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Elisabete Martins
Call for Applications - Editor-in-Chief, Papers in Regional Science (PiRS)
Call for Applications - Editor-in-Chief,
Papers in Regional Science (PiRS)
The Regional Science Association International (RSAI) seeks candidates for the position of editor-in-chief of one of the association’s official journals, Papers in Regional Science (PiRS). PiRS is a quarterly, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to advancing fundamental knowledge in regional science from its multiple theoretical and methodological perspectives, and is one of the highest ranked journals in the field of regional science. The journal encourages high quality scholarship on a broad range of topics in the field of regional science.
Candidates should be RSAI members with a wide knowledge of urban and regional phenomena as well as distinguished records of scholarly contributions internationally. Candidates should also possess strong intellectual vision, leadership and organizational abilities, and experience relevant to editing a journal in the field of regional science. The appointment will start January 2019 and continue for a three-year renewable term.
The editor’s primary responsibility is to continue to enhance the journal’s quality, reputation, and scholarship. The editor will be expected to strengthen the journal’s competitive position in support of RSAI’s worldwide mission. The editor will also demonstrate visionary leadership in developing editorial policies and initiatives that stimulate novel ways to theorize and analyze the changing reality of urban and regional environments so as to represent the full spectrum of high-quality research conducted worldwide in the regional science community.
The editor will recommend an international team of associate editors and a book review editor to help administer the peer review process, promote excellence in content and advance editorial initiatives.
The PiRS editor reports to RSAI through the RSAI Council. RSAI provides financial support to the editorial office for management of the journal.
Detailed information on responsibilities and on the process for applying for the editor-in-chief position is available below.
Specific duties of the Editor-in-Chief and journal editorial office include:
- Maintaining and updating the aims and scope of the journal, editorial policies, and guidelines to authors.
- Overseeing the manuscript peer review process through the publisher’s on-line submission portal in an unbiased, confidential, and timely manner.
- Checking proofs and revisions to proofs.
- Preparing and forwarding accepted manuscripts to the publisher’s production department.
- Coordinating standards and practices across managing editors and managing the workload of each member of the editorial team.
- Maintaining close and regular contact with the publisher on marketing and production matters.
- Initiating and responding to correspondence with authors, managing editors, and reviewers.
- Recruiting, selecting, and appointing PiRS board members that reflect the diversity of regional science and addressing any performance issues.
- Soliciting guest issues, selecting guest editors, and providing advice and assistance to guest editors.
- Adhering to the page budget and financial structures set by RSAI. RSAI and the publisher are responsible for managing production, layout, printing, subscriptions, pricing and funding initiatives for society publications.
- Appointing associate editors and a book review editor (to be approved by RSAI Council). The editorial team (editor and associate editors) will be comprised of RSAI members with high stature and respect in the community, and with the expertise to manage the breadth of regional science.
- Serving as a non-voting ex officio member of RSAI Council and other regional science governing bodies.
- Chairing the jury of the annual Martin Beckmann Prize for the best article published in PiRS and managing the nomination and selection procedure.
- Reporting to RSAI Council through regular reports at Council meetings.
- Reporting to the journal editorial board through board meetings held at least once a year.
Application process:
Interested individuals should submit an application package that includes:
A succinct letter of interest and qualifications, containing an indication of the editorial team;
A vision statement for the next three to six years of publication of PiRS;
A curriculum vitae;
The names and contact information of three references.
Applications packages must be received by October 19, 2018.
All requested information should be submitted by e-mail as a single PDF file to Dan Rickman, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., copying Elisabete Martins, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., in the e-mail.
Our council member, Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana, becomes an Executive Secretary, UN ESCAP
Secretary-General Appoints Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana as Executive Secretary, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and Pacific
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres today announced the appointment of Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana of Indonesia as Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP).
She will succeed Shamshad Akhtar of Pakistan, to whom the Secretary-General is grateful for her commitment and dedicated service to the Organization. The Secretary-General is also appreciative to Hongjoo Hahm, who will continue to serve as Acting Executive Secretary until Ms. Alisjahbana assumes her position.
Ms. Alisjahbana is currently Professor of Economics at Universitas Padjadjaran in Bandung, Indonesia, a position she assumed in 2005. She joined Universitas Padjadjaran as a lecturer in 1988. Since 2016, she has served as Director for the Center for Sustainable Development Goals Studies at Universitas Padjadjaran and Vice-Chair of the Indonesian Academy of Sciences. She also serves on the Governing Board of the Economic Research Institute for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and East Asia, and member of the Indonesian Academy of Sciences (Akademi Ilmu Pengetahuan Indonesia), the Forum of Statistics Community (Forum Masyarakat Statistik or Advisory Council of the Indonesian Statistics), the International Advisory Board of the Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies and Council Member of the Regional Science Association International.
From 2009 to 2014, she was Minister of National Development Planning and the Head of the National Development Planning Agency, Indonesia. She served as Co-Chair of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation from 2012 to 2014. From 2009 to 2014, she was Alternate Governor of the World Bank and Alternate Governor of the Asian Development Bank representing the Government of Indonesia. In 2016, she was a member of the High-Level Independent Team of Advisers to support the Economic and Social Council dialogue on the longer term positioning of the United Nations development system in the context of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Ms. Alisjahbana has been involved in various research projects and consultancies to the United Nations University/Institute for Advanced Study in Tokyo, the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australia, the Australian Agency for International Development, the European Commission and the International Labour Organization (ILO).
Ms. Alisjahbana earned her bachelor degree in economics and development studies from Universitas Indonesia, a masters degree in economics from Northwestern University in the United States and a PhD in economics from the University of Washington, also in the United States. She was awarded the Mahaputra Adipradana Order (Bintang Mahaputra Adipradana) from Indonesia, honorary brevet from the Indonesian Navy and honorary flight wing from the Indonesian Air Force.
Call for papers for RSPP Special Issue on Challenges and policies for Middle-income trap regions
Call for papers for RSPP Special Issue “Challenges and policies for Middle-income trap regions”
Dear Colleagues,
the 7th Cohesion Report of the European Commission highlighted the development challenges of a group of middle-income EU regions, and the risk for those regions to be caught in the so-called ‘middle-income trap.
The Regional Science Policy & Practice - RSPP (RSPP) special issue: Challenges and policies for Middle-income trap regions (guest editors Andres Rodriguez-Pose and Vinko Muštra): wishes to analyse and provide robust evidence for the existence of the middle income trap among the regions, but also to help understanding the key determinants and identify adequate policy responses.
The proper platform for presenting scientific novelty and the policy relevance of the proposed papers will be the 13th International Conference: “Challenges of Europe: Growth, Competitiveness, Innovation and Well-being” (22-24, May 2019, Bol, island Brač, Croatia).
Authors are invited to send their abstract until the 4th of February 2019. Abstract and full papers have to be submitted through the on-line submission system available at: https://moj.efst.hr/ConferenceSubmissionSystem/
Submissions by e-mail, fax or regular mail will not be taken into consideration.
The papers will be selected, after the presentation at the Conference, by 28th of September 2019 and papers should be submitted to the regular review process of the journal until 16th of December 2019.
With a regular review process it is expected that the papers will be publish in June 2020.
Coordinator of this Special Issue Editor:
Vinko Mustra This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Call for papers for RSPP Special Issues
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Catalonia
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. The ideas of secession of Catalonia diffused extensively by the regional, national and international press generated reactions from politicians, population and firms raising interesting research questions which answers can improve the knowledge of the political organization of space and, at the same time, lead to better policy responses. This special issue aims to analyse, with sound methods and replicable evidences, the causes and effects of the political organization of space looking at Catalonia and other places with secession issues. Authors are invited to send their abstract until the 15th of October 2018 to the editors of this special issue, Jordi Suriñach This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or Tomaz Dentinho This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . The papers will be selected by the editors of RSPP until the 31th of October 2018 and papers should be submitted to the regular review process of the journal until Mars the 22th of 2019. With a regular review process it is expected that the papers will be publish on the 3rd Issue of 2019. Coordinators of this Special Issue: |
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Challenges and Opportunities for Regional Development
Dear Colleagues, The methodological quality, the policy relevance and scientific novelty of the papers in presented on the 15th European Union Regional Economics Applications Laboratory (EU REAL) Workshop, in Palermo (Sicily) in September 3-4, 2018, 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, with sound methods, the elements that explain the inequalities of labour markets, the relations between migration and welfare, the challenges of regional sustainability, the winners and losers of urban agglomeration, the dynamics of tourism and the responsibility of governance on regional development. Authors are invited to send their abstract by the 30th of September 2018 to the editor of this special issue, Mauro Ferrante This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. The papers will be selected by the 10th of October 2018 should be submitted to the regular review process of the journal until December the 15th 2018. With a regular review process it is expected that the papers will be publish on the 3rd Issue of 2019. Coordinator of this Special Issue Editor: |
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Challenges and policies for Middle-income trap regions
Dear Colleagues, the 7th Cohesion Report of the European Commission highlighted the development challenges of a group of middle-income EU regions, and the risk for those regions to be caught in the so-called ‘middle-income trap. The Regional Science Policy & Practice - RSPP (RSPP) special issue: Challenges and policies for Middle-income trap regions (guest editors Andres Rodriguez-Pose and Vinko Muštra): wishes to analyse and provide robust evidence for the existence of the middle income trap among the regions, but also to help understanding the key determinants and identify adequate policy responses. The proper platform for presenting scientific novelty and the policy relevance of the proposed papers will be the 13th International Conference: “Challenges of Europe: Growth, Competitiveness, Innovation and Well-being” (22-24, May 2019, Bol, island Brač, Croatia). Authors are invited to send their abstract until the 4th of February 2019. Abstract and full papers have to be submitted through the on-line submission system available at: https://moj.efst.hr/ConferenceSubmissionSystem/ Submissions by e-mail, fax or regular mail will not be taken into consideration. The papers will be selected, after the presentation at the Conference, by 28th of September 2019 and papers should be submitted to the regular review process of the journal until 16th of December 2019. With a regular review process it is expected that the papers will be publish in June 2020. Coordinator of this Special Issue Editor: Vinko Mustra This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
| New trends and Dynamics on Territorial Management and Governance
Dear Colleagues, Based on the fresh and new trends, emerging issues and future challenges regarding territorial governance, public management and their inherent paths to achieve a sustainable development, the International Congress on Sustainable Development, Public Management and Territorial Governance that will take place at WSB University in Dabrowa Gornicza, between 28 and 31 May 2019 – will be associated to the journal Regional Science Policy and Practice, creating a challenge to publish a special issue on the journal (Regional Science Policy & Practice - RSPP). This special issue is dedicated for the analyse and assessment of the ongoing dynamics and patterns in different territories regarding sustainability and the related issues that may have an influence over it. Therefore, the recent territorial policies and strategies as well as cross-border cooperation and the migratory fluxes are some of the examples that this special issue aims to address – mainly from the perspective of management and territorial governance. Contextually, the best works will be invited to publish in the Special Issue. Thus, during the event abstracts submission, the authors will be notified to send their full texts until the 24th of May 2019 to the editors of this special issue: Rui Alexandre Castanho, Joanna Kurowska-Pysz and Katarzyna Szczepańska-Woszczyna, represented by Rui Alexandre Castanho (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.). The papers will be selected until 2019 and should be submitted to the regular review process of the journal until July 31 of 2019. With a regular review process, it is expected that the papers accepted will be published in the first Issue of 2020. Editors of this Special Issue: Rui Alexandre Castanho This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Joanna Kurowska-Pysz This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Katarzyna Szczepanska This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Call for papers for RSPP Special Issue on Challenges and Opportunities for Regional Development
Call for papers for RSPP Special Issue “Challenges and Opportunities for Regional Development”
Dear Colleagues,
The methodological quality, the policy relevance and scientific novelty of the papers in presented on the 15th European Union Regional Economics Applications Laboratory (EU REAL) Workshop, in Palermo (Sicily) in September 3-4, 2018, 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, with sound methods, the elements that explain the inequalities of labour markets, the relations between migration and welfare, the challenges of regional sustainability, the winners and losers of urban agglomeration, the dynamics of tourism and the responsibility of governance on regional development.
Authors are invited to send their abstract by the 30th of September 2018 to the editor of this special issue, Mauro Ferrante This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
The papers will be selected by the 10th of October 2018 should be submitted to the regular review process of the journal until December the 15th 2018. With a regular review process it is expected that the papers will be publish on the 3rd Issue of 2019.
Coordinator of this Special Issue Editor:
Mauro Ferrante This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
National workshop on "Tribes of Tripura : Mapping, Planning and Development ", September 28-29, 2018 at Tripura University
We are happy to inform you that a National Workshop on National workshop on "Tribes of Tripura : Mapping, Planning and Development " is going to be organised by the Department of Geography and Disaster Management, Tripura University, in joint collaboration with the NATIONAL ATLAS AND THEMATIC MAPPING ORGANISTION (NATMO) during September 28-29, 2018 at Tripura University (copy enclosed). This is for your kind information and circulation to other interested people.
regards
Dr. Saptarshi Mitra,
Convener, Organising Committee of National Workshop
Deptt. of Geography & D.M.
Tripura University
Call for papers for RSPP Special Issue on Catalonia
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.
The ideas of secession of Catalonia diffused extensively by the regional, national and international press generated reactions from politicians, population and firms raising interesting research questions which answers can improve the knowledge of the political organization of space and, at the same time, lead to better policy responses.
This special issue aims to analyse, with sound methods and replicable evidences, the causes and effects of the political organization of space looking at Catalonia and other places with secession issues. Authors are invited to send their abstract until the 15th of October 2018 to the editors of this special issue, Jordi Suriñach This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or Tomaz Dentinho This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .
The papers will be selected by the editors of RSPP until the 31th of October 2018 and papers should be submitted to the regular review process of the journal until Mars the 22th of 2019. With a regular review process it is expected that the papers will be publish on the 3rd Issue of 2019.
Coordinators of this Special Issue:
Jordi Suriñach Caralt This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Tomaz Ponce Dentinho This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Assistant Professor Urban Economics (Tenure Track)
| Location | Wageningen |
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| Scientific field | Economics |
| End date | Fri 28 September 2018 |
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We are looking for
We are looking for a new colleague who would fit in our team. This means that you are a standout colleague who is motivated to advance the group’s research and education as well as your own research and education.
- You preferably have some years of experience as a postdoctoral researcher after obtaining your PhD degree.
- You have a good statistical background (e.g. spatial econometrics, instrumental variable analysis) and knowledge of various research methodologies (e.g. survey techniques, agent-based modelling, behavioral experiments).
- You are passionate about connecting your research skills to research opportunities in the urban and urban-rural context.
Starting date will be January 1st, 2019.
We ask
* a PhD in urban or regional economics, economic geography or related field;
* affinity with and experience in health economics and/or behavioural economics;
* a track record of publications (in economics and/or other fields);
* some experience in lecturing, running tutorials and thesis supervision;
* a motivation in conducting scientific and societal impactful research;
* the ability to act as a team player who contributes to the wider interests of the group.
Are you our new visionary and enthusiastic colleague, who has the ambition to make scientific and societal impactful contributions to the field of urban economics? The tenure track position will consist of conducting scientific and societal research (40% of your time), education (40% of your time), and scientific and societal relevant management tasks (20% of your time). Therefore, we expect you to be passionate about conducting scientific research that can make essential theoretical advancements, and that will affect societal developments.
We offer
A challenging career trajectory called tenure track. From the position of Assistant Professor you can eventually grow into the position of Professor holding a Personal Chair. Of course training and coaching are provided and interdisciplinary (international) cooperation is stimulated. You will also be given the chance to build up your own research line.
We offer you a temporary contract for seven years (0.8 – 1.0 fte), which can lead to a permanent employment contract.
Gross year salary ranging from € 48,000 up to € 65,000 (Scale 11 CAO Dutch Universities), based on a full time employment and dependent on expertise and experience. This includes 8% holiday allowance and an end-of-year bonus of 8.3%.
For more information about Tenure Track within Wageningen UR look at http://www.wageningenur.nl/en/Jobs/Your-development-in-focus/Tenure-Track.htm
More information
Would you like to know more about this vacancy? We will be more than happy to provide you with further information. For questions regarding content, please contact Prof. Eveline van Leeuwen at +31 317 483897.
Please submit your application no later than Friday 28 September and please use the application button to apply and should include:
- Letter of motivation
- CV, including a list of publications
- Names and contact details of two referees
- One selected publication
- If available, teaching evaluations
You will receive an automatic e-mail confirmation within 24 hours. Please note that only applications sent through the online application button can be taken into consideration.
We are
Because of the high residential density, cities are great places to foster change. Change in terms of sustainable consumption, healthy life-styles and societal participation. All urgent issues, that directly relate to the UN development goals to reach a sustainable future.
To use the potential of cities and their inhabitants to foster change, the Urban Economics group (UEC) at Wageningen University focusses both on micro and macro processes. At the micro level, the research of the UEC group concentrates on economic behaviour, institutions, and the incentives that can contribute to more sustainable urban consumption and healthy lifestyles. By applying a behavioural economics approach, behaviour with respect to judgment, choice and social decision making is studied, taking into account subjective factors, spatial and social context and (expected) consequences of behaviour.
At a more macro level, UEC focuses on the impacts of urbanization on actors and activities in the urban-rural interface. Important issues in this respect are the economic analysis of the changed relation between food production and consumption as well as the potential for energy and circularity transitions in cities and their hinterland. We use spatial econometric and regional input-output modelling approaches to better understand optimal interactions between cities and rural areas, for example in the context of regional food supply systems, climate change mitigation, nature conservation and recreation activities.
UEC is a new group in Wageningen, with strong ambitions to emphasis the potential of cities and their interactions with rural areas to build a more sustainable future. Our group is positioned in a unique way to translate insights from the food, agri, energy and environmental domains to the urban context.
The link: https://www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/Assistant-Professor-Urban-Economics-Tenure-Track.htm
Opening for a Tenured Professorship in Regional Science at Cornell University
Cornell University
Department of City and Regional Planning
Tenured Professor Position in Regional Science
The Department of City and Regional Planning at Cornell University invites applications for a tenured faculty appointment at the rank of Associate or Full Professor to begin in July 2019. Applicants at the rank of Assistant Professor with advanced standing will also be considered.
Walter Isard defined regional science as a discipline concerned with “the careful and patient study of social problems with regional or spatial dimensions, employing diverse combinations of analytical and empirical research.” Applicants for this position should hold a Ph.D. in regional science or an allied field—e.g., planning, urban and regional economics, agricultural or environmental economics, economic geography, civil engineering, demography, developmental sociology, transportation science, or spatial analytics. We seek applicants with strong publication records in regional science journals and experience teaching core courses in regional science—e.g., industrial location theory, economic impact analysis, CGE modeling, agent-based modeling, or spatial statistical analysis—as well as a course in methods of planning analysis. Applicants should have a record of regular attendance at meetings of the Regional Science Association International (RSAI). It is expected that the successful applicant will become a member of the Graduate Field of Regional Science. The faculty of the Graduate Field includes 25 members from eight academic departments in five colleges of the University. A successful candidate will provide leadership in, and help shape the future of, the Graduate Field of Regional Science at Cornell, and advise both graduate and undergraduate students.
Cornell’s Department of City and Regional Planning (CRP) is a top-ranked planning department with a progressive mission. Our goal in teaching, research, and public engagement is to promote vibrant communities, urban sustainability, and social equity, especially giving attention to race, class, gender and sexual orientation. The department has 130 undergraduate majors (BS-Urban and Regional Studies), 110 master’s degree students in programs in City and Regional Planning (accredited MRP), Historic Preservation Planning (MA), and Regional Science (MA and MS), and 35 Ph.D. students in City and Regional Planning and Regional Science. The Department, with a full-time faculty of 15, draws students from across the U.S. and the world and is one of the premier programs for U.S. and international planning. The Department is in the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning, which is committed to advancing scholarship in the art and science of place-making and urban design by providing a supportive, resource-rich context for collaborative studies both within the unit and across the university. Demonstrating this commitment, CRP supports dual degrees with Cornell programs in Landscape Architecture and Real Estate.
The Department of City and Regional Planning, and the College of Architecture, Art and Planning at Cornell embrace diversity and seek candidates who will create a climate that attracts students of all races, nationalities and genders. Cornell is a recognized employer and educator for valuing AA/EEO, Protected Veterans, and Individuals with Disabilities. We strongly encourage women and underrepresented minorities to apply. Cornell University also seeks to meet the needs of dual career couples, has a Dual Career program, and is a member of the Upstate New York Higher Education Recruitment Consortium to assist with dual career searches. Visit http://www.unyherc.org/home/index.cfm?siteid=671 to see positions available in higher education in the upstate New York area.
Please submit your curriculum vitae, letter of intent, research and teaching statements, writing sample, evidence of teaching effectiveness, and the names of at least three references electronically to Academic Jobs Online at https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/11824. The application materials should provide evidence of high-quality research and creative practice through publishing, grantsmanship, excellence in teaching and advising, as well as professional or consultative experience in urban or regional environments in the U.S. and internationally. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis beginning November 15, 2018 until we identify a pool of qualified candidates for the position. Further information about Cornell, the department, and CRP students, alumni, and faculty may be found at http://www.crp.cornell.edu/
Portuguese Economic Journal's - PEJ | Tourism and Economics | August 2018
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