The Honors Committee of the North American Regional Science Council is soliciting nominations for the following awards to be given at this year's annual meeting. Please send your nomination by October 7 to Doug Woodward, Honors Chair, NARSC: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

1.  Isard Award for Scholarly Achievement in Regional Science

The Walter Isard Award for Scholarly Achievement is named in honor of Professor Walter Isard, father of Regional Science, founder of the Regional Science Association, and a leading scholar in the worldwide Regional Science community. Established in 1994, the award pays tribute to North American regional scientists who have made significant theoretical and methodological contributions to the field of Regional Science throughout their careers.

2.  The Boyce Award for Distinguished Service to Regional Science

This award honors Professor David Boyce, a prominent figure in Regional Science who promoted the Regional Science Association for a number of years and was instrumental in its long term success. The award acknowledges the service contributions that North American members have made to Regional Science organizations.

3.  The Hewings Award for Outstanding Achievement by a "Junior" Faculty

This award is named in honor of Professor Geoffrey J.D. Hewings who over the years introduced numerous graduate students to Regional Science and mentored them as young scholars. The award recognizes distinguished contributions to Regional Science research by North American scholars who have recently completed doctoral studies (within ten years of receiving a Ph.D.).

The list of past awards is posted on the NARSC web site at http://www.narsc.org/newsite/?page_id=30.

Doug Woodward
Chair, NARSC Honors Committee

The 2nd Ibero-American Congress on Regional Development and 12th Congress of the Brazilian Regional Science Association
October 15 – 17, 2014

Hosted by

Centro de Desenvolvimento e Planejamento Regional (CEDEPLAR)
Department of Economics, Federal University of Minas Gerais
Belo Horizonte – Brazil

General Organizing Committee
Raul da Mota Silveira Neto (PIMES/UFPE)
Alexandre Alves Porsse (UFPR)
Fernando Salgueiro Perobelli (UFJF)
Eduardo Amaral Haddad (FEA/USP)
Eduardo Simões de Almeida (UFJF)
Edson Paulo Domingues (CEDEPLAR/UFMG)
Pedro Vasconcelos Maia do Amaral (CEDEPLAR/UFMG)

Local Organizing Committee
Aline Souza Magalhães (CEDEPLAR/UFMG)
Edson Paulo Domingues (CEDEPLAR/UFMG)
Flaviane Souza Santiago (CEDEPLAR/UFMG)
Kenia Barreiro de Souza (CEDEPLAR/UFMG)
Pedro Vasconcelos Maia do Amaral (CEDEPLAR/UFMG)
Rodrigo Ferreira Simões (CEDEPLAR/UFMG)

Co-convenings Institutions
Argentinean Society of Regional Economics (SAER)
Chilean Society of Regional Studies (SOCHER)
Colombian Association of Regional Studies (ASCER)
Mexican Association of Sciences for Regional Development (AMECIDER)
Portuguese Association for Regional Development (APDR)
Regional Science Association of America (RSAmericas)
Spanish Association of Regional Science (AECR)
Union of Universities of Latin America and the Caribbean (UDUAL)

Sponsor Institutions
The General Organizing Committee and the Local Organizing Committee are very grateful to the support provided by the following institutions.
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG)
Centro de Desenvolvimento e Planejamento Regional (CEDEPLAR)
Departamento de Economia da UFMG
Regional Science Association International (RSAI)
Fundação Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica da FEA-USP (FIPE)
Banco do Nordeste do Brasil (BNB)
Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

See attachement for more information.

Dear NECTAR friends,

Please find enclosed the call for abstracts for the next NECTAR Cluster 1 (Networks) Workshop on "Enhancing the network efficiency: air transport and sustainability"

The workshop will be held during the 7th and 8th of May 2015, in Cranfield, United Kingdom.

Abstracts and further inquiries about this meeting should be forward to the Organizing Committee at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

The deadline for receiving abstracts is Tuesday, 1st December 2014.

Kind regards

Ana Condeço-Melhorado

NECTAR secretary

http://www.nectar-eu.org/

Dear Professor / Dr./ Sir/ Madam,

“Interregional Trade, Competitiveness and The Role of Small Businesses Towards ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) 2015”

Department of Economics, Universitas Brawijaya in collaboration with the ASEAN Consortium on Department of Economics (Konsorsium Departemen Ilmu Ekonomi tingkat ASEAN) which consists of Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT), Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM), Universiti Teknologi Mara, Universitas Padjajaran, Universitas Airlangga, and× Trisakti proudly announce the 3rd ASEAN Consortium on× Department of Economics Conference (ACDEC) 2014.

The 3rd ACDEC 2014 will invite keynote speakers from different backgrounds. First, we will invite scholar and academician from our collaboration university that mastering issue on interregional trade and competitiveness toward ASEAN Economic Community. Second, we expect to gain in-depth point of view from the actor of small businesses about their challenges and opportunities to compete in ASEAN Economic Community. Last, we also invite the policy makers from Ministry of Trade about position of Indonesia’s Trade and competitiveness toward ASEAN Economic Community 2015. The combination of these invited speakers will give more insightful discussion on the issue of interregional trade and competitiveness in Southeast Asia.

The 3rd ACDEC 2014 will take place from 4th – 6th December 2014 in Faculty of Economics and Business, Universitas Brawijaya, Malang. We welcome scholars, policy makers, government officers, business groups, non-governmental organizations, and students to send their manuscripts and join our 3rd ACDEC 2014. See you in Malang!

Papers are welcome based on the following themes:

• Challenges of regional cooperation in trade and finance
• Economic competitiveness, sustainable growth, and development
• The role of small business in globalization
• Issues in regional labor market dynamics
• Governance, public sector and bureaucratic reforms
• Economic integration and Asian regionalism
• Finance, banking structures and development of capital markets
• Regional case of trade liberalization and globalization
• Islamic Economic

 Important Dates

Pre-submission Inquiries:

Researchers may request informal feedback from our conference research support team regarding manuscript submission procedure: 

Secretariat:

Inquiries related to the conference may kindly be addressed to the conference secretary:

French Speaking Section Report - 2014

ROMANIAN REGIONAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION

2014 REPORT to the ERSA

At present the Romanian RSA (RRSA) counts 70 members, who have paid both the RRSA and RSAI individual membership fees in 2013. The 250 euro collective membership fee to the ERSA for 2014 has been already paid by the RRSA in April. Also, the collection of the RSAI individual membership - 2014 is in an advanced phase (more than 50 members have already paid it). The RRSA is enlarging with new members who, according to the Romanian RSA Constitution, have demonstrated a deep, mature and constant interest in regional science as well as in the RRSA activities.

The international conference of the RRSA is organised every two years. The next one – the 10^th - is scheduled for 8-9 May 2015 and will be hosted by the “Stephan the Great” University of Suceava, located in the wonderful Bucovina area of the North-East region. The Call for Papers will be launched at the beginning of October 2014.

The members of the Romanian RSA have been involved in many national and international projects in regional science field and have authored quality books and articles published in Romania and abroad. For example, a special session at the ERSA Congress in Sankt Petersburg is dedicated to “Regional Regeneration in the EU New Member States” (chair: Daniela Constantin) and contains four papers presenting the results obtained by the authors (all members of the Romanian RSA) within the FP7 project “Growth-Innovation-Competitiveness: Fostering Cohesion in Central and Eastern Europe (GRINCOH)”, in which Bucharest University of Economic Studies is one of the 12 partners.

Also, the RRSA representatives are members in the Consulting Committee for Territorial Cohesion and the Consulting Committee for Regional Operational Programme set up by the Ministry of Regional Development and Public Administration in the context of the preparations for the 2014-2020 programme period.  In addition, the Romanian RSA has close collaboration relationships – materialised in joint seminars, workshops, etc. - with Regional Development Agencies and other organisations interested in a scientific view on the territorial dimension of the Cohesion Policy in Romania.

The Romanian Journal of Regional Science has released in 2014 its 8^th volume, with two issues per year. In 2013 each of the two issues was accompanied by a special issue. The journal has a large international participation, more than half of the articles being authored by foreign scholars. It is indexed in many international databases (e.g. RePEc-Ideas, EBSCO, DOAJ, Cabell’s) and the articles have a large number of citations in other journals. The RJRS is an online journal, all articles being downloadable from www.rrsa.ro/rjrs