The Regional Science Association International (RSAI) invites submissions for the annual competition for the Best Doctoral Dissertation in Regional Science. Regional science is an interdisciplinary field concerned with theory, method, and application of regional, urban and rural, geographic and spatial investigations and analyses.

The winner will be decided by the Selection Committee and will receive a cash award of 750 Euros. Award announcements will be made at the North American Meetings of the RSAI, where participants in the competition are strongly encouraged to be present. The Selection Committee reserves the right to not make an award. Decisions made by the Selection Committee are final.

Eligibility:

1. A dissertation completed in any Ph.D. program in any country is eligible,
2. A dissertation written in English,
3. A dissertation successfully defended, with official graduation date between July 1^st 2016 and June 30^th 2017,
4. A dissertation on a single or multiple general regional science topics. The Selection Committee reserves the right to determine whether a dissertation is relevant to the field of regional science. 

Application (in either PDF or MS Word format):

1. A two-page curriculum vita;
2. A letter of support and nomination from the major professor (also known as dissertation committee chairperson or supervisor) on stationary paper and with signature. The letter should clearly explain the dissertation’s originality and contributions to the field of regional science;
3. The dissertation.

Applications should be submitted electrically by July 31, 2017 to the Selection Committee Chair, Dr. Laurie Schintler (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.). Large submissions can be uploaded to a cloud file-sharing site. 

The Stan Czamanski Prize is awarded by the Regional Science Association International in memory of Professor Stan Czamanski, an early recipient of a Ph.D. in regional science (1963), a member of the University of Pennsylvania regional science faculty (1963-1966), a member of the regional science faculty of Cornell University (1966-1988), and a past-president of the Regional Science Association (1975-1976).

The annual prize is awarded to author of the best Ph.D. dissertation proposal judged to exemplify the philosophy and approach of Professor Czamanski, as described below.

The US$1,000 prize is awarded to the student and a plaque to the student’s advisor.

The selection will be made by a panel of three persons: a senior and long-standing member of the regional science community, a representative of the field of Regional Science at Cornell and a member of the RSAI Council.

Students writing dissertations on problems in regional science from around the world are invited to enter the competition, in the spirit of Stan’s all-embracing philosophy.

The award is presented at the North American Regional Science Meetings.

Rules of the competition

Applications are to be submitted by October 02 of 2017 to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. To be eligible, the dissertation proposal must have been defended and approved during the past 12 months.

Each applicant will submit the following:

1. A statement in six pages or less that clearly sets out the research question(s) and issues to be addressed, approach to be used, and product expected from the dissertation research. The six-page limit is exclusive of references, tables and figures. This text and references should be in 12 point or larger font and single-spaced. In addition, a summary (maximum one page) describing the intellectual merit of the proposed research and why the proposed approach may be regarded as implementing Professor Czamanski’s philosophy and approach, as described below.
2. A curriculum vita of no more than two pages.
3. Copies of the candidate’s transcripts for all graduate study. Unofficial copies are acceptable.
4. A separate, confidential letter from the dissertation supervisor assessing the quality and significance of the proposed dissertation research.

Dear Members of the Regional Science Association International

President of RSAI, Professor Jacques Poot from PRSCO, has had to resign as president of our association due to a serious illness of his wife. Our feelings, thoughts, and prayers are with Professor Jacques Poot and his family with the strong hope that his wife will recover soon.

According to Article V, section 7d of the Constitution, in case of resignation of the president “the Immediate Past President shall serve as Acting President during the first year of the presidential term and the Vice-President and President-Elect shall succeed to the Presidency during the second year of the uncompleted term”. Nevertheless, since this is still very early in the presidential cycle of PRSCO, and based on a proposal made by RSAI Acting President Andrés Rodriguez-Pose, the RSAI Council approved on-line a proposal of a Nomination Committee to nominate candidates for the election by the RSAI Council of a RSAI president coming from PRSCO area. The Nomination Committee composed by Mark Partridge (Chair), Yoshiro Higano, John Madden and Neil Reid proposed the Executive Director to launch this Call for Nominations of Candidates for the Election on-line by the RSAI Council of the President of the Regional Science Association International 2017-2018.

The RSAI members from the PRSCO 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. until the April the 19^th the following elements:

-          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. The results will be diffused through RSAI News and in RSAI webpage.

Best regards

Tomaz Ponce Dentinho

Executive Director of the Regional Science Association International  

Call for papers | FIRST WORKSHOP ON URBAN AND REGIONAL ECONOMICS, June 27,28,29, 2017, Bogotá, Colombia

Giving the increasing importance of the cities as employment and sustainable living cores within a regional environment, and all the challenges on these areas for policymakers and citizens; the department of economics of the Ponticia Universidad Javeriana and the Banco de la República de Colombia will host their rst workshop on urban and regional to be held in Bogota the 27, 28 and 29 of June 2017. The workshop aims to provide researchers with a space for presenting and discussing research on urban and regional economics.

Gilles Duranton (UPenn), Nathaniel Baum-Snow (U. Toronto), Esteban Rossi Hansberg (Princeton), Klaus Desmet (SMU), Alex Anas (University at Bualo), Erick Verhoef (VU Amsterdam), Miguel Angel Garcia Lopez(UAB) are some of the special guest that have conrmed attendance.

Topics
The conference will consider the following topics: location theory, environment and the city, urban spatial structure, policies for competitive cities and regions, regional labor markets, congestion pricing, transport economics, urban inequality and segregation and gender aspects in urban areas, urban economic growth and development. Both theoretical and empirical papers are welcome.

The program will include key note presentations from invited speakers and policy makers.

Format
Accepted papers will be presented in parallel sessions. We will assign one discussant to every paper in its field of expertise, so each person accepted will have the responsibility to present and discuss one paper.

Submission

We encourage PhD students and scholars to submit papers or extended abstract ( 400 words) about their original research by April 16th, 2017 to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Notifcation of acceptance will be sent by May 1st

Registration
Registration will be open after May 2nd. There will be a registration fee. Participants and attendees should cover their own travel and accommodation expenses.

All inquiries please direct to the organizing 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. and This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Program committee:
David Castells-Quintana, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona. Ana María Díaz, Pontifcia Universidad Javeriana. Paula Herrera-Idárraga, Ponticia Universidad Javeriana. Luis Carlos Reyes, Pontifcia Universidad Javeriana. Andrés Rosas, Ponticia Universidad Javeriana. Guillermo Sinisterra, Colegio de Estudios Superiores de Administración.

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