To whom it may concern

I'm writing to inform you that Professor Henk Folmer has recently been appointed academic dean at the College of Economics and Management, Northwest Agricultural and Forestry University, Yangling, China. Henk Folmer is also renowned Overseas Scholar under the Chinese Ministry of Education. In June, 2014, Professor Folmer was elected board member of the Chinese Economic Society.

CALL FOR PAPERS

RAMIRAN 2015

16th International Conference Rural-Urban Symbiosis

8 – 10 September 2015

Hamburg, Germany

Dear Colleague,

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

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Dear Sir / Madam,

This email serves as an invitation for you to participate in the '4th International Conference on Tourism Research' that will be held on 9-11 December 2014 in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia. 4ICTR, as it is known, is an indexed conference whereas selected case studies and research papers presented in this conference will be published in SHS Web of Conferences which is indexed by Thomson Reuters (Web of Science). With respect to that circumstance, we have received more than 100 articles to be presented in this 3-day programme. A number of participants from South Korea, Japan, South Africa, Australia, India, Thailand, Philippines, Taiwan, United Kingdom and United States of America have confirmed their attendances. In fact, there are also presenters from Russia, Brazil, Germany, Jordan and Czech Republic who keen to attend this beneficial conference.

Basically, we will close the acceptance of full papers by 1st September 2014. Submitted full papers after that date will only be included in conference proceedings. Currently, we are looking forward to receive and open this conference for normal attendees (non-presenters) only. We believe that this academic conference will give novel input and enhance your knowledge in tourism and hospitality realms. For more information regarding this conference, you may refer to the enclosed documents or surf our official website, www.4ictr.org. For international participants, a charge of RM 1,350.00 (general) or RM 950.00 (student) will be imposed while for Malaysians, they have to pay RM 1,100.00 (general) or RM 750.00

(student) to join this programme. Registration fees include F&B (coffee/tea break and lunch during conference), '4ICTR Conference Kit' and '1-Day Excursion to Kinabalu Park to celebrate International Mountain Day'

only.

If you are interested to join this conference, kindly fill-up the registration form attached and make the payment accordingly since the deadline for registration is on 15 September 2014. Thus, we urge you to consider this golden opportunity to widen your network among academicians, industry players and policymakers. It is a hope if could assist us to disseminate this latest information to your own network.

Indeed, we wish to meet you in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah this coming December during 4ICTR. Your cooperation and solicitude towards this matter are highly appreciated.

Thank you in advance.

Warmest regards,

Tania Maria Tangit

Joint-Chair

| 4th International Conference on Tourism Research (4ICTR) in

| conjunction

with International Mountain Day | Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysian-Borneo |

9-11 December 2014 |

Jean Claude Thill, President of the Regional Science Association International, had a meeting at the ERSA Conference in Saint Petersburg with Pali Lehohla from the Centre for Regional and Urban Innovation and Statistical Explorationhttp://www0.sun.ac.za/cruise/ having the opportunity to discuss the re-launch of a regional science association in South Africa.

Please find attached the Call for abstracts/papers for the Trends and Challenges on Human Resource International Workshop, which will take place in October 23-24 2014 at ISAG - European Business School, Porto, Portugal.

Abstracts and papers should be submitted to the following email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

For more information about the conference and the updates please visit: http://www.economicsofeducation.com/en/conferences/workshops/.

You are all invited!!!!

Looking forward to hearing from you, we send you our best regards

Please find attached the Call for abstracts/papers for the Trends and Challenges on Human Resource International Workshop, which will take place in October 23-24 2014 at ISAG - European Business School, Porto, Portugal.

Abstracts and papers should be submitted to the following email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

For more information about the conference and the updates please visit: http://www.economicsofeducation.com/en/conferences/workshops/.

You are all invited!!!!

Looking forward to hearing from you, we send you our best regards

Sir Peter Hall, 1932 – 2014
The Guardian, Thursday 31 July 2014 14.09 EDT
Planner with a vision of how people's lives would change – and cities with them Sir Peter Hall outside the Town and Country Planning Association offices in central London, 2007.

Photograph: Graham Turner for the Guardian
The main concern of the geographer and town planner Sir Peter Hall, who has died aged 82, was the growth and change of cities. Britain's leading expert in the field, he was professor of planning and regeneration at the Bartlett, University College London, and president of the Town and Country Planning Association, where we were fellow activists, and the Regional Studies Association. In addition to research, teaching and acting as his subject's great communicator, he
had a direct involvement in public policy.
The special adviser on strategic planning (1991–94) to the environment secretary Michael Heseltine, he helped shape the vision of the East Thames Corridor (later Thames Gateway) and Channel Tunnel rail link (now HS1). He was a somewhat dissident member of John Prescott's Urban Task Force (1998–99), being uncomfortable with his colleagues' enthusiasm for the dense developments referred to by some as "town cramming". Peter was a member of the expert advisory committee to the review of the planning system headed by the economist Kate Barker (2006) and the Eco-Towns Challenge Panel (2008).
In 2009, he co-authored a report on future train stations for the transport secretary, and launched Sintropher, a five-year, €22m (£17.4m), transnational EU programme bringing together five regions in north-west Europe to promote new transport technologies, particularly for tram, train and air intermodal transfer, to assist regional development. His vision of clusters of existing towns and new garden cities to form new dynamic city regions in the north-west, the Midlands and the south-east of England won his team a commendation in the Wolfson economics prize competition in May 2014.
Peter was born in Hampstead, north London, the son of Bertha (nee Keefe) and Arthur. In 1940 the family was relocated to Blackpool because of his father's work in the pensions service; Peter was later to become the chair of Blackpool's regeneration agency (2004-08).
From Blackpool grammar school he went to St Catharine's College, Cambridge, and gained a master's and doctorate in geography. His first appointment was as a lecturer at Birkbeck College, University of London (1957), and he went on to become a reader in geography at the London School of Economics (1966) and professor of geography at Reading University (1968-89).
Running parallel through the 1980s, he was also professor in the department of city and regional planning at the University of California, Berkeley, where he continued until taking up the chair of planning (1992) at the Bartlett, where he was active until his death.
In an interview with Ben Rogers for the Guardian, Peter estimated that he had written around 50 books and 2,100 articles and shorter pieces. He reckoned that he had travelled about 70,000 miles for each of the last 40 years, studying and advising upon cities and regions.
Peter's initial perspective, like many of his contemporaries', was Fabian and framed by the welfare state constructed by Clement Attlee's incoming Labour government of 1945. That postwar political settlement included town and country planning, with its cornerstone being the nationalisation of development rights. The first of Peter's books to attract widespread attention, London 2000 (1963) argued for major replanning of London and the south-east, but describes the likely life of an imaginary future family in a way that was prescient. He could see, as did the American theorist Mel Webber, with his later description of the "realm of the urban non-place",
that we would no longer lead lives that were shaped so much by the design of our immediate locality. An article in New Society (1969) entitled Non-Plan: An Experiment in Freedom (1969), written with Reyner Banham, Paul Barker and Cedric Price, is a classic. It is not what may be expected – an essay against planning – but an essay in support of planning that mattered.
As former industrial cities degenerated in the 1970s, Peter produced a series of papers arguing that "we would aim to recreate the Hong Kong of the 1950s and 1960s inside inner Liverpool or inner Glasgow". Thus came the UK's enterprise zones which, among many consequences, led to the creation of the (ironically tightly planned) Canary Wharf, which was a direct challenge to the pre-eminence in financial services of the City of London.
Peter found traditional political tribes increasingly irrelevant, and told everyone that the leaders he had enjoyed working with most were the Conservative Heseltine and Labour's Andrew Adonis, in whom he found a soulmate in planning strategic rail investment such as Crossrail (not only 1, being constructed west-east under London, but his hoped-for 2, running north-south) and HS2 (from London to the Midlands and beyond, and 3 and hoped-for more).
At Berkeley, Peter was entranced by the effects that information technology would have on the way we lived, and what the impact on the planet would be. But his perspective was panoptic. In his history Cities in Civilisation (1998), emerging technical and economic innovations are interwoven with religion, art, literature and philosophy.
Peter displayed a lifelong commitment to Ebenezer Howard and the garden-city movement that his ideas sustained. Howard's book Tomorrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform (1898, in later editions Garden Cities of Tomorrow) set out his vision for small healthy towns contained by productive agricultural belts which, joined together by excellent public transport, could cluster to support the attractions characteristic of great metropolitan regions. Peter argued that, while large cities have their place, smaller cities on the garden-city model have enormous potential. "I remain very firmly wedded," he said, "to a huge new programme of garden cities." All three
main political parties have now moved to that position.
Recently, Peter had published a major revision of Sociable Cities (first published in 1998), a book exploring the enduring significance of Howard that he had co-authored with the anarchist Colin Ward, who died in 2010. Peter's densely illustrated, roller-coaster ride lectures on growth and change in city regions, including the case for some new towns and garden cities as the antidote to sprawl, were hugely popular, constantly refreshed by his latest garnerings from his travels and research, and given generously and often.
He was knighted in 1998, received numerous prizes and doctorates, and was a fellow of the British Academy (1983). The Queen named him a "pioneer in the life of the nation" at a Buckingham Palace reception in 2003, and two years later Prescott gave him a lifetime achievement award at a sustainable communities summit.
Peter retained his hunger for information of any geographical type and in any form to fuel his expanding universe of comprehension of the way people and places interact, their mutual interdependence and especially their separateness, their competition and compatibility, and their possible destinies and the consequences that flow. Early in his career, he was referred to as a surfer of information, but it was a facility that he turned to advantage. The extent of the connectedness of things was an abiding interest to Peter, and his delight in discovery and in telling us about his discoveries showed an enthusiasm that was both persuasive and infectious.
He was charming and popular with his students and those he advised.
In 1962, Peter married Carla Wartenberg; they divorced in 1966. The following year he married Magdalena Mróz, and she survives him.
Peter Geoffrey Hall, geographer, town planner and social scientist, born 19 March 1932; died 30 July 2014

1. Words of Condolence on the late Yasuhiko Oishi, the Second President of the Japan  Section of RSAI

At the time of January 16, dawn, 2014 (h. 26), The Second President of The Japan Section of the RSAI (1973-1982), Emeritus Professor, The University of Tokyo, Doctor of Economics, Yasuhiko Oishi suddenly passed away.
Our grief is far beyond description, who had gathered in the Japan Section, having the same will and aim. Here, as senior, I will state respectfully to the soul of Oishi in heaven.
Looked back in the Past, Professor initiatively had founded our Japan Section on June 19th, 1962, responding to the requests of the Regional Science Association. Since then, through fifty more years Professor had always occupied the very important position of our Society, concentrated his energies on the theoretical and laborious leadership in the style different from other applied economics and various policy sciences, and contributed to the development of our Japan Section, also holding concurrently the post of the Secretariat, pressed with various business, under the Presidency of Japan Section.
Consequently it has resulted that the flourishing Japan Section may now be shown in the number of members has reached one thousand, and it begins to occupy the position as a prominent figure obviously in the world of the RSAI due to our indefatigable assiduity; which, a good many, really are gifts of his exertion.
Professor was a genuine regional economist, a person of economic policy, various models of whom were the idea being magnificent, the assembly of which was also brief and to the point.
Especially, the short review of “Insufficiency of consideration to the national economic viewpoints (external economies, social benefits)” ＜which was basis to＞ in relation to the two big projects of Watkins’ Mei-Shin Expressway Research and Research Materials for Loan submitted to the World Bank, at the time of the founding of The Japan Regional Science Association, in G. Konno, Y. Oishi, et al. (ed.) Investigation on the Watkins’ Expressway Research Report (Japan Highway Public Corporation, 1957); which has, up to now, played the leading part in our field uninterruptedly. Here, the other contributions are omitted.
When he was in the world, he always furnished the innate balancing sense between his theory and actuality, yet he hitched his wagon to a star; did not cater to the depraved public taste, and moreover he had uncommon intelligence, and was the person of docility and benevolence, so he had fascinating individuality to be rendered profound respect by many juniors who had the pleasure of meeting him.

Ah! Professor meets his end; but his words during his lifetime still ring in our ears; his kindly face while in life shines before our eyes, however, Alas! He is dead and gone! And so early live in the other world.
Consequently, we cannot receive his guidance forever from this time forward.
Alas! Professor is no more. At the thought of these and looking back upon those, from feeling of condolence, our heart is too full for words; here we again intend to confer him the highest meritorious reward of The Japan Section. Ask the soul of Professor, please accept a small token of our gratitude.
And we also swear to prosecute our studies which will be right in the sight of God and you.

Reverently, we made our humble remarks. May his soul in heaven rest in peace and receive these!

January 24th, 2014
The 3rd President of The Japan Section of the RSAI
Emeritus Professor, The University of Tsukuba
Hirotada KOHNO

The 10th Vice-President of The Japan Section of the RSAI
Emeritus Professor, The Senshu University
Katsuyuki KURASHIMO