Call for Papers

11th World Congress of the Regional Science Association International (RSAI)

April 25-28, 2016, Istanbul, Turkey

The Regional Science Association International (RSAI) and the Turkish Regional Science Association (Bölge Bilimi Türk Milli Komitesi - BBTMK) invite regional scientists, economists, economic geographers, urban planners, policy makers, and researchers of related disciplines to participate in the 11th World Congress of the Regional Science Association International. The Congress will be hosted by the Turkish Regional Science Association.

The Congress will feature several world-renowned keynote speakers on cutting-edge urban and regional science and policy issues, expert panels, research presentations and posters. It will be attended by 500 delegates from the worldwide community of regional scientists.

The conference will be open to different research topics within the broader contours of the regional science, urban and regional studies, geographical sciences and planning, and development. Anticipated sub-themes of the congress include the following:

We invite formal paper presentations as well as posters (deadline of November 29th, 2015). Organizers of special session are also welcome. The abstract submission portal is now open.

Full information on the venue, abstract submission, registration, schedule of events, accommodation and travel information is posted at www.2016worldcongress.regionalscience.org.

Feel free to contact the secretariat of the Congress at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and to the Chair of the Local Organizing Committee This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for further information.

We look forward to welcoming you in the dazzling city of Istanbul in April 2016.

With warmest regards,

Tüzin Baycan

Chair of the Local Organizing Committee

Call for Special Session Proposals

11th World Congress of the Regional Science Association International (RSAI)

April 25-28, 2016, Istanbul, Turkey

Special sessions on cutting-edge and frontier topics in Regional Science and Regional Science Policy are welcomed by the organisers. Please contact (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) and Tüzin Baycan, Chair of the Local Organizing Committee (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) for proposals of special sessions.

Discussants are required for each presentation in special sessions.

Special Session Proposal Format

Proposals for special sessions should include:

The special session title

The name(s) of the organizer(s), with affiliation(s) and email(s) (identifying the chair)

The aim and scope of the special session (500 words)

Deadline

Special session proposals should be sent by November 1st, 2015 to the secretariat of the Congress at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and to the Chair of the Local Organizing Committee This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Abstracts Submission Process(see also the example of the call for paper)

Authors submit abstracts for special sessions through session Organizers.

The organizers of the special session should ask for:

• title;
• authors(s);
• affiliations and emails (indicate the presenter and corresponding author);
• three keywords;
• abstract (400-500 words).

Abstract submission deadline: November 29th, 2015

Notification of acceptance of abstract: December 20th, 2015

After the abstract submission deadline the organizer(s) should send all the submissions to secretariat of the Congress at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and to the Chair of the Local Organizing Committee This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

The secretariat will insert the data in the CONFERENCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM and give full access to the organizer for the management of the abstracts.

Details about the Conference: http://2016worldcongress.regionalscience.org/

Dear all,

The new RSAI Newsletter November 2015 can now be found under

http://www.regionalscience.org/images/PDF/newsletter_RSAI_November2015.pdf

The Founder's Medal was established to recognize lifetime contributions to the field of Regional Science and to the Association. It is still the only honour conveyed by the Association as a whole. Previous recipients include Walter Isard, Martin J. Beckmann, William Alonso, Jean H. P. Paelinck, David E. Boyce, Peter Nijkamp, Antoine Bailly and Arthur Getis.

Individuals are invited to submit nominations/self-nominations for the RSAI Founder’s Medal. The nominations should be sent to the RSAI Selection Committee (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.), which consists of Andrés Rodríguez-Pose, Antoine Baily, Arthur Getis, Jean-Claude Thill and Emmanouil Tranos. The Committee will select three (3) nominees recommended as potential recipients of the Founder’s Medal based on the below criteria. Then, past recipients of the Founder’s Medal will be invited to recommend the recipient from the list of three nominees compiled by the Committee. The announcement of the recipient will take place during the next World RSAI Congress in Istanbul (25-28^th April, 2016).

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.

More information about the Founder’s Medal can be found on the RSAI web page.

On behalf of the Organizing Committee of the IV World Planning Schools Congress in Rio de Janeiro, we are pleased to inform you that the information regarding the registration fees is now available (for Europe see Regions 1 and 2 below).

Registration Fees

Paying the fee includes access to all sessions and events of IV WPSC, the Opening Reception Cocktail and four Luncheon tickets for Monday until Thursday as well as daily coffee breaks in the morning and snack breaks in the evening.

Does not include events hosted by special interest groups, mobile workshops and other tours.

For the fees there will be Regional Differentiations and distinctions between Early Bird, Ordinary and On Site Registration.

REGION 1: USA, Canada, European Union (except Greece), Norway, and Switzerland

REGION 2: Rest of Europe and Greece

REGION 3: Asia, Oceania, New Zeeland and Australia

REGION 4: Latin America (except Brazil) and Africa

REGION 5: Local participants (Brazil)

YOU CAN ACCESS MORE DETAILED INFORMATION IN HERE.

Please also note that, the extended deadline for abstract submission is October 19th, 2015.

Thanks in advance for spreading out these informations in your schools and among your colleagues.
Looking forward to seeing you all in Rio de Janeiro.

Dear Colleague,

We hope to see you in Évora, Portugal, September 2016, in the 1st World Congress on Silvo-Pastoral Systems:

http://www.silvopastoral2016.uevora.pt/

Silvo-Pastoral Systems in a changing world: functions, management and people

»» Focusing on silvo-pastoral systems.

»» Creating a fertile interdisciplinarity research context leading to progress in knowledge and new adaptative management solutions.

»» Bridging science to practice.

On behalf of the Organizing Committee, Teresa Pinto-Correia

SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS NOW OPEN: http://www.silvopastoral2016.uevora.pt/

Call for papers

“Niss(i)ology and Utopia: back to the roots of Island Studies”

ISISA (International Small Islands Studies Association) Islands of the World XIV Conference

In association with RETI (Excellence Network of Island Territories)

23 - 27 May 2016

Mytilini, Lesvos Island, Greece

On behalf of the Organizing Committee of the IV World Planning Schools Congress in Rio de Janeiro, may I remind you that the CALL FOR ABSTRACTS IS OPEN FOR ONE MORE WEEK ONLY.

The extended deadline for abstract submission is October 19th, 2015

So far more than 220 authors from more than 90 institutions have already submitted their abstracts.

The call for abstracts is available in detail by each track, so please click on tracks for descriptions.

To submit an abstract please enter the home page of the Congress site and click the LOGIN | REGISTER button on the top right side of the page. After registering you can submit your abstracts.

The procedures are explained in Call for Papers and Submissions

WAYS TO SUBMIT EXTENDED ABSTRACTS
The tracks accept proposals of extended abstracts for: (i) Individual submission (with several co-authors) for a particular track as oral presentation of a full paper (non peer review); and (ii) proposals for the collective organization of Roundtable/Panel within a track, which features contributions from several authors. (iii) Other modalities like Poster Presentation or Specially Convened Sessions – (a) academic only; (b) policy research only; and (c) academic and policy research - have to be combined directly with the co-chairs of the tracks. Those, who want to participate in these modalities, must be registered necessarily for attendance.

SUBMISSION RULES
All abstracts and papers presented must be written in English. Unfortunately, any other language will not be accepted.
The extended abstracts submitted may not have less than 4000 characters, approximately 700 words, not including bibliography and illustrations. It should be written in Word (.doc), with Times New Roman, size 12 with simple interline and justified margins.
All abstracts sent to the organizing committee which do not obey these limitations will not be considered for presentation, without obligation of the organizing committee to send any notification to the authors that violate this requirement.
Abstracts should contain a clear statement of the problem, objectives, methodology and main results and contributions.
In case of a submission of a Round Table/Panel it is necessary to inform, in the text of the abstract, names of colleagues and their institutional linkages from those who will participate.
Each author is entitled to present a maximum of two abstracts.

Please also note that, every five years when World Planning Schools Conference is held, AESOP does not hold its annual congress in Europe but instead joins the global planning community at the WPSCs. Therefore, in 2016 we will not be organising an AESOP congress in Europe and invite you all to join the WPSC2016.

Thanks in advance for spreading out these informations in your schools and among your colleagues.

Looking forward to seeing you all in Rio de Janeiro.

11th AFRICA-EUROPE Training Course for Youth Organisations   to be held between 8 November and 15 November 2015 Nairobi, Kenya   In the framework of the 7th African University on Youth and Development The training course aims...

11th AFRICA-EUROPE Training Course

for Youth Organisations

to be held between 8 November and 15 November 2015

Nairobi, Kenya

In the framework of the 7th African University on Youth and Development

The training course aims to:

• strengthen the role of youth organisations as civil society actors and enable youth to organise and take action;
• reinforce its political participation in Africa-Europe co-operation;
• promote the global citizenship of young people in Europe and Africa.   

All information at http://www.aeyco.com/opportunities/view/3317/call-for-participants-11th-africa-europe-training-course-for-youth-organisations

Dear colleagues!

The Department of Human Geography and Regional Studies, the School of Geology, Geography, Recreation and Tourism, V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University (Ukraine) invites you to take part in the International Scientific and Practical Conference «Region-2015: Optimal Development Strategy» and to publish your articles in the scientific journal «JOURNAL OF HUMAN GEOGRAPHY», included in the scientometric base Index Copernicus. The information letters are in the attached files.

The web-site of the journal: http://hgj.univer.kharkov.ua/index.php/en/

If you have any questions, please, write to the following e-mails:

This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. – on publishing theses to the conference.

This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. – on the publishing manuscripts in the journal.

The web-site of the department:

 http://soc-econom-region.univer.kharkov.ua/index.php?lang=en

Sincerely, Ludmila Niemets,

Head of the Department of Social and Economic Geography and Regional Studies, School of Geology, Geography, Recreation and Tourism, V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University