Training Workshop on “Spatial Data Lab”

Co-Organized by

China Data Institute

Geospatial Center for Social Sciences, Wuhan University

Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

Join us for the online workshop on July 8, 2019 at 8:30 PM EDT (New York Time)

Register Now!

• · Open platform for spatial data sharing with WorldMap, Wendy Guan, Harvard University
• · Open platform for data management with DataVerse, Gustavo Durand and Danny Brooke, Harvard University
• · Spatial data analysis with GeoDa and GeoDaSpace, Xun Li, University of Chicago
• · Drive data and AI with workflow tools, Alex Liu, RMDS/IBM
• · Integrate, Automate, Innovate Self-Service Analytics, Sandeep Saini, Grazitti

Note: The web conference in the morning will be open to public. Please click here for the online registration. After registering, you will receive an email notice containing information about joining the webinar.

For the full agenda of the workshop onsite, please visit:

https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/chinadatalab/event/training-workshop-“spatial-data-lab”

Dear colleagues,

 Please find attached a call for papers for the conference "Resensitizing cities: Urban Ambiances and Senses" to be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from October 2  to 5, 2019

The deadline for the submission of full papers is 15 July 2019.

      "Resensitizing cities" is an event that integrates the preparatory agenda for the UIA 2020, and will be promoted by LASC / Proarq UFRJ.

      The aim of this conference is to investigate the practice of urban daily life and the study of rhythms of life, intertwined with the daily life of cities, on a small scale. Through the look at senses that interfere in uses and appropriations in the urban environment, we intend to deepen the thinking about strategies of articulation between the urban experience and the affectivity in the great metropolis.

      The routine of the event includes the presentation of papers and also the accomplishment of experiences in the streets through a central result coming from the workshops of theoretical and practical reflections.

Conference web:  https://workshoplasc2019.wixsite.com/ressensitizingcities?lang=en

Feel free to pass this notice on to colleagues and/or students! Thank you.

Cristiane Duarte and Ethel Pinheiro

RESENSITIZING CITIES urban ambiances and senses - october 2nd to 5th, 2019

RESSENSIBILIZANDO CIDADES ambiências urbanas e sentidos - de 2 a 5 de outubro, 2019

https://workshoplasc2019.wixsite.com/ressensitizingcities

lasc.fau.ufrj.br

ISSUE INFORMATION

Issue Information

Pages: 211-212 | First Published: 25 June 2019

SPECIAL SECTION: INNOVATION PROCESSES IN RURAL AREAS

Innovation processes in rural areas

Lívia Madureira, André Torre

Pages: 213-218 | First Published: 25 June 2019

LEADER 2007–2013: An innovation dependent on local and national institutional arrangements? Some European illustrations

Pascal Chevalier, Dominique Vollet

Pages: 219-234 | First Published: 29 November 2018

Governance, institutions and innovation in rural territories: The case of Coruche innovation network

Maria de Fátima Ferreiro, Cristina Sousa

Pages: 235-250 | First Published: 25 October 2018

Shedding light on rural innovation: Introducing and applying a comprehensive indicator system

Teresa Maria Gamito, Lívia Madureira

Pages: 251-277 | First Published: 04 January 2019

Proximities and the role of relational networks in innovation: The case of the dairy industry in two villages of the “green municipality” of Paragominas in the Eastern Amazon

André Torre, Etienne Polge, Frederic Wallet

Pages: 279-294 | First Published: 19 December 2018

Innovative capabilities of users of agricultural R&D services

Rosmery Ramos‐Sandoval, José María García Álvarez‐Coque, Francisco Mas‐Verdú

Pages: 295-305 | First Published: 12 October 2018

Rural areas receptivity to innovative and sustainable agrifood processes. A case study in a viticultural territory of Central Spain

Rocío Losada, Almudena Gómez‐Ramos, Margarita Rico

Pages: 307-327 | First Published: 16 April 2019

On the trail of local welfare innovations in rural Finland

Niina Rantamäki, Mari Kattilakoski

Pages: 329-343 | First Published: 29 May 2019

OTHER ARTICLES

Measuring the impact of legal and administrative international barriers on regional growth

Roberto Camagni, Roberta Capello, Andrea Caragliu

Pages: 345-366 | First Published: 15 March 2019

Efficiency estimation and its role in policy recommendations: An application to the Kenyan livestock sector

John Kibara Manyeki, Balázs Kotosz

Pages: 367-381 | First Published: 20 March 2019

Spatial analysis of factors affecting location decisions of Korean companies in China

Yoomi Kim

Pages: 383-401 | First Published: 25 February 2019

The economic, fiscal, and workforce impacts of coal‐fired power plant closures in Appalachian Ohio

1. Jason Jolley, Christelle Khalaf, Gilbert Michaud, Austin M. Sandler

Pages: 403-422 | First Published: 27 February 2019

Political commitment and transparency as a critical factor to achieve territorial cohesion and sustainable growth. European cross‐border projects and strategies

Rui Alexandre Castanho, Ana Vulevic, José Manuel Naranjo Gómez, José Cabezas, Luis Fernández‐Pozo, Luís Loures, Joanna Kurowska‐Pysz

Pages: 423-435 | First Published: 10 April 2019

BOOK REVIEWS

The life cycle of clusters: A policy perspective Edited by Dirk Fornahl and Robert Hassink Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2017, 308 pp., ISBN 978‐1‐78741‐927‐2

Anil Hira

Pages: 437-438 | First Published: 29 November 2018

Roads to prosperity: Economic development lessons from midsize Canadian cities ‐ By Gary Sands and Laura A. Reese

Mark Brown

Pages: 438-440 | First Published: 07 January 2019

The economics of entrepreneurship ‐ By Simon C. Parker

Elizabeth A. Mack

Pages: 440-442 | First Published: 07 January 2019

Dear Colleagues and Friends,

I would like to draw your attention to an opportunity of a research internship at the Spatial Productivity Lab, which is a part of the OECD Trento Centre for Local Development located in Trento, Italy. The application deadline is July 21^st. We are looking for candidates with solid quantitative background, god writing skills and interest in regional economic growth.

https://www.oecd.org/cfe/leed/internships-trento-call.htm

With best wishes,

Alexandra Tsvetkova | Economist/Policy Analyst

Trento Centre for Local Development || Spatial Productivity Lab

Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities

Nomination deadline coming up, July 1!

The William Alonso Memorial Prize for Innovative Work in Regional Science

The William Alonso Memorial Prize for Innovative Work in Regional Science was established in 1999 to honor the memory of a revered, pioneering scholar. In 1960 William Alonso was awarded the first Ph.D. in Regional Science by the University of Pennsylvania. The book based on his dissertation, Location and Land Use (Harvard University Press, 1964), is often credited with launching the field of urban economics. He made numerous major contributions to the study of migration, regional development, and the politics of numbers, and his work ranged from meticulous mathematical theory to far-ranging think pieces. William Alonso was Assistant and Associate Professor of Regional Planning at Harvard University (1959-67), Professor of Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley (1966-76), and Richard Saltonstall Professor of Population Policy at Harvard (1976-99).

The objective of the Prize is to recognize the recent innovative research contribution of Regional Science scholars in the spirit of Dr. William Alonso. Previous Prize Winners are:

2002    Masahisa Fujita and Paul Krugman, The Spatial Economy (MIT Press, 1999)

2004    Jacques-François Thisse, Economics of Agglomeration (Cambridge University Press, 2002)

2006              Luc Anselin, Local Indicators of Spatial Association (Geographical Analysis, 1995) Ann Markusen, Sticky Places in Slippery Space (Economic Geography, 1996)

2011    Michael Batty, Cities and Complexity (MIT Press, 2007)

2013    Robert Sampson, Great American City (University of Chicago Press, 2012)

2016    David Boyce and Huw Williams, Forecasting Urban Travel: Past, Present and Future (Edward Elgar, 2015)

Michael Batty, The New Science of Cities (MIT Press 2013)

The next prize is scheduled to be announced in 2019 at the North American Meetings in Pittsburgh.

Nominations for the prize to be announced in 2019 are invited by the Alonso Prize Committee. They may come from any individual or organization including book publishers, university departments, government agencies, and other public or private entities. Each individual or organization is limited to make two nominations for each occasion. The deadline for nominations  is July 1, 2019.

• The nominated work must be a book published in 2013 or later. An edited book will be considered only if it is tightly-integrated, not a loose collection of chapters.
• The nominated work may have single or multiple authors.
• Authors are encouraged to self-nominate, and jurors will not know which books were self-nominated.
• Previously nominated books may be re-nominated and will be considered anew.
• To nominate a book (1) send e-mails to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.and This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with citation information, such as William Alonso, Location and Land Use, Harvard University Press, 1964, (2) attach up to three published book reviews, if available, using pdf files. No letters of nomination or support are required, and, if provided, will not be sent to jurors. The selection criteria are innovation and expected impact.

Although occasionally awarded to an article, the Alonso Prize is primarily a book prize. A book’s key idea might have been presented first in a journal article, such as Alonso’s “A Theory of the Urban Land Market,” Papers of the Regional Science Association, 1960, but its fuller development and synthesis with other work can make the book innovative and eligible for the Prize.

Members of the Prize Committee include:

Professor Janet Kohlhase, Chair, University of Houston, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Professor Roberta Capello, Politecnico di Milano, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Professor Emeritus, Gordon Mulligan, University of Arizona, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Professor David Plane, University of Arizona, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Dear colleague

The call for papers for the Conference "Sustainable Tourism in the Digital World" (24-26 September, 2019), to be held in the beautiful island of Gotland (Visby, Sweden) has been extended until July, 31.

The website of the conference has been updated with information about the preliminary programs and speakers:

http://www.fek.uu.se/research/sustainable-tourism/#anchor-778508

The conference will include a workshop organised by NECTAR cluster 5 (specific call attached) and a “Aim Day”, including a panel discussion with local tourism stakeholders. This will be an excellent opportunity to discuss the practical challenges in destination management for the sustainable development of a small island.

We look forward to meeting you in Visby.

Warm regards,

João Romão

RSAI is pleased to announce the election of the following Fellows in 2019:

Michael Batty University College London, UK

Ingmar Prucha University of Maryland, USA

Isabelle Thomas Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium

Dear all,

The new RSAI Newsletter May 2019 can now be found under

https://www.regionalscience.org/images/PDF/Newsletter%202019%20May.pdf

Call for papers for RSPP Special Issue on

“Regional Development in Latin-America”.

Dear Colleagues,

The aim of Regional Science Policy & Practice - RSPP is to promote and diffuse the understanding of human interaction in space; based on sound, rigorous and up-to-date methodologies; and focusing on real and urgent issues for peoples and places, that require adequate policy responses.

 Latin America has experienced different challenges in this new era that affected many areas of Regional Science: such as migration, trade, economic growth, income inequality, poverty, regional disparity, concentration of economic activity, energy and environment, to mention just some. Therefore, this special issue will feature research (with sound methods and replicable evidence) that sheds light on the different challenges that Latin America will face in the next decades, with a special focus on regional policies which can lead to solve this issues. 

The objective of this issue is to provide a better understanding of the regional economic challenges that Latin American countries are facing in the next decades. Case studies from any developing countries will be considered, as well as applied theoretical work.

Submission Guidelines: Interested Authors should send their abstract NLT December 15, 2019 to the editors of this special issue: Rafael Garduño-Rivera This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or Patricio Alessandro Aroca This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Authors should submit the full papers to the regular review process of the journal until March 22, 2020. The RSPP Editors will select the papers until April 30, 2020. Early submissions are encouraged and will be processed immediately. Papers will undergo the normal refereeing process. The papers will be publish on the third Issue of 2020.

Coordinators of this Special Issue:

Rafael Garduño-Rivera This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Patricio Alessandro Aroca This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.