Council
Elisabete Martins
Position for an Assistant or Associate Professor in Economics of Sustainability (apply by Nov 20)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences
Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics
Position Announcement
The Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics (ACE) seeks to fill a position for an Assistant or AssociateProfessor in Economics of Sustainability.
This position builds on existing strength in the Department of ACE in environmental and natural resource economics, and is part of an initiative to build a center for the economics of sustainability that includes research related to the environment, agriculture, development, and consumer behavior. The department is particularly interested in hiring someone with methodological skills that are complementary to our existing capacity in econometrics, including methods such as optimization, simulation, or experiments.
The University of Illinois is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action employer. Minorities, women, veterans and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply. For more information, visit http://go.illinois.edu/EEO.
Primary Duties include:
- Develop a nationally prominent research program with publications in leading peer-reviewed scholarly journals and extramural funding
- Contribute to the department’s undergraduate and graduate teaching programs through teaching (generally two courses per year) and student advising.
All candidates must hold a Ph.D. in agricultural/applied economics, economics, finance, or related field. Candidates should show potential for a strong research and teaching program in their area of specialization, and have completed their degree before the start date of the appointment.
Salary is commensurate with experience. Start date is as soon as possible after the close of the search. This position is 100% full time, nine-month, tenure-track appointment.
To ensure full consideration, candidates should apply by November 20, 2019. Candidates may be interviewed before the closing date; however no hiring decision will be made until after that date. To apply, please create a candidate profile at jobs.illinois.edu and upload a cover letter, curriculum vitae, a sample of written work, a research statement, a teaching statement and three letters of reference. Applicants who are currently graduate students or post-doctoral fellows must also submit transcripts from graduate program(s). All requested information must be submitted for your application to be given full consideration. Please contact Melissa Warmbier at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or 217-333-8859 with questions.
The University of Illinois conducts criminal background checks on all job candidates upon acceptance of a contingent offer.
RSPP Call for Papers | Special Issue on New directions in regional development and spatial inequalities
RSPP Call for Papers
Special Issue on New directions in regional development and spatial inequalities
Dear Colleagues,
The originality in methodological contributions and empirical applications of the papers presented at the 16th European Union Regional Economics Applications Laboratory (EU REAL) Workshop, in Pescara (Abruzzo, Italy) in September 3-4, 2019, created the challenge to publish a special issue on the journal Regional Science Policy and Practice (Regional Science Policy & Practice - RSPP).
This special issue wishes to analyse the topics related (but not limited to):
- Regional economic growth and development;
- Regional, rural and urban policy;
- Infrastructure, transport flows and networks among regions;
- Input-Output (I-O) and Computable General Equilibrium models (CGEs);
- Tourism and regional development;
- Migration and regional labour markets;
- Regional healthcare planning and migration flows;
- Quantitative methods for regional sciences;
- Spatial concentration and spatial inequalities;
- Spatial econometrics and statistics;
- Natural environment, resources and sustainable development
Coordinators of this Special Issue Editor will be Mauro Ferrante (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.) and Paolo Postiglione (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).
Authors are invited to send their abstract by the 31th of October, 2019 to Paolo Postiglione (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).
The papers will be selected by the 25th of October, 2019 should be submitted to the regular review process of the journal until December 20th, 2019. With a regular review process, it is expected that the papers will be publish on the 4th Issue of 2020.
Invitation to the 5th meeting of the Spatial Productivity Lab, the OECD Trento Centre for Local Development
OECD SPATIAL PRODUCTIVITY LAB 5th MEETING
Spatial productivity for regional and local development
The OECD Spatial Productivity Lab (SPL)The OECD Spatial Productivity Lab (SPL) is a dedicated research laboratory that works with local and global partners to improve our understanding of the spatial dimension of productivity growth, the relevance of links between different types of areas and how regional policy can facilitate productivity growth, creation of better jobs and increased well-being. The OECD Spatial Productivity Lab at the OECD Trento Centre for Local Development is an integral part of the OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities. The mission of the Trento Centre is to build capacities for local development in OECD member and non-member countries, working directly with policy makers at all levels of government. Focus of this meetingThe 5th SPL meeting is intended to bring together academics, policy-makers and practitioners to discuss the ways of enchancing aggregate productivity growth while decreasing subnational inequalities in productivity performance. The agenda includes several presentations by researchers with different backgrounds and will offer plentiful opportunities for interactions and discussions. The meeting will start with a comprehensive overview of the literature, which identifies spatial and aspatial (those based on the firm- and industry-level research) productivity determinants and will demonstrate how the latter group is also linked to the underlying spatial dimension. After this introduction, the invited speakers will look at specific mechanisms and processes related to geographical variations in productivity, such as agglomerations, Global Value Chains, migration, innovation networks and sorting of businesses and individuals across space. The meeting will conclude with reflections on policy implications of the current research and the ways forward. ParticipationThe event is open to experts, civil society and all interested parties upon registration. |
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Materials & InformationDraft Agenda To register, please fill in this online form by 1 October 2019 23:59 CET. Venue OECD Venice Office OECD Contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
RSPP Call for Papers | Special Issue on Tackling with societal, technological and climate changes in peripheral territories
RSPP Call for Papers
Special Issue on Tackling with societal, technological and climate changes in peripheral territories
Dear Colleagues,
Nowadays, peripheral regions have become an essential objective of regional science. Those territories can be understood as the outer peripheries, especially in the European Union, where the migratory pressure is quite evident. And as the so-called inner peripheries, where depopulation is a challenge that calls into question the survival of some of these regions.
Regional science should be considered as a point of confluence of multiple approaches, and it is usual to interpret the evolution of regions in terms of economic development, placing the economy at the core of territorial policy decisions. However, it is necessary to introduce other approaches to territorial development. As such, issues such as demographic change and depopulation risk have been incorporated in European structural and investment funds of Agenda 2021-2027.
The aim should be to generate opportunities in peripheral areas and reduce the gap between regions, guaranteeing the differential elements of both. Regional science must provide compatible and respectful solutions with the use of endogenous resources of all type of regions.
The proper platform for presenting scientific novelty and the policy relevance of the proposed papers will be the XLV International Conference on Regional Science: "Tackling with societal, technological and climate changes in peripheral territories " (20-22, November 2019, Universitat Jaume I, Castellon, Spain).
A special issue of the journal Regional Science Policy and Practice will publish selected papers presented at the conference, under the same theme. Both empirical and theoretical papers will be considered. Submissions should be made using the journal's online submission portal (https://rsaiconnect.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/17577802), and the deadline is January 31, 2020.
The coordinators of special issue are:
Vicente Budi Orduña (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
Emili Tortosa Ausina (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
Luisa Alamá Sabater (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
It is with great sadness that we announce that Roger Stough passed away
Our colleague Roger Stough died recently. Prof. Stough was University Professor at the School of Policy, Government and International Affairs at George Mason University (GMU). He has been president of the Regional Science Association International for the 2007-2008 term, and greatly contributed to the further expansion of the Association both in terms of new country sections as well as individual members. He also actively participated in the launch of our policy journal, Regional Science Policy & Practice, and gave countless contributions to the successful activities of the North American Regional Science Council (NARSC) and the Western Regional Science Association (WRSA). He also served as Co-Editor in Chief of The Annals of Regional Science, greatly contributing to the growth of this journal, among the top in our discipline.
In 1964, Roger obtained a BSc in International Trade at the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio; in 1971, he obtained an M.A. in Economic Geography from the University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina; and in 1978 he obtained a Ph.D. in Geography and Environmental Engineering from the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.
For his outstanding scientific contributions, in 2006 he has also been granted a Doctorate Honoris Causa from the University of Jonkoping, Sweden, while in 2008 he was appointed Fellow of the Regional Science Association International.
Roger has been an outstanding scholar. He has published 45 books published (authored and/or edited); 85 journal articles; and 90 chapters in books.
On top of these achievements, Roger was a wise and decent man. We dare anyone to find a memory of Roger angry at anyone. He would be always ready to listen and give advice to both young and more experienced colleagues, and his smile would often ease the tension in complicated meetings.
The regional science community will miss Roger a lot, and would like to present its condolences to Roger’s family.
The Annals of Regional Science, Vol. 63, Issue 1
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CALL for Special Issue 2019: CROSS BORDER COOPERATION AND PERIPHERAL AREAS IN EUROPE - Eastern Journal for European Studies (EJES)
CALL for Special Issue 2019: CROSS BORDER COOPERATION AND PERIPHERAL AREAS IN EUROPE
Journal: Eastern Journal for European Studies (EJES), http://ejes.uaic.ro/
Guest editor: Tomás Lopes Cavalheiro Ponce Dentinho (University of the Azores, Centro de Estudos de Economia Aplicada do Atlântico, Portugal)
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
- The proposals for this special issue (max. 500 words) should be submitted by e-mail to: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (with the mention: Special Issue on CBC_Border regions), by October 30th, 2019.
- The authors will be notified about the acceptance of their proposal by November 30th, 2019.
- The deadline for paper submission is February 28th, 2020; however, early submissions are welcome.
- The contributors are required to follow the authors’ guidelines, available at: http://ejes.uaic.ro/author_guidelines.htm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE TOPIC:
Cross border cooperation (CBC) is a key element at least for two EU’ policies: Cohesion Policy and Neighbourhood Policy, but also having a wider spectrum of linkages with other sectors of the European integration: internal market, transport and communication, justice and home affairs, culture and education, environment and sustainable development.
By addressing these specific challenges of the border regions (internal or external), the CBC could transform the periphery into “new centre”, offering more visibility for territories affected by peripheral conditions, the barriers could be shaped into new development opportunities in order to increase tolerance and strength democracy, CBC could also reduce the internal EU’ territorial disparities, could promote the stability and the security at the external borders of the EU.
This special issue on Cross border cooperation and peripheral areas in Europe aims to collect a set of studies on:
- the CBC potential to respond to some of key challenges for border regions (frequently, most border regions are characterised by peripheral conditions: trade specialisation in low and medium tech industries, intensive in resources and labour force, low accessibility and connectivity, institutional fragility and poor governance, weak quality of social capital, reduced capacity to attract investments and human capital, to generate economies of scale or economic agglomeration advantages as sources of competitiveness, growth and sustainable development;
- the efficiency and the effectiveness of the EU’ programs for cross-border cooperation;
- the CBC capacity to diminish the border effects at the external frontiers of the EU;
- the Euro-regions functionality;
- good practices in CBC programming or national policies related to the border regions and cross-border cooperation;
- the impact of the European integration process on the border barriers;
- the role of the cross-border cooperation on the core-periphery dynamics;
- CBC and the border regions’ resilience;
- Cross border cooperation, economic integration, regional convergence.
By this special issue, we intend to contribute to a better understanding of the CBC programs, processes, activities, linkages with the various sectors and policies of the EU, with high relevance for evidence-based policymaking.
RSPP Call for Papers | Special Issue on New Landscape of Data and Sustainable Development in Asia
RSPP Call for Papers
Special Issue on New Landscape of Data and Sustainable Development in Asia
Data analysis plays a key role in shaping, designing, and evaluating regional policies that target sustainable development. Recent advances in information technology have contributed to a new landscape of unconventional data—mobile phones usage, online commercial transactions, social media, and biometrics—that are available in a multitude of formats, volumes, and spatial dimensions, with various degree of veracity and velocity, all with largely untapped potential. While the emergence of new data offers real-time insights from different perspectives for planning and policy analysis, it may require a different approach to extract previously unavailable information and use it to promote sustainability. The new analytical approaches and sources of data at the same time raise new security challenges, privacy concerns, and equity issues. Examining the pros and cons of the data revolution in the search for answers to previously unattainable research questions is thus of interest not only to academia but also to practitioners and policymakers.
The aim and scope of RSPP is to serve as a platform to address the interface between academic debates and policy development and application. The specific objective of this Special Issue is to promote discussions regarding the new landscape of data and its implications for sustainability. The Special Issue focuses particularly on Asia, where many cities, regions, and countries today are struggling to cope with the lack of infrastructure, climate change, rapid urbanization, land degradation, unstable political environments, deprivation, and the growing divide between those who have and do not have access to information. We invite papers that make use of new data sources and analysis to address challenges to sustainable development, broadly defined. We are interested in applied studies using regional science modes of analysis or other closely-related multidisciplinary approaches, as well as technical studies with implications for sustainability.
The Special Issue will be guest-edited by Yuri Mansury (Illinois Institute of Technology), Sutee Anantsuksomri (Chulalongkorn University), and Nij Tontisirin (Thammasat University).
Keywords and topics for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to:
- Artificial intelligence
- Big data analysis
- Computational modeling & simulation
- Information & Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructure
- Land cover and land use
- Machine learning
- Networks
- Prediction
- Remote sensing
- Social media
- Spatial analysis
- Urbanization
Papers should be submitted to the regular review process of the journal (https://rsaiconnect.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/17577802) until December 15 th of 2019.
The latest issue of Regional Science Policy & Practice are available! Volume 11, Issue 3 Pages 443-628, August 2019
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Regional Science Policy & Practice Pages: 443-628 August 2019 |
ISSUE INFORMATION
Pages: 443-444 | First Published: 12 August 2019
SPECIAL SECTION: LOCAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND TOURISM DEVELOPMENT IN PERIPHERAL AREAS BETWEEN POLICIES AND PRACTICES
Local entrepreneurship and tourism development in peripheral areas between policies and practices
Maria Giulia Pezzi, Alessandra Faggian, Neil Reid
Pages: 445-449 | First Published: 12 August 2019
Open Access
Igor Calzada
Pages: 451-466 | First Published: 14 June 2018
Ruxandra Ana, Oskar Lubiński
Pages: 467-477 | First Published: 15 October 2018
Marco Eimermann, Karin Tillberg Mattsson, Doris A. Carson
Pages: 479-492 | First Published: 05 October 2018
Arturo Di Bella, Gianni Petino, Luigi Scrofani
Pages: 493-507 | First Published: 11 January 2019
Cultural tourism and rural entrepreneurship: A case study of a Scandinavian literary festival
David W. Marcouiller, Knut Ingar Westeren
Pages: 509-524 | First Published: 05 April 2019
OTHER ARTICLES
Carlos Llano, Julián Pérez, Federico Steinberg, Geoffrey J.D. Hewings
Pages: 525-547 | First Published: 28 March 2019
Do European Funds support the formation of firms? New evidence from Italy
Andrea Ciffolilli, Eleonora Cutrini, Marco Pompili
Pages: 549-569 | First Published: 26 April 2019
Using local public goods to attract and retain the creative class: A tale of two cities
Amitrajeet A. Batabyal, Karima Kourtit, Peter Nijkamp
Pages: 571-581 | First Published: 28 May 2019
Development policy and regional economic convergence: The case of Tunisia
Mohamed Ali Labidi
Pages: 583-595 | First Published: 03 May 2019
Akifumi Kuchiki
Pages: 597-612 | First Published: 28 March 2019
Khalid Al Badi
Pages: 613-620 | First Published: 19 June 2019
BOOK REVIEWS
Heat, greed and human need: Climate change, capitalism and sustainable wellbeing ‐ By Ian Gough
Gordon F. Mulligan
Pages: 621-624 | First Published: 16 January 2019
Macroeconomics of the Black Economy ‐ By Saumen Chattopadhyay
Amitrajeet A. Batabyal
Pages: 625-626 | First Published: 25 January 2019
Rüdiger Hamm
Pages: 626-628 | First Published: 12 February 2019
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