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Call for Applications | 4th AISRe Summer School, Resilience of territories and firms: theories, measures and applications, 27-30 June 2023, Palermo, Italy
4th AISRe Summer School
Resilience of territories and firms: theories, measures and applications
27-30 June 2023, Palermo
https://www.aisre.it/en/news/4th-aisre-summer-school/
Venue
University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy
Objectives and themes
Over the last decades the world has experienced several shocks of different nature, e.g., economic, pandemic, and natural, at both global and local level. These events have stressed the resilient capacities of territories and firms inducing governments to plan extraordinary actions to sustain the economy. The Summer School will focus, from both theoretical and empirical standpoint, on the concept of resilience at different scale of analysis, i.e., regional and firm-level, and exploring shocks of different nature. The goal is to provide young researchers with an overview of theories, measures and applications through a wide range of topics. These include:
- Regional-level resilience to socio-economic shocks
- Firm-level resilience to socio-economic shocks
- Regional-level resilience to environmental shocks
- Regional-level resilience to energy shock
Structure of the Program
Each topic will be developed via lectures and data analysis laboratory (using the software STATA) with the following daily timetable:
- 9.30-11.30 Lectures
- 12.00-14-00 Data analysis laboratory
- 15.30-17.30 Students’ presentations
Confirmed senior scholars with high reputation on the topics of the Summer School will deliver lectures, while experts will conduct data analysis sessions. All presentations will be in English.
Speakers
- Theories and measures of regional-level resilience to socio-economic shocks: Fabio Mazzola (University of Palermo). Laboratory data analysis: Pietro Pizzuto (University of Palermo);
- Theories and measures of firm-level resilience to socio-economic shocks: Maksim Belitski (University of Reading). Laboratory data analysis: Martina Aronica (University of Palermo);
- Theories and measures of regional-level resilience to environmental shocks: Marco Modica (Gran Sasso Science Institute). Laboratory data analysis: Laura Ciucci (Gran Sasso Science Institute);
- Theories and measures of regional-level resilience to energy shock: Alessandro Sapio (University of Naples “Parthenope”). Laboratory data analysis: Rita De Siano (University of Naples “Parthenope”).
Local Organizing Committee
Davide Piacentino (Coordinator), University of Palermo; Fabio Mazzola, University of Palermo; Vincenzo Provenzano, University of Palermo; Pietro Pizzuto, University of Palermo; Martina Aronica, University of Palermo.
Scientific Committee
Domenico Scalera (Università del Sannio); Camilla Lenzi (Politecnico di Milano); Augusto Cerqua (Università di Roma Sapienza); Maria Rosaria Agostino (Università della Calabria); Cristina Bernini (Università di Bologna); Roberta Capello (Politecnico di Milano); Cristina Brasili (Università di Bologna); Marusca De Castris (Università degli Studi Roma Tre); Silvia Emili (Università di Bologna); Valeria Fedeli (Politecnico di Milano); Marco Mariani (IRPET); Ilaria Mariotti (Politecnico di Milano); Marco Modica (GSSI); Davide Piacentino (Università di Palermo); Elena Ragazzi (IRCrES – CNR); Laura Resmini (Università di Milano Bicocca); Daniela Storti (CREA); Fabio Mazzola (Università di Palermo); Vincenzo Provenzano (Università di Palermo); Pietro Pizzuto (Università di Palermo); Martina Aronica (Università di Palermo).
How to participate
Postgraduate students and early career researchers with less than 5 years of postdoctoral experience, from universities and research centres can apply to this call. Candidates must send their CV (Europass format, maximum 5 pages), an abstract of a research project/paper on which they are currently working (maximum 2,000 words) and a reference letter. The selection committee will evaluate the applications based on the documentation submitted.
Candidates have to send application by 24 March 2023, to the following email address:. In the object of the email, please specify “NAME OF THE CANDIDATE – Application to the AISRe summer school”. For further information you can contact Prof. Davide Piacentino This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
A maximum of 30 candidates will be selected for participation, and they will receive an email notification by 2 April 2023.
The participation fee is 120 euros, reduced to 80 euros for young researchers (aged under 35 years, doctoral students and post-doc researchers). Coffee breaks and lunches are included in the participation fee.
Participants are required to be individual members of AISRe. Individual membership has a cost of 130 Euros, reduced to 65 Euros for young researchers (aged under 35 years, doctoral students and post-doc researchers). AISRe membership also includes:
- a subscription to Scienze Regionali (Italian Journal of Regional Science) for the following calendar year (https://www.mulino.it/riviste/issn/1720-3929);
- the volumes of the Regional Science Series (FrancoAngeli) published during the business year;
- the registration to the Regional Science Association International (RSAI), which includes an online subscription to the journals Papers in Regional Science and Regional Science Policy & Practice for the following calendar year;
- the opportunity to pay a reduced fee at the annual conferences of the international associations: European Regional Science Association (ERSA) (www.ersa.org) and Regional Science Association International (RSAI) (https://regionalscience.org/).
At the end of the event, those who will have attended all the days of the summer school will receive a certificate of attendance.
Call for Papers | 1st International Conference on Sustainable Regional Development in Cities and Territories in the Developing World, 28-29 April 2023, Hammamet-Tunisia
Cities and territories in the developing world facing the challenges of ecological and digital transitions. A South-North perspective
28-29 April 2023 | Hammamet-Tunisia
https://conferencetunisia.weebly.com/
Framework
Call for papers
Given that urbanisation goes hand in hand with economic growth[3], it is legitimate to ask whether or not this urban transformation offers the countries of the South a new development opportunity and the promise of a better quality of life. In reality, it can be assumed that this will depend on how the South conceives, governs and manages its cities and territories.
In the South, the particularly rapid growth of cities - which is accompanied by a massive flow of goods, people and information, both tangible and intangible - poses major challenges related to global health, economic, social, ecological and climate issues, especially for city dwellers who live mainly in informal settlements and for people who have migrated from rural areas.
The growth of cities is not just a demographic phenomenon. It is also a fundamental transformation in the nature and scale of economic production, social structures, patterns of interaction and land use, city-nature relationships[4], etc. Such a transformation has profound impacts on resource, capacity and governance requirements. The densification of cities increases the need for complex systems for water and energy supply, natural environment protection, health, safety, waste management and related infrastructure.
In response to these environmental and societal challenges, cities and territories must reinvent themselves to seize the opportunities that arise. These challenges are expressed in terms of economic development, well-being[5] and social and institutional change. As a result, new narratives and new specific and contextualised solutions are being expressed in both the North and the South. New ways are emerging to define 'imagined' cities that are more functional, more attractive, more inclusive, more cooperative, more respectful of their environment, less selective and less enclave. The question then arises as to how to reconcile the functioning of an "ordinary" economy (capable of meeting basic social and local needs) with the rise of an "extraordinary" economy (technological, innovative, competitive, etc.).
Thinking about sustainability in the cities and territories of developing countries implies broadening our field of investigation and reflection. It is a question of trying to produce development models and alternatives adapted to the socio-economic and environmental epistemology of the cities of the South by relying on their potentialities and their resilience capacities. Fortunatly, the economic literature and public policies on innovation have abandoned a restricted vision centred on the technical dimension alone, which is well suited to the countries of the North. Considering innovation and the policies dedicated to it under a broader prism is a promising path for the sustainable development of cities and territories in the South. Whether technological, organisational, societal or institutional, in the North as in the South[6], innovation becomes the major element that 'forges the territory', fuels local socio-economic development and makes it possible to overcome traditional disciplinary modes, which produce massive nuisances and individual and collective malaise. This suggests - as Pugh (2013)[7], Barthel and Monkid (2011)[8] and many others point out - that, against the tide of supposed global convergence, the countries of the South need to invent their own sustainable development systems while drawing on the models, policies and tools of the pioneering sustainability cities.
The aim of this conference is to understand the trends that affect the strong urbanisation of cities in the developing world and to identify the appropriate responses to invent the sustainable city of tomorrow. The various dimensions of transition (economic, social, ecological, digital, institutional, spatial, cultural) will be studied through the prism of innovation in order to understand how it can reorient territorial development trajectories in a context of increased uncertainty and acute inter-territorial competition[9]. While the primary objective of this conference is to better understand the challenges of urban transition in the South, it is also expected that contributions will address the dynamics of transition in the cities of the North and the responses to global challenges (environmental, climatic and societal) that are being made there.
This general theme can be approached from many angles, including but not limited to :
- Ecological and digital transitions, innovations and the city of the future
- Entrepreneurship and sustainable urban development
- Sustainable transport and logistics
- Local policies, social economy and social innovation
- Institutional innovations and urban governance
- Transformation of city-nature relations
- Industrial and territorial ecology
- Finance and regional development
- Climate change and resilience
- Migration and development of cities in the South
- Econometric and spatial modelling and city growth
- Health, education, food security and urban growth
Authors are asked to provide the following:
- Contact details of the author(s) (surname, first name, title, affiliation, e-mail).
- The title of the proposal
- An 800 word abstract describing the purpose of the paper, the context, the method used and the expected results.
- A list of 5 key words
- Ten or so bibliographical references
[1] Pugh C (2013), Sustainable Cities in Developing Countries. London, Routledge
[2] Lejardins X (2021), l’aménagement du territoire. Armand Collin.
[3] Banque mondiale (2008)
[4] Carrière et al. (2021), Faire nature en ville. L’Harmattan.
[5] Bourdeau-Lepage (2022), Révéler les aspirations des citadins pour des villes amènes. L’outil Tell_Me, in Urbanisme du bien-être. Des initiatives à partager.
[6] wd Barthel P-A et Zaki L (2011), Expérimenter la ville durable au sud de la Méditerranée. Chercheurs et professionnels en dialogue, Coll. Villes et Territoires, Edition de l’Aube, La Tour-d’Aigues.
[7] Pugh C (2013), Sustainable Cities in Developing Countries. London, Routledge
[8] Barthel P.A et Monqid S. (2011), Introduction. Cairo and sustainability: a provocative issue? Égypte/Monde arabe, 8/2011, document 8, Online since 01 September 2012.
[9] Hamdouch A., Depret M.-H. et Tanguy C. (Eds.), Mondialisation et résilience des territoires. Trajectoires, dynamiques d’acteurs et expériences, Presses de l’Université du Québec, Québec, 2012, 292 p.
The latest issue of Papers in Regional Science are available! Volume 101, Issue 6, December 2022
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Papers in Regional Science Pages: 1243-1472 December 2022 |
ISSUE INFORMATION
Free Access
Pages: 1243-1244 | First Published: 17 January 2023
FULL ARTICLES
Silvia Cerisola, Elisa Panzera
Pages: 1245-1261 | First Published: 16 December 2022
The effect of cultural and creative production on human capital: Evidence from European regions
Filippo Berti Mecocci, Amir Maghssudipour, Marco Bellandi
Pages: 1263-1287 | First Published: 02 November 2022
Productivity advantage of large cities for creative industries
Chun-Yu Ho, Yue Sheng
Pages: 1289-1306 | First Published: 04 December 2022
Open Access
Beyond productivity slowdown: Quality, pricing and resource reallocation in regional competitiveness
Roberto Camagni, Roberta Capello, Giovanni Perucca
Pages: 1307-1330 | First Published: 31 August 2022
Open Access
Fabio Mazzola, Pietro Pizzuto, Giovanni Ruggieri
Pages: 1331-1382 | First Published: 05 September 2022
Roads and intra‐national trade: Evidence from Italian regions
Marta Santagata
Pages: 1383-1409 | First Published: 11 January 2023
Open Access
FDI and the growing wage gap in Mexican municipalities
Eduardo Ibarra-Olivo, Andrés Rodríguez-Pose
Pages: 1411-1439 | First Published: 29 November 2022
Edson Ramos de Medeiros, Terciane Sabadini Carvalho, Kênia Barreiro de Souza
Pages: 1441-1468 | First Published: 23 November 2022
BOOK REVIEW
New frontiers of policy evaluation in regional science. Edited by Yoshiro Higano N |Lily Kiminami | Kenichi Ishibashi. Volume 52. Series: New Frontiers in Regional Science: Asian Perspectives. Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022. 412 pp. ISBN 978–981–16–4500–6; ISBN 978–981–16–4501–3 (eBook). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-4501-3
Cristina Bernini
Pages: 1469-1470 | First Published: 04 November 2022
REFEREES
Pages: 1471-1472 | First Published: 17 January 2023
Workshop on Sustainable Regional Development in the Western Balkans | March 31, 2023 | Tirana, Albania
The scientific journal Regional Science Policy and Practice belongs to Regional Science Association International and it is committed to promote the development of Regional Science across the globe specifically through the promotion of special issues on nurtured by workshops.
The main purpose of this first workshop is to mobilize and nurture talents across the Western Balkans, publish a special issue of the journal on Sustainable Regional Development and European Integration in Western Balkans and support RSAI in the creation of regional science sections in Western Balkans.
The workshop seeks to enhance participants understanding of recent developments and methodologies that could be useful for spatial and regional analysis facilitating the European integration and implementation of sustainable development goals in the Western Balkan region. Spatial assessment is more important to our understanding of economic and geographical problems, the workshop will develop the skillsets and knowledge of regional scientist to be able to analyse and understand complex spatial problems and to apply these tools in developing innovative research, in policy making and further expanding research capacities in the Western Balkan region.
Through this workshop, participants will be able to learn and apply spatial econometric models, geographic data, agglomeration and movement of labour and capital to make informed policy decisions that can facilitate the European integration process. Participants will have the opportunity to present their research and receive constructive feedback from peers and senior scholars.
NECTAR Cluster 4 workshop on Active Micro-Mobility – Modeling Spatial Behaviour of Cyclists and Pedestrians
Dear NECTAR colleagues,
Cluster 4 is organising a workshop on Active Micro-Mobility – Modeling Spatial Behaviour of Cyclists and Pedestrians, 16-17 March 2023. The workshop is organized by LAET-ENTPE (University of Lyon), Lyon, France.
If you are interested to participate in this workshop, please submit an abstract (about 500 words) before 13 February 2023. See the call for papers for details attached.
Best regards
Ana Condeço-Melhorado
NECTAR Secretary
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION | Training on Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) Analysis and Computer General Equilibrium (CGE) Modelling For Development and Planning, Angkor Paradise Hotel, in Siem Reap, Cambodia, 12-14 June 2023
Training on Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) Analysis and Computer General Equilibrium (CGE) Modelling For Development and Planning
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
(Open from 1 Feb 2023, Close on 1 March 2023)
Pacific Regional Science Conference Organization (PRSCO) and the Asian Vision Institute (AVI—Cambodia-based independent think tank), supported by the Regional Science Association International (RSAI), are conducting free academic training for young academics in Asia and the Pacific. The training will be at Angkor Paradise Hotel, in Siem Reap, Cambodia, from 12 till 14 June 2023.
Aims:
The purpose of this training is to provide adequate knowledge on Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) analysis and Computable General Equilibrium Modelling for development planning, focusing on achieving the sustainable development goals (SGDs). This training is also to stimulate interactions and network development among participants as well as with senior academics in the region. Not only that will they be equipped with well-defined analytical methods on development planning, after graduating from this training, participants would also be provided with more knowledge about methods within regional science.
Activities:
Participants are expected to attend a set of 3-day activities as follows.
1. The one-and-a-half-day pre-conference training:
a. 12 June 2023, 08:00am – 5:00 pm
b. 13 June 2023, 08:00am – 12:00pm
2. The one-and-a-half-day conference: The 18th PRSCO Summer Institute
a. 13 June 2023, 02:00pm – 06:00pm
b. 14 June 2023, 08:00pm – 05:00pm
NB: Attending only some of the above activities is not permitted.
Subjects Covered in the Training:
- Poverty and inequality: Concepts and measurements
- Sustainable development
- Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for development planning
- Introduction to the concept of computable general equilibrium (CGE)
- Implementing a CGE using GAMS software
- CGE for Development Planning
Trainers
- Professor Budy P. Resosudarmo of the Australian National University (https://crawford.anu.edu.au/people/academic/budy-p-resosudarmo)
- Associate Professor Yuri Mansury of the Illinois Institute of Technology (https://www.iit.edu/directory/people/yuri-mansury) .
Supports for the Training:
All accepted participants will receive the training and its material for free. Four-night accommodation and lunch during the pre-conference training and conference will be provided. Registration fee to attend the conference will also be waived.
All accepted participants, however, should cover all other costs to participate in this training and conference, such as costs of transportation to and from Siem Reap, dinner and personal spending during the training and conference.
All accepted participants should bring their own laptop to the training. No computer facilities will be provided.
Who can apply?
All early- and mid-career academics receiving their Master’s or PhD degree after 2015 are invited to apply. Female academics and those located in the lower Mekong countries are encouraged to apply. A total of 20 successful applicants will be selected to join the training program.
How to Apply:
Application form can be downloaded over here (https://prscocambodia.org). Deadline for application submission is on 1 March 2023.
At the end of the program, a training certificate will be given by the Asian Vision Institute.
In Partnership with
Pacific Regional Science Conference Organization (PRSCO) Summer Institute
Supported by
Regional Science Association International (RSAI)
Asian Vision Institute (AVI)
Call for Papers: PRSCO 2023, Siem Reap, Cambodia, 13-14 June 2023.
CALL FOR PAPERS
The 18th PRSCO Summer Institute Feb 1, 2023: Abstract submission opening
Mar 1, 2023: Abstract submission deadline
The Conference will be hosted by the Asian Vision Institute, with the Regional Science Association International, at Angkor Paradise Hotel, Siem Reap, Cambodia, 13-14 June 2023. The overall theme of the conference is: “Economic and Social Transformation Amidst the Multi-Pronged Global Crisis”. The programme committee invites contributed papers on topics in regional science for presentation at the conference.
The committee will welcome papers on any aspect of regional science, and would particularly welcome papers reporting research or case studies on the following themes:
- Regional economics and development
- Income inequality and regional disparities
- Infrastructure, basic utilities and regional management
- Public services and human development
- Trade, investment and economic growth
- Decentralization and regional fiscal policies
- Regional macro and financial policies
- Local government innovation and governance
- Economic shocks and social safety nets
- nflation and exchange rate policies
- Culture, land and village development
Extended paper abstract of about 500 words should be submitted online via https://prscocambodia.org by 1 March 2023.
Abstract should consist of background, data and methodology, potential contributions, and keywords. Abstracts must be submitted in English.
Paper sessions are seminar-style for each paper and ample time for discussion and for participants to provide constructive feedback to authors. Paper presentations will be in English.
Important dates:
Feb 1, 2023: Abstract submission opening
Mar 1, 2023: Abstract submission deadline
Apr 1, 2023: Early bird registration open
Apr 1, 2023: Notification of abstract acceptance
May 1, 2023: Early bird registration end
May 22, 2023: Paper presenter registration deadline
Jun 5, 2023: Non-presenter registration deadline
Jun 12 – 13, 2023: Pre-conference training
Jun 13 – 14, 2023: Conference date
In Partnership with
Pacific Regional Science Conference Organization (PRSCO) Summer Institute
Supported by
Regional Science Association International (RSAI)
Asian Vision Institute (AVI)
Portuguese Review of Regional Studies (RPER): Nº 63 (2023) is already available!
No. 63 (2023): Portuguese Review of Regional Studies
Editor-in.Chef: José Cadima Ribeiro
Co-Editors: Conceição Rego e João Marques
Technical Information
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In Memoriam: John Brian Parr (1941-2023)
John Parr, a member of the Regional Science Association International (RSAI) since the mid 1960s passed away at his home in London in early January 2023. John was born in the U.K. and graduated from University College, London with a degree in economics in 1962. In 1967, he completed his Ph.D. in economic geography at the University of Washington working with Morgan Thomas and Charles Tiebout. From 1967 until 1975, he was successively Assistant and then Associate Professor in the Department of Regional Science at the University of Pennsylvania. He then returned to the UK and from 1975 until 2015 he was a member of the faculty in what ended up as the Department of Urban Studies, in the University of Glasgow in Scotland; he was promoted to Professor in 1989. After retiring from Glasgow, he returned to London in 2016 when he was appointed an Honorary Professor in the Bartlett School of Planning at his alma mater, University College London. He was a frequent visiting scholar at institutions in the US (especially Illinois and West Virginia), Australia, New Zealand and Israel. After his return to the UK in 1975, he became very active in the British Section (now British & Irish Section) of RSAI, serving as Chairman of the section from 1981-1985; however, he retained an affinity for the North American Regional Science (NARSC) conferences and for the World Congresses of RSAI. He was elected as an Academician (Fellow) of the UK Academy of Social Sciences in 2000. From the RSAI: British and Irish Section, he received the Moss Madden Memorial Medal in 2003 and a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2015. Parr was elected as a Fellow of the RSAI in 2006.
His main interests centered in regional/spatial policy and the spatial structure of regions with a strong commitment to exploring and re-interpreting the works of von Thünen, Christaller and Lösch. In his more recent work, the role of spatial structure infused several papers that explored new interpretations of regional policy, its challenges and, in many cases, its failures viewed through the lens of spatial organization broadly conceived. His publication list is extensive and includes many contributions in the Papers in Regional Science (and its earlier form), Journal of Regional Science, Annals of Regional Science, Urban Studies, Regional Studies, Economic Geography, Environment and Planning and Spatial Economic Analysis. These works, with different foci and methodology, have in common an excellent writing style; Parr had little patience for obfuscation and felt it important that articles should be easy to read. Editors who attempted to change this style usually received a certain amount of opprobrium with one editor commenting that Parr was the most difficult author with whom he had to deal! After several articles on regional policy (the focus of his doctoral dissertation), the bulk of his attention was directed to the spatial structure of city systems, initially drawing inspiration from central place theory. He had enormous admiration for Lösch and would return to his contributions frequently throughout his career. For the last decade, he refocused once more on regional policy but now infused with new interpretations based on the structure of regional economies and their embedded urban systems. The ideas ranged from alternative views and definitions of agglomeration economies, the structure of interdependence within urban systems and even returning to consideration of the role of spatial administration.
In many ways, his academic contributions were equaled by his commitment to enhancing the field of regional science, broadly defined. His presence in many conferences each year was a very visible manifestation of this sense of the role of more senior scholars; many colleagues have commented on the myriad ways he assisted them during their careers, one remarking that Parr had become a valued mentor, by being the academic and person he was rather than explicitly giving advice. He had a great sense of humor that was infectious; he took his work seriously but rarely himself and graciously tolerated the gentle ribbing that inevitably occurred.
Parr’s wife of 49 years, Pamela, died in 2014; he is survived by his two daughters Sheila and Anne.
ERSA2023 Call for Abstracts (and) Papers in now OPEN!
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