Please find enclosed the call for abstracts for the NECTAR 1 Cluster Workshop in Liege in April 2014.The deadline for submission of abstracts is September 23^rd .

Please note that all enquiries should be directed to the organizing committee at 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.. 

Regional Science Policy & Practice

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Volume 5, Issue 3 Pages i - i, 263 - 368, August 2013

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

Issue Information

Issue Information (page i)
Article first published online: 18 AUG 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1757-7802.2013.01095.x

ARTICLES

A spatial microsimulation approach to economic policy analysis in Scotland (pages 263–288)
Malcolm Campbell and Dimitris Ballas
Article first published online: 16 MAY 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/rsp3.12009

Economic base multipliers: a comparison of ACDS and IMPLAN (pages 289–303)
Gordon Mulligan, Randall Jackson and Amanda Krugh
Article first published online: 16 MAY 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/rsp3.12010

Tolls, exchange rates, and northbound international bridge traffic from Mexico (pages 305–321)
Thomas M. Fullerton Jr., Angel L. Molina Jr and Adam G. Walke
Article first published online: 2 MAY 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/rsp3.12011

Spatial and temporal evolution of urban-rural integrated development levels in Jiangsu Province, China (pages 323–341)
Yueting Guo and Jiangang Xu
Article first published online: 2 MAY 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/rsp3.12012

Growth in Indonesia's manufacturing sectors: Urban and localization contributions (pages 343–368)
Jennifer Day and Peter Ellis
Article first published online: 2 MAY 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/rsp3.12015

University of California, Irvine

Department of Planning, Policy, and Design

Associate or Assistant Professor in Urban and Regional Planning

The Department of Planning, Policy, and Design at UC Irvine invites applications from productive Planning scholars to fill an Associate or Assistant Professor position. The topical focus is open but candidates with research interests in the areas of the legal aspects of land use and environmental planning, planning theory, sustainable development, transportation, environmental planning, and/or international development planning are of special interest in the search. The successful candidate for this tenure-track position will have a Ph.D. in Planning and show clear evidence of strong ties to Planning scholarship and practice. A track record of external funding is desired.

Faculty members in the Department of Planning, Policy, and Design have been ranked in the top ten in scholarly productivity among all U.S. planning programs and a recent survey of over 350 Planning educators ranked UC Irvine’s Master of Urban and Regional Planning program as the second best graduate Planning program in the U.S. and Canada. We have research strengths in land use and transportation, housing and community development, environmental policy and planning, inequality and economic opportunity, urban design, and regional governance and the faculty conducts research in U.S. and international settings. The department offers a Ph.D. degree in Planning, Policy, and Design, a Master of Urban and Regional Planning degree, a collaborative Master of Public Policy degree, and an undergraduate degree in Urban Studies.

For full consideration, candidates should apply by October 11, 2013. The position will remain open until filled. We anticipate that the successful candidate will start July 1, 2014. Candidates should apply online at https://recruit.ap.uci.edu/apply/JPF02087 by submitting a cover letter, c.v., three letters of reference, publications or writing samples, and a brief statement of teaching interests and capabilities. For more information, please contact the search committee chair, Victoria Basolo (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.).

UC Irvine, with over 28,000 students, is a member of the Association of American Universities and is consistently ranked among the nation’s best universities, public and private. The campus is located five miles from the Pacific Ocean and forty miles south of Los Angeles, in a dynamic region at the heart of the diverse Southern California metropolis. UC Irvine is an equal opportunity employer committed to excellence through diversity and strongly encourages applications from all qualified applicants, including women and minorities. UC Irvine is responsive to the needs of dual career couples, is dedicated to work-life balance through an array of family-friendly policies, and is the recipient of an NSF ADVANCE Award for gender equity.

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA, Department of Geography, invites applications for a tenure-track position in Human Geography at the rank of Assistant Professor. The successful candidate will exhibit clear potential for a robust extramurally funded research program in Population, Development, and/or Health that is empirically grounded and informed by social science theory. Candidates will preferably have research programs that integrate at least two of these domains. A Ph.D. is required by the date of appointment. Current human geography faculty members are active participants in the Broom Center for Demography, the Center for Spatial Studies, and graduate emphases in Cognitive Science and Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences. We welcome candidates who are willing to collaborate with departmental faculty in spatial science and physical geography, and/or with faculty from other research units and departments across campus. To learn more about the department, visit our website at www.geog.ucsb.edu. The application deadline is November 30, 2013; the starting date is July 1, 2014.

To apply, please log in to  https://recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/apply/JPF00215 to submit your cover letter, curriculum vitae, statements of research and teaching interests, and names of three referees with their contact information. For more information, please contact the search committee chair Dr. Stuart Sweeney (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.).

The department is especially interested in candidates who can contribute to the diversity and excellence of the academic community through research, teaching, and service. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer.

The School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning at ASU offer instruction, research and outreach in geography, urban planning and GIS, with several undergraduate and graduate degree programs, exciting interdisciplinary research efforts and centers, and important community engagement. 

Through ASU Online, the university offers online degree programs that may be of interest to students searching for distance options, or those who are otherwise unable to attend ASU's in-house programs. The ASU Online GIS webpage is: https://asuonline.asu.edu/online-degree-programs/undergraduate/geographic-information-science-bs

Programs and Degrees in Regional Science

B.S. in Geography with GIS Certificate

B.S. in Geography (Urban Studies with GIS Certificate)

B.S. in Geography

GIS Certificate

M.A. in Geography

Masters of Advanced Study (M.A.S.) in Geographic Information Systems

Ph.D. in Geography (Computational Spatial Science at ASU)

Thesis on Regional Science in the last five years

2013

Nicholas Malizia - Ph.D. - Essays on Space-Time Interaction Tests

Anselin (Chair), Rey, Murray

Pedro Amaral - Ph.D. - The spatial distribution of health equipment in Brazil    

Roberts (Cambridge); visiting student at GeoDa Center

2012

David Folch - Ph.D. - The Centralization Index as a Measure of Local Spatial Segregation

Rey (Chair), Anselin, Murray

Ran Wei - Ph.D. - Addressing Geographic Uncertainty In Spatial Optimization

Murray (Chair), Anselin, Rey, Mack

Jing Yao - Ph.D. - Spatial Optimization Approaches for Solving the Continuous Weber and multi-Weber Problems        

Murray (Chair), Anselin, Rey

2011

Der-Shiuan Lee - Ph.D. – Taiwan Intermetropolitan Networks of Co-invention in American Biotechnology

Ó Huallacháin (Chair), Kuby, Anselin

Daniel Arribas-Bel - Ph.D. - Essays on the distribution and spatial structure of cities     

Rey; visiting student at GeoDa Center

Students Awards in Regional Science

Pedro Amaral

2011 - Editor's Choice for Best Referee in Spatial Economic Analysis, Regional Studies Association

2010 - Graduate Student Paper Competition (3rd place), North American Regional Science Council

2009 - Taught Master Award (now known as Nathaniel Lichfield Award), Regional Studies Association

2008 - Best Young Spatial Econometrician - Applied Paper, Spatial Econometrics Association

Elizabeth Mack

2013 - Regional Studies Association (RSA) Early Career Research Grant

2009-2010 - 10th Annual Benjamin Stevens Graduate Fellowship, North American Regional Science Council

Regional Science Scholars

Link Staff

Papers in Regional Science

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Volume 92, Issue 3 Pages 445 - 689, August 2013

The latest issue of Papers in Regional Science is available on Wiley Online Library

ARTICLES

Over-education and spatial flexibility: New evidence from Italian survey data (pages 445–464)
Carlo Devillanova
Article first published online: 30 APR 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1435-5957.2012.00434.x

Closing the gap between absolute and relative measures of localization, concentration or specialization (pages 465–479)
Frank Bickenbach, Eckhardt Bode and Christiane Krieger-Boden
Article first published online: 23 OCT 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1435-5957.2012.00460.x

Unemployment by gender and gender catching-up: Empirical evidence from the Italian regions (pages 481–494)
Marianna Belloc and Riccardo Tilli
Article first published online: 29 MAR 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1435-5957.2012.00427.x

Entrepreneurial quality and regional development: Characterizing SME sectors in low income areas (pages 495–513)
José Fernández-Serrano and Isidoro Romero
Article first published online: 22 FEB 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1435-5957.2012.00421.x

Urban spatial structure, agglomeration economies, and economic growth in Barcelona: An intra-metropolitan perspective (pages 515–534)
Miquel-Àngel Garcia-López and Ivan Muñiz
Article first published online: 19 DEC 2011 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1435-5957.2011.00409.x

Does political fragmentation lead to budgetary incrementalism? An empirical test on the French local public sector (pages 535–553)
Benoît Le Maux and Wenjia Zhang
Article first published online: 29 FEB 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1435-5957.2012.00420.x

Towards an integrated European Research Area? Findings from Eigenvector spatially filtered spatial interaction models using European Framework Programme data (pages 555–577)
Thomas Scherngell and Rafael Lata
Article first published online: 13 MAR 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1435-5957.2012.00419.x

US state and local fiscal policies and non-metropolitan area economic performance: A spatial equilibrium analysis (pages 579–597)
Yihua Yu and Dan S. Rickman
Article first published online: 27 MAR 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1435-5957.2012.00423.x

Tariff policy and transport costs under reciprocal dumping (pages 599–608)
Jun Oshiro
Article first published online: 7 FEB 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1435-5957.2012.00417.x

Heterogeneous households and firms in an urban model with open space and agglomeration economies (pages 609–631)
Chen Feng Ng
Article first published online: 29 MAR 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1435-5957.2012.00426.x

Testing a polynomial relationship of the non-parametric component in partially linear spatial autoregressive models (pages 633–649)
Tizheng Li and Changlin Mei
Article first published online: 30 MAR 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1435-5957.2012.00428.x

A Bayesian spatial econometric analysis of the 2010 UK General Election (pages 651–666)
Christa D. Jensen, Donald J. Lacombe and Stuart G. McIntyre
Article first published online: 7 FEB 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1435-5957.2012.00415.x

R&D competition in a spatial model with technical risk (pages 667–682)
Changying Li and Jianhu Zhang
Article first published online: 24 APR 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1435-5957.2012.00433.x

BOOK REVIEWS

Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Regional Development: An Introduction. by Jay Mitra. Abingdon: Routledge, 2012. 348 pp. £34.99. ISBN: 978-0-415-40516-4. (pages 683–684)
Michael Fritsch
Article first published online: 6 AUG 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/pirs.12039

Networking Regionalised Innovative Labour Markets. edited by Ulrich Hilpert and Helen Lawton Smith (eds). Series: Regions and Cities. New York: Routledge. 2013. 206 pp. £75.00. ISBN: 978-0-415-68356-2. (pages 684–685)
Johan P. Larsson
Article first published online: 6 AUG 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/pirs.12040

Creating Knowledge Locations in Cities: Innovation and Integration Challenges. edited by Willem van Winden , Luis de Carvalho , Erwin van Tuijl , Jeroen van Haaren and Leo van den Berg (eds). London: Routledge. 2012. 272 pp. £90. ISBN: 978-0-415-69854-2. (pages 685–689)
Karima Kourtit
Article first published online: 6 AUG 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/pirs.12031

The School of Geography and Development (SGD) is part of a top-ranked Research One land-grant university. The faculty and graduate student expertise covers the entire spectrum of contemporary geography. SGD offers a range of academic and professional degrees at the undergraduate and graduate levels. 

The Regional Economics And Spatial Modeling (REASM) laboratory is a research center focusing on the development of theories and tools to model urban, regional and interregional economic systems. Founded in 2012 by Drs. Sandy Dall’erba and Daoqin Tong, REASM’s expertise consists in modeling spatial interactions based on techniques such as Geographical Information Systems, spatial statistics, spatial econometrics, interregional input-output and spatial optimization analysis. Applications cover fields as broad as regional economic growth, regional and local development, public policies, the housing market, public and private service facility location, farmers’ markets, transportation and, more recently, the impact of climate change on agriculture.

Programs and Degrees in Regional Science

Regional Economics And Spatial Modelling Laboratory - REASM		School of Geography and Development – SGD

Thesis on Regional Science in the last five years

2012

Liz Ileana Rodriguez-Gamez- Ph.D. - New perspectives on the spatial analysis of urban employment distribution and commuting patterns: The cases of Hermosillo and Ciudad Obregon, Mexico

Sandy Dall’erba

2011

Trevor Kollmann- Ph.D. - Housing Markets, Government Programs, and Race during the Great Depression

Sandy Dall’erba

2010

Jason Jurjevich- Ph.D. - Compositional and Contextual Effects Across Political Landscapes: Case Studies of Migration and Same-Sex Marriage 

David Plane

2008

Sandra Holland- Ph.D. - Hedonic Modeling of the Tucson Housing Market: The Effect of Educational Submarkets on House Prices

David Plane

Students Awards in Regional Science

Honorable Mention Status - 25th Charles M. Tiebout Prize Competition- Western Regional Science meeting

2011 - Liz Ileana Rodriguez-Gamez - Employment density in Hermosillo, 1999-2004: a spatial econometric approach of local parameters

Finalist - 25th Charles M. Tiebout Prize Competition- Western Regional Science meeting

2011 - Trevor Kollmann - Impact of African American Migration on Housing in New York City Neighborhoods during the Great Depression

Regional Science Scholars

Link Staff 1 and Link Staff 2

The RSAI Council of Palermo approved unanimously the inclusion of the Regional Science Association of Morocco as an official section of RSAI. The Regional Science Association of Morocco is the first RSAI section in Africa and more sections could appear following the Regional Science activities in South Africa, Angola, Cape Verde and Maghreb countries.

Volume Editors:  Pierre Filion (University of Waterloo), Mark Skidmore (Michigan State University) and This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (Wayne State University)

Disasters – sudden cataclysmic events, resulting in property damage and loss of life – appear to be occurring with increasing frequency and intensity.  This can be attributed, in part, to global growth in urbanization.  As the number and size of cities increases, the potential and importance of these events also increases; flooding that destroys a city has greater impact than one that only destroys crops.

Despite more frequent occurrences, efforts to better anticipate disasters have been limited.  Moreover, once the disaster has occurred, the effectiveness of recovery efforts is often inadequate.  The proposed book will contribute to the understanding of the relationship between disasters and how cities prepare for, and recover from, them.

The editors envision the book will have two primary organizational dimensions. The first is temporal, with the disaster event at the center.  We are interested in papers that address what cities do to prepare for disasters and what occurs in subsequent recovery efforts.  (We do not anticipate that the book will include papers dealing exclusively with actual disaster events.)  The planning and preparation for the disaster may focus on risk assessment, cost-benefit analysis, and other aspects.  Of particular interest would be papers that consider how emerging disaster risks (new pandemics, terrorism) are evaluated and addressed.  Papers dealing with post-disaster recovery may include analysis of choices with respect to rebuilding (where, what), the pace of recovery efforts or policy changes (including new codes and ordinances that are adopted to mitigate future damage).

The second organizational dimension is the continuum that runs from disasters brought on by natural events (hurricanes, earthquakes) to disasters brought on by human action (terrorism).  Given the urban focus of this book, this dimension will address disasters that occur at the nexus of human and natural activity.  Thus, papers dealing with primarily natural phenomena (drought, climate change) will be considered only if they address ways that these events affect urban populations.  Comparative studies (before and after, successful and unsuccessful, primarily human and primarily natural events, international cases) are encouraged.

This volume will be part of the Global Urban Studies series, edited by Laura A. Reese (Michigan State University) for Ashgate Press.  Volumes in this series are international and interdisciplinary in content.  Individual papers may provide comparative analyses, case studies, risk analyses, policy and theoretical analyses.

Papers should be no more than 40 double spaced pages, including tables, figures and citations.

Interested authors should submit an abstract, of no more than 300 words, that describes the proposed research questions, data, and methodology, along with an outline of the proposed paper and a brief summary of the authors’ qualifications.  This material should be submitted by September 15, 2013.  The editors will respond to each proposal by October 15, 2013.  The deadline for submitting the completed paper is March 15, 2014.

Proposals should be submitted to Professor Gary Sands at 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.. Authors may contact any of the editors of this volume with questions.

19th APDR Workshop - International Workshop

Resilient territories: innovation and creativity for new modes of regional development

Venue: Faculty of Economics, University of Algarve, Faro, PORTUGAL

Date: 29th November 2013

Background

In a context of economic turbulence, resilient territories gained relevance for academics, planners and decision makers. Resilience can be understood as a non-equilibrium characteristic that facilitates a socio-economic system to recover from a negative impact by re-entering a former trajectory or by adapting a new trajectory that successfully deals with the external pressures. Resilience is also connected but not fully integrated in literature with more stabilized notions, such as innovation and creativity. The International Workshop in “Resilient territories”, co-organized by APDR - Portuguese Association for Regional Development and CIEO – Centre for Spatial and Organizational Dynamics of the University of Algarve, invites senior and early stage researchers, but also practioners, working in the following topics, to debate the research and policy-making agenda, in a transdisciplinary perspective, for this particular field of innovation studies and regional science.

Topics

1. Theoretical contributions towards the integration of resilience, innovation, creativity and/or other relevant regional science branches
2. Empirical studies focusing the conditions for resilient territories
3. Smart specialization connections with creativity and innovation
4. Impacts of talent and human capital in regional development
5. Articulation of related variety and resilience
6. Different forms of cosmopolitanism in innovation, creativity and resilience
7. Clustering dynamics, and resilience
8. Maritime economy and niches of excellence
9. Comparative studies on institutional factors that shape resilience
10. RIS3 instruments focused in innovation and creativity
11. Policies implemented in resilient territories

Expected contributions of the conference

The conference intends to contribute for the definition and advancing of the scientific agenda in the topics of resilience, innovation and regional creativity. The conference is also focused in informing policy and decision-makers, in different levels of action, about the advancements of conceptualization in these domains. This may have relevant impacts in the process of planning, designing new policy measures and instruments, specifically for the implementation of Research and Innovation Strategies for Smart Specialisation (RIS 3), that can help the construction of more resilient territories in Europe.

This workshop also integrates a focus group discussion about “Human Capital and Related Variety in the Maritime Economy” developed by HARVEST Atlantic – Harnessing all resources valuable to economies of seaside territories on the Atlantic, project co-financed by the European cooperation program INTERREG Atlantic Area, through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).

IMPORTANT DATES:

Abstract Submission: October 5, 2013

Results of the review process: October 19, 2013

Paper Submission: November 1, 2013

Registration with Reduced Price: November 1, 2013

For more information follow:  http://www.apdr.pt/evento_19/