Assistant Professor, Economics

Dear Members of the Regional Science Association International, 

according to the RSAI Constitution, each first year of term of the RSAI President, the Association faces the pleasant task of electing the Incoming President, who will in 2026 take on the position of President Elect, and work along with Prof. Hiroyuki Shibusawsa, current RSAI President, to gradually move on to the position of President in 2027. Here is an excerpt of the rules of the Association for managing this important step:

Nomination committee. The RSAI Council has appointed a dedicated nomination committee, that following the rule of the RSAI Constitution is made up of the RSAI President (Hiroyuki Shibusawsa), the RSAI Immediate Past-President (Hans Westlund), four members of the RSAI Council (one each from among the council members who are appointees of the four superregional organizations: Roberta Capello  for ERSA, In Kwon Park for PRSCO, Andre Chagas for LARSA; Sarah Low for NARSC), and two members of the Long Range Planning Committee (LRPC) recommended by the LRPC itself (Eduardo Haddad and Budy Resosurdamo).

Criteria of the nominees. The nominees should satisfy the following criteria: a) financial resources sufficient to cover travel costs to perform RSAI duties; b) support from candidate’s institution including relaxation of duties to enable President to travel as needed to execute RSAI business; c) RSAI Council experience (Council member experience) and/or other service to the regional science community (e.g., supra-regional and/or other sections, editor or one of the regional science journals, etc.).

Election procedure. The President Elect nomination committee shall [...] make a recommendation to Council at a Council meeting of this same year. Upon receiving this recommendation, the Council will select a nominee. The President‐Elect and Vice‐President shall start his/her appointment at the start of the next calendar year (i.e. the second year of the current President’s term).

RSAI members from the NARSC area who want to be nominated as candidate for the President of the Regional Science Association International should send to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (cc-ing the RSAI ED at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) within October 31st, 2025 the following material:

•  A two-page CV and a Picture;
•  A two-page statement on the motives in support of the candidacy and on the future strategy for the RSAI.

The Nomination Committee will then nominate the candidates to be voted on-line by the Members of the Council. Results will be diffused through in RSAI webpage.

Thank you in advance for participating in this crucial stage of the Association's life,

Kind regards,

No. 72 (2025): Portuguese Review of Regional Studies

 

 

Editor-in.Chef: José Cadima Ribeiro

Co-Editors: Conceição Rego e João Marques

Published: 23-09-2025

 

 

 

 

Full Issue

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Technical Information

• Technical Information

  1-4

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Articles

• Institutional analysis of creative economy policy transfers at the local level: a study in Lisbon (Portugal)

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.59072/rper.vi72.739

  José Ricardo Vitória, Nina Rosa da Silveira Cunha, Magnus Luiz Emmendoerfer, Joaquim Filipe Ferraz Esteves Araújo, Thiago Chagas de Almeida

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• The Influence of Regional Smart Specialisation Strategies on Portugal's Competitiveness

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.59072/rper.vi72.745

  Horácio José Portela Ferreira, Carla Susana da Encarnação Marques, Luis Manuel do Carmo Farinha

  23-44

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• How can Design Thinking improve food sustainability in the Minho Region? A multi-actor perspective

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.59072/rper.vi72.708

  Susana Campos, Rafael Oliveira, Ricardo Jorge Correia, Ana Teresa Ferreira-Oliveira, Ana Sofia Rodrigues, Manuela Vaz-Velho

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• Economic science and the problematisation of housing in Portugal: analysis of an epistemic network

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.59072/rper.vi72.737

  Simone Tulumello

  59-75

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• Economic reconversion and the creation of new trajectories in peripheral mining regions: Proposing a theoretical framework

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.59072/rper.vi72.704

  Helen Patricia Belisário, Hugo Pinto, Liliane de Oliveira Guimarães

  77-96

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• Perceptions of Residents of Porto Region on Traditional Gastronomy with a Generalized Q Analysis

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.59072/rper.vi72.743

  Makhabbat Ramazanova, Isabel Vaz de Freitas, Ana Matilde Castro, Tomaz Ponce Dentinho

  97-113

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REGIONAL STATISTICS, 2025, VOL 15, No 5.

STUDIES

Dear Readers,

We are pleased to say that the 5/2025 issue of Regional Statistics has been published and available online!

CONTENT

Fernando Antonio Ignacio González: Immigration and native labour market conditions in Argentina

https://www.ksh.hu/statszemle_archive/regstat/2025/2025_05/rs150501.pdf

Sulaeman – Husnul Mirzal – Muhammad Sultan Mubarok – Indar Fauziah Ulfah – Akhmad Fauzi Nurulhamzah – Moh Agus Nugroho – Sulistya Rusgianto: Enhancing food security through agricultural financing and loans within Indonesia’s dual banking system: empirical study approaches

https://www.ksh.hu/statszemle_archive/regstat/2025/2025_05/rs150502.pdf

Nándor Zagyi – Róbert Kuszinger – Ábel Bagdy – Zoltán Wilhelm: Spatial characteristics of the sex ratio shift in India

https://www.ksh.hu/statszemle_archive/regstat/2025/2025_05/rs150503.pdf

Éva Berde – Izabella Kuncz – Petra Németh – Sándor Remsei – Eszter Szabó-Bakos: GDP per capita and human capital investment in five countries after exhaustion of the first demographic dividend

https://www.ksh.hu/statszemle_archive/regstat/2025/2025_05/rs150504.pdf

Róbert Tésits – Martin Rongics: Regional opportunities for community-led local development in the area of a Hungarian Leader Association, 2014–2020

https://www.ksh.hu/statszemle_archive/regstat/2025/2025_05/rs150505.pdf

Roberto Yoan Castillo Dieguez – Samuel Arturo Mongrut Montalván – José Antonio Climent Hernández – Ma. Benilde Rincón García – Graciela Lara Gómez: Regional inequality in Mexico’s post-pandemic economic recovery

https://www.ksh.hu/statszemle_archive/regstat/2025/2025_05/rs150506.pdf

László Szívós – Jenő Fáró: How did specific aspects of national culture, uncertainty avoidance, and long-term orientation moderate the effect of Covid-19 on earnings management?

https://www.ksh.hu/statszemle_archive/regstat/2025/2025_05/rs150507.pdf

Hana Boháčová – Pavla Jindrová: Sectoral structure of employment in EU member states with an emphasis on the quaternary sector or on the GDP, 2011–2023

https://www.ksh.hu/statszemle_archive/regstat/2025/2025_05/rs150508.pdf

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Call for Papers for Special Issue in Regional Science Policy & Practice (RSPP)

Title: "The future of Cohesion"

1. Aim of the special issue

The Special Issue will take inspiration from the experience stemming from the reflections and policy recommendations by the High-Level Group discussed in their report on the Future of Cohesion, situated within the broader debate about the EU's post-2027 budget. These deliberations are already underway and, crucially, the European Commission is now proposing what may be the most profound transformation of European policies in over half a century.

At the heart of this transformation lies a thorough rethinking of Cohesion Policy itself. This could push the EU into uncharted territory: What does a stronger focus on competitiveness mean for regional balance? Can cohesion still serve as the glue that binds diverse regions and peoples together? The Special Issue aims to provide a timely and critical reflection on these questions, offering informed perspectives that can influence both the current discourse and policy direction.

2. Length of contributions

The editors are aiming for papers with a maximum length of 8,000 words, including references.

3. Review process

As with all academic submissions to the journal, the process will involve peer review. Each paper will be sent to at least two anonymous reviewers. If the reviews are favorable, authors will be asked to make revisions in line with the feedback before final acceptance.

This ensures that the Special Issue maintains high scholarly standards and remains impactful both within and beyond academia.

4. Open access and fees

Regional Science Policy & Practice is a gold open access journal. This guarantees free access for all readers but does involve a publication fee, typically covered by academic institutions.

5. Deadlines

The submission portal (https://www.editorialmanager.com/rspp) will accept submissions to this special issue from Oct. 20, 2025 until Jan. 31, 2026. When submititng your paper to the special issue, please prepare a submission letter clearly stating that your work is meant to be evaluated for this collection. Should a cover letter be missing, the submission will be treated as a regular one.

6. Editors of the Special Issue

The Special Issue will edited by Prof. Andrés Rodríguez-Pose, Chair of the Group of high-level specialists on the future of Cohesion Policy. Prof. Rodríguez-Pose is the Princesa de Asturias Chair and a Professor of Economic Geography at the London School of Economics. He is the Director of the Cañada Blanch Centre LSE and was Head of the Department of Geography and Environment between 2006 and 2009.

He has been President of the Regional Science Association International (RSAI) (2015-2017) and served as its Vice-President in 2014. He was also Vice-President (2012-2013) and Secretary (2001-2005) of the European Regional Science Association.

He is a part-time Professor of Innovation at the Centre for Innovation Research, University of Stavanger (Norway). He has been visiting professor at several higher education institutions, including the College of Europe (Belgium), the University of Cambridge (UK), the University of Hannover (Germany), the University of Split (Croatia), and the Autonomous University of Madrid (Spain).

He has a long track record of research in regional growth and inequality, fiscal and political decentralization, institutions, discontent and populism, innovation, migration, and development policies and strategies. This research is widely cited in academic circles. In the 2021 Stanford/Elsevier list of the 2% most cited scientists (which identifies close to 200,000 researchers across all areas of science), he was among the 0.1% of researchers across all academic disciplines. He was ranked first worldwide in the field of urban and regional planning by scholarly citations in 2020. He also appears on Clarivate's Web of Science 2020 and 2021 lists of Highly Cited Researchers.

Prof. Rodríguez-Pose will be joined as internal editor by the Editor in Chief of Regional Science, Policy & Practice, Prof. Andrea Caragliu. Andrea Caragliu is Associate Professor of Regional and Urban Economics at Politecnico di Milano since 2018. He holds a Ph.D. in Spatial Economics, VU University Amsterdam, 2015, and a Ph.D. in Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, 2010. The dissertation has been awarded the Merit Prize of the EU Committee of the Regions Prize for the Best Doctoral Dissertation and Diploma d’Onore AISRe for the best doctoral dissertation in Regional Science “Giorgio Leonardi” 2010.

Between 2019 and 2024 he acted as Executive Director of the Regional Science Association International, for which he previously edited the Newsletter. Besides acting as Editor in Chief of Regional Science, Policy & practice, he is also Associate Editor for Plos ONE. Since 2025, he coordinates the Ph.D. program in Architecture, Built Environment, and Constriction Engineering at Politecnico di Milano.

Dear RSAI members

Maybe you are not aware of this, but as member of your Regional Science Association, you are immediately a member of the RSAI, which is the Regional Science Association International. (https://regionalscience.org/index.php)

RSAI has one specific Award for researchers from and based in "developing countries", as defined by the World Bank, which is called the Peter Nijkamp RSAI Research Encouragement Award for a Mid-Career Scholar from a Developing Country.

(please visit https://regionalscience.org/index.php/awards/peter-nijkamp-research-award.html)

DEADLINE to RECEIVE APPLICATIONS: November 30th 2025

I cordially invite you to learn about this award and, if fitting the criteria, to consider yourself as a potential candidate (now or some other time in the near future).

Best regards

Dr Ana Viñuela

RSAI Executive Director

Associate Professor, Applied Economics Department

REGIOlab, University of Oviedo, Spain

European Project EXIT (https://www.exit-project.eu/)

Regional Science Policy & Practice Volume 17, Issue 10, October 2025

Articles

Investigaciones Regionales - Journal of Regional Research has published the 63^rd Issue, the third volume corresponding to 2025.

Below you will find the summaries of the papers published in this volume, which can be accessed at https://investigacionesregionales.org/en/revista/well-being-and-quality-of-life-in-latin-american-and-caribbean-cities-progress-and-challenges/

We invite authors to submit papers at https://investigacionesregionales.org/en/envio-de-articulos/submission-of-papers-and-others-contributions/

Issue 63

Special Issue 2025 Well-being and quality of life in Latin American and Caribbean cities: progress and challenges

Editorial

Juan Pablo Díaz-Sánchez, Cintya Lanchimba, Moisés Obaco

Well-being and quality of life in Latin American and Caribbean cities: Progress and challenges

This article presents a special issue of research papers devoted to the study of well-being and quality of life, considering both progress and challenges, in Latin American and Caribbean cities.

Keywords: Well-being; quality of life; Latin America; Caribbean

Articles

Grace Carolina Guevara-Rosero, Alexander Sarango-Iturralde, Andrés García-Suaza

Regional disparities in amenities and the life satisfaction of internal migrants

While migrants pursue better incomes, they might be driven by differences in amenities between the place of origin and destination. This study aims to determine the effect of differences in health, educational amenities, and the operational capacity between the place of origin and destination on the life satisfaction of internal migrants. To do so, a generalized ordered logit model is estimated using data from the Survey of Employment, Unemployment and Underemployment of Ecuador for the editions from 2015 to 2017. Our results show that income and amenities are not competing reasons for life satisfaction, they go hand in hand. Differences in health and educational amenities, as well as variations in the operational capacity of local governments between the places of origin and destination, have an influence on the life satisfaction of internal migrants. These effects vary depending on the age of the migrant, the size of the city of origin and destination, the reason for migration, and the duration of residence.

Keywords: Migration; life satisfaction; regional amenities

Moisés Obaco, Janu Pablo Díaz-Sánchez, Cintya Lanchimba

Urban primacy and slum prevalence in Latin American and Caribbean countries in the 1990-2020 period

Slums are a global concern due to their impact on urban health and urban planning. Although Latin America and the Caribbean is one of the most urbanized developing regions, slums are still a significant concern. However, most studies have concentrated on a single city, using a sample of Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries or treating the region as one unit to analyze income inequality and urban primacy. Here, we present an analysis of the relationship between slums and urban primacy for LAC countries for the 1990–2020 period, controlling for GDP per capita and public spending on housing. In addition, we model the relationship between slums and demographic variables such as the fertility rate, migration rate, and urbanization. The analysis is based on panel data from the World Bank and The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). During the period of study, a clear positive relationship is evident between urban primacy in the largest city and the slum rate in each LAC country. However, a high level of heterogeneity is observed in this relationship and our model explains the variation in the slum rate within countries better than the variation between countries.

Keywords: Slums; panel data; Latin America; urban primacy; urbanization

Edith Marcial Ramírez, Roberto Iván Fuentes Contreras, Karina Isabel Salinas Solís

Housing and Implications for Spatial Inequality: Tijuana, Mexico, 2015-2021

Urban growth has led to the unforeseen development of peripheral urbanization. The case of the city of Tijuana represents, in a peculiar way, the concern about the acquisition and investment in housing. The rugged topography has caused excessive costs of urbanization and the introduction of services that have limited urban development. The objective of this research is to describe the urban environment based on its resources and housing location, as well as to demonstrate its implications on urban spatial inequality. Through a hedonic price model with data from the Sistema Nacional de Información e Indicadores de Vivienda (SNIIV) from 2015 to 2021. Among the main findings is that the price per square meter of new homes purchased by national residents rises as one moves to the outskirts of the city. In addition, the highest and lowest income deciles are living in peripheral areas.

Keywords: Housing; hedonic model; residential location; periphery

Clara María Karis, María Laura Zulaica

Green spaces as determinants of quality of life in urban and periurban areas: analysis of uses and preferences in an intermediate Argentine city

Latin American cities show accelerated processes of expanding growth with direct consequences on the quality of life of their inhabitants. In this context, the article analyzes the uses of public green spaces and the preferences of the population in an intermediate Argentine city and its periurban area, based on data from a survey conducted among visitors of these spaces. The results indicate that the evaluated aspects are associated with the natural and sociocultural attributes of these spaces and the characteristics of the respondents, highlighting the interaction and differences between objective and subjective variables of quality of life, especially in the urban-rural gradient.

Keywords: Green infrastructure; survey; cultural ecosystem services; case study; periurban area

Roberto Mauricio Sánchez-Torres

Multidimensional poverty in the Colombian pacific: identification, measurement and recent trends

The Pacific is the region of Colombia with the greatest economic lag and the lowest living standards of its population. The objective of this study is to investigate poverty in the Colombian Pacific, taking as a reference the multidimensional approach, applying different identification methodologies and aggregation indicators. The main result is that despite the reduction in poverty between 2010 and 2018, it has not been systematic and has presented much more moderate levels than the situation in the rest of the country; in particular, the region has great deficiencies in education levels and access to health.

Keywords: Colombia; Colombian Pacific region; multidimensional poverty; quality of life; welfare economics

Manuel Tiberio Flórez Calderón, Tito Morales Pinzón, Jorge Luis Ceballos Liévano

Vulnerability of Nature Based Tourism to Climate Change in Risaralda, Colombia

The study presents an approach to assess the vulnerability of nature-based tourism in Risaralda, Colombia, to climate change. An environmental reference model is adapted to the tourism sector. The results reveal high vulnerability at the municipal level, conservation areas, ecosystems and tourism supply, especially in high mountain ecosystems. This underlines the importance of adaptive tourism management and measures to reduce vulnerability, such as avoiding concentration of tourism supply, since some of the most vulnerable tourism destinations are paradoxically the most competitive in terms of sustainability. This approach is applicable to other tourism destinations.

Keywords: Vulnerability; tourism; climate change; ecosystems; Risaralda

Mercy Orellana, Joselin Segovia, Rodrigo García Arancibia

Returns to education in Ecuador: The role of family social capital and territorial differences

In this study we aim at estimating the economic return to education with a territorial perspective. Furthermore, we aim at identifying the effect of the family’s social capital, proxied by language of parents, on the economic returns to education. Results show that education provides different returns to individuals that differ by their family backgrounds, with a significant disadvantage on children whose parents speak an indigenous language. We observe that the territory can contribute to these disparities by up to 7%.

Keywords: Social capital; language; education; economic returns; territory

Paula Herrera Idárraga, Helena María Hernández, Martha Susana Jaimes

The Role of Urban Care Sector in Women’s Employment and Gender Segregation in Colombian Regions

The provision of care services can reduce gender labor gaps. As care-related economic activities are highly feminized, strengthening care services can increase women’s share of total employment. Care services can also reduce the unpaid care burden and promote women’s employment in other sectors, which could change sectoral gender segregation. We explore these relationships for Colombia through a regional urban analysis. We classify cities into three regions using their level of competitiveness as a broad measure of labor market dynamics. Using a fixed effects model, our results show that an increase in the importance of the care sector boosts women’s labor force participation and sectoral segregation; however, we emphasize the importance of urban and regional contexts in determining the role of care provision on gender equality.

Keywords: Care provision; segregation; employment