CALL for Special Issue 2019: CROSS BORDER COOPERATION AND PERIPHERAL AREAS IN EUROPE

Journal: Eastern Journal for European Studies (EJES),  http://ejes.uaic.ro/

Guest editor: Tomás Lopes Cavalheiro Ponce Dentinho (University of the Azores,  Centro de Estudos de Economia Aplicada do Atlântico, Portugal) 

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

• The proposals for this special issue (max. 500 words) should be submitted by e-mail to: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.  (with the mention: Special Issue on CBC_Border regions), by October 30^th, 2019.
• The authors will be notified about the acceptance of their proposal by November 30^th, 2019.
• The deadline for paper submission is February 28^th, 2020; however, early submissions are welcome.
• The contributors are required to follow the authors’ guidelines, available at: http://ejes.uaic.ro/author_guidelines.htm

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE TOPIC:

Cross border cooperation (CBC) is a key element at least for two EU’ policies: Cohesion Policy and Neighbourhood Policy, but also having a wider spectrum of linkages with other sectors of the European integration: internal market, transport and communication, justice and home affairs, culture and education, environment and sustainable development.

By addressing these specific challenges of the border regions (internal or external), the CBC could transform the periphery into “new centre”, offering more visibility for territories affected by peripheral conditions, the barriers could be shaped into new development opportunities in order to increase tolerance and strength democracy, CBC could also reduce the internal EU’ territorial disparities, could promote the stability and the security at the external borders of the EU.

This special issue on Cross border cooperation and peripheral areas in Europe aims to collect a set of studies on:

• the CBC potential to respond to some of key challenges for border regions (frequently, most border regions are characterised by peripheral conditions: trade specialisation in low and medium tech industries, intensive in resources and labour force, low accessibility and connectivity, institutional fragility and poor governance, weak quality of social capital, reduced capacity to attract investments and human capital, to generate economies of scale or economic agglomeration advantages as sources of competitiveness, growth and sustainable development;
• the efficiency and the effectiveness of the EU’ programs for cross-border cooperation;
• the CBC capacity to diminish the border effects at the external frontiers of the EU;
• the Euro-regions functionality;
• good practices in CBC programming or national policies related to the border regions and cross-border cooperation;
• the impact of the European integration process on the border barriers;
• the role of the cross-border cooperation on the core-periphery dynamics;
• CBC and the border regions’ resilience;
• Cross border cooperation, economic integration, regional convergence.

By this special issue, we intend to contribute to a better understanding of the CBC programs, processes, activities, linkages with the various sectors and policies of the EU, with high relevance for evidence-based policymaking.  

RSPP Call for Papers

Special Issue on New Landscape of Data and Sustainable Development in Asia

Data analysis plays a key role in shaping, designing, and evaluating regional policies that target sustainable development. Recent advances in information technology have contributed to a new landscape of unconventional data—mobile phones usage, online commercial transactions, social media, and biometrics—that are available in a multitude of formats, volumes, and spatial dimensions, with various degree of veracity and velocity, all with largely untapped potential. While the emergence of new data offers real-time insights from different perspectives for planning and policy analysis, it may require a different approach to extract previously unavailable information and use it to promote sustainability. The new analytical approaches and sources of data at the same time raise new security challenges, privacy concerns, and equity issues. Examining the pros and cons of the data revolution in the search for answers to previously unattainable research questions is thus of interest not only to academia but also to practitioners and policymakers.

The aim and scope of RSPP is to serve as a platform to address the interface between academic debates and policy development and application. The specific objective of this Special Issue is to promote discussions regarding the new landscape of data and its implications for sustainability. The Special Issue focuses particularly on Asia, where many cities, regions, and countries today are struggling to cope with the lack of infrastructure, climate change, rapid urbanization, land degradation, unstable political environments, deprivation, and the growing divide between those who have and do not have access to information. We invite papers that make use of new data sources and analysis to address challenges to sustainable development, broadly defined. We are interested in applied studies using regional science modes of analysis or other closely-related multidisciplinary approaches, as well as technical studies with implications for sustainability.

The Special Issue will be guest-edited by Yuri Mansury (Illinois Institute of Technology), Sutee Anantsuksomri (Chulalongkorn University), and Nij Tontisirin (Thammasat University).

Keywords and topics for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to:

• Artificial intelligence
• Big data analysis
• Computational modeling & simulation
• Information & Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructure
• Land cover and land use
• Machine learning
• Networks
• Prediction
• Remote sensing
• Social media
• Spatial analysis
• Urbanization

Papers should be submitted to the regular review process of the journal (https://rsaiconnect.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/17577802) until December 15 th of 2019.

ISSUE INFORMATION

Issue Information

Pages: 443-444 | First Published: 12 August 2019

SPECIAL SECTION: LOCAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND TOURISM DEVELOPMENT IN PERIPHERAL AREAS BETWEEN POLICIES AND PRACTICES

Local entrepreneurship and tourism development in peripheral areas between policies and practices

Maria Giulia Pezzi, Alessandra Faggian, Neil Reid

Pages: 445-449 | First Published: 12 August 2019

Open Access

Local entrepreneurship through a multistakeholders' tourism living lab in the post‐violence/peripheral era in the Basque Country

Igor Calzada

Pages: 451-466 | First Published: 14 June 2018

Cuban private entrepreneurship – from periphery to key sector of the economy in tourism‐oriented market socialism

Ruxandra Ana, Oskar Lubiński

Pages: 467-477 | First Published: 15 October 2018

International tourism entrepreneurs in Swedish peripheries: Compliance and collision with public tourism strategies

Marco Eimermann, Karin Tillberg Mattsson, Doris A. Carson

Pages: 479-492 | First Published: 05 October 2018

The Etna macro‐region between peripheralization and innovation: Towards a smart territorial system based on tourism

Arturo Di Bella, Gianni Petino, Luigi Scrofani

Pages: 493-507 | First Published: 11 January 2019

Cultural tourism and rural entrepreneurship: A case study of a Scandinavian literary festival

David W. Marcouiller, Knut Ingar Westeren

Pages: 509-524 | First Published: 05 April 2019

OTHER ARTICLES

Global and regional effects of the US tariffs on iron, steel and aluminium: A SMART combination of models with a focus on Spain

Carlos Llano, Julián Pérez, Federico Steinberg, Geoffrey J.D. Hewings

Pages: 525-547 | First Published: 28 March 2019

Do European Funds support the formation of firms? New evidence from Italy

Andrea Ciffolilli, Eleonora Cutrini, Marco Pompili

Pages: 549-569 | First Published: 26 April 2019

Using local public goods to attract and retain the creative class: A tale of two cities

Amitrajeet A. Batabyal, Karima Kourtit, Peter Nijkamp

Pages: 571-581 | First Published: 28 May 2019

Development policy and regional economic convergence: The case of Tunisia

Mohamed Ali Labidi

Pages: 583-595 | First Published: 03 May 2019

The existence of economies of sequence: A theory of architecture in building an industry agglomeration

Akifumi Kuchiki

Pages: 597-612 | First Published: 28 March 2019

Impact of policies vis‐à‐vis small and medium enterprises (SMEs) on economic development of the border city of Al Buraimi in Oman

Khalid Al Badi

Pages: 613-620 | First Published: 19 June 2019

BOOK REVIEWS

Heat, greed and human need: Climate change, capitalism and sustainable wellbeing ‐ By Ian Gough

Gordon F. Mulligan

Pages: 621-624 | First Published: 16 January 2019

Macroeconomics of the Black Economy ‐ By Saumen Chattopadhyay

Amitrajeet A. Batabyal

Pages: 625-626 | First Published: 25 January 2019

Economic crisis and the resilience of regions – A European study ‐ By Gillian Bristow and Adrian Healy (Ed.)

Rüdiger Hamm

Pages: 626-628 | First Published: 12 February 2019

URBANICS 4 

March 11-14, 2020

Valdivia, Chile

The ongoing Global Change is challenging our understanding of the dynamics involved in the ecological, social, and infrastructural realms surrounding us. Most of these changes have an urban origin and a deep impact on cities, the living place of most humans. While technological advances allow us to obtain near real-time information of these complex dynamics, a complete understanding, capable of giving us prospective usage, requires an integrated view from multiple disciplines.

This new version of URBANICS seeks to imprint such spirit on our academic conversations. We look forward to a workshop that integrates modeling approaches from all realms to understand and explain urban dynamics and thereby develop the next generation of urban planning and policies from the small to the large and even the global scale. 

Dear friends and colleagues,

The purpose of this email is to announce that, together with Cristina Chaminade (Lund), José-Luis Hervás-Oliver (Valencia), Ram Mudambi (Fox School of Business), Monica Plechero (Florence) and Julio Raffo (WIPO), we are organizing a Special Session on clusters and global innovation networks (GIN) at the 5th Geography of Innovation conference, to be held on January 29-31, 2020, in Stavanger, Norway. Here link to the Special Session--> http://geoinno2020.com/clusters-global-innovation-networks-and-the-globalization-of-knowledge/

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS IS AUGUST 31, 2019!!!

Stavanger might be cold in winter, but I'm sure it will be a great occasion to know better the Viking culture, as they have exhibitions and sightseeing on the topic. But more important than that, the lineup of keynote speakers for this GEOINNO edition is, simply, awesome! Check it out-->http://geoinno2020.com/program/#speak

The aim of this Special Session is to collect contributions at the interplay between innovation clusters and global innovation networks (GIN), or in other words, between regionalization and globalization of innovation activities. Within this, we intend to explore topics like how the connection between clusters supports the circulation of knowledge and global distribution of innovation activities, what type of GINs support linkages between clusters, what is the role of migrants and MNEs in building GINs favoring positive cluster evolution , cluster and GIN identification, clusters in the Global South and GINs, agglomerations and GINs, and so on. We aim to stimulate the study of phenomena from different lenses and angles, combining both theory and empirics, as well as macro, micro and meso approaches.

Consider submitting your proposals to our Special Session!

Sorry again for double-posting, and look forward to meet you all in Stavanger!

All the best,

Ernest

Attached please find the announcement of the vacancy at Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences / NIERS Institute for Regional and Structural Research.

RSPP Call for Paper

Special Issue on Spatial Resilience and the Border Regions of Europe

One of the least exploited research directions in regional science is the investigation of spatial patterns in relation to resilience, as well as of the role that geographical positioning, respectively the interaction between space and socio-economic activities, play in fostering and enhancing resilience, especially in border regions.

Some key research questions arise as being particularly important for development policies: Are there spatial differences in the resilience outcomes, and have various regions different responses to economic shocks along with their ability to adapt to new economic circumstances, depending on the geographical positioning of a region? Are regions with external borders less resilient to economic, environmental, social or political shocks than regions without any national borders, or with borders that are internal to the EU? Is the impact of a shock on border regions different from the impact on domestic regions? Or does the impact differ on peripheral regions vs. central ones? Can cross-border cooperation reduce border effects and transform borders from a disadvantage into an opportunity? What role do physical, administrative, economic, cultural, institutional, or political barriers have on the resilience of border regions?

This special issue on Spatial Resilience and the Border Regions of Europe aims at responding to some of key challenges for border regions, collecting a set of studies on:

• The principles and effects of spatial resilience (be it cities, regions, rural areas, spatial labor markets, migration, transport systems, public facilities etc.);
• How to better connect and inter-connect the territorial dimension with the economic, social or the ecological issues of resilience in the borderline regions (both external and internal);
• The systemic vulnerability, territorial planning, growth patterns, urban development, quality of life and demographic aspects of cities in the border regions;
• The core-periphery structural differentiation or evolutionary paradigms connected with the resilience capacity;
• Border effects on resilience and the role of cross-border cooperation;
• New approaches on spatial dynamics, from the perspective of the equilibrating forces inherent in regional and urban systems.

Case studies on Romania, Bulgaria, Georgia, Armenia, Belarus, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Poland, Hungary, Estonia, Leetonia, Latvia, Greece, Turkey, Russia and Finland, but also on the internal “borders” of EU will be more that welcomed.

Papers should be submitted to the regular review process of the journal (https://rsaiconnect.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/17577802) until December 20th of 2019.

The coordinators of the Special Issue:

Gabriela Carmen PASCARIU (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Karima KOURTIT (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Ramona TIGANASU (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

We are pleased to inform you that a new issue of the Regional Statistics has been released and now it’s avaiable online.

http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2019/eterstat1901.pdf

REGIONAL STATISTICS, 2019, VOL 9, No 1.

STUDIES

Fernando Delbianco–Andrés Fioriti–Fernando Tohmé: Quantifying worldwide economic distress

http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2019/rs090108.pdf

Bacsosz Sztavrosz: Analysis of the geographical diversification of  financial instruments

http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2019/rs090110.pdf

Iwona Müller-Frączek: Dynamic measurement of complex phenomena  in assessing the Europe 2020 strategy effects

http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2019/rs090107.pdf

Yan Song– Arjan van Timmeren–Alexander Wandl: A literature review and categorisation of sustainability-aimed urban metabolism indicators: a context,

indicator, mechanism, outcome analysis 

http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2019/rs090103.pdf

Maria do Carmo Dias Bueno–Ricardo Neves de Souza Lima: The degree of urbanisation in Brazil

http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2019/rs090101.pdf

Buddhadeb Ghosh–Sankar Narayan Samanta–Nilachal Ray: Deprivation amidst affluence in ‘rising India’: Impacts of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme

http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2019/rs090102.pdf

Semra Türkan–Gamze Ozel: Determinants of electricity consumption based on the NUTS 2 regions of Turkey: A panel data approach 

http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2019/rs090105.pdf

Tamás Sikos T.: Changes in the retail sector in Budapest, 1989–2017 

http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2019/rs090104.pdf

Gábor Lados–Gábor Hegedűs: Return migration and identity change: A Hungarian case study

http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2019/rs090109.pdf

METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES

Marie Haldorson: High demand for local area level statistics –  How do National Statistical Institutes respond?

http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2019/rs090106.pdf

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NURTURING TALENT 2020

The RSAI aims to continue promoting the development of Regional Science by nurturing new talent in 2020. The council has therefore pledged resources to co-finance workshops and summer institutes intended to provide substantive training to pre-doctoral researchers, including the presentation of their work and receiving feedback from senior scholars and their peers. It is expected that the selected workshops and institutes will have considerable international geographical coverage.

Organizers of workshops and summer schools fulfilling the above aims are encouraged to submit a two-page case for support within November 4, 2019 to the RSAI secretariat (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.). Individuals are encouraged to consult with their national and supranational sections to allow better coordination among different initiatives.

All applications will be reviewed by the Committee and will have to be formally approved by the RSAI Council. Their decision will be final.

BUILDING BRIDGES IN REGIONAL SCIENCE

2020 conference participation support

The RSAI facilitates the participation of researchers from low-income and lower-middle-income economies (as defined by the World Bank: https://data.worldbank.org/about/country-and-lending-groups#Low_income) at the five largest Regional Science Conferences in 2020: LARSA, PRSCO, ERSA, NARSC, and the World Congress.

RSAI will provide a subsidy up to USD 500 (or the equivalent in other currencies) to selected researchers. This is likely to cover the conference registration fee and some local travel costs. Alternative means of financing will have to be sought for international travel and accommodation.

Only one author of a submitted paper presentation proposal can apply for a subsidy.

Interested researchers should upload a two-page CV plus a one-page motivation –including a budget with proposed sources of funding of the conference-related registration, travel and accommodation costs – within 30 days of receiving confirmation of the acceptance of the researcher’s abstract by the conference organizers.

Applicants should have had a paper accepted for presentation at the conference.

All applications, to be submitted at the following link:

https://www.emailmeform.com/builder/form/4Qb1O9ro1K0LuWIeG

will be reviewed by the Committee and will have to be formally approved by the RSAI Council. Their decision will be final.