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Issue Information

Pages: 1-2 | First Published: 02 February 2021

FULL ARTICLES

Open Access

Explaining the dynamics of relatedness: The role of co‐location and complexity

Sándor Juhász, Tom Broekel, Ron Boschma

Pages: 3-21 | First Published: 18 August 2020

EU regional convergence in the agricultural sector: Are there synergies between agricultural and regional policies?

Elena Calegari, Enrico Fabrizi, Gianni Guastella, Francesco Timpano

Pages: 23-50 | First Published: 17 August 2020

The effect of micro‐territorial networks on industrial small and medium enterprises' innovation: A case study in the Spanish region of Cantabria

José Manuel López‐Fernández, Mariluz Maté‐Sánchez‐Val, Francisco Manuel Somohano‐Rodriguez

Pages: 51-77 | First Published: 18 August 2020

Does the geographical mobility of scientists shape their collaboration network? A panel approach of chemists’ careers

Marine Bernard, Bastien Bernela, Marie Ferru

Pages: 79-99 | First Published: 29 July 2020

European cultural heritage and tourism flows: The magnetic role of superstar World Heritage Sites

Elisa Panzera, Thomas de Graaff, Henri L.F. de Groot

Pages: 101-122 | First Published: 02 August 2020

The impact of health status and human capital formation on regional performance: Empirical evidence

Mercedes Gumbau Albert

Pages: 123-139 | First Published: 14 July 2020

Ethnic regional networks and immigrants' earnings: A spatial autoregressive network approach

Xingang Wang, Sholeh A. Maani

Pages: 141-168 | First Published: 02 July 2020

De facto power of elites and regional growth

Seung‐hun Chung, Mark D. Partridge

Pages: 169-202 | First Published: 22 June 2020

Accessibility of land data and information integration in recently‐independent countries: Timor‐Leste case study

Zenoveva X. Correia, Antoni B. Moore, David P. Goodwin

Pages: 203-225 | First Published: 08 July 2020

Measure of accessibility to postal services in France: A potential spatial accessibility approach applied in an urban region

Aurélie Mercier, Stéphanie Souche‐Le Corvec, Nicolas Ovtracht

Pages: 227-249 | First Published: 02 August 2020

Are preferences for city attributes heterogeneous? An assessment using a discrete choice experiment

Diana Romero‐Espinosa, Mauricio Sarrias, Ricardo Daziano

Pages: 251-272 | First Published: 03 August 2020

A theoretical model linking the development of the transportation system with citizens' trust in government actors

Francesca Pagliara, Massimo Aria, Lucia Russo, Valentina Della Corte

Pages: 273-285 | First Published: 19 August 2020

RESEARCH NOTES & COMMENTS

Alternative measure of border effects across regions: Ripley's K‐function method

Ying Ge, Yingxia Pu, Mengdi Sun

Pages: 287-302 | First Published: 02 August 2020

Special Issue of Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science on: The Science of Space

There is nowadays a rising interest in theoretical frameworks for regional science. The Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science (Springer-Nature) has just released a series of articles on this topic, in a special issue edited by Peter Nijkamp, Karima Kourtit and Soushi Suzuki (vol. 5. no.1, March 2021).

You are cordially invited to visit these contributions at: https://link.springer.com/journal/41685/online-first. Also access to: https://rdcu.be/cd1QG

THE NEW ISSUE OF REGIONAL STATISTICS IS ALREADY AVAILABLE!

We are pleased to inform you that a new issue of the Regional Statistics has been released and now it’s avaiable online.

http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2021/eterstat2101.pdf

REGIONAL STATISTICS, 2021, VOL 11, No 1.

STUDIES

Pandelis Mitsis: Examining the environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis using Bayesian model averaging

http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2021/rs110102.pdf

Gianluca Egidi – Magda Edwards –  Sirio Cividino – Filippo Gambella – Luca Salvati: Exploring non-linear relationships among  redundant variables through non-parametric  principal component analysis:  An empirical analysis with land-use data

http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2021/rs110105.pdf

Osama Alhendi – Lóránt Dénes Dávid – Gyula Fodor – Gogo Fredrick Collins Adol – Péter Balogh: The impact of language and quality education  on regional and economic development:  a study of 99 countries

http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2021/rs110101.pdf

Róbert Tésits – Tibor Zsigmond – Levente Alpek – Gábor Hoványi: The role of endogenous capital factors in the territorial development of the Sellye District in Hungary

http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2021/rs110103.pdf

Mustafa Kırca – Mustafa Özer: The effects of tourism demand on regional sectoral employment in Turkey

http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2021/rs110104.pdf

Nilanjan Banik – Buddhadeb Ghosh – Rahul Roy Choudhury  : Impact of MGNREGA on labour wage rate dynamics  in India

http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2021/rs110106.pdf

Inna V. Mitrofanova – Tatjana В. Ivanova – Elena V. Kleitman – Elena R. Mkrtchan: The ‘Smart city‘ concept and its implementors:  On the way to the information control in Volgograd Russia

http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2021/rs110108.pdf

Y Nguyen Cao: Modelling firm relocation decision behaviour  in the Tokyo metropolitan region, through discrete choice theory

http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2021/rs110107.pdf

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Conference website: https://www.rmit.edu.vn/17th-prsco-summer-institute

Please find enclosed a CfP for an online workshop, organized by Robin Hickman (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) and Christine Hannigan (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) University College London around the subject "Critical Discourses on Transport and Urban Development".

Deadlines 

• Abstract submission: 26 March, 2021 
• Notification of acceptance: 9 April, 2021 
• Submission of draft paper: 1 June, 2021 
• Online workshop: 15 June, 2021

Johannes Bröcker, a long-time member of RSAI, passed away after a short illness on January 19, 2021 at the age of 70.  He was an active member of ERSA and a regular participant in the German-speaking section.  He served on the editorial boards of several journals, most prominently the Annals of Regional Science and Spatial Economic Analysis.  His undergraduate degree was from Freiburg and his master and doctoral degrees and habilitation were from Kiel.  With the exception of the period from 1990-2000 when he served as the Chair in Macroeconomics and Regional Science at the University of Dresden, his career was centered in Kiel.  His last appointment, dating from 2000 until he retired in 2015, was as Chair in International and Regional Economics.

Johannes was a brilliant theoretical and applied spatial economist; his advisor, Karin Peschel, (who sadly passed away in June 2020) had worked with Andreas Predhöl on her doctorate and with Rolf Funck on her habilitation and she imbued that strong German location theory tradition in Johannes’ work that later included his support and active participation in the August Lösch Prize committee.  Johannes was the progenitor of the development of spatial computable general equilibrium models and the work reflected his firm foundation in location theory (Bröcker, 1995) where he drew on the work of Lösch and Chamberlin and in the formulation of flows in multi-economy models (Bröcker, 1989).  Subsequently, he provided some integration of general equilibrium and transportation systems (Bröcker and Mercenier, 2011).  However, one of his most highly cited articles (Bröcker, 1988) developed an operational spatial computable equilibrium model building up from Arrow-Debreu equilibrium under perfect competition.  The model was promoted as one that was both transparent and parsimonious (in terms of the number of equations) and perfectly illustrated Johannes’ ability to move effectively from strong theoretical foundations through empirical implementation.  This model and subsequent version were used in a wide variety of applications assessing the impacts of infrastructure investment (especially transportation), transport and trade policy and the impacts of cohesion policies.

He loved to attend meetings and seminars where he enjoyed asking penetrating, imaginative questions; one sensed that he enjoyed being a scholar and the enthusiasm for his work resonated strongly in his publications. 

References

• Johannes Bröcker (1985) “Partial equilibrium theory of interregional trade and the gravity model,” Papers of the Regional Science Association 66, 7– 18.
• Johannes Bröcker (1995) “Chamberlinian spatial computable general equilibrium modelling: a theoretical framework,” Economic Systems Research, 7, 137–149.
• Johannes Bröcker (1998) “Operational Spatial Computable General Equilibrium Modelling,” Annals of Regional Science, 32, 367–387.
• Johannes Bröcker and Jean Mercenier (2011) “General Equilibrium Models for Transportation Economics,” in André de Palma, Robin Lindsey, Emile Quinet, and Roger Vickerman (eds.) Handbook of Transport Economics Vol. 1, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, pp. 21–45.

Obituary on the website of the Institute for Environmental, Resource and Spatial Economics at Kiel University available at http://www.re2.uni-kiel.de/en/documents-pictures/obituary-prof-dr-johannes-brocker

Call for participation - XV World Conference of the Spatial Econometrics Association Tokyo, (Japan), 26th - 28th May 2021.

Due to COVID-19 outbreaks all sessions will be in a real time online format without video presentations. Your slot will be allocated considering your time zone.

 Important Dates:
·      Abstract submission: March 1, 2021 (300-600 words).
·      Notification of acceptance: April 10, 2021
·      Deadline for registration: May 20, 2021
·      Deadline for full paper submission to the Special issue of the
       Journal of Spatial Econometrics August 1, 2021 (state it
       explicitly in the abstract).
·      Jean Paelinck prize for young researcher, full paper by March 1,
       2021

Note: Time zone of the dates above is Japan Standard Time (JST: GMT+09:00).

Plenary/Invited Speakers:
·       Noel Cressie, University of Wollongong
·       Jean Paul Elhorst, University of Groningen
·       Alan E. Gelfand, Duke University
·       Virgilio Gómez-Rubio, The University of Castilla-La Mancha
·       Daniel A. Griffith, The University of Texas at Dallas

 Registration Fees:
·       FREE for all SEA members who pay their membership fees before March 31, 2021.
·       6,000 JPY (about 58 USD and 48 EUR) for SEA members who don’t pay their membership fee for 2021.
·       7,000 JPY (about 67 USD and 56 EUR) for non-members of SEA.
·       3,000 JPY (about 29 USD and 24 EUR) for students.

Conference registration fees include:
·       Annual membership to the Spatial Econometrics Association
        (SEA);
·       Free subscription to the Journal of Spatial Econometrics ;
·       Free participation to the (fully online) Spatial Econometrics  

Advanced Institute (SEAI) summer school -      https://www.spatialeconometricsassociation.org/home-advanced/

More details at the conference webpage: https://confit.atlas.jp/guide/event/sea2021/top

Second and Extended Edition of the Handbook of Regional Science --  a large, multi-volume major reference work with a total of 2,318 pages -- is now officially published!

Handbook of Regional Science

Manfred M. Fischer, Peter Nijkamp (Eds.)

• Covers well-established and newly emerging topics
• Accessible and relevant to both students and researchers
• Prepared by respected scientists in the field

The Handbook of Regional Science is a multi-volume reference work providing state-of-the-art information, prepared by respected scientists in the field. This second edition includes new sections on the history of regional science, and on regional policy. It has been thoroughly updated to reflect new developments, including new chapters on R&D collaboration networks, knowledge spillovers, web-based tools for exploratory spatial data analysis, fuzzy modeling, multivariate spatial process models, heterogeneous coefficient spatial regression panel models, and endogeneity in spatial models, among others. The multi-volume handbook covers the field of regional science comprehensively, including topics such as location and interaction, regional housing and labor markets, regional economic growth, innovation and regional economic development, regional policy in emerging markets, new economic geography and evolutionary economic geography, environmental and natural resources, spatial analysis and geocomputation, as well as spatial statistics and spatial econometrics. The book is intended to serve the needs of graduate students, beginning and experienced scientists in regional science and related fields with an interest in exploring local and regional socio-economic issues.

https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783662607220

University Professor

for the specialist field of urban and regional research

RSPP Call for Papers

Special Issue on

Urban Future in the Global South

The Global South is undergoing an urban revolution with profound consequences to its society, economy, culture, polity, demography, human behaviour, and built and natural environments. Many associates this urbanism to arrhythmic (Lefebvre, 2004; Shaban and Datta, 2019) development of Global South through ‘fast urbanization’ (Datta and Shaban, 2017) based on ‘fast policies’ (Peck and Theodore, 2015) from Global North, while others locate the changes in the paradigm of new economic development and social liberation (Brugmann, 2009).  Some studies have located the urbanization in the Global South within the essence of northern urbanity or ‘planetary’ urbanism (Brenner and Schmid, 2015), while others have differentiated its character and called it ‘Southern Urbanism’ (Schindler, 2017).  ‘Fast’ urbanization and city building is seen as utopia by the post-colonial states of the Global South to overcome their economic underdevelopment. The amassed investments in cities by both the private sector and the entrepreneurial states are sharpening the rural-urban divides in development with massive consequences to both the poverty and aspiration led migration to urban centres, especially to the mega cities. Theme based urbanism and city building from garden city, ecocity, intelligent city to smart city has emerged as a trope for urban future and sustainability.

This urban moment in the Global South is caught in many contradictory processes: slow societies with fast urbanism; burgeoning urban system with imbalanced hierarchies of cities; increased city building and rising houselessness and inadequate social and physical infrastructure; rising means of transport with increased traffic congestions; economic growth with increased inequalities; increased accumulation of wealth in urban centres with increased dispossession of the rural; increased nationalism with increased exoticism; increased emphasis on democracy with decreased citizens’ participation; increased size of government with declining social welfare; increased planning with rising informality; rising economic development with increased adverse environmental consequences; rising middle class with sharpening ethnic divides; increased policing with rising crimes, etc.

In the above context, we invite well-researched papers and case studies from the Global South (Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Oceania) around the following sub-themes (with discussion on implications to the urban future),

1. Urban planning and local context
2. Urban infrastructure (including digital Infrastructure)
3. Urban mobilities
4. Urbanization and democratic participation
5. Socio-spatial segregation and exclusion in cities
6. Urban violence and community resilience
7. Urban environment and climate action
8. Engagement with sustainable urbanization

The papers with peer review process will be published in special issue of the journal Regional Science, Policy and Practice (of the Regional Science Association International).

Editors

Abdul Shaban, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai [This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.]

Tomaz Ponce Dentinho, University of the Azores, Angra do Heroísmo [This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.]

Planning

• Expression of interest until February 15th 2021
• Full paper submission July 31^st 2021
• Online publication date, one month after the paper is accepted
• Expected Compiled Publication July 2022

References

Brenner N and  Schmid C (2015) Towards a New Epistemology of the Urban? City 19 (2-3): 151–182. 

Brugmann J (2009). Welcome To Urban Revolution: How Cities Are Changing The World. New Delhi: HarperCollins.

Datta A and Shaban A (eds) (2016) MegaUrbanization in the Global South: Fast Cities and New Urban Utopias of the Postcolonial State. New York: Routledge.

Lefebvre H (2004) Rhythmanalysis: Space, Time and Everyday Life (Translated by Stuart Elden and Gerald Moore). Paris: Continuum.

Peck J and Theodore N (2015) Fast Policy: Experimental Statecraft at the Thresholds of Neoliberalism. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 

Schindler S (2017) Towards a paradigm of Southern urbanism. City 21(1): 47-64.

Shaban A and Datta A (2019) Towards 'Slow' and 'Moderated' Urbanism. Economic and Political Weekly 54(48):36-42.