12 International Conference Challenges of Europe:

“INNOVATIVE RESPONSES FOR RESILIENT GROWTH AND COMPETITIVENESS”

17 -19 May, 2017 / Bol, Island Brač, Croatia

It is expected that all ABC participants sign up for the Conference and present a paper. Please look at the website and the link to the conference: http://conference.efst.hr/

3-year Postdoctoral Research Assistant position in Marine and Coastal
Conservation and Management at NUI Galway and the Marine Institute, Ireland

The researcher will work on a project to develop a quantitative, spatially explicit ecological risk assessment framework for development in Irish coastal waters. The framework is intended to demonstrate the use of systematic spatial planning conservation methodology as a decision support system for consent authorities. The successful candidate will work on a research award at NUI Galway, Discipline of Geography in close collaboration with the Marine Institute and the Socio-economic Marine Research Unit (SEMRU) at NUI Galway.

Deadline: February 17th, 2017

For more information about the post please visit: http://www.nuigalway.ie/about-us/jobs/researchjobs/

1st short Announcement, JAN 2017:
The 54th Annual Meeting of the Japan Section of the RSAI
2017.01.23

The 54th Annual Meeting of the Japan Section of the RSAI will be held from 6th Fri. till 8th Sun., October 2017 in Kyoto, Japan.

Venue: Ritsumeikan University, Kinugasa Campus (Tojiin-Kitamachi, Kita-Ku, Kyoto)
http://en.ritsumei.ac.jp/access/ 

Please book your accommodation(s) by yourself as soon as possible because Kyoto starts Autumn-high season after October.

List of Organizing Committee:
Chair:
Hidehiko KANEGAE (Ritsumeikan University)

Vice-Chair:
Yusuke TOYODA (Ritsumikan University)

Committee members:
Kiyoto KUROKAWA (Ritsumeikan University)
Kenich ISHIBASHI (Nagoya Sangyo University)
Satoru ONO (Ritsumeikan Univesity)
Minji CUI (Ritsumeikan University)

Office:
Project II, The Institute of Disaster Mitigation for Urban Cultural Heritage, Ritsumeikan
University
http://r-dmuch.jp/en/index.html 
,Komatsubara Kitamachi -58, Kita-ku, Kyoto, 6038341, JAPAN

Contact & updated information:
Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
URL: http://jsrsai.jp/en/

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Indonesian Regional Science Association (IRSA) in collaboration with Sam Ratulangi University invites scholars, practitioners and graduate students to submit papers to be presented in the 6th IRSA International Institute. The theme of the conference is Maritime Infrastructure and Regional Development, and it will be held in Manado, North Sulawesi on July 17-18, 2017.

Potential topics to be discussed in this conference include, but are not limited to:

• Eastern Indonesia Regional Development
• Infrastructure Development and Financing Infrastructure Development
• Logistic and Transportation
• National and Regional Competitiveness
• Public Private Partnership
• Village Fund for Infrastructure
• Political Economy and Governance of Regional Development
• Financial Inclusion
• Regional/International Trade, Public Finance, Investment and Inflation
• Rural Development, Agriculture, Urban Issues, Rural-Urban Migration
• Other Topics Related to Regional Science or Regional Development

Extended paper abstract of about 250-500 words should be submitted online via http://manado2017.irsa-indonesia.org/abstract-submission/ by April 14, 2017.

Abstract should consist of background, data and methodology, potential contribution to knowledge, and keywords. Abstracts must be submitted in English, as also the full paper.

Paper sessions are seminar-style for each paper and ample time for discussion and for participants to provide constructive feedback to authors. Paper presentations will be in English.

Important Dates

The Latin America Regional Science Association (LARSA) represents the affiliated and common interests of the various regional science organizations of the countries in Latin America and the Caribbean.

LARSA operates as an objective, scientific body without political, social, financial, or nationalistic bias. It supports its objectives by promoting acquaintance and discussion among regional scientists and with scholars in related fields, by encouraging the publication of scholarly studies, and by performing services to aid the advancement of the field of regional science.

LARSA serves as the organizational body representative of the interests of its institutional and individual members with respect to the Regional Science Association International (RSAI). It affiliates sub-national, national or regional sections of the Regional Science Association International located on Latin America and the Caribbean. The sections are institutional members of LARSA and their individual associates are members of RSAI. Institutional members can simultaneously be members of other supra national associations.

Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of the Organizing Committee, we are very pleased to invite you to Cartagena (Spain) to participate to the 9th edition of the Seminar of Spatial Econometrics in honour of Professor Jean Paelinck. The workshop will be held in October 6-7, 2017.

The conference aims to provide a forum for debate between young and senior researchers and it is open to both theoretical and applied papers, which deal explicitly with questions of spatial statistics and econometrics. Specially welcomed contributions, but not only, are those related with the general topic of the seminar: “Non Parametric spatial econometrics: Theory and empirical issues”. We especially encourage submission by junior researchers.

Keynote Speakers :

   Prof. Dr. Tapabrata (Taps) Maiti (https://www.stt.msu.edu/~maiti/)

                                    Abstracts submission deadline: 20th July, 2017

                                    Full paper submission deadline: 8th September, 2017

                                    Notification of acceptance of papers: 15th September, 2017

You are invited to submit your paper or abstract  to the following email address: 

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Please find enclosed the call for papers. More information concerning the workshop is available at:

                                       http://metodos.upct.es/9JP/index.html

We are looking forward to meeting you in Cartagena.

Best Regards,

The LOC

Dear NECTARists,

Please find attached a call for papers for a special joint Cluster 2/6 workshop Smart Cities - Governing Accessibility, Air Pollution and Equity at the University of São Paulo, Brazil, August 24-25, 2017

This workshop aims to discuss the complex relationships between transport, urbanization, inequalities in accessibility and air pollution, and the governance and policy implications of the development of smart and equitable cities and transport policies. The workshop focuses on major cities and metropolitan areas in Europe, North America and Brasil.

Please note that is a small sized workshop (20 persons) for which University of São Paulo will apply for co-funding from the São Paulo Research Foundation FAPESP. For this application, the full workshop programme, including abstracts and CVs of presenters, is needed. We will be able to fund airline tickets, meals and accommodation for three nights, for one author per paper, if FAPESP provides funding. In the unlikely case that FAPESP funding is unavailable, conference dinner and accommodation for two nights will be offered to 20 participants, for only one author per paper. In addition to invited speakers a limited number of abstracts will be accepted.

If you are interested to participate in this workshop, please send an abstract of your presentation (about 500 words) including author names and affiliations and keywords, and your CV (2-4 pages) in PDF format to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. before January 31, 2017.

Best,

Karst Geurs

Call forAbstracts and Special Session Proposals

It is our pleasure to announce the 24th APDR Congress, to be held at the University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal, from July 6 to July 7, 2017.

Theme of the Conference:

Intellectual Capital and Regional Development: New landscapes and challenges for space planning

The 24th APDR Congress has the following central theme: Intellectual Capital and Regional Development: New landscapes and challenges for space planning. After 23 years, the APDR’s Annual Congress returns to the University of Beira Interior, for positioning intellectual capital and regional development as a key theme for public policies and the agenda of the collaborative community of politicians, entrepreneurs, researchers and citizens interested in promoting endogenous growth, combined with the institutions, systems and new functional and integrative type designs, for promoting symbiosis among economic, social and political agents, in the joint task of (re) designing a new competitive space, at the regional level. In this context, the central theme chosen is of major importance, since it is urgent to expand the ongoing debate on the importance of identifying, monitoring and managing the different components of regional-based intellectual capital, in order to stimulate a structural change in the scope of innovation and development regimes, funded on endogenous growth factors.
The 24th APDR Congress aims to address different questions, namely: What are the regional development models applicable in peripheral and low population density economies? How can intellectual capital promote regional development? Are higher education institutions a vehicle that promotes quality of life and innovation at the level of cities? Can services contribute to sustainable regions? How to plan regional space from a perspective of entrepreneurial and innovative ecosystems? How to finance regional planning and development? What transport networks should the trans-European regions have? What should be the new productive specializations in the regions? Can sport be a motor for regional development?
The Congress will include a Policy Forum, Plenary Sessions, Special Sessions, Conferences and Round Tables, Workshops and Parallel Sessions.
The Parallel Sessions will include: (i) communications submitted to Regular Sessions (RS) proposed by the organization; And (ii) communications submitted to Special Sessions (SS), proposed by participants as well as discussion topics included in Workshops proposed by the participants.
The communications presented at the 24th APDR Congress may be published in the Revista Portuguesa de Estudos Regionais (RPER), even though a first version has already been included in the minutes of the Congress. Thus, interested authors should submit their manuscripts, even if revised in relation to the texts presented at the congress. There is no deadline for this submission. The texts must be formatted according to the RPER publication standards: http://www.apdr.pt/siteRPER/PT/submeter.html. The decision of acceptance will follow the standard of habitual exigency, being based on independent external evaluation (peer-reviewing).

The call for papers and Special Session Proposals is open and your participation is very welcome!

Themes of specific interest are:

-        Models for Regional Development

-        Regional and Local Development Policies

-        Regional Intellectual Capital

-        Financing of Economic Growth

-        Regional Innovation Systems, Clusters and Ecosystems

-        Regional and Local Public Finance

-        Sectoral Policies and Regional Dynamics

-        Infrastructure, Transportation Networks and Regional Development

-        Labour Markets and Development

-        Entrepreneurship and Regional Development

-        Quality of Life and City Planning

-        Services, Tourism and Sustainable Regions

-        Education, Innovation and Territory

-        Rural Development and Agrarian Economy

-        Regional and Urban Planning and Regional Development

-        Sports and Regional Development

-        Low Density Regions and Development

Deadline  for  Special  Session  proposals:  February  28th,  2017.  Proposals  should be sent by 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: April 28th, 2017. Abstracts should be submitted electronically, using the platform available on the Conference website: https://events.digitalpapers.org/apdr2017/

All information at the congress website: http://www.apdr.pt/congresso/2017/

Looking forward to meeting you in Covilhã!

The Organizing Committee and the Board of APDR

24th APDR Congress