CALL FOR PAPER

https://www.uibk.ac.at/congress/imc2019/index.html.en

International Mountain Conference, Innsbruck, 08–12 September 2019

Application open (December 3rd 2018 to February 10th 2019 23:59 UTC+1) - join us ☺

Link: Application

About the Conference

The evaluation of responses and resiliencies of mountains as social-ecological systems towards climate change requires the consideration of multiple and mutually interact... [more]

Thematic focus

The conference should stimulate intense crossdisciplinary exchange, create and foster collaborations, force common papers and give birth to a living document on the curre... [more]

Key Dates

Abstract Submission: 03 December 2018 - 10 February 2019 Registration: End of February 2019 - 15 May 2019 Summer school: 01 - 06 September 2019 Conference: 08 - 12 Sep... [more]

The Venue

The conference will be held in Innsbruck, Austria, at facilities of the University of Innsbruck and the Congress Innsbruck. [more]

Workshop 1.3.B: Challenges and potentials of demographic change in Mountain regions

Moderators: Ingrid Machold (Chair), Andrea Membretti

Many mountain regions, particularly in its more peripheral parts, face considerable demographic changes. On the one hand, there are considerable challenges due to a significant outmigration mainly of the younger cohorts, implying a trend towards overageing and a loss of skilled workers in these regions. On the other hand, many mountain regions also record considerable immigration of different groups of people, like amenity migrants or returnees or labour, but also migrants (many of them having come already as ‘guestworkers’ in past decades) and more recently forced migrants (asylum seekers and refugees). While demographic change as such already poses challenges to the social and economic fabric of local areas and puts severe pressure on local development of these mountain regions, in addition to that changes in life styles, increasing flexible working arrangements, persistent gender inequalities (due to the access to resources and distribution of income and workload) lead to social transformation and increasing social and cultural diversity in mountain regions.

This workshop encourages contributions that analyze features of demographic change in mountain regions in all its different characteristics including

• Trends, patterns and types of demographic change in mountain regions.
• Explanations of, and theoretical perspectives on demographic change in mountain regions.
• Analysis of the place-based transformational impact (social, economic, cultural) on different types of mountain regions.
• Analysis to what extent mountain regions present specific challenges and patterns as well as models for migrant integration.
• Examples of good practice, particularly with regard to governance and social innovation.

Question 1: How does the loss of population and the approach towards migrant integration in mountain regions differ from the approaches in other regions?

Question 2: Under what conditions (political, social, economic, environmental) are the “newcomers” able to become drivers for local and regional development, social and cultural innovation, community resilience, and lead to a reconsideration of the relationship between urban and rural areas?

Question 3: What is the impact of population flows on changes in the physical space and how do these movements re-shape and transform local geographies?

Workshop 3.4.C: Enhancing transformation of strategies for Mountain regions towards sustainable pathways

Moderators: Thomas Dax (Chair), Thomas Streifeneder

Over the last three decades mountain regions have been increasingly addressed as areas of both socio-economic development concern and spaces of particular human-nature pressure. An increased commitment for appropriate policy frameworks has been established particularly in European mountain ranges (e.g. Alpine Convention and Carpathian Convention) but extends also to non-European contexts (like ICIMOD in the Himalaya, the ANDEAN initiative and the evolving Caucasus network). The tremendous challenges, largely aggravated through on-going socio-economic changes and impacts of climate change, put a severe pressure on the future development of these regions and strategy building in these areas. Increased policy focus on supporting regional mountain development through specific programmes and consideration for foresight studies (e.g. ESPON Alps2050-project) underpins the momentum for trans-regional and trans-national cooperation in mountain development strategy approaches.

This workshop builds on recent policy initiatives and studies analyzing the institutional framework and procedural developments to take account of societal needs and to address the altered policy objectives aiming at sustainable pathways within current situation of climate change requirements. The potential transfer of good practice examples and lessons from recent analysis of programmes’ implementation in various mountain contexts should provide an interesting base for discussion of participants between mountain regions of different parts of the world. This should include analysis of the aspects of transfer of policy implementation aspects between different cultures.

Question 1: What can be learned from different mountain ranges for the implementation of comprehensive integrated policy approaches and how can dialogue between researchers, local people and stakeholders, and politicians be enhanced?

Question 2: How can transfer of useful policy approaches between different mountain ranges be promoted, lessons for transformation be shared and how can pitfalls of “transfer” schemes be avoided?

This workshop connects to themes of multi-level governance, institutional cooperation, social innovation and adaptation to sustainable development goals.

Workshop 1.3.C: Social inclusive development in Mountain regions analyzed along gender, generation and diversity as driver for adaption to structural changes

Moderators: Theresia Oedl-Wieser (Chair), Karin Zbinden Gysin, Catrin Promper

Farming families in mountain regions play an important role regarding the agricultural production and ensuring sustainable livelihoods. Furthermore, they are active in climate change adaption and disaster management as well as in preservation of biodiversity. Due to ongoing societal, ecological and economic challenges, adaptation and innovation of role models is crucial for gender and generational adaptations in farming families, diversification and integration of off-farm jobs and tasks. Despite of their important activities and performances for a sustainable and social inclusive development in mountain regions, the vital roles of women, young as well as retired farmers are often invisible and not appreciated enough in society. There still exist structural discrimination, especially of women, which are caused by patriarchal societies, social and cultural norms as well as difficult economic situations. Mountain regions are gendered spaces, which means that the living conditions, resources, power relations and perspectives for a good livelihood are unequally distributed between men and women. Considering the need to foster the dynamic and sustainable development of mountain regions all over the world it is of paramount importance to reflect and integrate issues, problems and needs of these various rural actors to a larger extent in research, public policy and in worldwide decision-making agendas.

In this workshop contributions are welcome that deal with the different living and working conditions of women and men as well as active and retired generations or other disadvantaged groups in mountain regions and their capacity to shape their economic, social and ecological environment all over the world. The following topics are of relevance:

• Role models of women and men of different generations as represented in the economic, social and ecological sphere in mountain regions, their challenges and changes,
• Explanations and theoretical perspectives of the unequal situation of disadvantaged groups in mountain regions,
• Role of women and men according to their socially attributed roles in climate adaption and disaster management of mountain regions,
• Analysis to what extent livelihoods in mountain regions face specific societal and socio-economic challenges,
• Good practice examples, particularly with regard to governance and social innovation.

Question 1: How can the acknowledgement, the appreciation and the understanding of the vital role of actors of different genders and age in mountain regions be strengthened?

Question 2: How can efforts of policy interventions better address the local realities and needs of women and men as well as of other disadvantaged groups in adapting to changing socio-ecological and socio-economic situations?

Question 3: How can different generations on family farms get support for adaptations and renegotiations of roles (tasks, rights and duties) in order to run a farm sustainably?

Question 4: How can gendered power relations in mountain regions be transformed although these processes are inherently political and demanding?

This workshop connects themes of gender and generational issues in relation to agriculture in mountain regions, biodiversity, climate change and disaster management.

In the attached file, you will find information about a course in 'Spatial Econometric Analysis with STATA and R' which will take place in the Autonomous University of Madrid (Spain) from February 11-15, 2019.

We are pleased to deliver your requested table of contents alert for The Annals of Regional Science. Volume 61 Number 3 is now available online.

Spatial Aspects of Entrepreneurship and Innovation

In this issue

Special Issue Editorial

Spatial aspects of entrepreneurship and innovation

Xiyi Yang & David Emanuel Andersson

» Abstract   » Full text PDF

Special Issue Paper

Choosing cities: a behavioural economic approach

Marek Banczyk, Joanne Laban & Jason Potts

» Abstract   » Full text PDF

Special Issue Paper

The income return to entrepreneurship: theoretical model and outcomes for Swedish regions

Björn Hårsman, Lars-Göran Mattsson & Vardan Hovsepyan

» Abstract   » Full text PDF

Correction

Corrections to: The income return to entrepreneurship: theoretical model and outcomes for Swedish regions

Björn Hårsman, Lars-Göran Mattsson & Vardan Hovsepyan

» Abstract   » Full text PDF

Special Issue Paper

Inside and outside the black box: organization of interdependencies

Åke E. Andersson & Börje Johansson

» Abstract   » Full text PDF

Special Issue Paper

Agglomeration near and far, the case of Southern California: supply chains for goods and ideas

Peter Gordon & John Cho

» Abstract   » Full text PDF

Special Issue Paper

Innovation networks and cluster dynamics

Benoît Desmarchelier & Linjia Zhang

» Abstract   » Full text PDF

Special Issue Paper

The determination of the “true” property boundary in planned development: a Coasian analysis

Lawrence W. C. Lai, Stephen N. G. Davies, K. W. Chau, Ken S. T. Ching, Mark H. Chua, H. F. Leung & Frank T. Lorne

» Abstract   » Full text PDF

Do you want to publish your article in this journal?

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

• aims and scope
• editorial policy
• article submission

Impact Factor: 1.336 (2017)

Journal Citation Reports®, Clarivate Analytics

Call for Papers

International Economic Conference - TIMTED 2019 

“Current Economic Trends in Emerging and Developing Countries” Timișoara, ROMANIA

June 6-8, 2019

Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to invite you to participate at the International Conference TIMTED 2019 “Current Economic Trends in Emerging and Developing Countries”, organized by the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, West University of Timisoara, and the East-European Center for Research in Economics and Business (ECREB) in Timișoara, Romania on June 6-8, 2019.

Please find attached the Call for papers for TIMTED 2019 and visit the Conference website for more details: 

http://www.timted.ro/

We look forward to receiving your paper before March 20, 2019.

For registration and submission:

 https://www.timted.ro/registration-timted2019/

Hope to see you soon at the TIMTED 2019!

On the behalf of the Organizing Committee,

Professor PhD habil. SÎRGHI Nicoleta

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

Call for papers

Cities and regions around the world face immense challenges and play a starring role in this chan- ging economic environment. Topics on urban and regional economics are thus crucial in our understanding of the economic dynamics, in particular in Latin America, where urban problems loom very large in many countries. The Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, in collaboration with the Banco de la República, has established an environment to promote advances in this area of knowledge through the presentation and discussion of academic research.

The workshop will welcome papers on, but will not be limited to: Location theory, congestion pricing, housing markets, environmental impacts of public policies, efficient public good provi- sion, regional integration, urban spatial structure, urban networks, infrastructure in cities and regions, migration, and segregation and gender in cities. Furthermore, acknowledging the impor- tance of the implementation of the recent peace agreements in Colombia, special attention will be given to papers dealing with the role of cities, regions, and development strategies in the after- math of the conflict.

Both empirical and theoretical papers are  welcome.

The program will include key note presentations from invited speakers. Mathew Turner (Brown University), Gilles Duranton (University of Pennsylvania), Mark D. Partridge (Ohio State), Yves Zenou (Monash University), Elisabet Viladecans – Marsal (Universidad de Barcelona), Diego Puga (CEMFI) and Giovanni Peri (University of California, Davis) are among the distinguished urban and regional economists who have confirmed attendance.

Format

Accepted papers will be presented in parallel sessions. Every paper will be discussed by one peer and every presenter will have the responsibility to discuss one paper. Papers must be presented and discussed in English.

Submission

Submissions will open on September 1st. We encourage Ph.D. students and scholars around the world to submit their original research papers until February 1st , 2019, through conference maker at:    https://editorialexpress.com/cgi-bin/conference/conference.cgi?action=login&db_name=URworkshop2019

Notification of acceptance will be sent by March 1st.

Registration fees

There will be a registration fee of US$ 250 for attendees and presenters (US$150 for students). All travel and accommodation expenses should be covered by each attendee. The fee includes lunch, refreshments and a farewell dinner for all participants.

Program committee

Paula Herrera-Idárraga (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana), David Castells-Quintana (Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona), Ana María Díaz (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana), Guillermo Sinisterra (CESA), Luis Quintero (John Hopkins University) and Andrés Giraldo (Pontificia Universidad Jave- riana).

2nd Urban and Regional Economics Workshop

July 10th, 11th,12th, 2019 - Bogotá, Colombia

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.

9th Slovak Winter Seminar of Regional Science,
13th – 16th March 2019, Low Tatras, slovakia

The main objective of the annual Winter Seminar is to bring creative academic debate on actual issues of regional science and practice of regional
policy by an attractive environment and relaxed atmosphere. Accepted articles will be published in the conference proceedings “9th Slovak Winter
Seminar of Regional Science 2019” with ISBN.

This seminar is organized by
Society for Regional Science and Policy – Slovak Section of European Regional Science Association
Department of Public Administration and Regional Development, University of Economics in Bratislava
Polish Section of European Regional Science Association

Keynote speaker

Andrés Rodríguez-Pose, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.  Andrés Rodríguez-Pose is a Professor of Economic Geography at the London School of Economics, where he was previously Head of the Department of Geography and Environment. He is the immediate Past President of the Regional Science Association International (2015-2017). He served as Vice-President of the RSAI in 2014 and has also been Vice-President (2012-2013) and Secretary (2001-2005) of the European Regional Science Association. He is a regular advisor to numerous international organizations, including the European Commission, the European Investment Bank, the World Bank, the Cities Alliance, the OECD, the International Labour Organization, the Food and Agriculture Organization, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the Development Bank of Latin America.

Important Dates
Abstract submission deadline: December 31, 2018
Participation fee payment: January 31, 2019
Paper submission deadline: February 15, 2019
Winter Seminar: March 13 – 16, 2019