Dear Colleagues,

Attached, please find the call for papers for the next EU REAL meeting that will be hold in Warsaw on September 3-4 2020.

This is the week following the ERSA conference, so it could be a good reason to extend your stay in Europe if you already plan to attend the ERSA.

Hope to meet you all in Warsaw!

Bart Rokicki

Dear NECTAR colleagues,

Silvio Nocera (Università IUAV di Venezia, Italy) and Maria Attard (University of Malta, Malta) are launching a  Call for Papers for the Special Issue: Active Travel and Mobility Management.

This is linked to the NECTAR Joint Meeting of Cluster 2: Policy and Environment and Cluster 7: Social and Health Issues, to be held in Venice, Italy, 26-27 March 2020. However, Guests Editors welcome papers not necessarily presented at the Meeting.

Best wishes 

--

Ana Condeço-Melhorado

NECTAR Secretary

https://www.nectar-eu.eu/

Nomination and Selection Protocol of RSAI Fellows

1. Each RSAI member - except RSAI fellows – is entitled to nominate candidates for the RSAI fellowship, but self-nominations are not allowed. Each nomination has to be done through a standard concise nomination form that follows a systematic template.
2. A nominee has to be RSAI member (or a member of any section recognized by the RSAI) and to meet the qualifications mentioned in Annex A.
3. The selection of new RSAI fellows takes place only once a year, but nominations can be sent in at any time and will be considered for a given selection round, if they have been received before a given deadline. A nomination has a maximum life of two years.
4. All nominations will be put on a list supplemented with non-elected candidates for the RSAI fellowship who were on the short list from the previous year.
5. The short list will be screened by the RSAI fellows selection committee (in consultation with the RSAI director). This committee comprises 3 RSAI fellows appointed by the RSAI Council for a period of staggered 3-year terms. The selection committee has to seriously consider all available information on the candidates and can remove candidates (unanimous vote) who do not qualify.
6. The selection committee can also decide to reduce the list of nominated RSAI members to a manageable number, so that candidates can be selected with a qualified majority. This short list should normally not contain more than 10 to 12 names.
7. The short list is next circulated to all RSAI fellows, who have the exclusive right to vote for (a maximum of) 3 candidate-fellows. No ranking of candidates is allowed.
8. The selection committee can put an upper ceiling on the maximum number of candidates to be selected in a given year, if circumstances dictate so.
9. A vote of at least 1/3 will normally mean election, unless that would exceed the ceiling.
10. The selection committee informs the RSAI Director of the final selection results, who will communicate these results to the selected RSAI fellows, the RSAI Council, and the home institutions of the newly appointed fellows.

Standard Nomination Form for RSAI Fellows

1. Factual bio-data on candidate, including a proof for RSAI membership
2. Professional career of candidate (max. 100 words)
3. Substantive contribution to regional science (max. 200 words)
4. Path-breaking publications on regional science (max. 5)
5. Signs of international scientific recognition (max. 50 words)
6. Reasons for nominating the candidate (max. 50 words)

To ensure full consideration by the committee, these materials should be provided in electronic format (pdf preferred) by April 6, 2020 to Kieran Donaghy (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.), Chair 2020 Fellows Election Committee  and cc to Andrea Caragliu (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.), Executive Director of RSAI.

Dear RSAI members,

I hope this email finds you all well.

This year many exciting events are expected in our Association. In a few months (June 2-5) we will celebrate the 13th World Congress of the RSAI. Submissions have passed the 600 threshold and represent authors from 58 Countries, with 39 special sessions submitted from some of the best regional scientists worldwide. Thank you! We all look forward to seeing many of you at the congress venue.

I am also writing you to elicit candidatures (as well as self-nominations) for the 2020 edition of the prestigious RSAI Founder’s Medal. As you probably know, this is among the most importand prizes awarded by the Association, and is bestowed every four years to outstanding regional scientists for outstanding contributions to our discipline. More information on the prize can be found here:

http://www.regionalscience.org/index.php/awards/rsai-founder-s-medal.html

Nominations should be sent within March 27 to the RSAI Executive Director (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.). Candidatures will  then be screened by a committee appointed by the RSAI Council, which consists of Mark Partridge (President); Philip Mc Cann; Lily Kiminami; Andrés Rodrigues Pose; and Dan McMillen. The announcement of the recipient will take place during the next RSAI World Congress in Marrakech.

A written nomination/self-nomination of a candidate for consideration for the RSAI Founder’s Medal should articulate the merit of the nominee for receiving the Founder’s Medal. It must include a detailed statement of the nature of the lifetime contribution a candidate has made to RSAI. The nomination/self-nomination must explain how and why that contribution of the nominee meets the criteria of the RSAI Founder’s Medal outlined below:

• The recipient should be a senior scholar who has contributed in an important way to the field of Regional Science in a scholarly sense;
• The recipient should have been active in the RSAI for a sustained period, but not necessarily active at the time of the award; also, the award is not given posthumously;
• The recipient should be a person with whom many members can identify; his/her contributions could be a major work in one area or many works in several areas;
• The contribution need not be limited to one type of contribution; it might be theory, method or policy, for example;
• It is recognized that the native country and language of scholars affect the extent to which they are known by the membership, and an effort should be made to take this into account.

Thank you all in advance for your participation in the process,

Kind regards,

-- -- Andrea CaragliuExecutive Director, Regional Science Association InternationalAssociate Professor of Regional and Urban EconomicsPolitecnico di MilanoABC DepartmentPiazza Leonardo da Vinci, 3220133 Milan (MI)Italy

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will host the 13th annual Midwest Graduate Student Summit on Applied Economics, Regional and Urban Studies (AERUS) on April 24th – 26th, 2020.

In addition to giving participants the occasion to present their research and receive feedback, this year’s meeting will feature 2 workshops targeted to graduate students, 2 faculty panels on system dynamics and 2 keynote speakers on regional economic systems. 

Workshops:

• Machine learning and big data. Prof. Zhenhua Chen (The Ohio State University).
• Job market season. What to expect? Prof. William Ridley (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign). 

Keynote speakers:

• Christa Court,  Assistant Professor and Director of the Economic Impact Analysis Program, Food and Resource Economics Department, University of Florida. Christa specializes in regional economic modeling, the energy-water nexus, applied spatial econometrics, environmental accounting, and connections in human and natural systems.
• Zhenhua Chen, Assistant Professor, City and Regional Planning Department, The Ohio State University. His research interests include economic impact assessments of infrastructure investment, disasters and resilience using machine learning, Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) models and big data analytics.

Faculty panel:

• Mark Brown, Statistics, Canada
• Sandy Dall’erba, Dept. of Agricultural and Consumer Economics
• Brian Deal, Dept. of Landscape Architecture
• Monica Haddad, Dept. of Community and Regional Planning (Iowa State University)
• Maria Chu Librada, Dept. of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
• Bo Li, Dept. of Statistics
• Nicolas Federico Martin, Dept. of Crop Sciences
• William Ridley, Dept. of Agricultural and Consumer Economics
• Yilan Xu, Dept. of Agricultural and Consumer Economics

The summit is designed to initiate intellectual dialogue on wide array of research areas and spur future research collaborations among participating young scholars. Work at any stage will be accepted, including completed research, research in progress, and research idea/proposal.

Conference presentations address a variety of areas of growing importance to regional scientists, economists, planners, and geographers. Participants are encouraged to submit a proposal on subjects related to the conference themes: Regional Science, Urban Economics, Labor Economics, Economic Geography, Environmental Economics, Resource Geography, Energy Economics, Health Economics, Housing and Real Estate, Development Economics, Spatial Econometric, Computable General Equilibrium, Agent-Based Modeling, Input-Output Analysis. 

 Participants have to send their abstracts (300 words max), by March 15th, 2020.

For register and submitting abstracts please visit  http://aerus2020.web.illinois.edu/ 

Registration fee will be $60, includes 2 workshops, 2 breakfast, 2 coffee-breaks, 2 lunches and a dinner Saturday night.

Please direct your questions or concerns to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 

Looking forward seeing you here!

 Local organizing committee

AERUS 2020