RSAI-GSSI Workshop on

“Regions in-between the green transition and the digital transformation” June, 3-4, 2021, GSSI-Virtual Premises

The RSAI-GSSI Virtual Workshop on “Regions in-between the green transition and the digital transformation” is organized by the Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI), Social Sciences Unit, in cooperation with the Regional Science Association International (RSAI) and is going to be held on 3-4 June 2021.

The workshop aims at building bridges between emerging research on the green transition and the digital transformation at the regional level. It will provide academic training and stimulate debates about the extent to which the digital transformation can be harnessed by regions for the development of green technologies and the adoption of  more environmentally sustainable models of  development. The workshop will also address the implications that the intersection between the two transitions (green and digital), which may lead to contrasting implications in terms of social inclusion and justice, will have on the spreading of regional and interregional inequalities. The workshop will also focus on the impact that the socio-economic shock and recession brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic could have on the unfolding of the digital and the green transitions, and on whether it has been contributing to create an overlap or a mismatch between the respective trajectories of change.

The event is addressed and open to PhD students, post-docs and early-career researchers willing to meet and exchange ideas with scholars of different fields, in particular, but not only, between regional science and transition studies, innovation studies and environmental economics, economic geography and urban studies. Presenting completed research papers is advisable, but applicants could also submit for discussion early drafts or structured proposals of their research work.

The workshop is intended to be inherently multi-disciplinary as much as multi-focused on the wide set of regional domains in which the green and the digital transition can focus, including, among the others, those of the focal research tracks of the GSSI: “i) inner areas and peripheral development; ii) disasters and regional resilience; iii) human capital, migrations and local labour market; iv) cultural heritage, tourism and regional urban development; v) business, innovation and environmental sustainability within and across regions”.

Consistently with the spirit of the RSAI Building Bridges program, the workshop intends to facilitate connections between students and scholars of several parts of the world, counting on the crucial role that sharing heterogeneous experiences and backgrounds – in particular between core and peripheral areas - has for the success of the workshop. Students and researchers from low-income and lower- middle-income economies are particularly welcome and invited to apply.

How to apply

Applications should be sent by April 25, 2021 (12.00 CET) to the following email address:  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Applications should include:

1. A short CV of the
2. A cover page with title and authors of the proposed paper or research
3. A one-page abstract containing:
   1. A statement of research objectives.
   2. The positioning in the related literature.
   3. A brief illustration of the research method and of the expected
4. A full paper, in case this is already

Applications will be evaluated by the Scientific Committee of the Workshop (see below), on the basis of the originality, the theoretical and empirical contribution, and the scientific rigor of the proposal. The Scientific Committee will select up to a maximum of 20 participants, among PhD students, post-docs and early-career researchers.

Program

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic restrictions the event will be held remotely through the Zoom platform, in a GSSI channel that will be timely communicated to the participants. The workshop will host two key- note speeches, by Professor Lars Coenen (The Mohn Center for Innovation and Regional Development, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences) and Professor Elisa Giuliani (Responsible Management Research Centre and University of Pisa, Italy). It will be articulated in a set of topical sessions, within which each  participant will  have 30 minutes available: 20 minutes for  the  presentation, and  the remaining 10 minutes for discussion, questions and answers. An interactive round table with the members of the Scientific Committee will conclude the program.

Prize

At the end of the workshop, a prize amounting to 400 € will be awarded for the best paper/research proposal and presentation, to a participant researcher under 35 years old. The selection will be carried out by the Scientific Committee.

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Scientific Committee: Roberta Capello (Polytechnic University of Milan and AISRE), Andrés Barge Gil (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), Andrea Caragliu (Polytechnic University of Milan and RSAI), Valentina De Marchi (University of Padua), Alessandra Faggian (GSSI), Claudia Ghisetti (Catholic University of Milan), Camilla Lenzi (Polytechnic University of Milan), Giovanni Marin (University of Urbino), Sandro Montresor (GSSI), Massimiliano Mazzanti (University of Ferrara), Francesco Quatraro (University of Turin), Mabel Sanchez Barrioluengo (University of Manchester), André Torre (University Paris-Saclay and ESRA), Elvira Uyarra (University of Manchester).

GSSI Organizing Committee: Andrea Ascani, Maria Giovanna Brandano, Fabiano Compagnucci, Alberto Marzucchi, Marco Modica, Sandro Montresor, Alessandro Palma, Ugo Rossi, Giulia Urso.

The 2021 call for grant applications (postdoctoral, starting and team grant) is opened in ETIS from 1 March to 17:00 (Estonian time) on 31 March 2021.

NB! The application is submitted only after the institution has confirmed it via ETIS. Please follow the deadlines of your institution.

Frequently asked questions about grant applications: call 2021

Guidelines for Completing Your Ethics Self-Assessment for Grant Application

The recommended form for the data management plan

Guidelines regarding bibliometric background information

Technology Readiness Levels (TRL)

TRL descriptions adapted for Social sciences, and Humanities and Arts

NB! The information webinar (in English) on call for grant applications takes place on 17 February from 14-16 (Estonian time) here.

Information in Estonian can be found here.

Contact
Siret Rutiku
Head of Department of Research Funding
Tel +372 731 7381
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More information: https://www.etag.ee/en/funding/research-funding/personal-research-funding/put-taotlusvoor-2021/

ISSUE INFORMATION

Free Access

Issue Information

Pages: 1-2 | First Published: 02 February 2021

FULL ARTICLES

Open Access

Explaining the dynamics of relatedness: The role of co‐location and complexity

Sándor Juhász, Tom Broekel, Ron Boschma

Pages: 3-21 | First Published: 18 August 2020

EU regional convergence in the agricultural sector: Are there synergies between agricultural and regional policies?

Elena Calegari, Enrico Fabrizi, Gianni Guastella, Francesco Timpano

Pages: 23-50 | First Published: 17 August 2020

The effect of micro‐territorial networks on industrial small and medium enterprises' innovation: A case study in the Spanish region of Cantabria

José Manuel López‐Fernández, Mariluz Maté‐Sánchez‐Val, Francisco Manuel Somohano‐Rodriguez

Pages: 51-77 | First Published: 18 August 2020

Does the geographical mobility of scientists shape their collaboration network? A panel approach of chemists’ careers

Marine Bernard, Bastien Bernela, Marie Ferru

Pages: 79-99 | First Published: 29 July 2020

European cultural heritage and tourism flows: The magnetic role of superstar World Heritage Sites

Elisa Panzera, Thomas de Graaff, Henri L.F. de Groot

Pages: 101-122 | First Published: 02 August 2020

The impact of health status and human capital formation on regional performance: Empirical evidence

Mercedes Gumbau Albert

Pages: 123-139 | First Published: 14 July 2020

Ethnic regional networks and immigrants' earnings: A spatial autoregressive network approach

Xingang Wang, Sholeh A. Maani

Pages: 141-168 | First Published: 02 July 2020

De facto power of elites and regional growth

Seung‐hun Chung, Mark D. Partridge

Pages: 169-202 | First Published: 22 June 2020

Accessibility of land data and information integration in recently‐independent countries: Timor‐Leste case study

Zenoveva X. Correia, Antoni B. Moore, David P. Goodwin

Pages: 203-225 | First Published: 08 July 2020

Measure of accessibility to postal services in France: A potential spatial accessibility approach applied in an urban region

Aurélie Mercier, Stéphanie Souche‐Le Corvec, Nicolas Ovtracht

Pages: 227-249 | First Published: 02 August 2020

Are preferences for city attributes heterogeneous? An assessment using a discrete choice experiment

Diana Romero‐Espinosa, Mauricio Sarrias, Ricardo Daziano

Pages: 251-272 | First Published: 03 August 2020

A theoretical model linking the development of the transportation system with citizens' trust in government actors

Francesca Pagliara, Massimo Aria, Lucia Russo, Valentina Della Corte

Pages: 273-285 | First Published: 19 August 2020

RESEARCH NOTES & COMMENTS

Alternative measure of border effects across regions: Ripley's K‐function method

Ying Ge, Yingxia Pu, Mengdi Sun

Pages: 287-302 | First Published: 02 August 2020

Special Issue of Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science on: The Science of Space

There is nowadays a rising interest in theoretical frameworks for regional science. The Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science (Springer-Nature) has just released a series of articles on this topic, in a special issue edited by Peter Nijkamp, Karima Kourtit and Soushi Suzuki (vol. 5. no.1, March 2021).

You are cordially invited to visit these contributions at: https://link.springer.com/journal/41685/online-first. Also access to: https://rdcu.be/cd1QG

THE NEW ISSUE OF REGIONAL STATISTICS IS ALREADY AVAILABLE!

We are pleased to inform you that a new issue of the Regional Statistics has been released and now it’s avaiable online.

http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2021/eterstat2101.pdf

REGIONAL STATISTICS, 2021, VOL 11, No 1.

STUDIES

Pandelis Mitsis: Examining the environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis using Bayesian model averaging

http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2021/rs110102.pdf

Gianluca Egidi – Magda Edwards –  Sirio Cividino – Filippo Gambella – Luca Salvati: Exploring non-linear relationships among  redundant variables through non-parametric  principal component analysis:  An empirical analysis with land-use data

http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2021/rs110105.pdf

Osama Alhendi – Lóránt Dénes Dávid – Gyula Fodor – Gogo Fredrick Collins Adol – Péter Balogh: The impact of language and quality education  on regional and economic development:  a study of 99 countries

http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2021/rs110101.pdf

Róbert Tésits – Tibor Zsigmond – Levente Alpek – Gábor Hoványi: The role of endogenous capital factors in the territorial development of the Sellye District in Hungary

http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2021/rs110103.pdf

Mustafa Kırca – Mustafa Özer: The effects of tourism demand on regional sectoral employment in Turkey

http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2021/rs110104.pdf

Nilanjan Banik – Buddhadeb Ghosh – Rahul Roy Choudhury  : Impact of MGNREGA on labour wage rate dynamics  in India

http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2021/rs110106.pdf

Inna V. Mitrofanova – Tatjana В. Ivanova – Elena V. Kleitman – Elena R. Mkrtchan: The ‘Smart city‘ concept and its implementors:  On the way to the information control in Volgograd Russia

http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2021/rs110108.pdf

Y Nguyen Cao: Modelling firm relocation decision behaviour  in the Tokyo metropolitan region, through discrete choice theory

http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2021/rs110107.pdf

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Please find enclosed a CfP for an online workshop, organized by Robin Hickman (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) and Christine Hannigan (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) University College London around the subject "Critical Discourses on Transport and Urban Development".

Deadlines 

• Abstract submission: 26 March, 2021 
• Notification of acceptance: 9 April, 2021 
• Submission of draft paper: 1 June, 2021 
• Online workshop: 15 June, 2021

Johannes Bröcker, a long-time member of RSAI, passed away after a short illness on January 19, 2021 at the age of 70.  He was an active member of ERSA and a regular participant in the German-speaking section.  He served on the editorial boards of several journals, most prominently the Annals of Regional Science and Spatial Economic Analysis.  His undergraduate degree was from Freiburg and his master and doctoral degrees and habilitation were from Kiel.  With the exception of the period from 1990-2000 when he served as the Chair in Macroeconomics and Regional Science at the University of Dresden, his career was centered in Kiel.  His last appointment, dating from 2000 until he retired in 2015, was as Chair in International and Regional Economics.

Johannes was a brilliant theoretical and applied spatial economist; his advisor, Karin Peschel, (who sadly passed away in June 2020) had worked with Andreas Predhöl on her doctorate and with Rolf Funck on her habilitation and she imbued that strong German location theory tradition in Johannes’ work that later included his support and active participation in the August Lösch Prize committee.  Johannes was the progenitor of the development of spatial computable general equilibrium models and the work reflected his firm foundation in location theory (Bröcker, 1995) where he drew on the work of Lösch and Chamberlin and in the formulation of flows in multi-economy models (Bröcker, 1989).  Subsequently, he provided some integration of general equilibrium and transportation systems (Bröcker and Mercenier, 2011).  However, one of his most highly cited articles (Bröcker, 1988) developed an operational spatial computable equilibrium model building up from Arrow-Debreu equilibrium under perfect competition.  The model was promoted as one that was both transparent and parsimonious (in terms of the number of equations) and perfectly illustrated Johannes’ ability to move effectively from strong theoretical foundations through empirical implementation.  This model and subsequent version were used in a wide variety of applications assessing the impacts of infrastructure investment (especially transportation), transport and trade policy and the impacts of cohesion policies.

He loved to attend meetings and seminars where he enjoyed asking penetrating, imaginative questions; one sensed that he enjoyed being a scholar and the enthusiasm for his work resonated strongly in his publications. 

References

• Johannes Bröcker (1985) “Partial equilibrium theory of interregional trade and the gravity model,” Papers of the Regional Science Association 66, 7– 18.
• Johannes Bröcker (1995) “Chamberlinian spatial computable general equilibrium modelling: a theoretical framework,” Economic Systems Research, 7, 137–149.
• Johannes Bröcker (1998) “Operational Spatial Computable General Equilibrium Modelling,” Annals of Regional Science, 32, 367–387.
• Johannes Bröcker and Jean Mercenier (2011) “General Equilibrium Models for Transportation Economics,” in André de Palma, Robin Lindsey, Emile Quinet, and Roger Vickerman (eds.) Handbook of Transport Economics Vol. 1, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, pp. 21–45.

Obituary on the website of the Institute for Environmental, Resource and Spatial Economics at Kiel University available at http://www.re2.uni-kiel.de/en/documents-pictures/obituary-prof-dr-johannes-brocker

Call for participation - XV World Conference of the Spatial Econometrics Association Tokyo, (Japan), 26th - 28th May 2021.

Due to COVID-19 outbreaks all sessions will be in a real time online format without video presentations. Your slot will be allocated considering your time zone.

 Important Dates:
·      Abstract submission: March 1, 2021 (300-600 words).
·      Notification of acceptance: April 10, 2021
·      Deadline for registration: May 20, 2021
·      Deadline for full paper submission to the Special issue of the
       Journal of Spatial Econometrics August 1, 2021 (state it
       explicitly in the abstract).
·      Jean Paelinck prize for young researcher, full paper by March 1,
       2021

Note: Time zone of the dates above is Japan Standard Time (JST: GMT+09:00).

Plenary/Invited Speakers:
·       Noel Cressie, University of Wollongong
·       Jean Paul Elhorst, University of Groningen
·       Alan E. Gelfand, Duke University
·       Virgilio Gómez-Rubio, The University of Castilla-La Mancha
·       Daniel A. Griffith, The University of Texas at Dallas

 Registration Fees:
·       FREE for all SEA members who pay their membership fees before March 31, 2021.
·       6,000 JPY (about 58 USD and 48 EUR) for SEA members who don’t pay their membership fee for 2021.
·       7,000 JPY (about 67 USD and 56 EUR) for non-members of SEA.
·       3,000 JPY (about 29 USD and 24 EUR) for students.

Conference registration fees include:
·       Annual membership to the Spatial Econometrics Association
        (SEA);
·       Free subscription to the Journal of Spatial Econometrics ;
·       Free participation to the (fully online) Spatial Econometrics  

Advanced Institute (SEAI) summer school -      https://www.spatialeconometricsassociation.org/home-advanced/

More details at the conference webpage: https://confit.atlas.jp/guide/event/sea2021/top