Professor Emeritus Tönu Puu passed away on July 11, 2020, at the age of 83.

Professor Tönu Puu was born in Tallinn, Estonia. Upon the Soviet invasion of Estonia in 1944, he took refuge with his parents and one sister to Sweden. Tönu grew up in Uppsala. From 1956 to 1964, he studied at Uppsala University. He finished his Ph.D. in Economics, with Professor Tord Palander as thesis supervisor. The thesis was awarded the highest mark possible, and Tönu was honoured with a prize named in memory of the economist Erik Lindahl.

Tönu soon became Associate Professor of Economics at Uppsala University. In 1971, he was appointed full Professor of Economics at Umeå University, the first to hold that position. At his retirement in 2001, he became Professor Emeritus at the University’s Centre for Regional Science (CERUM). During his time at Umeå University, both the Department of Economics and CERUM developed into internationally respected research environments.

Tönu’s research spanned over several areas of economics, mathematics and regional science. He served on the editorial board of journals such as Regional Science and Urban Economics, Networks and Spatial Theory, Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, and Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society. Through his path-breaking work on spatial and dynamic models, often in collaboration with mathematicians in Providence (USA), Munich (Germany), Kiev (Ukraine), Cartagena (Spain) and Urbino (Italy), he became a leading mathematical economist in Sweden. Tönu Puu published about 300 articles and 25 books and worked on new ideas and manuscripts until the end of his life.

Besides his professional life as a professor, Tönu was a many-sided intellectual. He wrote books on art and science, arranged baroque music festivals, built baroque instruments such as viola da gamba and cembalo. His latest project was to build a new virginal (a rectangular harpsichord with the strings stretched parallel to the keyboard,  popular in the 16th and 17th centuries), a project he unfortunately could not finish.

Tönu is mourned and deeply missed by us and by many colleagues and friends worldwide. But most of all by his children Margareta and Magnus.

Åke E. Andersson, Johan Lundberg, Inge-Bert Täljedal, Lars Westin

We are pleased to inform that CETRAD has an open call, from July 30 to August 28, for the award of the following Research Grants:

- Two PhD Research Grants, in the area of Social Sciences, under the FCT Research Grants Regulation (RBI) and the Research Fellowship Statute (EBI).

The scholarships will be financed by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) under the Collaboration Protocol for the Financing of the Multiannual Plan for Research Scholarships for PhD Students, signed between FCT and the R&D Unit Center for Transdisciplinary Studies for Development (CETRAD) (UIDB / 04011/2020) of UTAD. These grants are available for candidates or students of the PhD in Development, Societies and Territories.

More info about PhD: https://www.utad.pt/estudar/en/cursos/development-societies-territories/

More info about the call: http://www.eracareers.pt/opportunities/index.aspx?task=global&jobId=125444&lang=pt

- One PhD Research Fellowship, in the area of Business Sciences, under the FCT Research Fellowship Regulation (RBI) and the Research Fellowship Statute (EBI).

The scholarship will be financed by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) under the Collaboration Protocol for the Financing of the Multiannual Plan for Research Scholarships for Doctoral Students, signed between FCT and the R&D Unit Center for Transdisciplinary Studies for Development (CETRAD) (UIDB / 04011/2020) of UTAD. These grants are available for candidates or students of the PhD in Agribusiness and Sustainability.

More info about PhD: https://www.utad.pt/estudar/en/cursos/agribusiness-sustainability/

More info about the call: http://www.eracareers.pt/opportunities/index.aspx?task=global&jobId=125430&lang=pt

Note: The candidates must complete the attached application form and send with the respective supporting documents by email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.​

Respected Sir/Madam,

Springer plans to publish an edited volume titled “Accessible Housing for South Asia”. Although focusing Housing Issues in South Asia we would like to enlarge the committed contributions from South Asia to authors from other parts of the world, mobilizing their responsibility in the global problem of accessible housing .We strongly believe that your contribution shall significantly enrich the proposed book as well as guide future research, policy and practice in this field.

Relevance of the Edited Volume

This book highlights the major issues related to Urban Housing in South Asia looking at: a) demands and needs in space and time; b) financial capabilities, housing design and implementation; and c) socio economic and environmental impacts of housing. For various case studies the book analysis the process of delivering of houses, the issues related to access to employment, markets and services, the cumulative effects on gentrification, exclusion and spatial justice; the long term outcomes concerning economic, social and environmental sustainability of the urban tissue.

Housing is a basic human need, which many argue, is one of the most important inputs to improve livelihoods. Today, particularly in developing nations, housing is one of the most dynamic infrastructures, attributed mainly to rapid urbanization driven by large scale rural to urban migration. The scale varies but the pervasive presence of inadequate and congested housing, slums and houseless population in urban centres all across the world, bears testimony to the fact that adequate housing is still a distant dream for millions of people. UN-Habitat estimates that as of 2015, “330 million households are financially stretched by housing costs; this number could grow to 440 million by 2025.” The number would be higher if ‘houseless people’ living on the street would be added to this category. The ‘lion’s share’ of absolute housing shortage is in developing nations, mainly in South Asian and African countries.  In India alone, 12 million houses are lying vacant across urban India in 2015 as against the official housing shortage of 18 million houses in urban areas. The housing challenge has received UN recognition through its mention in both Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) as well as the recently adopted Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which aim to, by 2030, “ensure access for all for adequate, safe and affordable housing and basic services and upgrade slums”. Notwithstanding the varied policy and program response from governments in different countries and endeavours by international agencies, achievements are limited with little or no evidence of large-scale positive impact on the urban housing sector, especially for the working class and the low-income groups.  Adequate housing being a cornerstone for social equity and environmental sustainability, its failure is a threat to sustainable urbanization, and a complex challenge. Addressing housing need requires legislative, financial and technical support and involves multiple stakeholders, noting that the task of housing for all does not only entail the additional households created due to in-migration in urban places but also involves rehabilitation of Internally displaced persons and replenishment of housing stock lost to frequently recurrent natural disasters like flood, cyclones and earthquake.

Submission Guideline

• A suitable and brief title not exceeding 15 words in font size 14 should be given.
• Author/authors affiliation is mandatory with their designation, institute, postal address, mobile number and email ID.
• Abstracts should be written within 300 words along with 4 to 5 keywords.
• Submission of manuscript must be in MS-Word format with all four sides 1-inch margin. Manuscript should be typed in Times New Roman with a 12 size and keep line spacing at 1.15.
• Manuscript should contain the statement of problem, objective, research methodology and findings of the work.
• Citations and reference should comply with APA style of referencing. Give example for book and journal.
• Length of the manuscript should not exceed 4000-6000 words.

Submission of abstract/full manuscript must be sent to Prof. Tomaz Ponce Dentinho

• through email attachment (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. )

Time Line of Publication

Outreach

The target reader includes academicians (University and College teachers and researchers) and organisations like RSAI (Regional Science Association, International) and RSAi (Regional Science Association, India) and other Regional Science Communities in Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Maldives and Sri Lanka. Students of Geography, Economics, Regional Science and Spatial Planning (at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels) shall also benefit from having a concise volume on research, policy and practice on accessible housing in South Asia.

Yours faithfully,

The Editors: Kanika Basu, Amitabh Kundu, Habibullah Magsi, Sumana Bandyopadhyay and Tomaz Dentinho

ISSUE INFORMATION

Issue Information

Pages: 553-554 | First Published: 09 August 2020

INTRODUCTION

Regional and Urban Development in Russia

Alexander Pilyasov

Pages: 555-557 | First Published: 09 August 2020

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

The sandwich of Russian space: How different spaces differentiate themes in regional science

Nadezhda Zamyatina, Ruslan Goncharov, Alexandra Poturaeva, Alexander Pelyasov

Pages: 559-577 | First Published: 18 February 2020

Spatial development of the post‐Soviet Russia: Tendencies and factors

Evgeniya Kolomak

Pages: 579-594 | First Published: 17 May 2020

Population shrinkage and economic growth in Russian regions 1998–2012

Elena Batunova, Giovanni Perucca

Pages: 595-609 | First Published: 11 December 2019

Qualitative Aspect of the Regional Growth in Russia: Inclusive Development Index

Nadezhda Mikheeva

Pages: 611-626 | First Published: 16 May 2020

Economic and Fiscal Resilience of Russia's Regions

Vladimir V. Klimanov, Sofia M. Kazakova, Anna A. Mikhaylova

Pages: 627-640 | First Published: 14 April 2020

Russia's early developed regions within shrinking social and economic space

Tatiana Nefedova, Andrey Treivish

Pages: 641-655 | First Published: 26 March 2020

Impact of ethno‐demographic structure of the population on performance of the Russian regions

Leonid Limonov, Marina Nesena

Pages: 657-670 | First Published: 03 January 2020

Russian borderlands: Contemporary problems and challenges

Vladimir Kolosov, Alexander Sebentsov

Pages: 671-687 | First Published: 22 April 2020

Interregional migration, the housing market, and a spatial shift in the metro area: Interrelationships in the case study of M oscow

Nikolay Kurichev, Ekaterina Kuricheva

Pages: 689-703 | First Published: 14 November 2019

Commercial redevelopment of industrial and residential periphery of Russian metropolis: St. Petersburg, 1989–2017

Konstantin Axenov, Alisa Timoshina, Alexandra Zemlyanova

Pages: 705-722 | First Published: 22 May 2020

New technologies, potential unemployment and ‘nescience economy’ during and after the 2020 economic crisis

Stepan Zemtsov

Pages: 723-743 | First Published: 25 April 2020

BOOK REVIEWS

Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism. by Case, Anne, and Deaton, Angus

Amitrajeet A. Batabyal

Pages: 745-746 | First Published: 22 May 2020

ISSUE INFORMATION

Issue Information

Pages: 855-856 | First Published: 03 August 2020

FULL ARTICLES

Patent intensity and concentration: The effect of institutional quality on MSA patent activity

Gary A. Wagner, Jamie Bologna Pavlik

Pages: 857-898 | First Published: 03 February 2020

Interregional mobility and the personality traits of migrants

Daniel Crown, Masood Gheasi, Alessandra Faggian

Pages: 899-914 | First Published: 05 February 2020

Overeducation and overskilling in the early careers of PhD graduates: Does international migration reduce labour market mismatch?

Sucharita Ghosh, Emanuele Grassi

Pages: 915-944 | First Published: 22 January 2020

Migration and perceptions of housing availability in Sweden

Adam Tyrcha

Pages: 945-975 | First Published: 12 January 2020

Open Access

Occupational concentration and outcomes for displaced workers

Vasilios D. Kosteas

Pages: 977-997 | First Published: 17 January 2020

Environmental Engel curves in Italy: A spatial econometric investigation

Marco Baudino

Pages: 999-1018 | First Published: 24 February 2020

The influence of local development on the impact of natural disasters in Northeast Brazil: The case of droughts and floods in the state of Ceará

Victor Hugo De Oliveira, João Mário Santos de França, Francisco Mário Viana Martins

Pages: 1019-1043 | First Published: 18 February 2020

Inequality and city size: An analysis for OECD functional urban areas

David Castells‐Quintana, Vicente Royuela, Paolo Veneri

Pages: 1045-1064 | First Published: 20 February 2020

Cross‐city spillovers in Chinese housing markets: From a city network perspective

Yunlong Gong, Jan de Haan, Peter Boelhouwer

Pages: 1065-1085 | First Published: 29 January 2020

Is Gibrat's law robust when cities interact each other?

Vanessa Grüdtner, André M. Marques

Pages: 1087-1111 | First Published: 10 February 2020

Formal and statistical aspects of estimating Okun's law at a regional level

Martin Boďa, Mariana Považanová

Pages: 1113-1136 | First Published: 28 January 2020

Testing the static and dynamic performance of statistical methods for the detection of national industrial clusters

Francisco Benita, Serhad Sarica, Garvit Bansal

Pages: 1137-1157 | First Published: 07 February 2020

BOOK REVIEW

Transforming industrial policy for the digital age Edited by Patrizio Bianchi, Clemente Ruiz Duran, Sandrine Labory Edward Elgar. 2019. 256 pp. ISBN: 978 1 78,897 614 5

Slavo Radosevic

Pages: 1159-1161 | First Published: 24 April 2020

In these days the website of the AISRe Web Conference has been activated (https://aisre20.wordpress.com/). There you can access the program, get access to the virtual classrooms and obtain information on how to join the conference.

The Scienze Regionali Lectio Magistralis, the plenary sessions on regional impacts of the COVID pandemic and the strategies for achieving sustainable development, and the one on “Great Minds in Regional Science” will be visible in streaming.

"Regional Economic Impact of COVID‐19 in Colombia: An Input‐Output Approach", by Jaime Bonet‐Morón, Diana Ricciulli‐Marín,Gerson Javier Pérez‐Valbuen, Luis Armando Galvis‐Aponte, Eduardo A. Haddad, Inácio F. Araújo, and Fernando S. Perobelli. - https://rsaiconnect.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/rsp3.12320

 The aim of this paper is to assess the regional economic impact of the lockdown measures ordered by the national government to prevent the spread of COVID‐19. Using an input‐output model, we estimate the economic loss of extracting groups of formal and informal workers from different economic sectors. Results show monthly economic losses that represent between 0.5% and 6.1% of national GDP, depending on the scenario considered. Accommodation and food services, real estate, administrative services, construction and trade are the most affected sectors. Regionally, Antioquia, Boyacá, San Andrés, Santander and Valle del Cauca appear as highly vulnerable to these restrictions.

In the framework of the EU funded project  TIPPING+ (Enabling Positive Tipping Points towards clean-energy transitions in Coal and Carbon Intensive Regions), the Paris School of Economics is recruiting a post-doctoral research fellow for 1 year (with possible extension for a second year).

The research fellow will be in charge of performing (i) an econometric assessment  of the impact of climate policy in European Carbon Intensive Regions and (ii) a forward-looking analysis of the potential structural changes induced by these policies. The latter analysis will rely on the development of dynamic models of the European production network.

The candidate must have a very strong quantitative background with a PhD in applied mathematics, economics, or related field (operation research, physics, statistics). Furthermore, he/she must have a good understanding of current trends in the European climate policy landscape. Interested candidates should send a cover letter and a cv (including a publication list and the contact details of three referees) to  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Applications will be reviewed until the position is filled.

Call for papers | Special Issue on “Space, Time and Political Economy”

Extended deadline: May 1, 2021

Following the third encounter of the Portuguese Association of Political Economy (EcPol) held in January 30 – February 1, 2020, at Faculdade de Economia da Universidade do Porto and Católica Porto Business School and dedicated to the theme “Space, Time and Political Economy”, we are hereby inviting contributions to the special issue of Regional Science Policy & Practice.

Regional Science Policy & Practice (RSPP) is the official policy and practitioner oriented 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. More information about the journal can be found at:

https://rsaiconnect.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/17577802/homepage/productinformation

We welcome to this special issue contributions that study the economy in the context of a transdisciplinary study of human action. The economy is a concrete reality situated in a geographical and historical context. The various spatio-temporal contexts produce a diversity and cultural wealth that cannot be fully understood outside a transdisciplinary perspective that encompasses not only contributions from the various social sciences, but also the natural sciences, which help us to understand the material conditions of each territory.

Articles are accepted in the following topics, amongst others:

The economy and its geographical, historical and political contexts;

Economic institutions in space;

Social and spatial distribution, equality and reciprocity;

The multiple (temporal and geographical) scales of economies;

Economic ideas and policies for territorial change;

The territory and innovation / the territory and tradition;

Territorial aspects of inequality;

The political economy of space and time in capitalism and socialism.

Submissions should be made through the journal’s platform at:

https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/rspp

Submissions should clearly state the special issue to which they are submitted. The length of the submissions should not exceed 6,000 words including abstract and footnotes and they should be written in English. Further information on the submission guidelines can be found at:

https://rsaiconnect.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/17577802/homepage/forauthors

Extended submission deadline: May 1, 2021

Any further queries on this special issue can be sent to the guest editors:

Francisca Guedes de Oliveira (Católica Porto Business School and CEGE): This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Gonçalo Marcelo (CECH, Univ. de Coimbra / Católica Porto Business School): This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Nuno Martins (Católica Porto Business School and CEGE): This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.