The journal Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050; IF 1.789) is currently running a Special Issue entitled "Environmental Policy for Sustainability".

Dr. Julia Martínez-Fernández and Dr. Miguel Angel Esteve-Selma (University of Murcia, Spain) are serving as Guest Editors for this issue. We think you could make an excellent contribution, based on your expertise.

The present Special Issue will focus on environmental policies and how and they can improve overall sustainability at different scales, from global to local. Environmental policies, explicitly conceived to address different environmental problems, are generally considered a way to advance sustainability. However, relationships between environmental policies and sustainability goals have also evolved, as have related frameworks, methods, practical experiences, and open challenges. One key aspect of such an evolution has been the increasing need for an integrated approach over many different aspects. [...]

For further reading, please follow the link to the Special Issue Website at: http://www.mdpi.com/si/sustainability/Environmental_Policy_Sustainability

The submission deadline is 15 August 2018. You may send your manuscript now or up until the deadline. Submitted papers should not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. We also encourage authors to send a short abstract or tentative title to the Editorial Office in advance (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

Sustainability is fully open access. Open access (unlimited and free access by readers) increases publicity and promotes more frequent citations, as indicated by several studies. Open access is supported by the authors and their institutes. Article Processing Charges of CHF 1400 (APC) apply to accepted papers. You may be entitled to a discount if you have previously received a discount code or if your institute is participating in the MDPI Institutional Open Access Program (IOAP), for more information see: http://www.mdpi.com/about/ioap.

For further details on the submission process, please see the instructions for authors at the journal website (http://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/instructions).

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.      Call for Papers for a Special Issue of The Review of Regional Studies -

Water and Regional Science

***DEADLINE EXTENDED***
 

Motivation and objective of the Special Issue:
 

Economic prosperity, quality of life, and the environment are all inextricably linked by water. Availability, quality, and use of water are regional by nature and though interregional trade in water is possible, regional variations in natural and historical resource allocations will continue to play roles in regional development and will likely become more important over time. Absent improvements in water management and efficiency improvements related to water use, additional stress on water resources might lead to reduced economic development potential (even the possibility of negative growth), poorer quality of life, and environmental hazards. The interdisciplinary field of regional science – with its focus on the important roles of local and regional processes to socioeconomic performance and sustainability, its explicit treatment of spatial relationships, and its increasing attention devoted to modeling the linkages between the human system and the environment – is ideally suited to contribute high quality, policy relevant research on water.

The Special Issue seeks to publish novel research and reflect the most recent advances on the latest contributions in the area of water and regional science, covering new modeling techniques and formulations, as well as innovative case studies.

Topic areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

Integration of economic and environmental models that consider water

Water-related determinants of migration patterns and land use change

Environmental impacts of social and economic change related to water

Regional valuation of water

Regional economic impacts associated with changes in water availability and use

Econometric and spatial econometric analyses of water-related issues

Water embodied in economic activity and/or trade 

Water-related determinants of industrial location

Regional ecosystems service valuations related to water

Contributions will be selected through a refereeing process consistent with the standard reviewing process of The Review of Regional Studies. Only high quality original contributions will be included. This Special Issue should be of interest to researchers and policymakers worldwide, wherever there is a need to overcome challenges related to water.

Planned schedule:
Paper submission deadline:     June 15, 2018 
Notification 1st review round:    August 15, 2018 
Resubmission revised papers: October 15, 2018 
Notification 2nd review round:   November 15, 2018 
Expected publication date:       1st Quarter of 2019
 

Guest Editor: Christa D. Court
Dr. Christa Court is an Assistant Scientist in the Food & Resource Economics Department at the University of Florida (UF), Institute of Food & Agricultural Sciences (IFAS). She serves as Assistant Director of the UF Economic Impact Analysis Program and holds affiliate faculty status with the UF Water Institute, the UF/IFAS Institute for Sustainable Food Systems, and the Regional Research Institute at West Virginia University.
 

Article Submissions
Those interested in submitting articles for this special issue please click here. Please indicate in your cover letter that you wish to be included in the special issue.
 

All questions about the special issue should be emailed to the guest editor:
Christa D. Court, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 

ICPSR 5-day workshop on Spatial-Econometric Analysis of Interdependence, July 9-13 at the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

Space is still available for the ICPSR 5-day workshop on Spatial-Econometric Analysis of  Interdependence, July 9-13 at the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor.

Spatial Econometrics

Instructor(s): Robert J. Franzese, University of Michigan

Do the outcomes in some units or individuals in your research analyses depend on outcomes in other units? That is, are the outcomes of interest in your studies likely contagious from units to neighboring units, or otherwise proximate or connected units? Do the processes you study diffuse across units in some manner? Are there spillovers across subjects? If you study anything in the social sciences, and likely most things beyond, almost certainly they are/do.

This workshop (July 9-13 in Ann Arbor) teaches empirical methods (focusing on spatial-autoregressive models) for modeling, for estimation, and for interpretation of such spatial (i.e., cross-unit) interdependence (a.k.a., contagion/diffusion/spillover/network-dependence...).

Applied (lab) sessions and exercises are bilingual, with lab scripts in Stata and R both available, and students are of course welcome to use other software as they prefer.

Register through the ICPSR Summer School portal, linked here:

https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/content/sumprog/registration.html

The course description from the ICPSR website is linked here & copied below:

http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/sumprog/courses/0129

Spatial Econometrics

Instructor(s):

Robert J. Franzese, University of Michigan

Cross-unit (i.e., "spatial") interdependence is ubiquitous throughout the social sciences, and beyond. Events or outcomes in one observational unit are almost always related to similar occurrences in other observational units. This is so for such diverse phenomena as disturbances and conflicts within and among nations; consumer, investor, and producer choices in markets; individuals' opinions and behavior in societies; crime, health, and environmental outcomes; voting by citizens in elections or by legislators in legislatures; and policies in political jurisdictions. In such contexts, "standard" statistical methods (which assume independent observations) are inappropriate, and design-based methods of "causal inference" are, at best, inadequate. This workshop introduces strategies appropriate for interdependent observations, emphasizing spatial and spatiotemporal models of interdependent continuous and limited outcomes.

The main objective of the workshop is to demonstrate how such spatial, cross unit, interdependence can be incorporated into empirical analysis most productively. Course participants will learn how to: diagnose spatial-correlation patterns; estimate spatial-regression models; distinguish between different sources of spatial correlation (common exposure, contagion, and selection); and calculate and present the spatial and spatiotemporal effects that empirical models which incorporate interdependence imply. Methods to be covered include: measures of spatial association; instrumental-variable and maximum-likelihood estimators for regression models with spatial interdependence; multiple-spatial-lag models; spatial interdependence in models with limited and qualitative dependent-variables; and models for coevolutionary processes.

Tags: spatial econometrics, interdependent observations, spatial interdependence, interdependence, contagion, spillovers, diffusion

Location: ICPSR -- Ann Arbor, MI

Date(s): July 9 - July 13

Time: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Daniel Crown of the Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics, The Ohio State University, to Receive the Eighteenth Annual Benjamin H. Stevens Graduate Fellowship in Regional Science

Daniel Crown, a Ph.D. candidate in agricultural, environmental, and development economics at The Ohio State University has been selected as the winner of the Eighteenth Annual Benjamin H. Stevens Graduate Fellowship in Regional Science. The Fellowship will provide a 2018–19 Academic Year stipend of $30,000 to support Mr. Crown in his dissertation research entitled, “Foreign-Born Graduates and Innovation at Domestic Institutions: Evidence from an Australian Skilled Graduate Visa Program.”

The research will investigate the effect of a unique Australian skilled visa program on the innovative output of domestic research institutions. The visa program grants foreign-born graduates temporary residency, post-graduation, and is one potential pathway to permanent residency.  The results will be of interest to policymakers around the world as they consider implementing or refining skilled immigration policies.

Mr. Crown’s doctoral research is supervised by Professor Mark Partridge, Swank Chair in Rural-Urban Policy at Ohio State.

Chair of the Selection Committee, Mario Polèse, Emeritus Professor at the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique-Urbanisation, Université du Québec, details why Daniel Crown’s proposal stood out among an extremely strong field of 36 candidates for the 2018 competition:

“Daniel’s proposal topic goes to the heart of one the main conceptual and empirical challenges in regional science: measuring knowledge spill-overs between skilled workers. Does the presence of skilled workers, foreign-born graduates in this instance, boost the productivity of other workers and, by the same token, their propensity to innovate? To answer the question, Daniel combines a unique dataset, drawn from Australian administrative files, for the full population of approved skilled visa applicants with institution-level data on innovation and start-ups. The use of micro-data allows Daniel to follow the mechanics by which the presence, after graduation, of foreign-born graduates in Australian universities influences the innovative output of domestic researchers.

The Selection Committee was equally impressed by the methodological rigor demonstrated by the proposal. Daniel’s empirical strategy overcomes the potential bias of high-skilled foreign-born students sorting into high-quality research institutions by the introduction of instrumental variables and the use of fixed effects regression models. His preliminary findings, reported in the proposal, show a positive impact on the productivity of domestic researchers.

Finally, the policy-relevance of Daniels’s research requires little comment in a period in which immigration and its presumed impacts are high on the political agenda, not only in North America but around the world.”

In addition to selecting the Fellowship recipient, the Selection Committee identified three applicants as meriting special recognition as Finalists in the 18^th Annual Competition: Wanyang Hu, Department of Urban Planning, UCLA, supervised by Rui Wang; Luke Petach, Department of Economics, Colorado State University, supervised by Stephan Weiler; and Seva Rodnyansky, Urban Planning and Development Ph.D. Program, University of Southern California, supervised by Marlon Boarnet.

The Fellowship is awarded in memory of Dr. Benjamin H. Stevens, an intellectual leader whose selfless devotion to graduate students as teacher, advisor, mentor, and friend continues to have a profound impact on the field of regional science. Fundraising efforts to increase the Fellowship’s endowment are ongoing. Donations should be sent to: The Stevens Fellowship Fund, First Financial Bank, Attn. Trust Department, 1205 S. Neil Street, Champaign, IL 61820 USA. Checks should be drawn to The Stevens Fellowship Fund. Donations may also be made by credit card through the NARSC website at www.narsc.org/newsite/donations2.php.

This most recent Stevens Fellowship competition was judged by a Selection Committee composed of: Daoqin Tong, Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, Arizona State University; Elena Irwin, Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics, The Ohio State University; Mario Polèse, Urban and Regional Economics, Université du Québec, Chair; Amanda Weinstein, Economics, The University of Akron; and Elizabeth Mack, Geography, Michigan State University. The Stevens Fellowship Committee administrates the Stevens Fellowship Fund on behalf of the North American Regional Science Council; its members are: Tony Smith, Chair; David Plane, Secretary; Michael Lahr, Treasurer; Janet Kohlhase; and Neil Reid, Executive Director of NARSC.

The Committee thanks the 36 students who entered the competition in 2018, as well as their dissertation supervisors. Faculty at all North American Ph.D. programs related to the interdisciplinary field of Regional Science are urged to encourage their best students to apply for the Nineteenth Annual Stevens Graduate Regional Science Fellowship. The winning student’s dissertation research in the field of Regional Science will be supported during the 2019–2020 year with a one-year stipend of $30,000. The application deadline is February 15, 2019. Full submission guidelines will be posted at www.narsc.org/newsite/awards-prizes/stevens-graduate-fellowship/.

May 2018

A joint PhD program involving the University of Azores, University of Lisbon and the University of Évora. A link between Regional Science, Ecological Economics, Conservation Biology and Landscape Ecology.

The program involves two weeks of compulsory courses in mainland Portugal, one month of optional courses in the Angra (Azores), Évora or Lisbon and three years of thesis development done in a monography or three published scientific paper.

You can apply for the PhD Program if you have a degree in Agronomy, Economics, Biology, Environment, Geography, Engineering, or related fields, or legally equivalent qualifications.

The objectives of the program are to develop methods and capacities to conceive and evaluate policy instruments suitable promote the multiple goods and services provided by the landscape. To develop competences in economics, geography, ecology, agronomy and political science and gain interdisciplinary capabilities for landscape management. To create scientific research in integrative approaches such as Regional Science, Ecological Economics, Conservation Biology and Landscape Ecology.

You will become manager of environmental goods and services supported by the landscape; modeller of ecological-economic systems; expert on participatory approaches, land use planning, environmental regulation and cost benefit analysis; and consultant in regional sustainable development.

For more information, send an email to Paulo Borges, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. , Teresa Pinto Correia This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or José Manuel Lima Santos This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

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Jönköping International Business School is looking for at least six Doctoral Students in Business Administration and Economics with placement at one of the three research centers.

JIBS (Jönköping International Business School) is one of four schools within Jönköping University (JU). It is recognized as the most international business school in Sweden and one of the most international in the world. For more information please visit www.jibs.se.

In 2015, JIBS was the first business school in Sweden to receive double accreditation from both AACSB and EQUIS. In March 2018, JIBS was awarded a 5-year EQUIS accreditation. Recent assessments of research productivity and impact ranks JIBS first in Sweden in business administration and economics and first in Europe and second in the world in entrepreneurship. Previous rankings also put JIBS as world leading in media, management and family business research.
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JIBS mission is to advance the theory and practice of business, with specific focus on Entrepreneurship, Ownership, and Renewal. In line with this mission, we are looking for at least six doctoral students who are interested in pursuing their doctoral studies in one or more of these three areas. The doctoral students will be admitted to either the doctoral program in business administration (at least 4 positions) or the program in economics (at least 2 positions). The doctoral student will be affiliated to one of JIBS’ three centers; CeFEO (Centre for Family Enterprise and Ownership), CEnSE (Centre of Entrepreneurship and Spatial Economics) or MMTC (Media, Management and Transformation Centre) depending on her/his preliminary research interest.

CeFEO is the largest research center on family business and ownership in the world. Our research, education and outreach activities are oriented towards JIBS’ profile areas entrepreneurship, ownership and business renewal. More specifically, research in our center concentrates on family business, corporate governance and strategic management, and the relationships between these areas and entrepreneurship, ownership, innovation and internationalization. http://center.hj.se/cefeo

CEnSE is a multi-disciplinary centre that performs applied research relating to issues of entrepreneurship and business renewal, regional development and growth and interrelation between urban and rural areas.

A substantial part of CEnSE research addresses policy relevant problems, for example, how accessibility affects regional growth and the way entrepreneurial and innovative processes in business and society are dependent on knowledge and creativity. http://center.hj.se/cense

At MMTC we take interest in the business and industry implications triggered by the driving forces of digitalization, sustainability and globalization. This includes the study of digital entrepreneurship, issues related to social media, (sustainable) innovation as well as strategic responses to different challenges in the media and other industries. The center aims at conducting high-quality research relevant to society in interaction with external stakeholders. http://center.hj.se/mmtc

As a doctoral student we offer you full-time employment. Most of your time will be devoted to your doctoral studies (80%) which includes coursework and writing a doctoral thesis. The remaining time is allocated for teaching and administrative tasks. We seek candidates who have a strong wish to conduct high-quality academic scholarship on important topics within entrepreneurship, ownership and renewal.

The main language of research and teaching at JIBS is English. You must be fluent in both written and spoken English to be eligible for our doctoral program. Skills in other languages, including Swedish, are an advantage. An international outlook as well as prior research, teaching and/or professional experience are also advantageous, as is an ability to communicate effectively with different stakeholders in and around the university environment. Eligible applicants must have completed their MSc in a relevant discipline for the PhD program.

We seek candidates who have the ambition to pursue an international research career and wish to combine a high level of scholarship with policy-making and/or practical relevance.

INFORMATION
For more information about the positions, please contact Lucia Naldi (Director of PhD candidates). The union representatives are Olof Brunninge Saco-S and Barbara Eklöf, ST. Contact phone number for all of them is +46 36-10 1000.

Interviews with shortlisted candidates will take place in early June, 2018.

APPLICATION
Your application must include:
• A letter-of-intent explaining why you are applying to the position, what you expect from the doctoral programme and why you are interested in JIBS. You should also specify which of the
three areas or centers you see your doctoral research mostly linked to.
• A description of yourself including your background and main interests.
• A statement about whether you are applying for the business administration program or the economics program.
• A preliminary research proposal (max. 3000 words), expressing your present research interest in the field.
• CV and attested documents (transcript, diploma).
• Copy of your Master Thesis and other publications.
• The name and phone numbers of at least 2 references.

Send in your application electronically via the following address: https://ju.varbi.com/se/what:job/jobID: 204946/ by the latest on May 20th, 2018.

Incomplete applications will not be processed.

[Please quote reference number 2018/1688-221 clearly on your application].

Jönköping University is a modern institution, characterized by internationalization and an entrepreneurial spirit. We attract highly qualified, inventive and enterprising people from all around the world. We develop new knowledge and share our expertise through solid collaborations with industry and business, the public sector and other higher education institutions. We offer an equal and inclusive workplace and we welcome applicants with diverse backgrounds. For more information, visit www.ju.se

The Scientific Programme Committee of the 2018 Conference, jointly organised by Statistics Poland (GUS), the International Association for Official Statistics (IAOS) Standing Committee of Regional and Urban Statistics (SCORUS) and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), has selected the three themes below for the GUS – SCORUS Conference “NEW SCALE – NEW NEEDS – NEW STATISTICS”, to be hosted by GUS in Warsaw, Poland in June 6-8, 2018. Under each of these themes, sessions will be organised which can each accommodate several papers and presentations. You are invited to submit proposals for papers for these themes.

We live in era of dynamic changes occurring in various fields of social and economic activity. In these circumstances the role of statistics is to understand new phenomena, to identify information needs in dialogue with users, as well as to adapt statistical production process in order to provide most relevant, timely and geographically detailed statistics.

Statistics Poland celebrates its 100^th anniversary in 2018. Our history makes us think about future vision of regional and urban statistics. We hope that SCORUS 2018 will be the platform for sharing knowledge and inspiring ideas.

Deadlines

Please send your abstracts to the following email address:

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For more information please consult the websites:

http://scorus2018.stat.gov.pl/

http://scorus.org/index.php/home/

Extension of deadline for abstract submission

We are pleased to announce that the deadline of abstract submission has been extended up to May 13 in response to numerous requests and due to the increased interest in the 25th APDR Congress, to be held at the Faculdade de Ciências Sociaise Humanas da Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal, from July 5 to July 6,2018.

Theme of theConference:

Circular Economy, Urban Metabolism and Regional Development: Challenges for a SustainableFuture

 The call for papers is open and your participation is verywelcome!

NEW Deadline for Abstracts submissions: May 13th, 2018.Abstracts should be submitted electronically, using the platform available on the Conference website: https://events.digitalpapers.org/apdr2018/

All information at the congress website: http://www.apdr.pt/congresso/2018/

Looking forward to meeting you in Lisbon!

The Organizing Committee and the Board of APDR

25th APDR Congress

Call for submissions

2018 RSAI Best Dissertation in Regional Science

The Regional Science Association International (RSAI) invites submissions for the annual competition for the Best Doctoral Dissertation in Regional Science. Regional science is an interdisciplinary field concerned with theory, method, and application of regional, urban and rural, geographic and spatial investigations and analyses.

The winner will be decided by the Selection Committee and will receive a cash award of 750 Euros. Award announcements will be made at the North American Meetings of the RSAI, where participants in the competition are strongly encouraged to be present. The Selection Committee reserves the right to not make an award. Decisions made by the Selection Committee are final.

Eligibility:

1. A dissertation completed in any Ph.D. program in any country is eligible,
2. A dissertation written in English,
3. A dissertation successfully defended, with official graduation date between July 1^st 2017 and June 30^th 2018,
4. A dissertation on a single or multiple general regional science topics. The Selection Committee reserves the right to determine whether a dissertation is relevant to the field of regional science. 

Application (in either PDF or MS Word format):

1. A two-page curriculum vita;
2. A letter of support and nomination from the major professor (also known as dissertation committee chairperson or supervisor) on stationary paper and with signature. The letter should clearly explain the dissertation’s originality and contributions to the field of regional science;
3. The dissertation.

Applications should be submitted electrically by July 31, 2018 to the Selection Committee Chair, Dr. Laurie A. Schintler (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ). Large submissions can be uploaded to a cloud file-sharing site. Questions regarding the dissertation competition may be sent to her too. 

Call for Papers
11th Geoffrey J.D. Hewings Regional Economics Workshop
Winning and Losing Regions in the Age of Digitalisation
Vienna, September 20 - 21, 2018
The Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO) is very pleased to announce the 11th international workshop in honor of Geoffrey J.D. Hewings, Professor of Economics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and member of WIFO's Scientific Board. Prof. Hewings has published numerous scientific contributions in economics, economic geography, urban and regional planning, input-output analysis and other fields, and is always eager to share his knowledge and give advice to younger scholars.
This year’s workshop will focus on topics around the urban-rural divide as well as winning and losing regions in times of increasingly digitalized economies and societies. Additionally, empirical contributions from a broader range of regional economics are also welcome. The topics of interest include questions related to:
 regional growth and cohesion
 regional specialization, structural change and knowledge diffusion
 regional location analyses, spatial location choice and location concepts
 geographical impact of economic policy measures
 regional labor markets
 regional tourism
 regional planning
We are happy to announce Wolfgang Dauth (University of Würzburg and IAB) as our keynote speaker for the workshop. Wolfgang Dauth is an applied micro-economist and works at the cross section of urban, labor, and international economics. He currently focuses on topics such as the impact of technological change and international trade on the German labor market as well as commuting or search and matching on local labor markets.
The workshop aims at bringing together researchers from various fields of economics working mainly at the regional level to discuss ideas and exchange knowledge. Moreover it should be emphasized that the workshop also intends to attract contributions characterized as "work in progress" and those from young researchers. Submissions should include an extended abstract (minimum of 300 words) or a full paper.
The workshop will be held at WIFO in Vienna. There are no fees for participants of the workshop. All papers presented may be published in the WIFO Working Paper series. Abstracts of papers and/or full papers intended for presentation should be prepared in PDF-format and be sent to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Deadlines:
Submission of abstracts: June 30, 2018
Notification of acceptance: July 16, 2018