Back from Alicante where our 62nd ERSA Congress concluded last friday. The Congress Review Enews will be sent out next week, but we can already report on the great success of this year's edition.
This Congress was also the time of the election of the future ERSA President and Vice-President.
Two friends, colleagues and outstanding researchers were elected. My warmest congratulations to Roberta Capello (Politecnico di Milano): ERSA President-elect, and Yannis Psycharis (Panteion University, Athens): ERSA Vice-President-elect. All my best wishes to both of them for their terms starting next January. ERSA will be in good hands in the future.
We are delighted to communicate that Roberta Capello (Politecnico di Milano, Italy - AISRe) has been elected as the new President of ERSA. Her 5-year term will start on 1 January 2024.
Yannis Psycharis (Panteion University, Greece - ERSA-RSAI Greek Section) was elected as the Vice-President of ERSA.
Both will start their five-year term on 1st January 2024. The election took place on 1st September 2023, during the 62nd ERSA Congress in Alicante.
Call for Special Issue: Special Issue on Geography of discontent and beyond: extreme voting, protestations, riots and violence, and their spatial content
The Colombian Economy and Its Regional Structural Challenges
A Linkages Approach
Editors:
Eduardo A. Haddad, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
Jaime Bonnet, Banco de la República, Colombia
Geoffrey J. D. Hewing , University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA
About the book
· This book examines regional structural challenges on Colombia’s path to sustainable social cohesion and regionally inclusive growth.
· These challenges can be divided into three main groups: (i) those that focus on competitiveness and the supply side, (ii) those that arise from critical business cycle issues on the demand side, and (iii) those concerning environmental sustainability, employment and social inclusion
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· Post-doctoral fellow in the areas of Circular Value & Supply Chains, Regional Development, and Multi-Level Policy Dynamics at Lund University, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Design Sciences, Lund, Sweden Application deadline: 30 September 2023
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