Call for applications

The Peter Nijkamp Research Encouragement Award

The award recognizes the outstanding potential of a mid-career researcher from a nation in the developing world in which there is a section of RSAI. Conditions for applications are:

• No more than 10 years from the doctoral qualification (by Dec 31, 2022);
• Live in developing nations continuously for at least three years as at Dec 31, 2022;
• Be a member of RSAI in good standing;
• Submit a written formal research paper on a topic in Regional Science;
• Submit an updated version of CV.

All material must be submitted to the This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 

Nominees will be judged in part on the evaluation of the paper and in part on an evaluation of the research track record and performance (CV).

The winner(s) will receive support, up to 750 Euro, to participate in a Supra-Regional meeting or in the World Congress, at which the paper will be presented.

The jury will comprise the Immediate Past-President of RSAI as Chair, an Editor of Papers in Regional Science, and two RSAI Fellows.

Deadline for the applications: February 28, 2024. 

Dear RSAI members, 

We hope this email finds you all well.

We are writing you concerning the deadline for submitting your abstracts to the 14^th edition of the World Congress of the RSAI in Kecskemét, Hungary, from Apr. 8 through 11, 2024. The congress' main theme is "Sustainable regional economic growth: global challenges and new regional development trajectories" 

Following the requests from many angles of the world, the RSAI decided jointly with the LOC to postpone the deadline for submissions to Dec. 31, 2023.

There is still room for organizing one or more special sessions at the World Congress; if you are interested in organizing one, please do get in touch with the Program Chair, Andrea Caragliu (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) and the congress secretariat (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) as soon as possible. 

Decisions concerning the acceptance of papers and sessions submitted between now and the final deadline will be announced by mid January 2024. Once accepted, presenters will be able to register on the same platform used for submitting your abstracts. You will find all information related to the congress, and the link to the submission platform, at the congress website:

 https://regionalscience.org/2024RSAIcongress/index.html.

Thank you in advance for your attention,

We look forward to seeing you in Kecskemét!

THE BENJAMIN H. STEVENS 2024–2025
GRADUATE FELLOWSHIP IN REGIONAL SCIENCE

Graduate students enrolled in Ph.D. programs in North America are encouraged to apply for the Twenty-Fourth Benjamin H. Stevens Graduate Fellowship in Regional Science, administered by the North American Regional Science Council of the Regional Science Association International (NARSC-RSAI). 

This Fellowship, in support of dissertation research in Regional Science, is awarded annually in memory of Dr. Benjamin H. Stevens, an intellectual leader whose selfless devotion to graduate students as teacher, advisor, mentor, and friend had a profound impact on the field. Regional Science is a multidisciplinary field concerned with urban and regional phenomena. Regional Scientists apply theoretical and empirical frameworks and methods of the social and other sciences, as well as develop new ones specifically for regional analysis and policy.

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Please find the details in the attached Call for Applications.

Dear RSAI members,

I hope this email finds you well.

I am pleased to write you to send you the newest issue of the RSAI Newsletter (download). 

Enjoy the read, and please do not hesitate to get in touch with Martijn (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) and Mina (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) to propose new material for the newsletter.

Kind regards,

André Chagas was recently elected President of the Latin American and Caribbean Regional Science Association (LARSA).

He is an Associate Professor at the Department of Economics at the University of Sao Paulo (USP) and a valuable member of the University of Sao Paulo Regional and Urban Economics Lab (NEREUS). André has taken over different positions in the Brazilian section of RSAI, ABER, leading the organization in the biennial 2018-2019. According to the statement on his motivations for applying as LARSA president, he plans to resume next year the in-presence LARSA congress, after its interruption due to the pandemic. Among the challenges he will face in the next two years leading the Association, he will focus on the nurturing of recently created sections as well as the creation of new sections in Latin America following up initiatives from RSAI administrations in the region in countries such as Argentina, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Paraguay, and Peru. He will be engaged in further developing RSAI in Latin America and breathing more life into LARSA, with the support of well-established associations in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Mexico. Finally, he plans to increase the membership and stimulate the participation of regional scientists from the region in RSAI activities, with special attention to young scholars, drawing on existing successful RSAI programs. We wish André all the best in his journey!

During the month of October, RSAI members voted for the election of new Councillors at large on the RSAI Council. The following three candidates were eventually elected:

Many congratulations to our new colleagues! They will start their new term on Jan. 1, 2024.

At the same time, the Council warmly thanks the Councillors at large ending their terms (Prof. Isabelle Thomas, Université Catholique de Louvain, Prof. Jouke Van Dijk, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, and Prof. Rosella Nicolini, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona) for their service.

ISSUE INFORMATION

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FULL ARTICLES

Determinants of rural creative microclustering: Evidence from web-scraped data for England

Jorge A. Velez-Ospina,  Josh Siepel,  Inge Hill,  Frances Rowe

Spatial mobility and overeducation of young workers: New evidence from France

Florian Fouquet,  Florent Sari

From local to global, and return: Geographical indications and FDI in Europe

Riccardo Crescenzi,  Fabrizio De Filippis,  Mara Giua,  Luca Salvatici,  Cristina Vaquero-Piñeiro

Skills for smart specialisation: Relatedness, complexity and evaluation of priorities

Duygu Buyukyazici

Closed vs. open city models: A new empirical approach to an old question

Jeffrey A. DiBartolomeo,  Geoffrey K. Turnbull

BOOK REVIEW

Land: How the hunger for ownership shaped the modern world By Simon Winchester. New York: HarperCollins, 2021, 464 pp. Hardcover: 29.99$, ISBN: 9780062938336

Roberto Dellisanti

Dr Yunyu Tian is chosen as the winner of the RSAI dissertation award in 2023 for her PhD dissertation entitled “Earth Observation data for assessing global urbanization-sustainability nexuses”, which was successfully defended (with a cum laude distinction) on 6 June 2023 at Wageningen University and Research.

The cum laude distinction (only given to around 5% of all PhD students at Wageningen University) was awarded by an extended evaluation committee of nine persons.  Dr Tian’s PhD dissertation made significant contributions towards the knowledge of urbanization and environmental changes at the global scale. The thesis included highly innovative methodological features such as the use of multi-source (and high quality) Earth Observation data and social data, contributing to academic and policy knowledge relating to global urbanization and sustainability as well as their nexus at the neighbourhood level. Part of the thesis has already been published in the form of academic peer-reviewed papers in the journals Landscape and Urban Planning (2022) and Environmental Research Letters (2022). 

The RSAI congratulates Dr. Tian and her supervisors Professor Martin Herold and Professor Eveline van Leeuwen (Wageningen University).