The 2nd International Conference on Environmental Research and Public Health [ICERP2017] is going to be held in Shenzhen, China during Oct. 20th - 22nd, 2017.

TPC Members
Prof. Yu-Lin (Eugene) Song
Department of Bioinformatics and Medical Engineering, Asia University, Taiwan
Prof. James Harold Clarke
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee
Prof. Yanhuai Ding
Institute of Rheology Mechanics, Xiangtan University, Hunan, China

Fore more, pls refer to the website: www.icerp2017.org

Contribution & Publication
1. All submissions will be reviewed by 2-3 experts
2. All accepted papers will be published by the Atlantis Press
3. The Atlantis Press will also submit the conference proceedings to be indexed in EI & CPCI

If you are interested, just deliver your paper to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and join us.

Collecting paper will continue until May 7th, 2017, please seize this opportunity to have a try.

If you miss the deadline, pls call the committee: 0086 150 1277 1094

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Reader in Human Geography (Urban Geography and Applications of Big Data)

School of Geography

Location:  Brayford
Salary:   From £32,004 per annum
Lecturer salary from £32,004, Senior Lecturer salary from £37,075 and Reader salary from £48,327
Closing Date:   Sunday 23 April 2017
Interview Date:   Tuesday 16 May 2017 
Reference:  COS397

The School of Geography would welcome applications from candidates with an interest inUrban Geography and applications of Big Data. One appointment will be made to either Reader, Senior Lecturer or Lecturer level. 

More information at: https://jobs.lincoln.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?ref=COS397

Dear colleagues!

The Department of Human Geography and Regional Studies, the School of Geology, Geography, Recreation and Tourism, V.N. KarazinKharkivNationalUniversity (Ukraine) invites you to take part in the International Scientific and Practical Conference of students, post-graduate students and young researchers «Region-2017: Human-Geographical aspects» (20-21 April, 2017)and to publish your manuscripts in the scientific journal «Journal of human geography», included in the scientometricbases Index Copernicus, Ulrich's Periodicals Directory, Google Scholar, InfoBase Index, Eurasian Scientific Journal Index, ResearchBib, Scientific Indexing Services. The deadline for submitting papers for conference participation – March 27, 2017, deadline for publishing in the journal – April 15, 2017.

The information letter on the conference is in the attached file. Requirements to manuscripts publication you can find in the web-site of the journal http://hgj.univer.kharkov.ua/index.php/en/ and in the attached file

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 the publishing manuscripts to the journal.

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

Sincerely, 

Staff of the Department of Human Geography and Regional Studies,

School of Geology, Geography, Recreation and Tourism,

V.N. KarazinKharkivNationalUniversity

Тел.: +38 (057) 707-52-74

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

Call for Abstracts

It is our pleasure to announce the 24th APDR Congress, to be held at the University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal, from July 6 to July 7, 2017.

The call for papers and Special Session Proposals is open and your participation is very welcome!

Special Sessions

SS01 - Entrepreneurship in sustainable and creative territories

SS02 - Asymmetries in metropolitan areas: measuring, correcting, rethinking

SS03 - Cultura e desenvolvimento regional: As contribuições da arte, do folclore e de outras manifestações artísticas para o progresso regional

SS04 - Mega-events legacy on hosting cities

SS05 - Segurança e desenvolvimento regional: Correlações económicas, culturais e políticas com progresso regional

SS06 - Creative tourism in small cities and rural areas

SS07 - Territorial innovation models, smart specialisation and public policies

SS08 - Support of higher education institutions to regions’ intellectual capital: Is it true?

SS09 - Wicked problems and integrated governance

SS10 - Entrepreneurship, gender, and regional development

SS11 - Knowledge cities: Updating the state of the art

SS12 - Desenvolvimento Regional e Governação Integrada em Territórios de Baixa Densidade

SS13 - Social entrepreneurship, social innovation and regional development

SS14 - Air Transport and Regional Development

Regular Sessions:

RS01 – Models for Regional Development

RS02 – Regional and Local Development Policies

RS03 – Regional Intellectual Capital

RS04 – Financing of Economic Growth

RS05 – Regional Innovation Systems, Clusters and Ecosystems

RS06 – Regional and Local Public Finance

RS07 – Sectoral Policies and Regional Dynamics

RS08 – Infrastructure, Transportation Networks and Regional Development

RS09 – Labour Markets and Development

RS10 – Entrepreneurship and Regional Development

RS11 – Quality of Life and City Planning

RS12 – Services, Tourism and Sustainable Regions

RS13 – Education, Innovation and Territory

RS14 – Rural Development and Agrarian Economy

RS15 – Regional and Urban Planning and Regional Development

RS16 – Sports and Regional Development

RS17 – Low Density Regions and Development

Deadline for Abstracts submissions: April 28th, 2017. Abstracts should be submitted electronically, using the platform available on the Conference website: https://events.digitalpapers.org/apdr2017/

All information at the congress website: http://www.apdr.pt/congresso/2017/

Looking forward to meeting you in Covilhã!

The Organizing Committee and the Board of APDR

24th APDR Congress

Dear colleague,

please let me invite you, to take part at the 6th Central EuropeanConference

„Engines of regional and urban development“
20-22 September 2017, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia.

Keynote speakers

Prof. Daniela L. Constantin, Academy of Economic Studies of Bucharest, Romania

Prof. Manfred M. Fischer, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria
Prof. Peter Nijkamp,Tinbergen Institute Amsterdam, Netherlands
Assoc. prof. John Östh, University of Uppsala, Sweden

Key topics
Engines of development; creative and smart urban and rural development; resilience and vulnerability of cities and regions; centralization and peripheralization of regions

Important dates
Abstract submission deadline: March 31^st 2017 on This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Call for special session deadline: March 31^st 2017 on This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Notification of acceptance of abstract: April 30^th 2017
Registration from: May 1^st 2017
Paper submission deadline: June 30^th 2017

The conference proceedings will be submitted to the Conference Proceedings Citation Index (ISI Web of Science) and other more attractive publishing opportunities will be known soon.

All the information concerning the Conference are available here: http://www.cers.umb.sk/

We would be very thankful if you can spread the information about the conference among your colleagues.

We are looking forward to meeting You in Banská Bystrica.

On behalf of organizing team,

Kamila Borseková, Anna Vaňová, Katarína Vitálišová

There are two upcoming conferences and events that may be of interest to regional scientists:

1). American Community Survey Data Users Conference

Registration is open for the 2017 American Community Survey Data Users Conference! The conference will be held on May 11-12, 2017 at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Madison Building located at 600 Dulany Street in Alexandria, Virginia (a five-minute walk from the King Street Metro station). Space at the conference is limited and registration is on a first come/first served basis. There is no registration fee for the conference but participants are responsible for covering their own expenses, including travel, hotel, and meals. The deadline for registration is Friday May 5th at https://acsdatacommunity.prb.org/p/conferences.

2). Mid-Continent Regional Science Association 48th Annual Conference 

June 7-9, 2017 ~ Toledo, Ohio

Call for Papers

Please join us for the 48th annual conference of the Mid-Continent Regional Science to be held at the Renaissance Toledo Downtown Hotel in Toledo, Ohio. The program committee welcomes papers on a wide range of topics relating to applied economics, planning, geography, business, public administration sociology, and political science.

The deadline for abstract submission is April 1, 2017.

Hotel Information: The Renaissance Toledo Downtown Hotel is undergoing a complete renovation. Everything will be new. The Renaissance is downtown near the river walk, and many restaurants and cultural attractions. The conference-lodging rate is $149/night single and double. To receive this rate, reservations must be made by May 6, 2017.

2017 M. Jarvin Emerson Student Paper Competition

The deadline for submission is April 1, 2017

The Mid-Continent Regional Science Association announces the Student Paper Competition for our 2017 conference (June 7-9) in Toledo, Ohio. All students enrolled in undergraduate or graduate degree programs as of January 1, 2017 are eligible. Student papers dealing with all aspects of regional development, including cultural, physical and economic processes, are welcome. The first place winner will receive $1,000 and the M. Jarvin Emerson Award. The winning entry will also be published in the Association’s journal, The Journal of Regional Analysis & Policy. Only papers authored solely by students (i.e., no faculty co-authored papers) will be eligible for the competition and resulting publication.

North Central Regional Center for Rural Development Graduate Student Travel Grants to the MCRSA Conference in Toledo, OH – June 7-9, 2017

The North Central Regional Center for Rural Development (NCRCRD) at Michigan State University is partnering with the MCRSA to strengthen research capacity in the North Central Region. We’re doing so by offering a limited number of MCRSA conference travel grants to graduate students from NCRCRD member institutions. Students can request up to $500 to pay eligible travel-related expenses. Only M.S. and Ph.D. graduate students from NCRCRD-member institutions are eligible for these awards.

Information about the MCRSA annual conference is at: www.mcrsa.org.

Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences. Volume 10 Number 1 is now available online.

Original Paper

Site selection for catch crop processing facilities

Masayuki Matsuoka, Takanori Masuda, Takahito Hase, Masato Yamada & Taku Fujiwara

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Original Paper

On farm non-agricultural activities: geographical determinants of diversification and intensification strategy

Fabio Boncinelli, Fabio Bartolini, Leonardo Casini & Gianluca Brunori

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Original Paper

Multinomial logit estimates of household location in the Chicago metropolitan area

William Sander & William A. Testa

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Original Paper

Weighting schemes in global VAR modelling: a forecasting exercise

Florian Martin & Jesús Crespo Cuaresma

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Original Paper

What comes first, residential or commercial development? Measuring the causal links for a Canadian city over a century

Jean Dubé, Charles-David Babin, Jean-Christophe Dubé, Hemza Lekkat, Alexandre Potvin & Olivier Ringue

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Original Paper

The spatial autocorrelation problem in spatial interaction modelling: a comparison of two common solutions

Daniel A. Griffith, Manfred M. Fischer & James LeSage

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Original Paper

Distance decay for supply and demand potentials

Börje Johansson & Johan Klaesson

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Original Paper

Relating cost-benefit analysis results with transport project decisions in the Netherlands

Jan Anne Annema, Koen Frenken, Carl Koopmans & Maarten Kroesen

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Original Paper

On cartel detection and Moran’s I

Johan Lundberg

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Do you want to publish your article in this journal?

Please visit the homepage of Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences for full details on:

• aims and scope
• editorial policy

• article submission 

The Annals of Regional Science. Volume 58 Number 2 is now available online.

Urbanization and Spatial Development of China

In this issue

Special Issue Editorial

Guest editors’ introduction to “urbanization and spatial development of China”

Zhao Chen & Janet Kohlhase

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What sustains larger firms? Evidence from Chinese manufacturing industries

Canfei He, Qi Guo & David Rigby

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Energy efficiency in the Chinese provinces: a fixed effects stochastic frontier spatial Durbin error panel analysis

Lei Jiang, Henk Folmer, Minhe Ji & Jianjun Tang

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Air pollution, economic spillovers, and urban growth in China

Daxuan Zhao & Tien Foo Sing

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Lose to win: entrepreneurship of returned migrants in China

Li Yu, Xundong Yin, Xiang Zheng & Wenwei Li

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Please visit the homepage of The Annals of Regional Science for full details on:

• aims and scope
• editorial policy
• article submission

Impact Factor: 0.571 (2015)
Journal Citation Reports®, Thomson Reuters

12 International Conference Challenges of Europe:

“INNOVATIVE RESPONSES FOR RESILIENT GROWTH AND COMPETITIVENESS”

17 -19 May, 2017 / Bol, Island Brač, Croatia

It is expected that all ABC participants sign up for the Conference and present a paper. Please look at the website and the link to the conference: http://conference.efst.hr/