Regional Science Policy & Practice

© RSAI

June 2017

Volume 9, Issue 2

Pages 61–140

ISSUE INFORMATION

Issue information (pages 61–62)

Version of Record online: 29 AUG 2017 | DOI: 10.1111/rsp3.12080

ARTICLES

The determinants of foreign direct investment in sub-Saharan Africa: What role for governance? (pages 63–81)

Andrés Rodríguez-Pose and Gilles Cols

Version of Record online: 29 AUG 2017 | DOI: 10.1111/rsp3.12093

Spatial dimensions of Antonio Gramsci's contribution (pages 83–99)

Nuno Ornelas Martins

Version of Record online: 10 AUG 2017 | DOI: 10.1111/rsp3.12092

Regional perspectives on general aviation and reliever airports: A case study of the Phoenix metropolitan area (pages 101–120)

Tony H. Grubesic, Kurt Fuellhart, Fangwu Wei and Kevin O'Connor

Version of Record online: 29 AUG 2017 | DOI: 10.1111/rsp3.12091

Beyond the Paris Agreement: Climate change policy negotiations and future directions (pages 121–140)

S. Niggol Seo

Version of Record online: 26 JUN 2017 | DOI: 10.1111/rsp3.12090

C-MAT offers a comprehensive one year Master of Science in Maritime and Air Transport Management (60 ECTS) which prepares its graduates for the challenges faced by the transport sector today.
 
Application for academic year 2017-2018 is still possible for European candidates until the end of August 2017 by using the Application tool.
We also still have grants available for students!
 
In the first semester of the programme students have the option to choose between Management Fundamentals and Research Fundamentals. The option Management Fundamentals is designed for students who want to upgrade their knowledge and abilities in transport business and economics to become top-notch executives. It mainly prepares them for a management career in the maritime or air transport sector. The option Research Fundamentals on the other hand offers students a more methodological and quantitative training. Students receive an excellent preparation for a career in for example consulting, policy or research in the maritime or air transport sector. Moreover, this option can lay the groundwork for further academic pursuits such as a PhD.
 
In the second semester, students then make a choice between a major in Air Transport or Maritime Transport. In this way, students can even more tailor their programme to their specific interests and background.
 
During the course of the programme students become truly submerged in industry practice thanks to numerous excursions, company visits and a master’s thesis in collaboration with industry actors.
 
For more detailed information visit our C-MAT website

Lead Organizer: Geoffrey J.D. Hewings, University of Illinois, USA and Nankai University, China

We are planning a series of special sessions at the World Congress to highlight the work of younger scholars (under 40 years of age). A maximum of forty presentations will be accommodated. There is no limitation on topics but the presentation should highlight innovative methodology, or new applications, creative use of data and important policy relevance. Sessions will be chaired by senior RSAI colleagues who will also serve as session discussants. The final session, to which all participants are invited, will focus on general comments and feedback and suggestions for preparation for publication.

Please submit your paper for consideration to Geoffrey Hewings (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) in the following format:

Name:

Affiliation

Age

Title of Paper:

Abstract of Paper

A Maximum of three summary statements (one sentence each) highlighting the value added of the paper.

The deadline for submission is November 30, 2017.

http://regionalscience.org/2018worldcongress/

The Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development (NERCRD) is a small research and outreach unit located in the Department of Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Education within Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences.   Our mission is to work on a range of issues with land grant universities and other partners in the Northeast as well as nationally in support of rural development.

The NERCRD seeks applications for a one-year post-doc position, with good chances of renewal subject to funding.  The post-doc will be responsible for conducting economic and statistical analyses on a wide range of rural development topics, as determined by the Center’s emerging needs and priorities.  There is a strong expectation that this research will contribute both to the science base as well as to informing U.S. rural economic development policy.   A part of the research portfolio will include assessing the impacts of different federal policies over time and space. Importantly, the opportunity exists to work with Penn State’s Census Data Center.  Examples of topics to be studied range from policy impact assessments (including the impact of farm subsidies and extension education); determinants of poverty including the roles of automation and global competition; and the interdependence of rural and urban areas, as well as agricultural and non-agricultural industries; to the determinants of health and well-being, including addiction and drug overdoses.

Qualifications: The candidate will have extensive training in state-of-the-art economics or a related field and econometric analysis, including spatial statistics, as well as excellent communications and writing skills.  In addition, he or she will have extensive experience with a variety of statistical packages.  The candidate needs to be able to both work well independently and also to function effectively in a team setting.

To apply send a statement of interest in the position, two writing samples, and names of and contact information for three references to Stephan Goetz at  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

THEME
SUSTAINABLE URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH AND POLICY CHALLENGES FOR THE ASIA PACIFIC RIM
DATE AND PLACE
December 8-10, 2017, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China
ORGANIZED BY:
Renmin University of China
The Regional Science Academy (TRSA)
Regional Science Association International (RSAI)

Registration Form 

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Edited by Maria Giulia Pezzi (Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy), Alessandra Faggian (Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy) and Neil Reid (University of Toledo, USA)

Discussing the linkages between local entrepreneurship and tourism provides an intriguing starting point for a wider reflection on the role of existing policies and of emerging practices in fostering local development in peripheral areas.

Peripheral areas can be considered as areas relatively far from urban hubs providing essential services, typically suffering from de-anthropisation and marginalisation, though provided with a wide range of environmental, cultural and social resources.

In this sense, the investigation of the linkages between local entrepreneurship and tourism in peripheral areas, and of the role of existing policies and of the arising bottom-up practices in fostering local development, is aimed at deconstructing basic dichotomies often emerging when dealing with such issues, i.e. rural-urban and/or centre-periphery relationships, innovation vs tradition, authenticity vs mise en scene, agency vs inertia, social, cultural, economic mobility vs immobility etc. Moreover, focussing attention on the possible compliance or conflicting strategies of local actors with existing policies allows the possibilities arising from the analysis of local entrepreneurs as agents of change to be taken into consideration

In focusing on relevant case studies we are able to shed light on local entrepreneurship in peripheral areas in relation to tourism. Representative topics shall include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Theoretical and practical approaches to the concept of peripherality in relation to tourism entrepreneurialism and the emergence of peculiar tourism-niches (e.g. food tourism in rural areas);
• The role of local entrepreneurship in the development of tourism in peripheral areas as a form of resilience to the implications of (economic) marginality;
• Migrants’ forms of agency and their impact on local entrepreneurship in peripheral areas in relation to the leisure market (i.e. leisure migrants);
• The possible ways in which different takes on tradition and innovation can influence territorial marketing strategies in peripheral areas;
• The “tourismification” and/ or “touristification” (Salazar 2009) of material and immaterial heritage in peripheral areas as a possible consequence of local entrepreneurship;
• Key factors in the development of a tourism-led local entrepreneurship in peripheral areas;
• Challenges of tourism promotion and local development: the urban- rural nexus;
• Competitive strategies among local entrepreneurs in rural/peripheral area tourism.

We welcome submissions of relevant case studies analyses from economics, regional sciences, anthropology, sociology, geography, and critical tourism/leisure studies.

Submission Process

Abstracts of max 300 words, written in English, should be submitted for selection to Maria Giulia Pezzi at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., by August 31st, 2017. Please CC Alessandra Faggian (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) and Neil Reid (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

Acceptance will be notified by September 15th, 2017.

Full papers to be submitted by December 20^th, 2017

The special issue is expected to be published by June 2018.

The following information should be included with the abstract:

– Title of submitted paper

– Name(s) of Author(s), affiliation, email

– Professional background/current position