Council

Elisabete Martins

18th Uddevalla Symposium 2015 on:

Regional development in an international context
Regional, national, cross border and international factors for growth and development

June 11-13, 2015

Venue: University of Southern Denmark, Alsion, Sønderborg, Denmark

Abstract Submission Deadline: January 16th, 2015

 

Further information about the symposium can be found at the symposium website www.symposium.hv.se 

LAST CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

RAMIRAN 2015

16th International Conference Rural-Urban Symbiosis

8 – 10 September 2015

Hamburg University of Technology

Hamburg, Germany

Dear Mr Conicella,

Agriculture produces bioresources for food and increasingly also for material and energy provision. The majority of agro-products are used in urban areas where they are connected with waste and wastewater generation.

On the one hand, these residues are actually disposed or inefficiently treated, on the other they have value for agricultural production.

RAMIRAN 2015 is focusing on closing the loop linking rural production and urban consumption systems and on the development of more sustainable solutions for the handling of residues.

Topics

•Fertilizers from residues

•Soils for the future

•Advances in emission prevention

•The bioresource challenge

•Agro-products for the biobased economy

•Smart concepts for rural development

•Towards zero waste settlements

•Rural-urban sustainability cases studies world wide

Abstract submission

Deadline for abstract submission is 15 December 2014. We invite you to prepare abstracts according to the information given at:

http://ramiran2015.de/abstract-submission/

All abstracts will be evaluated by the Scientific Committe and the authors will be notified of the decision by 28 February 2015.

For more information, please visit http://ramiran2015.de

We are looking forward to welcoming you in Hamburg!

Sincerely,

Congress Chair

Ina Körner

Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH), Germany

Scientific Organisation

Ina Körner, Ralf Otterpohl

Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH), Germany Institute of Wastewater Management & Water Protection

Network Coordinators

Harald Menzi, Agroscope, Switzerland

Tom Misselbrock, Rothamsted Research, United Kingdom

RAMIRAN 2015 Conference Office

Gerlinde Löbkens

TuTech Innovation GmbH

Harburger Schlossstrasse 6-12

21079 Hamburg, Germany

Tel.: +49 40 76629-6551, Fax: +49 40 76629-6559 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. www.RAMIRAN2015.de

Dear Colleague,

The Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER), a world association of academics and researchers, organizes its 3rd Annual International Conference on Ecology, Ecosystems and Climate Change, 13-16 July 2015, Athens, Greece. Please submit a 300-word abstract before 15 December  2014, by email (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.), addressed to Dr. Nicolas Abatzoglou, Head, Environment Research Unit, ATINER & Professor, Department of Chemical & Biotechnological Engineering, University of Sherbrook, Canada, Chair Pfizer, PAT in Pharmaceutical Engineering, Director GREEN-TPV and GRTP-C & Pwelcomes.  Please include: Title of Paper, Full Name (s), Current Position, Institutional Affiliation, an email address and at least 3 keywords that best describe the subject of your submission. Decisions will be reached within four weeks of your submission. 

Should you wish to participate in the Conference without presenting a paper, for example, to chair a session, to evaluate papers which are to be included in the conference proceedings or books, to contribute to the editing of a book, or any other contribution, please send an email to Dr. Gregory T. Papanikos, President, ATINER & Honorary Professor, University of Stirling, UK (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

 

Monday, 01 December 2014 14:03

BIOECON News - Issue no. 11, Autumn 2014

Issue no. 11, Autumn 2014

 

BIOECON 2014 outcomes

Ben Groom (LSE) and Andreas Kontoleon (Cambridge Land Economy) co-hosted the 16th annual BioEcon conference on the economics of biodiversity conservation last 22-23 September 2014. The conference was held at the majestic buildings of King's College Cambridge and was attended by over 140 delegates from academia and the policy world.

BIOECON organising committee planned the first ever UNEP pre-conference training workshop on "Building Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services into National Policy" for civil servants from developing countries. The workshop was attended by over 100 delegates primarily from the developing world. A series of six videos on the seminars held are now available... » more

» Click here to access the Workshop seminars videos

 

Guest article

Procurement auctions for nature conservation: a laboratory experiment

by Brooks Kaiser, University of Southern Denmark


The U.S. Endangered Species Act is held up both as an example of strict legislation working to guard biodiversity preservation (Yaffee, 1982) and an uneconomical law that creates perverse incentives that may actually reduce such preservation. Passage of the 1973 act itself, and that of the three earlier acts leading up to it in the 1960s, was not controversial; few congressmen wanted to vote against the preservation of endangered species!  » more

 

BIOECON News


New Project: Economy and conflicts in grazing systems in northern latitudes: Loss to carnivores in reindeer herding and sheep farming
NTNU, in cooperation with Trondheim Business School

This project focuses on conflicts in two different grazing systems in Norway, reindeer herding and sheep farming. Reindeer depend on common property pastures for grazing, and the major herding areas are characterized by internal competition, high animal densities, and food shortages during the winter... » more


Workshop: The Israeli Mediterranean shores and their economic valuation

The workshop "The Israeli Mediterranean: The Management Aspect" was held at Haifa University on 14.9.14. The workshop was devoted to the exploration of different economical and regulatory issues concerning the future exploitation and management of Israeli Mediterranean waters. These issues included the effort to valuate different ecosystem services and how to incorporate them into national accounts...» more

 

PUBLICATIONS

Book: Naturressursenes Økonomi (The Economics of Natural Resources)
O. Flåten and A. Skonhoft (eds), Gyldendal, 2014
Norway is a rich country - much thanks to abundant natural resources and good management. This book analyses the use and management of natural resources in an economic perspective. The aim is to provide knowledge about the Norwegian resources and the economy and the institutions of the natural resource-based industries, and - not least - to provide the necessary theoretical basis for economic analysis of utilization and management of natural resources.... » more

Working paper
: An Economic Analysis of Ecosystem Services under Different Fertilizing Regimes in Agroecosystems
Yoav Peled, Shiri Shamir, Avraham Haim

Throughout the world, intensive and high input agricultural production methods are widely practiced, quite often at the expense of existing biodiversity and various benefits originating from the landscape. By addressing agricultural systems as managed ecosystems and using the ecosystem services approach, sustainable strategies can be developed, maximizing landholders and other affected stakeholders' welfare...» more

Article:The use of agrobiodiversity for plant improvement and the intellectual property paradigm: institutional fit and legal tools for mass selection, conventional and molecular plant breeding
Fulya Batur and Tom Dedeurwaerdere
Focused on the impact of stringent intellectual property mechanisms over the uses of plant agricultural biodiversity in crop improvement, the article delves into a systematic analysis of the relationship between institutional paradigms and their technological contexts of application, identified as mass selection, controlled hybridisation, molecular breeding tools and transgenics....» more

Article A pragmatist approach to transdisciplinarity in sustainability research: From complex systems theory to reflexive science
Florin Popa, Mathieu Guillermin, Tom Dedeurwaerdere
The importance of questioning the values, background assumptions, and normative orientations shaping sustainability research has been increasingly acknowledged, particularly in the context of transdisciplinary research, which aims to integrate knowledge from various scientific and societal bodies of knowledge...» more

Working Paper: The Passive Use Value of the Mediterranean Forest
Vladimir Otrachshenko
In this study we estimate the passive use value of forest in different ecological zones in the Mediterranean region. We estimate these values for forests using meta-analysis. These estimates are used to reveal the annual monetary values per hectare for each country....» more

 

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Dear colleague,

We are pleased to announce that we host the special track session “Why bother about culture in SMEs and micro firms? Innovation, culture and entrepreneurial dynamics in regional development”at IFKAD 2015 International Forum on Knowledge Asset Dynamics, forthcoming in Bari (Italy) on 10-12 June 2015.

We warmly invite you and other colleagues within your network to submit your abstract before January 25th for this track following the online submission requierements. Please find attached additional information in the corresponding track flyer.

The papers will be published in one of the journals arranged by the organizers of IFKAD (subject to evaluation criteria). We are also arranging a special issue on “Culture and innovation in SMEs and micro firms” with the journal European Planning Studies. The call for papers will be circulated in advance among the participating authors in the track session.

More information about the conference can be seen at: http://www.ifkad.org/

Important deadlines:

• 25 January 2015 - Abstracts Submission Deadline

• 28 February 2015 - Acceptance notification to authors

• 25 March 2015 - Early-Bird registration deadline

• 20 April 2015 - Full paper submission deadline

• 20 May 2015 - Registration deadline

• 10-12 June 2015 - Conference sessions

Looking forward to receive your abstract for participation in IFKAD 2015 and to meet in Bari next June, 

Kind regards,

Manuel Fernández-Esquinas

Institute for Advanced Social Studies, Spain

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

+34 957770528

Madelon van Oostrom

Tenerife Science and Technology Park, Spain

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

+34 822028588

Hugo Pinto

University of Coimbra, Portugal

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+ 351239790500

Romanian Section

From 8 to 9 May 2015

Suceava, Romania

10th International Conference with the topic "Regional Development and “Europe 2020”

Further details please go to the website of the Romanian Section - www.rrsa.ro

French Speaking Section

Wednesday 25 March 2015

Paris University Dauphine

Call for papers for the real estate seminar (one of the partners is our review of regional and urban economics ) , to be held March 25, 2015.

Proposals should be sent before February 15, 2015, to the email of This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Monday, 01 December 2014 11:27

Turkish Section

Turkish Section

From 18 to 19 December

Istanbul Technical University in Istanbul

National Regional Science / Regional Planning Congress "Emerging Economies and Regional Policy: Turkey agenda. Further information at http://bbtmk.itu.edu.tr/ıcerik.a...

 
Cover image for Vol. 6 Issue 4

Regional Science Policy & Practice

© RSAI

Volume 6, Issue 4 Pages i - ii, 311 - 394, November 2014

Special Issue: Industrial agglomeration and spatial dynamics in China

The latest issue of Regional Science Policy & Practice is available on Wiley Online Library

Issue Information

 

Issue Information (pages i–ii)
Article first published online: 27 NOV 2014 | DOI: 10.1111/rsp3.12026

EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION

 

Industrial agglomeration and spatial dynamics in China (pages 311–314)
Karima Kourtit, Yuyuan Wen and Peter Nijkamp
Article first published online: 27 NOV 2014 | DOI: 10.1111/rsp3.12049

ARTICLES

 

Agglomeration economies and the match between manufacturing industries and cities in China (pages 315–327)
Anjun Hu and Jiuwen Sun
Article first published online: 27 NOV 2014 | DOI: 10.1111/rsp3.12050

 

Creative industry clusters, regional innovation and economic growth in China (pages 329–347)
Wentao Yu, Jin Hong, Yunhao Zhu, Dora Marinova and Xiumei Guo
Article first published online: 27 NOV 2014 | DOI: 10.1111/rsp3.12051

 

FDI penetration and manufacturing agglomeration: an analysis based on empirical evidence from 21 industries (2004–2010) (pages 349–360)
Qichun Zhang, Ming Zhu and Yuan Yuan
Article first published online: 27 NOV 2014 | DOI: 10.1111/rsp3.12052

 

Trend and policy implications of regional industrial agglomeration: an empirical analysis of the manufacturing industries in Guangdong Province (pages 361–381)
Yanhua Mao, Benjian Yang and Shanshan Lin
Article first published online: 27 NOV 2014 | DOI: 10.1111/rsp3.12053

 

Spatial-temporal differentiation of the carrying capacity of cities: a case study of Hunan Province (pages 383–394)
Hengwei Wang, Jinming Yan, Karima Kourtit, Peter Nijkamp and Jacques Poot
Article first published online: 27 NOV 2014 | DOI: 10.1111/rsp3.12054

Tuesday, 25 November 2014 09:22

ERSA & ERES Summer School 2015 Vienna, Austria

The European Regional Science Association & the European Real Estate Society are offering the opportunity to participate in the 28th ERSA & ERES Summer School that will be held from 5th July to 15th July, 2015 in Vienna, Austria.

Click HERE for further information

Vienna University of Economics and Business

At the Vienna University of Economics and Business

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