The Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) has attractive employment conditions, which include a holiday allowance of 8.0%, and an end-of-year bonus of 8.3%. The salary includes several secondary benefits (such as a pension plan that is partially funded by the university and health care insurance). Favourable tax agreements may apply to non-Dutch applicants. We offer opportunities for lecturers to further develop teaching skills, and obtaining teaching qualifications. Ample opportunities are available for research support. Erasmus University Rotterdam, in cooperation with the nearby universities of Leiden and Delft, offers a Dual Career Programme to assist spouses of international employees in their search for a job on the Dutch Labour market. 

Additional information: Qualified candidates can apply by sending their curriculum vitae, motivation letter, job-market paper and other materials to: Ms. Manuela Ettekoven-de Vaal, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. We also ask for two recommendation letters to be sent to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. The deadline for applications is November 15, 2019. For more information about this position, you may contact Professor Kirsten Rohde (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.). Interviews will be scheduled in December 2019. We will be present at the European Job Market for Economists, 2019 in Rotterdam. 

This fall, the University at Buffalo, SUNY introduced a new initiative called the PhD Excellence Initiative to strengthen the quality of students in our PhD programs and to increase their success rates. The new scheme includes the following components:

1. Five year funding packages;
2. Minimum salaries starting at $20,800;
3. Full tuition and fee waivers;
4. Minimum teaching obligations with teaching relief for two of the five years.

Top students will be nominated for a Presidential fellowship, which increases the stipend by an additional $7,500 if awarded. Domestic students who meet diversity criteria can also be recruited via the Schomburg program. More information can be found on our website: http://www.buffalo.edu/cas/geography/about-us/admissions.html

Review of applications will begin on December 1st. We are seeking applicants in all of our research clusters: GIS, Urban and Regional Analysis, Earth Systems Science, Economic Geography and Development, and Health Geography.

Position Responsibilities: The Department of Community and Regional Planning (CRP) in the College of Design at Iowa State University is seeking to fill a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor starting August 16, 2020. The successful candidate will contribute to the mission of the department and the College of Design through teaching core planning courses and electives at the graduate and undergraduate levels. We are seeking an individual who will contribute to research and teaching in a broadly defined area of environmental planning and sustainable/resilient communities. Areas of research and teaching interest include (but are not limited to) environmental sustainability, food systems, renewable energy, natural resource management, environmental policy, climate change, infrastructure and transportation. The planning department is a key component of a university-wide graduate program in sustainable agriculture and transportation planning. The successful candidate will be expected to strengthen connections between CRP, sustainable agriculture and/or transportation programs. Teaching, demonstrated or interest in, is of particular importance to the search committee, as the successful candidate will be responsible for developing successful courses with large enrollments.

The CRP department integrates research, teaching and outreach consistent with the tenets of Iowa State’s land grant mission. Planning at Iowa State is known for strong community-based learning and scholarship and a close relationship with the University’s Extension and Outreach program. The Department prizes its multicultural faculty and seeks future colleagues from a variety of backgrounds and experiences. The department resides within the College of Design, one of the largest colleges of its kind in the United States. Nearly 100 faculty members serve 2000 students in 7 academic departments. These cover the entire spectrum of professional and academic disciplines connected to the production of the built environment. Opportunities for trans-disciplinary work are readily available.

The department offers two accredited degrees: a Bachelor of Science in Community and Regional Planning and a Master of Community and Regional Planning. The department also offers joint graduate degrees with Sustainable Agriculture, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Business Administration. In addition, the department co-sponsors a Master of Science in Transportation with the departments of Civil and Construction Engineering and Transportation and Logistics, and administers a university-wide GIS certificate. For more information, visit http://www.design.iastate.edu/CRP.

Iowa State University is classified as a Carnegie Foundation Doctoral/Research University-Extensive, a member of the Association of American Universities (AAU), and ranked by U.S. News and World Report as one of the top public universities in the nation. Over 34,000 students are enrolled, and served by over 6,100 faculty and staff (see www.iastate.edu). Ames, Iowa is a progressive community of 60,000, located approximately 30 minutes north of Des Moines, and recently voted second best most livable small city in the nation (see www.amescvb.com).

Iowa State University is an equal opportunity employer committed to excellence through diversity and strongly encourages applications from all qualified applicants, including women, underrepresented minorities, and veterans. ISU is responsive to the needs of dual career couples, is dedicated to work-life balance through an array of policies, and is an NSF ADVANCE institution.

All faculty members are expected to exhibit and convey good citizenship within the program, the department, college, and university activities and collegial interactions, and maintain the highest standards of integrity and ethical behavior.

Required Minimum Qualifications: Completed PhD by the start of employment in urban planning, geography, environmental studies, natural resource management, public policy, public health, or a related field.

Preferred Qualifications: (1) teaching experience; (2) Evidence/promise of a strong publication record (3) Evidence/potential for externally-funded research; (4) Demonstrable experience with environmental planning, climate change, community resilience, agricultural issues, food, natural resource management, and/or transportation; (5) demonstrable government, non-governmental organization, or industry experience.

Department Unit/Website: https://www.design.iastate.edu/community-and-regional-planning/

Application Instructions: To apply for this position, please click on “Apply” and complete the application. Please be prepared to enter or attach the following:

1) Resume/Curriculum Vitae

2) Letter of Application/Cover Letter

3) Contact Information for Three References

For questions or additional information regarding this position, please contact Biswa Das at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or by calling (515) 294-7003. If you have questions regarding this application process, please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or call 515-294-4800 or Toll Free: 1-877-477-7485.

Review of applications will begin December 05, 2019. Applications be accepted until the position is filled.

Iowa State University is an EO/AA employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or protected Vets status.

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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 February 15, 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 on the fall of 2020.

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

Call for Abstracts and Special Session Proposals

We are delighted to announce that the Call for Abstracts and Special Session Proposals for RSAI Congress 2020 is now open!

The Regional Science Association International (RSAI) and the Moroccan Regional Science Association (AMSR) invite regional scientists, economists, economic geographers, urban planners, policy makers, and researchers of related disciplines to participate in the 13th World Congress of the Regional Science Association International, with the main theme "Smart Regions – Opportunities for sustainable development in the digital era". The Congress will be hosted by the Moroccan Regional Science Association.

We invite formal paper presentations and Special Session Proposals (deadline of November 15, 2019). The abstract submission portal is now open. Full information on the venue, abstract submission, registration, schedule of events, accommodation and travel information is posted at https://www.regionalscience.org/2020worldcongress

About the Focal Theme

The congress is open for the world-wide diverse audience of regional scientists including academics, policy makers and practitioners and aims to bring together the key elements of multidisciplinary regional science research and to provide a scientific platform for presenting and discussing research at the frontiers of the spatial sciences in a broad sense. The themes which will be addressed zoom in particular on the pressing challenges of meeting the 2030 Agenda of Sustainable Development Goals, in both developed and developing economies. As a new challenge to regional science research is formed by the emerging digital technology and its implications for analysis, monitoring, evaluation and forecasting spatial dynamics at all levels, the theme chosen for the congress is ‘Smart Regions- Opportunities for Sustainable Development in the Digital Era’. Therefore, the potential of spatial and temporal big data, machine learning, artificial intelligence, social media information, and of the new spatial maps emerging from digitization and robotization will be addressed by the congress as well, as these forces will have far-reaching impacts on human behaviour and interaction in space. Topics such as urban-rural development, migration, spatial and resources (al)location, border effects, urbanization, sustainable cities, mobility, land use, environmental quality, disaster management, energy transition, culture, poverty, segregation, spatial modelling are important issues covered in the 2020 RSAI World Congress.

Themes of specific interest are:

RS01 - Entrepreneurship

RS02 - Infrastructure, transportation and accessibility

RS03 - Knowledge and innovation

RS04 - Local finance

RS05 - Location theory and applications

RS06 - Methods in Regional Science and Urban Economics

RS07 - Migration and regional labor markets

RS08 - Real estate and housing

RS09 - Regional and urban policy

RS10 - Regional development

RS11 - Rural development

RS12 - Spatial implications of environmental change

RS13 - Spatial planning

RS14 - The spatial dimension of sustainable development

RS15 - Theoretical and empirical urban economics

RS16 - Tourism

We look forward to welcoming you in the dazzling city of Marrakech in June 2020.

With warmest regards,

The Organizing Committee

There are 2 x Economic Geography Lectureships based in CURDS and Geography in Newcastle University.

The post seeks to advance critical perspectives on urban and regional development. Themes of interest may include, but are not limited to: cities and city-regions; spatial inequalities and justice; demographic change and migration; finance and debt; energy and infrastructure; institutions, governance and policy.

More details are available at: https://www.ncl.ac.uk/gps/geography/about/joinus/

The Prize in Economic Sciences 2019

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2019 to

“for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty”

Their research is helping us fight poverty

The research conducted by this year’s Laureates has considerably improved our ability to fight global poverty. In just two decades, their new experiment-based approach has transformed development economics, which is now a flourishing field of research.

Despite recent dramatic improvements, one of humanity’s most urgent issues is the reduction of global poverty, in  all its forms. More than 700 million people still subsist on extremely low incomes. Every year, around five million children under the age of five still die of diseases that could often have been prevented or cured with inexpen- sive treatments. Half of the world’s children still leave school without basic literacy and numeracy skills.

This year’s Laureates have introduced a new approach to obtaining reliable answers about the best ways to fight global poverty. In brief, it involves dividing this issue into smaller, more manageable, questions – for example, the most effective interventions for improving educational outcomes or child health. They have shown that these smaller, more precise, questions are often best answered via carefully designed experiments among the people who are most affected.

In the mid-1990s, Michael Kremer and his colleagues demonstrated how powerful this approach can be, using field experiments to test a range of interventions that could improve school results in western Kenya.

Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, often with Michael Kremer, soon performed similar studies of other issues and in other countries. Their experimental research methods now entirely dominate development economics.

The Laureates’ research findings – and those of the researchers following in their footsteps – have dramati- cally improved our ability to fight poverty in practice. As a direct result of one of their studies, more than five million Indian children have benefitted from effective programmes of remedial tutoring in schools. Another example is the heavy subsidies for preventive healthcare that have been introduced in many countries.

These are just two examples of how this new research has already helped to alleviate global poverty. It also has great potential to further improve the lives of the worst-off people around the world.

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Abhijit Banerjee, born 1961 in Mumbai, India. Ph.D. 1988 from Harvard University, Cambridge, USA. Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA.

Esther Duflo, born 1972 in Paris, France. Ph.D. 1999 from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA. Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA.

Michael Kremer, born 1964. Ph.D. 1992 from Harvard University, Cambridge, USA. Gates Professor of Developing Societies at Harvard University, Cambridge, USA.

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/2019/summary/

We are delighted to announce that the Call for Abstracts for RSAI Congress 2020 is now open!

The Regional Science Association International (RSAI) and the Moroccan Regional Science Association (AMSR) invite regional scientists, economists, economic geographers, urban planners, policy makers, and researchers of related disciplines to participate in the 13th World Congress of the Regional Science Association International, with the main theme "Smart Regions – Opportunities for sustainable development in the digital era". The Congress will be hosted by the Moroccan Regional Science Association.

We invite formal paper presentations (deadline of November 15, 2019. The abstract submission portal is now open. Full information on the venue, abstract submission, registration, schedule of events, accommodation and travel information is posted at https://www.regionalscience.org/2020worldcongress

About the Focal Theme

The congress is open for the world-wide diverse audience of regional scientists including academics, policy makers and practitioners and aims to bring together the key elements of multidisciplinary regional science research and to provide a scientific platform for presenting and discussing research at the frontiers of the spatial sciences in a broad sense. The themes which will be addressed zoom in particular on the pressing challenges of meeting the 2030 Agenda of Sustainable Development Goals, in both developed and developing economies. As a new challenge to regional science research is formed by the emerging digital technology and its implications for analysis, monitoring, evaluation and forecasting spatial dynamics at all levels, the theme chosen for the congress is ‘Smart Regions- Opportunities for Sustainable Development in the Digital Era’. Therefore, the potential of spatial and temporal big data, machine learning, artificial intelligence, social media information, and of the new spatial maps emerging from digitization and robotization will be addressed by the congress as well, as these forces will have far-reaching impacts on human behaviour and interaction in space. Topics such as urban-rural development, migration, spatial and resources (al)location, border effects, urbanization, sustainable cities, mobility, land use, environmental quality, disaster management, energy transition, culture, poverty, segregation, spatial modelling are important issues covered in the 2020 RSAI World Congress.

We look forward to welcoming you in the dazzling city of Marrakech in June 2020.

With warmest regards,

The Organizing Committee