The School of Geography and Development (SGD) is part of a top-ranked Research One land-grant university. The faculty and graduate student expertise covers the entire spectrum of contemporary geography. SGD offers a range of academic and professional degrees at the undergraduate and graduate levels. 

The Regional Economics And Spatial Modeling (REASM) laboratory is a research center focusing on the development of theories and tools to model urban, regional and interregional economic systems. Founded in 2012 by Drs. Sandy Dall’erba and Daoqin Tong, REASM’s expertise consists in modeling spatial interactions based on techniques such as Geographical Information Systems, spatial statistics, spatial econometrics, interregional input-output and spatial optimization analysis. Applications cover fields as broad as regional economic growth, regional and local development, public policies, the housing market, public and private service facility location, farmers’ markets, transportation and, more recently, the impact of climate change on agriculture.

Programs and Degrees in Regional Science

Regional Economics And Spatial Modelling Laboratory - REASM		School of Geography and Development – SGD

Thesis on Regional Science in the last five years

2012

Liz Ileana Rodriguez-Gamez- Ph.D. - New perspectives on the spatial analysis of urban employment distribution and commuting patterns: The cases of Hermosillo and Ciudad Obregon, Mexico

Sandy Dall’erba

2011

Trevor Kollmann- Ph.D. - Housing Markets, Government Programs, and Race during the Great Depression

Sandy Dall’erba

2010

Jason Jurjevich- Ph.D. - Compositional and Contextual Effects Across Political Landscapes: Case Studies of Migration and Same-Sex Marriage 

David Plane

2008

Sandra Holland- Ph.D. - Hedonic Modeling of the Tucson Housing Market: The Effect of Educational Submarkets on House Prices

David Plane

Students Awards in Regional Science

Honorable Mention Status - 25th Charles M. Tiebout Prize Competition- Western Regional Science meeting

2011 - Liz Ileana Rodriguez-Gamez - Employment density in Hermosillo, 1999-2004: a spatial econometric approach of local parameters

Finalist - 25th Charles M. Tiebout Prize Competition- Western Regional Science meeting

2011 - Trevor Kollmann - Impact of African American Migration on Housing in New York City Neighborhoods during the Great Depression

Regional Science Scholars

Link Staff 1 and Link Staff 2

The RSAI Council of Palermo approved unanimously the inclusion of the Regional Science Association of Morocco as an official section of RSAI. The Regional Science Association of Morocco is the first RSAI section in Africa and more sections could appear following the Regional Science activities in South Africa, Angola, Cape Verde and Maghreb countries.

Volume Editors:  Pierre Filion (University of Waterloo), Mark Skidmore (Michigan State University) and This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (Wayne State University)

Disasters – sudden cataclysmic events, resulting in property damage and loss of life – appear to be occurring with increasing frequency and intensity.  This can be attributed, in part, to global growth in urbanization.  As the number and size of cities increases, the potential and importance of these events also increases; flooding that destroys a city has greater impact than one that only destroys crops.

Despite more frequent occurrences, efforts to better anticipate disasters have been limited.  Moreover, once the disaster has occurred, the effectiveness of recovery efforts is often inadequate.  The proposed book will contribute to the understanding of the relationship between disasters and how cities prepare for, and recover from, them.

The editors envision the book will have two primary organizational dimensions. The first is temporal, with the disaster event at the center.  We are interested in papers that address what cities do to prepare for disasters and what occurs in subsequent recovery efforts.  (We do not anticipate that the book will include papers dealing exclusively with actual disaster events.)  The planning and preparation for the disaster may focus on risk assessment, cost-benefit analysis, and other aspects.  Of particular interest would be papers that consider how emerging disaster risks (new pandemics, terrorism) are evaluated and addressed.  Papers dealing with post-disaster recovery may include analysis of choices with respect to rebuilding (where, what), the pace of recovery efforts or policy changes (including new codes and ordinances that are adopted to mitigate future damage).

The second organizational dimension is the continuum that runs from disasters brought on by natural events (hurricanes, earthquakes) to disasters brought on by human action (terrorism).  Given the urban focus of this book, this dimension will address disasters that occur at the nexus of human and natural activity.  Thus, papers dealing with primarily natural phenomena (drought, climate change) will be considered only if they address ways that these events affect urban populations.  Comparative studies (before and after, successful and unsuccessful, primarily human and primarily natural events, international cases) are encouraged.

This volume will be part of the Global Urban Studies series, edited by Laura A. Reese (Michigan State University) for Ashgate Press.  Volumes in this series are international and interdisciplinary in content.  Individual papers may provide comparative analyses, case studies, risk analyses, policy and theoretical analyses.

Papers should be no more than 40 double spaced pages, including tables, figures and citations.

Interested authors should submit an abstract, of no more than 300 words, that describes the proposed research questions, data, and methodology, along with an outline of the proposed paper and a brief summary of the authors’ qualifications.  This material should be submitted by September 15, 2013.  The editors will respond to each proposal by October 15, 2013.  The deadline for submitting the completed paper is March 15, 2014.

Proposals should be submitted to Professor Gary Sands at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Authors may contact any of the editors of this volume with questions.

19th APDR Workshop - International Workshop

Resilient territories: innovation and creativity for new modes of regional development

Venue: Faculty of Economics, University of Algarve, Faro, PORTUGAL

Date: 29th November 2013

Background

In a context of economic turbulence, resilient territories gained relevance for academics, planners and decision makers. Resilience can be understood as a non-equilibrium characteristic that facilitates a socio-economic system to recover from a negative impact by re-entering a former trajectory or by adapting a new trajectory that successfully deals with the external pressures. Resilience is also connected but not fully integrated in literature with more stabilized notions, such as innovation and creativity. The International Workshop in “Resilient territories”, co-organized by APDR - Portuguese Association for Regional Development and CIEO – Centre for Spatial and Organizational Dynamics of the University of Algarve, invites senior and early stage researchers, but also practioners, working in the following topics, to debate the research and policy-making agenda, in a transdisciplinary perspective, for this particular field of innovation studies and regional science.

Topics

1. Theoretical contributions towards the integration of resilience, innovation, creativity and/or other relevant regional science branches
2. Empirical studies focusing the conditions for resilient territories
3. Smart specialization connections with creativity and innovation
4. Impacts of talent and human capital in regional development
5. Articulation of related variety and resilience
6. Different forms of cosmopolitanism in innovation, creativity and resilience
7. Clustering dynamics, and resilience
8. Maritime economy and niches of excellence
9. Comparative studies on institutional factors that shape resilience
10. RIS3 instruments focused in innovation and creativity
11. Policies implemented in resilient territories

Expected contributions of the conference

The conference intends to contribute for the definition and advancing of the scientific agenda in the topics of resilience, innovation and regional creativity. The conference is also focused in informing policy and decision-makers, in different levels of action, about the advancements of conceptualization in these domains. This may have relevant impacts in the process of planning, designing new policy measures and instruments, specifically for the implementation of Research and Innovation Strategies for Smart Specialisation (RIS 3), that can help the construction of more resilient territories in Europe.

This workshop also integrates a focus group discussion about “Human Capital and Related Variety in the Maritime Economy” developed by HARVEST Atlantic – Harnessing all resources valuable to economies of seaside territories on the Atlantic, project co-financed by the European cooperation program INTERREG Atlantic Area, through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).

IMPORTANT DATES:

Abstract Submission: October 5, 2013

Results of the review process: October 19, 2013

Paper Submission: November 1, 2013

Registration with Reduced Price: November 1, 2013

For more information follow:  http://www.apdr.pt/evento_19/

The Executive Board of Geographical Analysis invites expressions of interest in the Editorship of the journal. The 2014 volume will be the sixth of current Editor Dan Griffith's term. The board thanks him for his diligent and successful leadership. The expected transition will occur on or about July 1, 2014, and the new editor's first named issue will be the 2015 volume. As well as having all the usual markers of excellence in academic judgment and endeavors, the prospective editor's home institution is expected to be supportive.  The appointment is initially for a three year term, with the possibility of renewal.

Contact for information: Morton O'Kelly, Chair, GA Executive Committee. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.  

The target date for receipt of expressions of interest is November 15, 2013.

Papers in Regional Science (PiRS) is published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the RSAI. Members have free online access to the journal. To access Papers in Regional Science visit http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1435-5957(ISSN)1435-5957

Aims and Scope

Papers in Regional Science is the official journal of the Regional Science Association International. It encourages high quality scholarship on a broad range of topics in the field of regional science. These topics include, but are not limited to, behavioural modelling of location, transportation, and migration decisions, land use and urban development, inter-industry analysis, environmental and ecological analysis, resource management, urban and regional policy analysis, geographical information systems, and spatial statistics.

The journal publishes papers that make a new contribution to the theory, methods and models related to urban and regional (or spatial) matters. The editors invite submissions of papers that emphasize the application of theoretical frameworks, methods and models, developed specifically for the study of urban and regional phenomena. They also welcome contributions to the understanding of regional phenomena that employ theoretical frameworks and methods developed in other fields.

Key words

papers, regional, science, RSAI, journal, geography, location, transportation, migration, urban, development, environment, policy, spatial, resource management

Abstracting and Indexing Information

• Academic Search (EBSCO Publishing)
• Academic Search Premier (EBSCO Publishing)
• AgeLine Database (EBSCO Publishing)
• Current Contents: Social & Behavioral Sciences (Thomson Reuters)
• EconLit (AEA)
• GEOBASE (Elsevier)
• IBSS: International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (ProQuest)
• Journal Citation Reports/Social Science Edition (Thomson Reuters)
• RePEc: Research Papers in Economics
• SCOPUS (Elsevier)
• Social Sciences Citation Index (Thomson Reuters)

Regional Science Policy & Practice (RSPP) is published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the RSAI. Members have free online access to the journal. To access Regional Science Policy & Practice visit http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1757-7802

Regional Science Policy & Practice is the official policy and practitioner orientated journal of the Regional Science Association International. It is an international journal that publishes high quality papers in applied regional science that explore policy and practice issues in regional and local development. It welcomes papers from a range of academic disciplines and practitioners including planning, public policy, geography, economics and environmental science and related fields. Papers should address the interface between academic debates and policy development and application.RSPP provides an opportunity for academics and policy makers to develop a dialogue to identify and explore many of the challenges facing local and regional economies.

RSPP publishes high quality papers targeted at informing the policy development process leading to the formation of theoretically grounded regional policy. The editors invite submissions dealing with the policy and practice of regional and local development. Contributions that are the outcome of collaborations between researchers and policy and practice professions are encouraged.

Aims and Scope

Regional Science Policy & Practice (RSPP) is the official policy and practitioner orientated journal of the Regional Science Association International. It is an international journal that publishes high quality papers in applied regional science that explore policy and practice issues in regional and local development. It welcomes papers from a range of academic disciplines and practitioners including planning, public policy, geography, economics and environmental science and related fields. Papers should address the interface between academic debates and policy development and application.RSPP provides an opportunity for academics and policy makers to develop a dialogue to identify and explore many of the challenges facing local and regional economies.

RSPP publishes high quality papers targeted at informing the policy development process leading to the formation of theoretically grounded regional policy. The editors invite submissions dealing with the policy and practice of regional and local development. Contributions that are the outcome of collaborations between researchers and policy and practice professions are encouraged.

Keywords

regional, science, policy, practice, RSAI, journal, geography, applied, local development, planning, public policy, economics, environmental science

NOW PUBLISHED

JIBS Special Issue: The Multinational in Geographic Space

Guest Editors: Sjoerd Beugelsdijk, Ram Mudambi and Ulf Andersson

This special issue of Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS) advances a crucial new research agenda - to model international and subnational spatial variation jointly.  Such analysis integrates the discrete effects of national borders with the continuous effects of distance. Both international and subnational contexts are affected by distance, but only the former are affected by borders.

The full special issue contents can be viewed here:

 http://www.palgrave-journals.com/jibs/journal/v44/n5/index.html

We are pleased to highlight the following Editors’ selections from this issue:

 * MNEs as border-crossing multi-location enterprises: The role of discontinuities in geographic space, by Sjoerd Beugelsdijk and Ram Mudambi

 * Global cities and multinational enterprise location strategy, by Anthony Goerzen, Christian Geisler Asmussen and Bo Bernhard Nielsen

 * The hassle factor: An explanation for managerial location shunning, by Andreas Schotter and Paul W Beamish

These articles are available free-to-read through August 31, 2013.  We hope you will also share them with colleagues who may be interested!

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RSAI announces a search for an Editor or Editors of the RSAI Newsletter. The RSAI Newsletter is an important medium of information dissemination among RSAI members, making major announcements, reporting on news and pertinent events, and more generally on the life of our affiliated organizations and associations worldwide. It is currently published semi-annually.

The term of office of the current Editors ends in December 2013. The Board is now accepting applications for the position with a term of office of three years (renewable).

Those interested in the position should provide RSAI Council with the following:

1. A letter of interest that includes information on the applicant’s experience with publications and a vision for the publication of the RSAI Newsletter for the next three years. The letter should indicate any support that may be provided by the host institution.
2. A copy of the candidate’s curriculum vitae/resume.

Interested candidates are invited to include suggestions for proposed directions for the publication that would enhance the mission to disseminate news about RSAI, its affiliated organizations, and its members to our global community of researchers and practitioners. Currently, the RSAI Newsletter is published in electronic form as well as in hard copy. In order to better serve the needs of our worldwide membership, a team of Editor(s) based on different continent may be considered favorably. The Editor(s) must be fluent in English and will work closely with the office of the Executive Director to articulate coherently a strategy of news gathering and dissemination on print and electronic platforms.

The Editor(s) must be member(s) of RSAI.

Applications will be reviewed upon receipt. The deadline for applications is September 1, 2013. Applications should be sent in digital form (PDF only) to the Dr. Tomaz Dentinho, RSAI Executive Director, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..  

 Call for Participation
„Evolutionary Economic Geography in Central and EasternEurope”
November 11-15, 2013, Budapest
with leading role of
Prof. Ron A. Boschma
CIRCLE, Lund University and Utrecht University

The Centre for Economic and Regional (CERSHAS) is pleased to announce the workshop on „Evolutionary Economic Geography in Central and Eastern Europe”, which will be co-organized by International Business School Budapest, the Doctoral School in Economic of University of Szeged,  Section of European Regional Science Association.

Further information available at
http://econ.core.hu/eeg_in_cee.html