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Elisabete Martins

Monday, 01 December 2014 14:03

BIOECON News - Issue no. 11, Autumn 2014

Issue no. 11, Autumn 2014

 

BIOECON 2014 outcomes

Ben Groom (LSE) and Andreas Kontoleon (Cambridge Land Economy) co-hosted the 16th annual BioEcon conference on the economics of biodiversity conservation last 22-23 September 2014. The conference was held at the majestic buildings of King's College Cambridge and was attended by over 140 delegates from academia and the policy world.

BIOECON organising committee planned the first ever UNEP pre-conference training workshop on "Building Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services into National Policy" for civil servants from developing countries. The workshop was attended by over 100 delegates primarily from the developing world. A series of six videos on the seminars held are now available... » more

» Click here to access the Workshop seminars videos

 

Guest article

Procurement auctions for nature conservation: a laboratory experiment

by Brooks Kaiser, University of Southern Denmark


The U.S. Endangered Species Act is held up both as an example of strict legislation working to guard biodiversity preservation (Yaffee, 1982) and an uneconomical law that creates perverse incentives that may actually reduce such preservation. Passage of the 1973 act itself, and that of the three earlier acts leading up to it in the 1960s, was not controversial; few congressmen wanted to vote against the preservation of endangered species!  » more

 

BIOECON News


New Project: Economy and conflicts in grazing systems in northern latitudes: Loss to carnivores in reindeer herding and sheep farming
NTNU, in cooperation with Trondheim Business School

This project focuses on conflicts in two different grazing systems in Norway, reindeer herding and sheep farming. Reindeer depend on common property pastures for grazing, and the major herding areas are characterized by internal competition, high animal densities, and food shortages during the winter... » more


Workshop: The Israeli Mediterranean shores and their economic valuation

The workshop "The Israeli Mediterranean: The Management Aspect" was held at Haifa University on 14.9.14. The workshop was devoted to the exploration of different economical and regulatory issues concerning the future exploitation and management of Israeli Mediterranean waters. These issues included the effort to valuate different ecosystem services and how to incorporate them into national accounts...» more

 

PUBLICATIONS

Book: Naturressursenes Økonomi (The Economics of Natural Resources)
O. Flåten and A. Skonhoft (eds), Gyldendal, 2014
Norway is a rich country - much thanks to abundant natural resources and good management. This book analyses the use and management of natural resources in an economic perspective. The aim is to provide knowledge about the Norwegian resources and the economy and the institutions of the natural resource-based industries, and - not least - to provide the necessary theoretical basis for economic analysis of utilization and management of natural resources.... » more

Working paper
: An Economic Analysis of Ecosystem Services under Different Fertilizing Regimes in Agroecosystems
Yoav Peled, Shiri Shamir, Avraham Haim

Throughout the world, intensive and high input agricultural production methods are widely practiced, quite often at the expense of existing biodiversity and various benefits originating from the landscape. By addressing agricultural systems as managed ecosystems and using the ecosystem services approach, sustainable strategies can be developed, maximizing landholders and other affected stakeholders' welfare...» more

Article:The use of agrobiodiversity for plant improvement and the intellectual property paradigm: institutional fit and legal tools for mass selection, conventional and molecular plant breeding
Fulya Batur and Tom Dedeurwaerdere
Focused on the impact of stringent intellectual property mechanisms over the uses of plant agricultural biodiversity in crop improvement, the article delves into a systematic analysis of the relationship between institutional paradigms and their technological contexts of application, identified as mass selection, controlled hybridisation, molecular breeding tools and transgenics....» more

Article A pragmatist approach to transdisciplinarity in sustainability research: From complex systems theory to reflexive science
Florin Popa, Mathieu Guillermin, Tom Dedeurwaerdere
The importance of questioning the values, background assumptions, and normative orientations shaping sustainability research has been increasingly acknowledged, particularly in the context of transdisciplinary research, which aims to integrate knowledge from various scientific and societal bodies of knowledge...» more

Working Paper: The Passive Use Value of the Mediterranean Forest
Vladimir Otrachshenko
In this study we estimate the passive use value of forest in different ecological zones in the Mediterranean region. We estimate these values for forests using meta-analysis. These estimates are used to reveal the annual monetary values per hectare for each country....» more

 

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Dear colleague,

We are pleased to announce that we host the special track session “Why bother about culture in SMEs and micro firms? Innovation, culture and entrepreneurial dynamics in regional development”at IFKAD 2015 International Forum on Knowledge Asset Dynamics, forthcoming in Bari (Italy) on 10-12 June 2015.

We warmly invite you and other colleagues within your network to submit your abstract before January 25th for this track following the online submission requierements. Please find attached additional information in the corresponding track flyer.

The papers will be published in one of the journals arranged by the organizers of IFKAD (subject to evaluation criteria). We are also arranging a special issue on “Culture and innovation in SMEs and micro firms” with the journal European Planning Studies. The call for papers will be circulated in advance among the participating authors in the track session.

More information about the conference can be seen at: http://www.ifkad.org/

Important deadlines:

• 25 January 2015 - Abstracts Submission Deadline

• 28 February 2015 - Acceptance notification to authors

• 25 March 2015 - Early-Bird registration deadline

• 20 April 2015 - Full paper submission deadline

• 20 May 2015 - Registration deadline

• 10-12 June 2015 - Conference sessions

Looking forward to receive your abstract for participation in IFKAD 2015 and to meet in Bari next June, 

Kind regards,

Manuel Fernández-Esquinas

Institute for Advanced Social Studies, Spain

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+34 957770528

Madelon van Oostrom

Tenerife Science and Technology Park, Spain

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+34 822028588

Hugo Pinto

University of Coimbra, Portugal

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+ 351239790500

Romanian Section

From 8 to 9 May 2015

Suceava, Romania

10th International Conference with the topic "Regional Development and “Europe 2020”

Further details please go to the website of the Romanian Section - www.rrsa.ro

French Speaking Section

Wednesday 25 March 2015

Paris University Dauphine

Call for papers for the real estate seminar (one of the partners is our review of regional and urban economics ) , to be held March 25, 2015.

Proposals should be sent before February 15, 2015, to the email of This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Monday, 01 December 2014 11:27

Turkish Section

Turkish Section

From 18 to 19 December

Istanbul Technical University in Istanbul

National Regional Science / Regional Planning Congress "Emerging Economies and Regional Policy: Turkey agenda. Further information at http://bbtmk.itu.edu.tr/ıcerik.a...

 
Cover image for Vol. 6 Issue 4

Regional Science Policy & Practice

© RSAI

Volume 6, Issue 4 Pages i - ii, 311 - 394, November 2014

Special Issue: Industrial agglomeration and spatial dynamics in China

The latest issue of Regional Science Policy & Practice is available on Wiley Online Library

Issue Information

 

Issue Information (pages i–ii)
Article first published online: 27 NOV 2014 | DOI: 10.1111/rsp3.12026

EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION

 

Industrial agglomeration and spatial dynamics in China (pages 311–314)
Karima Kourtit, Yuyuan Wen and Peter Nijkamp
Article first published online: 27 NOV 2014 | DOI: 10.1111/rsp3.12049

ARTICLES

 

Agglomeration economies and the match between manufacturing industries and cities in China (pages 315–327)
Anjun Hu and Jiuwen Sun
Article first published online: 27 NOV 2014 | DOI: 10.1111/rsp3.12050

 

Creative industry clusters, regional innovation and economic growth in China (pages 329–347)
Wentao Yu, Jin Hong, Yunhao Zhu, Dora Marinova and Xiumei Guo
Article first published online: 27 NOV 2014 | DOI: 10.1111/rsp3.12051

 

FDI penetration and manufacturing agglomeration: an analysis based on empirical evidence from 21 industries (2004–2010) (pages 349–360)
Qichun Zhang, Ming Zhu and Yuan Yuan
Article first published online: 27 NOV 2014 | DOI: 10.1111/rsp3.12052

 

Trend and policy implications of regional industrial agglomeration: an empirical analysis of the manufacturing industries in Guangdong Province (pages 361–381)
Yanhua Mao, Benjian Yang and Shanshan Lin
Article first published online: 27 NOV 2014 | DOI: 10.1111/rsp3.12053

 

Spatial-temporal differentiation of the carrying capacity of cities: a case study of Hunan Province (pages 383–394)
Hengwei Wang, Jinming Yan, Karima Kourtit, Peter Nijkamp and Jacques Poot
Article first published online: 27 NOV 2014 | DOI: 10.1111/rsp3.12054

Tuesday, 25 November 2014 09:22

ERSA & ERES Summer School 2015 Vienna, Austria

The European Regional Science Association & the European Real Estate Society are offering the opportunity to participate in the 28th ERSA & ERES Summer School that will be held from 5th July to 15th July, 2015 in Vienna, Austria.

Click HERE for further information

Vienna University of Economics and Business

At the Vienna University of Economics and Business

Tuesday, 25 November 2014 09:17

ERSA New Online Journal - REGION

 
ERSA New Online Journal - REGION

Will your article be the next one?

Don't miss this chance of being published in the ERSA

REGION

 

Call for Papers:

 

45th Winter Seminar of the Regional Science Association on the 22nd - 28th February 2015 at Igls / Innsbruck


Abstract submission deadline 12/12/2014

 

Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.  


More information

 
 

The Graduate School in Population Dynamics and Public Policy announces posts for PhD students

Background

The Graduate School in Population Dynamics and Public Policy is a graduate program for PhD students with dissertation projects focusing on population dynamics and/or public policy related to population changes and ageing. The school is part of the interdisciplinary research programme Ageing and Living Conditions (ALC) which has been judged one of the strongest Swedish research environments by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet). The school is funded by the Swedish Research Council until June 2016 and focus on PhD students active within economics, ethnology, social and economic geography, epidemiology and public health sciences, psychology, statistics, history, history of ideas, or historical demography. Our aims are to provide PhD students with the best possible conditions in which to profit from high quality education and to enable internationally competitive research. The school actively promotes multinational interaction by encouraging our students to participate in international conferences, workshops and PhD courses at other universities. The school stimulates and substantially improves the opportunities for students to build their own networks at an early stage in their careers.

More information about the aim and focus of the school and ALC can be found at our website http://www.ddb.umu.se/cbs/alc/ and

http://www.ddb.umu.se/cbs/forskarskolan-i-befolkningsdynamik-och-offentlig-politik/.

 

Who is qualified to apply?

Qualified for applying to the school are already accepted PhD students in either of the above mentioned, or related, subjects. The school does not fund any positions. Applicants must already have financing of doctoral studies secured by their home department. Welcomed to apply are recently accepted PhD students as well as students closer to graduation. The applicant’s research must be within the field of knowledge represented by the school which means that the applicant’s thesis should address social, economic, cultural, ethnical, gendered or medical processes related to such demographic structures as e.g. the labor market, aging, migration, family formation, fertility and health and related public policy. It includes studies in advanced data analysis with applications to various aspects of demographic structure and policy. PhD students with an interest in analysis based on register data are a priority.

 

What does the school offer me as a PhD student?

Students within the school are offered

  • access to outstanding Swedish register data (the Linnaeus database)
  • financial support for spending one semester or one academic year at another university
  • financial support for conferences, to attend relevant courses and work-shops,
  • financial support for temporary and informal visit’s to other universities,
  • participation in an interdisciplinary and internationally oriented research environment
  • to participate and follow an introduction course on different research topics within the ALC environment
  • to attend the schools and ALC seminars
  • PhD students at Umeå University are with financial support from the school obligated to spend one semester or one academic year at another university. (Where and when will be decided on by the student’s supervisor and the schools director.)
  • PhD students not at Umeå University are with financial support from the school obligated to spend one semester or a whole academic year at the ALC environment at Umeå University

 

What are my duties as a PhD student?

 

Assessment criteria’s

PhD students with an interest in analysis of register data are a priority.

The application must include the following:

1. A brief description of the applicant’s research project as well as a CV, in which finished papers, articles and chapters are listed, and completed courses within the doctoral program are clearly stated. The CV must be attested by supervisor or head of the doctoral program at the home department.

2. A financial plan stating how studies up to the dissertation and PhD exam will be financed, e.g. by documenting a fully funded position as graduate student “Doktorandtjänst” or research assistant at a university.

3. A certificate, written by either the head of the department or the head of the department’s doctoral program, verifying both that the applicant is registered as a PhD-student at the department and that the department approves of the student applying to the school (electronic signature is sufficient). Neither party is obliged to any commitments by this procedure. A preliminary admission to the school will be followed by a formal agreement between the school and the student’s home department.

 

Electronic application, in word or pdf, should be sent to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (state application graduate school as subject) no later than 2015-01-15. Applications can also be sent to Johan Lundberg, Department of Economics, Umeå University, 901 87 Umeå to arrive 2015-01-15 at the latest. For further information, please contact the director Johan Lundberg, phone +46 (0)90-786 9540 or e-mail This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

 

We look forward to receiving your application!

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