Dear Colleagues and Friends,

I would like to draw your attention to an opportunity of a research internship at the Spatial Productivity Lab, which is a part of the OECD Trento Centre for Local Development located in Trento, Italy. The application deadline is July 21^st. We are looking for candidates with solid quantitative background, god writing skills and interest in regional economic growth.

https://www.oecd.org/cfe/leed/internships-trento-call.htm

With best wishes,

Alexandra Tsvetkova | Economist/Policy Analyst

Trento Centre for Local Development || Spatial Productivity Lab

Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities

Nomination deadline coming up, July 1!

The William Alonso Memorial Prize for Innovative Work in Regional Science

The William Alonso Memorial Prize for Innovative Work in Regional Science was established in 1999 to honor the memory of a revered, pioneering scholar. In 1960 William Alonso was awarded the first Ph.D. in Regional Science by the University of Pennsylvania. The book based on his dissertation, Location and Land Use (Harvard University Press, 1964), is often credited with launching the field of urban economics. He made numerous major contributions to the study of migration, regional development, and the politics of numbers, and his work ranged from meticulous mathematical theory to far-ranging think pieces. William Alonso was Assistant and Associate Professor of Regional Planning at Harvard University (1959-67), Professor of Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley (1966-76), and Richard Saltonstall Professor of Population Policy at Harvard (1976-99).

The objective of the Prize is to recognize the recent innovative research contribution of Regional Science scholars in the spirit of Dr. William Alonso. Previous Prize Winners are:

2002    Masahisa Fujita and Paul Krugman, The Spatial Economy (MIT Press, 1999)

2004    Jacques-François Thisse, Economics of Agglomeration (Cambridge University Press, 2002)

2006              Luc Anselin, Local Indicators of Spatial Association (Geographical Analysis, 1995) Ann Markusen, Sticky Places in Slippery Space (Economic Geography, 1996)

2011    Michael Batty, Cities and Complexity (MIT Press, 2007)

2013    Robert Sampson, Great American City (University of Chicago Press, 2012)

2016    David Boyce and Huw Williams, Forecasting Urban Travel: Past, Present and Future (Edward Elgar, 2015)

Michael Batty, The New Science of Cities (MIT Press 2013)

The next prize is scheduled to be announced in 2019 at the North American Meetings in Pittsburgh.

Nominations for the prize to be announced in 2019 are invited by the Alonso Prize Committee. They may come from any individual or organization including book publishers, university departments, government agencies, and other public or private entities. Each individual or organization is limited to make two nominations for each occasion. The deadline for nominations  is July 1, 2019.

• The nominated work must be a book published in 2013 or later. An edited book will be considered only if it is tightly-integrated, not a loose collection of chapters.
• The nominated work may have single or multiple authors.
• Authors are encouraged to self-nominate, and jurors will not know which books were self-nominated.
• Previously nominated books may be re-nominated and will be considered anew.
• To nominate a book (1) send e-mails to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.and This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with citation information, such as William Alonso, Location and Land Use, Harvard University Press, 1964, (2) attach up to three published book reviews, if available, using pdf files. No letters of nomination or support are required, and, if provided, will not be sent to jurors. The selection criteria are innovation and expected impact.

Although occasionally awarded to an article, the Alonso Prize is primarily a book prize. A book’s key idea might have been presented first in a journal article, such as Alonso’s “A Theory of the Urban Land Market,” Papers of the Regional Science Association, 1960, but its fuller development and synthesis with other work can make the book innovative and eligible for the Prize.

Members of the Prize Committee include:

Professor Janet Kohlhase, Chair, University of Houston, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Professor Roberta Capello, Politecnico di Milano, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Professor Emeritus, Gordon Mulligan, University of Arizona, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Professor David Plane, University of Arizona, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Dear colleague

The call for papers for the Conference "Sustainable Tourism in the Digital World" (24-26 September, 2019), to be held in the beautiful island of Gotland (Visby, Sweden) has been extended until July, 31.

The website of the conference has been updated with information about the preliminary programs and speakers:

http://www.fek.uu.se/research/sustainable-tourism/#anchor-778508

The conference will include a workshop organised by NECTAR cluster 5 (specific call attached) and a “Aim Day”, including a panel discussion with local tourism stakeholders. This will be an excellent opportunity to discuss the practical challenges in destination management for the sustainable development of a small island.

We look forward to meeting you in Visby.

Warm regards,

João Romão

RSAI is pleased to announce the election of the following Fellows in 2019:

Michael Batty University College London, UK

Ingmar Prucha University of Maryland, USA

Isabelle Thomas Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium

Dear all,

The new RSAI Newsletter May 2019 can now be found under

https://www.regionalscience.org/images/PDF/Newsletter%202019%20May.pdf

Call for papers for RSPP Special Issue on

“Regional Development in Latin-America”.

Dear Colleagues,

The aim of Regional Science Policy & Practice - RSPP is to promote and diffuse the understanding of human interaction in space; based on sound, rigorous and up-to-date methodologies; and focusing on real and urgent issues for peoples and places, that require adequate policy responses.

 Latin America has experienced different challenges in this new era that affected many areas of Regional Science: such as migration, trade, economic growth, income inequality, poverty, regional disparity, concentration of economic activity, energy and environment, to mention just some. Therefore, this special issue will feature research (with sound methods and replicable evidence) that sheds light on the different challenges that Latin America will face in the next decades, with a special focus on regional policies which can lead to solve this issues. 

The objective of this issue is to provide a better understanding of the regional economic challenges that Latin American countries are facing in the next decades. Case studies from any developing countries will be considered, as well as applied theoretical work.

Submission Guidelines: Interested Authors should send their abstract NLT December 15, 2019 to the editors of this special issue: Rafael Garduño-Rivera This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or Patricio Alessandro Aroca This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Authors should submit the full papers to the regular review process of the journal until March 22, 2020. The RSPP Editors will select the papers until April 30, 2020. Early submissions are encouraged and will be processed immediately. Papers will undergo the normal refereeing process. The papers will be publish on the third Issue of 2020.

Coordinators of this Special Issue:

Rafael Garduño-Rivera This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Patricio Alessandro Aroca This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.  

ABOUT THE COURSE

This is a 4-day introductory training course on spatial data analysis using spatial econometrics, covering data mapping and spatial econometric modelling.  Following each lecture, there will be laboratory sessions on the application of the models using R and Stata. After the training, the participants are expected to acquire knowledge and skills to conduct analysis of spatial data using R and Stata. This course is co-sponsored by the Regional Science Association International under its Nurturing Talent Programme, endorsed by the Philippine Economic Society.

COURSE OUTLINE

LECTURERS

For more information, visit https://www.dlsu-soe.com/dataanalytics.html.

ABOUT THE COURSE

This is a 4-day introductory training course on spatial data analysis using spatial econometrics, covering data mapping and spatial econometric modelling.  Following each lecture, there will be laboratory sessions on the application of the models using R and Stata. After the training, the participants are expected to acquire knowledge and skills to conduct analysis of spatial data using R and Stata. This course is co-sponsored by the Regional Science Association International under its Nurturing Talent Programme, endorsed by the Philippine Economic Society.

COURSE OUTLINE

LECTURERS

For more information, visit https://www.dlsu-soe.com/dataanalytics.html.

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Job no:529267

Work type: Continuing
Location: Canberra / ACT
Categories: Academic

Advertised: 16 May 2019 09:00:00 AM AUS Eastern Standard Time
Applications close: 21 Jul 2019 11:55:00 PM AUS Eastern Standard Time

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