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Monday, 30 August 2021 09:24

CREATE Seminar 2021 - John Reilly

CREATE (Climate, Regional, Environmental, and Trade Economics) is a research center devoted to the study of climate change and environmental accounts based on system-wide techniques developed in regional economics and trade economics.

CREATE Seminar Series 2021


Friday, September 10, John Reilly, MIT, will present his paper "How Agriculture Can Be Part of the Climate Solution." Please join us and see details below.

Time: 12:00 - 1 pm, US Central Time
Date: September 10
Link: Zoom 


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John Reilly, PhD. Co-Director Emeritus, Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change. Senior Lecturer, Sloan School of Management. MIT. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

How Agriculture Can Be Part of the Climate Solution

U.S. agriculture contributes about 10% of the total greenhouse gas emissions of the entire national economy, but farmers could greatly reduce those emissions if they were provided with the right government incentives, according to the report, which was co-authored by Dr. John Reilly of MIT’s Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change and Dr. Stephanie Mercier, senior policy adviser at Farm Journal Foundation.

Expanding existing government programs could enable farmers to become more sustainable – helping them improve their soil health, increase livestock efficiency, convert animal waste into clean energy, and decrease reliance on fossil fuels. Farm businesses run on tight margins and are affected by volatile commodity markets, so farmers need incentives – such as tax breaks, cost share, technical assistance, or favorable loan terms – in order for sustainable investments to make financial sense.

A number of government programs already provide impactful financial and technical assistance for conservation, such as USDA’s Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) and Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP). However there is more demand for assistance than can be met under existing funding levels. For example, between 2000 and 2010, only about 40% of projects proposed under the EQIP program were actually funded, and farmers submitting requests for technical assistance often face long waiting periods.

Increasing the funding for government programs and enabling more farmers to participate would go a long way toward making the agricultural industry more sustainable. With the right incentives in place, the U.S. farming sector could ultimately become a net carbon sink – meaning that it would absorb more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than it releases.

To help the industry become carbon positive, farmers could capture more carbon in their soils, increase the efficiency of nitrogen fertilizer applications (which can lower emissions of nitrous oxide), and harvest biomass to produce clean fuels. Large and medium-scale livestock operations could also contribute by installing methane digesters on their farms, which are machines that collect animal waste and convert it into natural gas. According to the report, there is enough manure produced in the U.S. each year to generate methane that could supply an estimated 10% of the country’s electricity needs.

Increased government investment in agricultural research could help deliver even more solutions, according to the report. For example, methane released by livestock during the digestive process is a major contributor of greenhouse gas emissions, but one recent discovery found that under experimental conditions, particular types of seaweed added to livestock diets can almost completely eliminate methane emissions from those animals. Breakthrough research such as this will be critical if the industry is to become “carbon positive.”

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Monday, 30 August 2021 09:09

Election of RSAI new Councillors at large

Dear RSAI members,

By RSAI Constitution, nominations for Councilors-at-large “shall be made by the Council after solicitation of suggestions from the members of the Association”. At the end of 2021, the position on the RSAI Council held by Prof. Maria Abreu (Cambridge University) will expire; we therefore inform that the proposals for a councilor-at-large can be sent to the address This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. within September 30, 2021. Candidatures will have to include a professional CV and a photo.

The election of a councilor-at-large for the period 2022-2024 will take place electronically by RSAI members during the month of October 2021.

Best regards,

Andrea Caragliu

Associate Professor of Regional and Urban Economics

Politecnico di Milano, ABC Department

RSAI Executive Director

Nurturing new talent 2022

The RSAI aims to continue promoting the development of Regional Science by nurturing new talent in 2022. The council has therefore pledged resources to co-finance workshops and summer institutes intended to provide substantive training to pre-doctoral researchers, including the presentation of their work and receiving feedback from senior scholars and their peers. It is expected that the selected workshops and institutes will have considerable international geographical coverage.

Organizers of workshops and summer schools fulfilling the above aims are encouraged to submit a two-page case for support, using the included template, within October 10, 2021 to the RSAI secretariat (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.). Individuals are encouraged to consult with their national and supranational sections to allow better coordination among different initiatives.

All applications will be reviewed by the Committee and will have to be formally approved by the RSAI Council. Their decision will be final.

Template nurturing talent application (Download)

Andrea Caragliu

Associate Professor of Regional and Urban Economics

Politecnico di Milano, ABC Department

RSAI Executive Director

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Regional Science Policy & Practice
Volume 13, Issue 4
Regional Development in Latin America

Pages: 1093-1402

August 2021

Issue Edited by: Patricio Aroca, Carlos Azzoni

ISSUE INFORMATION

Free Access

Issue Information

Pages: 1093 | First Published: 25 August 2021

INTRODUCTION

Regional development in Latin America

Patricio Aroca, Carlos Azzoni

Pages: 1094-1095 | First Published: 25 August 2021

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

Institutional fragmentation and metropolitan coordination in Latin American cities: Are there links with city productivity?

Juan C. Duque, Nancy Lozano-Gracia, Jorge E. Patino, Paula Restrepo Cadavid

Pages: 1096-1128 | First Published: 08 July 2020

The effect of a free trade agreement with the United States on member countries' per capita GDP: A synthetic control analysis

Esteban Colla-De-Robertis, Rafael Garduno Rivera

Pages: 1129-1145 | First Published: 02 February 2021

Regional economic growth and convergence: The role of institutions and spillover effects in Colombia

Juan Manuel Aristizábal, Gustavo A. García

Pages: 1146-1161 | First Published: 19 August 2020

Regional convergence, spatial scale, and spatial dependence: Evidence from homicides and personal injuries in Colombia 2010–2018

Felipe Santos-Marquez, Carlos Mendez

Pages: 1162-1184 | First Published: 28 September 2020

Market competition and firm productivity and innovation: Responses in Mexican manufacturing industries

Rut Atayde, Rafael Garduño, Eduardo Robles, Pluvia Zúñiga

Pages: 1185-1214 | First Published: 05 April 2021

Determinants of manufacturing micro firms' productivity in Ecuador. Do industry and canton where they operate matter?

Grace Carolina Guevara-Rosero

Pages: 1215-1248 | First Published: 02 February 2021

Spatial and non‐spatial proximity in university–industry collaboration: Mutual reinforcement and decreasing effects

Emerson Gomes Santos, Renato Garcia, Veneziano Araujo, Suelene Mascarini, Ariana Costa

Pages: 1249-1261 | First Published: 06 July 2020

Evaluating the effectiveness of ChileCompra's Entrepreneurship Centers policy

Sergio A. Contreras, Andrew J. Greenlee

Pages: 1262-1282 | First Published: 03 March 2021

Regional disparities in Mexico and the spatially cumulative effects of national development and economic cycles, 1940–2013

Alejandra Trejo Nieto

Pages: 1283-1296 | First Published: 04 July 2020

Regional development gaps in Argentina: A multidimensional approach to identify the location of policy priorities

Andrés Niembro, Jésica Sarmiento

Pages: 1297-1327 | First Published: 02 August 2020

Open Access

A multi‐scale approach to rural depopulation in Mexico

Liliana Castillo-Rivero, Philip McCann, Frans J. Sijtsma

Pages: 1328-1347 | First Published: 04 December 2020

Dimensions of local development in the Colombian Pacific Region

Eduardo Amaral Haddad, Inácio Fernandes de Araújo, Vinícius de Almeida Vale, Henry Duque Sandoval, Paola Andrea Garizado Roman, Lilian Andrea Carrillo Rodríguez, Elizabeth Aponte Jaramillo, Leidy Julieth Gruesso Lopez

Pages: 1348-1370 | First Published: 11 July 2021

Urban sprawl and the cost of providing local public services: Empirical evidence for Brazilian municipalities

Karina Simone Sass, Alexandre Alves Porsse

Pages: 1371-1387 | First Published: 15 September 2020

INVITED REVIEW

Does per capita income cause homicide rates? An application of an IV spatial model

Rogério Pereira, Tatiane Almeida de Menezes

Pages: 1388-1400 | First Published: 22 May 2020

BOOK REVIEW

Jones, Garett, 2020. 10% less democracy: Why you should trust elites a little more and the masses a little less. Stanford University press, Stanford, CA. US$22.91, Hb, 233 pp., ISBN 978–1–5,036‐0357‐8, DOI: 10.1515/9781503611214

Amitrajeet A. Batabyal

Pages: 1401-1402 | First Published: 31 May 2021

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Papers in Regional Science
Volume 100, Issue 4

Pages: 845-1110

August 2021

ISSUE INFORMATION

Free Access

Issue Information

Pages: 845-846 | First Published: 23 August 2021

FULL ARTICLES

A spatial regression methodology for exploring the role of regional connectivity in knowledge production: Evidence from Chinese regions

Yuxue Sheng, James LeSage

Pages: 847-874 | First Published: 08 March 2021

Estimation of regional input coefficients and output multipliers for the regions of Chile

Cristian Mardones, Darling Silva

Pages: 875-889 | First Published: 10 April 2021

Measuring fiscal interactions in local federalism: Evidence from Florida

Kevin Willardsen

Pages: 891-923 | First Published: 22 February 2021

Home Sweet Home: the Effect of Sugar Protectionism on Emigration in Italy, 1876‐1913

Carlo Ciccarelli, Alberto Dalmazzo, Daniela Vuri

Pages: 925-957 | First Published: 07 April 2021

Open Access

Social media adoption in Italian firms. Opportunities and challenges for lagging regions

Martina Aronica, Rubinia Celeste Bonfanti, Davide Piacentino

Pages: 959-978 | First Published: 19 April 2021

Measuring insularity as a state of nature

Vania Licio, Anna Maria Pinna

Pages: 979-1004 | First Published: 27 January 2021

From hot to cold: A spatial analysis of self‐employment in the United States

Alejandro Almeida, Antonio Golpe, Raquel Justo

Pages: 1005-1023 | First Published: 03 February 2021

Open Access

Age cohort effects on unemployment in the USA: Evidence from the regional level

Carsten Ochsen

Pages: 1025-1053 | First Published: 11 February 2021

Quantile regression on the nonlinear relationship between land use and trip time

Tae-Hyoung Tommy Gim

Pages: 1055-1077 | First Published: 21 January 2021

Open Access

A machine learning approach to rural entrepreneurship

Mehmet Güney Celbiş

Pages: 1079-1104 | First Published: 22 January 2021

BOOK REVIEW

Survival of the city: Living and thriving in an age of isolation By Edward Glaeser and David Cutler, Penguin Press, 2021. 480 pages. $14.99 (Kindle). ISBN 0593297687

Andrea Caragliu

Pages: 1105-1110 | First Published: 07 June 2021

Dear Colleagues

I wish you are all safe and well.

Please submit your contribution to the workshop we are co-organizing devoted to the subject: 

Civic Universities, Ecosystems and Regional Development in Low-Industrial-Density Regions

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Submissions must be made by next September 17, 2021.

Please find also attached a CfP associated with this workshop, which will be organized in a hybrid format.

So we are welcoming your presentations that can be delivered through physical or virtual terms.

Yours faithfully

João Carlos Correia Leitão, Ph.D. 

Associate Professor with Habilitation 

University of Beira Interior  

Faculty of Human and Social Sciences

Department of Management and Economics

UBIExecutive, Business School 

Estrada do Sineiro, 6200-209 Covilhã, Portugal 

RSPP Call for Papers

Special Issue on:

Civic Universities, Ecosystems and Regional Development in Low-Industrial-Density Regions

Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) play a highly significant role in developing their influence regions, due to its contribution both for intellectual and civic progress. HEIs have the responsibility to become deeply engaged with the societal challenges (Boyer, 2016), since they should be positioned as open institutions, with a proactive role in promoting a sustainable development of regions and people. From here, it results a need to better understand, and define the Civic Universities (CivUs), which play a significant role in fostering the regional development of Low-Industrial-Density Regions.

The idea of civic engagement of the Universities was originally described by Boyer (1996), in what he named as  scholarship of engagement, that is, a construct based on four pillars, namely: (I) the scholarship of discovery, pushing back the frontiers of human knowledge; (II) the scholarship of integration, creating more interdisciplinary conversations; (III) the scholarship of sharing knowledge, being a communal act; and (IV) the application of knowledge, moving from theory to practice back to theory.

In this line of reasoning, the CivUs should be deeply integrated in their communities. As such, CivUs should organize their teaching and researching activities, in order to train future citizens with the focus of entrepreneurship for societal innovation (Goddard and Vallance, 2011). CivUs have the potential for providing viable solutions for several societal problems, such as ageing, degenerative diseases, sustainability, smart mobility solutions, urban living, food security, water management, clean manufacturing, and environmental innovation (Goddard and Vallance, 2012; Unger et al., 2020).

The aim of this special issue is thus to bring together scientific contributions from interconnected research fields, helping to unveil and better understand the role played the CivUs in addressing the societal challenges and the prosecution of the sustainable development goals (SDGs), targeted to a sustainable regional development. Following this rationale, we are welcoming both theoretical and empirical contributions, focused on responding to the guiding g research question, that is: What is the role played by the CivUs in fostering sustainable regional development, especially, in low-industrial-density regions?

Examples of research topics that are considered relevant for this special issue, are as follows:

  • Benchmarks and Good-Practices of Civic Universities
  • Clusters, Industrial Districts and Productivity of Low-Industrial-Density Regions
  • Cross-border Relationships and Sustainable Development
  • Demography and Regional Development of Low-Density Regions
  • Determinants of Performance of Low-Density Regions
  • Efficiency of Higher Education Institutions
  • Geography and Space Determinants of the Performance of Low-Density Regions
  • Higher Educations Institutions and Sustainable Regional Development
  • History, Culture and Development Pathway of Low-Density Regions
  • Intellectual Capital of Higher Education Institutions and Sustainable Regional Development
  • Knowledge and Technology Transfer of Higher Educations Institutions and SDGs
  • Natural Resources and Sustainable Regional Development
  • New Public Policies for Intelligent Smart Specialization Strategies
  • Territorial Competitiveness and Inclusiveness of Low-density-industrial Regions

Planning

There are three alternative ways to select papers for this special issue:

  • A selection of extended abstracts submitted to the 26th APDR Workshop​ will be invited to deliver a full paper.
  • Authors not attending the conferences above mentioned may send an extended abstract (1,200-2,000 words) to the editors until October 30, 2021

Please note that the full paper must be submitted to RSPP by January 31, 2022.

Editors

  • João Leitão, University of Beira Interior, NECE and ICS, University of Lisbon, Portugal This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.  
  • Alessandra Faggian, Gran Sasso Science Institute, L’Aquila, Italy This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
  • Martina Dal Molin, Gran Sasso Science Institute, L’Aquila, Italy This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

References

Boyer, E. L. (1996). The scholarship of engagement. Journal of Public Service and Outreach, 1(1), 11-20.

Boyer, E. L. (2016). The scholarship of engagement. Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 20(1), 15–28. https://doi.org/10.2307/3824459                

Goddard, John, & Vallance, P. (2012). The civic university: Connecting the global and the local. Universities, Cities and Regions: Loci for Knowledge and Innovation Creation, January, 43–63. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203097144

Unger, M., Marsan, G. A., Meissner, D., Polt, W., & Cervantes, M. (2020). New challenges for universities in the knowledge triangle. Journal of Technology Transfer, 45(3), 806–819. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10961-018-9699-8

The XIIIth International Conference of the Romanian Regional Science Association
&
The 20th anniversary of the Romanian RSA

Spatial Planning, Territorial Cohesion and Cooperation in South-East Europe

4-6 November 2021 | Online

http://www.rrsa.ro/

Keynote speakers

Corina Cretu, Romania - EP Member, Former European Commissioner for Regional Policy
Eduardo Haddad, Brazil - University of Sao Paulo, President of the Regional Science Association International
Peter Nijkamp, The Netherlands - Free University of Amsterdam, Past President of the European Regional Science Association and the Regional Science Association International
André Torre, France - University Paris-Saclay and INRAE, President of the European Regional Science Association

Plenary Round Table

Organized by RRSA in cooperation with ERSA Sections from South – East Europe

Chaired by:
Rosella Nicolini, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain, ERSA Secretary

Participants:
Bulgarian Section: Kosyo Stoychev
Croatian Section: Vinko Mustra
Greek Section: Yannis Psycharis
Romanian Section: Daniela Constantin
Turkish Section: Tuzin Baycan

Main topics:

  • Recent trends in spatial development
  • Spatial planning and territorial cohesion
  • Endogenous growth and territorial capital
  • Migration, employment and labour markets
  • Clusters, networks and regional smart specialization
  • SMEs, entrepreneurship and regional competitiveness
  • Tourism, cultural industries and regional development
  • Smart, sustainable and resilient cities
  • Innovation, technological transformation and green transition
  • Urban-rural linkages
  • Multi-level governance and citizen participation
  • Territorial cooperation - drivers and challenges
  • Institutions, investments and regional policy

The abstract must not exceed 400 words (including keywords and JEL Classification). It should be sent by email at: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., specifying in the email’s subject Abstract RRSA 2021.

Those interested in having their paper published should submit the full paper at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., specifying in the email’s subject Full paper RRSA 2021. The paper (5000-8000 words) may be published after peer-review in one of the following journals:

Maximum two papers per participant are accepted.

Registration fee - Euros or the equivalent in lei (for Romanian participants)
From 4.10.2021 to 22.10.2021

Registration fee for participants
ARSR members EUR 50
non-members EUR 60
fee for young participants (up to 35 years of age)
ARSR members EUR 30
non-members EUR 40


Bank account:
Account holder: ASOCIATIA ROMÂNĂ DE ȘTIINȚE REGIONALE
IBAN: RO66RNCB0072049702590001
Bank details: BCR - Sucursala sector 1, Calea Victoriei 155
Reference field: RRSA Conference 2021 and Name of Participant.

Please do not forget to send us by email the proof of your payment, at 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. 

Important deadlines:
Abstract submission – 19 September 2021
The confirmation of abstract acceptance– 3 October 2021
Full paper submission – 31 October 2021
The payment of registration fee – 22 October 2021
Posted conference programme & Zoom links – 1 November 2021

Contact persons:
• Cristina Serbanica:  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 
• Amalia Cristescu: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 

Conference on Diversity and Development 21 and 22 August 2021

Special Session on Writing for Journals - Day 1 (Saturday): 21 August 2021

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/99588722828?pwd=QitsNWZLVmF2d3I0UHN1ZUYyalBJdz09

Meeting ID: 995 8872 2828

Passcode: 163488

RSPP Programme Schedule Conference on Diversity and Development

Full programme schedule for the Conference on Diversity and Development to be held on 21 and 22 August 2021 attached.

Tuesday, 10 August 2021 11:00

ERSA2021 Agenda is out!

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ERSA2021 Agenda

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ERSA2021 Programme is out!

ERSA2021 Programme at a glance

> 7 prestigious Keynote lectures

> 3 outstanding round tables (with EU, OECD, POLIMI)

> 100 Special Sessions, 89 General Themes Sessions

> 9 Young Scientists' Sessions and Epainos Paper election

> 676 Presentations from over 50 countries around the world

>> 7 Keynote lectures with

Daniela Jacobs, Tom Brökel, Cesar A. Hidalgo,

Laura Resmini, Andrés Rogríguez-Pose, Rosella Nicolini and Juan R. Cuadrado Roura (ERSA Prize 2021 Winner)

more about the keynote lectures

>> 3 outstanding Round Tables with

·     ERSA – JRC Round Table "Multi-faceted innovation for territorial post-COVID response"

·     OECD Round Table "Green transitions in regions: From COVID-19 to a green and sustainable future"

·     POLIMI Round Table "Justifications and objectives of regional policy under new circumstances: Policy, politics and trade-offs"

more about the Round Tables

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Join us as an Attendee: ERSA Congress is open to anyone interested in attending.

·     ERSA Annual congress is the largest event of regional scientists and practitioners from across the globe!

·     ERSA Congress is a unique platform to share, network, and learn.

·     Benefits of attending include access to the recording of all sessions (Replay after the event)

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