1. Goal
The Award honors and thanks a member of the RSAI who has provided long and
outstanding service to the development and organization of Regional Science and to the
development and management of RSAI at the International and/or Supra-Regional,
including an outstanding contribution to the development of Regional Science at the
Local Section level.

2. The Award

2.1 The Award is established to recognize and honour the outstanding service
contribution Professor Hirotada Kohno has made to the Regional Science community,
and especially his role in the development of PRSCO and the Japan Section of RSAI.

2.2 The Award recognizes outstanding service to the RSAI has incorporated service
extending beyond the local level and which incorporates service of an international
nature.

2.3 No more than two (2) Awards may be given in any one calendar year.

2.4 Awards will be presented at one of the three RSAI super-regional
meetings/conferences (NARSC, ERSA, PRSCO) or at the RSAI World Congress.

3. Nomination Process

3.1 In the last quarter of each calendar year, the RSAI Executive Director will contact
the RSAI Council, the Councils/Boards of NARSC, ERSA and PRSCO, and the
Councils/Boards of all affiliated RSAI Sections, calling for written nominations of
potential candidates for the Hirotada Kohno Award for Outstanding Service to the RSAI.

3.2 A nomination of a candidate for consideration for the Award must be made in writing
by the President and/or Secretary and/or Executive Officer of an official body within
RSAI - that is, the RSAI itself; NARSC, ERSA, PRSCO; or a Section of RSAI.

3.2 A written nomination of a candidate for consideration for the Award must include a
detailed statement of the nature of the service contribution a candidate has made to
RSAI. It must explain how and why that service contribution of the nominee meets the
goal of the Award. It should contain testimonials from at least three persons who have
held high office and/or currently hold high office in the organization within RSAI that is
making the nomination. It must be demonstrated that the long and outstanding service
of the nominee extends beyond the local Section of RSAI in the case where a Section of
RSAI is initiating the nomination.

3.3 Nominations for the Award are to close by the end of January the following calendar
year.

4. Jury and Process for Recommending Awardees

4.1 In the last quarter of each year, a four person Jury will be named by the RSAI
Council to consider nominations for the H. Kohno Award for Outstanding Service to the
RSAI.

4.2 The Jury shall comprise the current RSAI President, one current member of the RSAI
Council, and two Past Presidents of the RSAI.

4.3 The Jury will convene (in person and/or by email/teleconference) after January in
the following calendar year.

4.4 The Jury will evaluate the nominations received and passed onto it by the RSAI
Executive Director. The Jury will submit its recommendation(s) to the RSAI Executive
Director by the end of March in that year.

4.5 The recommendation will then be communicated by the RSAI Executive Director to
the members of the RSAI Council, with Members of the Council having two weeks in
which to inform the Executive Director of any dissent they may have regarding the
recommendation.

4.6 If more that one-third of Council members expresses their dissent regarding a
recommendation for the Award, then the recommendation will lapse.

4.7 The President and/or the Executive Director of RSAI shall inform the person(s)
recommended for the Award before the end of June in that calendar year. The
awardee(s) will be invited to attend one of the Supra-Regional (NARSC, ERSA, PRSCO)
meetings or the RSAI World Congress to receive the Award.

RSAI is delighted to announce the winner of the 1st Kohno Prize is Lay Gibson of Arizona State University for his many contributions to RSAI, PRSCO and the Western Regional Science Association. Congratulations Lay!

1. Goal
The Award recognizes annually a regional science scholar or scholars who have
demonstrated innovation and excellence in Regional Science research through the
publication of a paper of outstanding merit in Papers in Regional Science.

2. The Award

2.1 The award is established to recognize and honour the outstanding career and
contribution of Professor Martin Beckmann, an internationally recognized regional
scientist and economist of outstanding merit, and who is a foundation fellow of the
RSAI.

2.2 The Award is made annually for the best paper published in the Issues comprising
an annual Volume of Papers in Regional Science.

2.3 Normally no more that one paper may be selected from an annual Volume of Papers
in Regional Science, but in exceptional circumstances two (2) papers may be selected
for the Award.

2.3 A paper selected for the Award must demonstrate innovation and excellent in
research in regional science.

2.4 The Award carries a cash prize of the equivalent of 500 pounds stirling.

3. Jury and Process for Recommending the Award

3.1 In the first quarter of each year, the three (3) Editors of Papers in Regional Science
will convene in person and/or by email and /or by teleconference to review the papers
published in the Volume of Papers in Regional Science in the previous year and choose a
short list of up to five (5) papers which they deem as suitable for consideration for the
Martin Beckmann Annual Award for the Best Paper in Papers in Regional Science.

3.2 The Editor-in Chief of Papers in Regional Science will then send the papers for
appraisal to a Jury comprising the Editor-in Chief and three (3) Fellows of RSAI chosen
by the Editor-in-Chief of Papers in Regional Science in consultation with the RSAI
President.

3.3 The Jury will appraise and rank the papers during February that year, and in March
a meeting of the Jury will be convened by the Editor-in Chief of papers in Regional
Science (meeting in person and/or by email/teleconference) in March to select the paper
or papers to receive the Award.

3.4 The Editor-in-Chief of Papers in Regional Science will inform the Executive Director
of RSAI of the decision of the Jury, and the Executive Director of RSAI will inform the
recipient(s) of the Award.

3.5 The Awardee(s) will be invited to attend one of the Supra-Regional (NARSC, ERSA,
PRSCO) meetings or the RSAI World Congress to receive the Award. 

Previous winners:

• 2008 J. Paul Elhorst and Annette S. Zeilstra
• 2007 Bernie Fingleton and Enrique López-Bazo

1 Goal
The Award recognizes the outstanding potential of an early career researcher from a
nation in the developing world and in which there is a formal Section of RSAI, and seeks
to encourage the development of the early career scholar as a high quality researcher in
the field of Regional Science and as a participant in the international Regional Science
community.

2 The Award and Eligibility

2.1 The Award is established to recognize and honour the outstanding contribution
Professor Peter Nijkamp, a Fellow of RSAI and an outstanding regional science
researcher, has made to the encouragement and involvement of young scholars in
regional Science research and activities.

2.1 The Award recognizes the potential of outstanding scholarship in Regional Science in
an early career researcher working in a developing nation where there is a Section of
RSAI.

2.2 Each year the RSAI Council will nominate a list of countries which it designates as a
developing nation, and in which there is a Section of RSAI, for the purpose of eligibility
for the purpose of the Award.

2.3 Eligibility to apply for the Award is restricted to early career researchers, defined as
person in full time employment in either a teaching or a research position in a university
or research institution in a developing nation in which there is a member section of
RSAI, and who has held their doctoral qualification for no mote than seven (7) years as
at the 31 December in the year in which they apply for the Award.

2.4 An applicant for the Award must have been living in that or another developing
nation continuously for at least the three year period from the 31 December of the year
in which the application for the Award is made.

2.5 An applicant for the Award must be a member of RSAI.

2.6 The Award is made for what is judged in part on an evaluation of the quality of a
written formal research paper on a topic in Regional Science, formatted in accordance
with the requirements for submitting a paper Papers in Regional Science, and in part on
an evaluation of the research track record and performance of the applicant as
demonstrated in a full Curriculum Vitae.

2.7 RSAI will pay the costs of the winner of the Award to attend a meeting of one of the
Supra-Regional organizations in RSAI (NARSC,ERSA, PRSCO) or the RSAI World
Congress, participate in the conference, present paper at that meeting, and have the
paper submitted for review and potential publication in Papers in Regional Science. The
costs to be met by RSAI are an advance purchase air fare, conference registration, and
accommodation at the conference.

2.8 A winner of the Award will be presented with a certificate at the RSAI meeting at
which the winner attends and presents the winning paper.

2.9 Up to two (2) Awards may be made in any one year.

3. Nomination Process

3.1 By April each year the Executive Director will contact members of RSAI and post on
the RSAI website a notice calling for applications for the Peter Nijkamp RSAI Research
Encouragement Award for an Early Career Scholar from a Developing Country Award.

3.1 An eligible early career researcher from an eligible developing nation may submit a
paper and their CV to the RSAI Executive Secretary for consideration for the Award at
any time up to the end of November of that year.

3.2 An applicant for the Award must provide the RSAI Executive Director with an
electronic copy of a paper, formatted in accordance with the requirements for
submitting a manuscript to Papers in Regional Science, that is intended to be presented
or which has been accepted for presentation to a forthcoming NARSC, ERSA or PRSCO
conference or the RSAI World Congress.

3.3 In addition, an applicant for the Award must provide the RSAI Executive Director
with an electronic copy of their up-to-date CV.

4. Jury and Process for Recommending the Award

4.1 In the last quarter of each year, a four person Jury will be named by the RSAI
Council to consider the nominations for the Peter Nijkamp RSAI Research
Encouragement Award for an Early Career Scholar from a Developing Country.

4.2 The Jury will comprise the Immediate Past-President of RSAI as Chair, an Editor of
Papers in Regional Science, and two Fellows of RSAI.

4.3 The Jury will convene (in person and/or by email/teleconference) after 1 January in
the following calendar year.

4.4 The Jury will evaluate the applications received and passed onto it by the RSAI
Executive Director. The Jury will submit its recommendation(s) to the RSAI Executive
Director by the end of February in that year

4.5 The RSAI Executive Secretary will inform the winner(s) of the Award and make
arrangements for their travel to the Supra-Regional (NARSC, ERSA, PRSCO) meeting or
the RSAI World Congress at which the paper will be presented.

4.5 The Award must be taken up and the winner(s) attend the conference nominated
during that year or the Award will lapse.

4.6 The Award will be presented to the Awardee(s) at the meeting at which the paper is
presented by the Awardee(s)

The Association invites the submission of dissertations completed in 2008 in the field of Regional Science to the annual competition.

To apply, send an executive summary electronically no later than June 1, 2009 to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Two copies of the dissertation and a letter of nomination from the research supervisor should follow by regular mail, to be received no later than July 1, 2009. Send all submissions to Professor Gunther Maier, Institute for Regional Development and Environment, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Augasse 2-6, A-1090 Vienna, Austria. The dissertations should be in finished form and professionally presented. A CD with a PDF copy of the dissertation may be included.

• In 2008 the winner of the RSAI dissertation prize was Maarten Bosker of Groningen University. Runner-up was Nancy Lozano of Arizona State University. Congratulations to both!
• The RSAI presented its annual Dissertation Competition award at the 2006 North American meetings in Toronto to Dr. Eric Delmelle for his thesis entitled “Optimization of Second-Phase Spatial Sampling Using Auxiliary Information.” Dr. Delmelle received his Doctorate from the State University of New York at Buffalo, and was supervised by Prof. Peter Rogerson. Honorable Mentions were awarded to Drs. Georgeanne Artz (PhD: University of Iowa) and Julie Hwang (PhD: SUNY at Buffalo).
• The RSAI presented its annual Dissertation Competition award at the 2005 North American meetings in Las Vegas to Dr. Ikuho YamadaAnalysis of Spatial Clusters when the Phenomenon is Constrained by a Network Space". Dr. Yamada received her Doctorate from the State University of New York at Buffalo, and was supervised by Prof. Jean-Claude Thill. for her work "
• Dr. Sjoerd Beugelsdijk received the 2004 RSAI dissertation competition award for his work "Culture and Economic Development." Dr. Beugelsdijk received his Doctorate from Tiburg University and was supervised by Professor Noorderhaven.
• Dr. Jun Koo received the 2003 dissertation competition award for his work "When Technology Spillovers Are Localized: Importance of Regional and Industrial Attributes." Dr. Koo received his Doctorate from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and was supervised by Professor Harvey Goldstein. Koo is now at Cleveland State University.
• Dr. Adelheid Holl received the 2002 dissertation competition award for her work entitled "Transport Infrastructure in Lagging European Regions."

The Regional Science Association was founded in 1954 to provide intellectual leadership in the study of social, economic, political and behavioral phenomena with a spatial dimension. Consequently, the Association brings together scholars from a large number of fields, including economics, geography, urban and regional planning, civil engineering, sociology, finance and political science. Members are found in academic institutions, in government, in consulting organizations and a variety of private firms. In 1990, the Association changed its organizational structure to better reflect the growth and development of the field; the Regional Science Association International now serves as an umbrella organization overseeing three major superregional organizations in North America, Europe and the Pacific.

The main objectives of the Association are the fostering of exchange of ideas and the promotion of studies focusing on the region, including the utilization of tools, methods and theoretical frameworks, specifically designed for regional analysis as well as concept, procedures and analytical techniques of the various social and other sciences. These objectives are supported through the acquaintance and discussion among its members and with scholars in related fields, by the encouragement of publication of scholarly studies and by performing services to aid the advancement of its members and the field of regional science. For more information contact the Regional Science Association International.

Traditionally, the RSAI honored its leading members through their election to the office of President. This practice changed in 1990, when the President became principally a leadership position in the Association. In 1978, the Association honored its founder, Professor Walter Isard, by establishing the Founder's Medal. Today, this award remains the only honor conveyed by the Association as a whole, although its three supraregional organizations have established annual awards.

The Founder's Medal was established to recognize lifetime contributions to the field of Regional Science and to the Association. The criteria established for the award are as follows:

• The recipient should be a senior scholar who has contributed in an important way to the field of Regional Science in a scholarly sense;

• The recipient should have been active in the RSAI for a sustained period, but not necessarily active at the time of the award; also, the award is not given posthumously;

• The recipient should be a person with whom many members can identify; his/her contributions could be a major work in one area or many works in several areas;

• The contribution need not be limited to one type of contribution; it might be theory, method or policy, for example;

• It is recognized that the native country and language of scholars affect the extent to which they are known by the membership, and an effort should be made to take this into account.

The recipients of the Founder's Medal:

1. Walter Isard, Professor of Economics, Regional Science and Peace Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; in 1979, Professor Isard became Professor of Economics (Regional Science and Peace Science), Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA; awarded in 1978 at the North American Meetings, Chicago.

2. Martin J. Beckmann, Professor of Economics, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA, and Professor of Applied Mathematics (Operations Research), Technical University, Munich, Germany; awarded in 1983 at the North American Meetings, Chicago.

3. William Alonso, Saltonstall Professor of Population Policy, Center for Population Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA; awarded in 1991 at the North American Meetings, New Orleans (deceased, 1999).

4. Jean H. P. Paelinck, Professor Emeritus of Economics, Rotterdam School of Economics, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, the Netherlands; awarded in 1996 at the World Congress, Tokyo.

5. David E. Boyce, Professor of Transportation and Regional Science, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA; awarded in 2000 at the World Congress, Lugano.

6. Peter Nijkamp, Chair and Professor of Regional and Urban Economics and Economic Geography, Free University, Amsterdam, and President of the governing board of the Netherlands Research Council; awarded in 2004 at the World Congress, Port Elizabeth

7. Antoine Bailly, Born in 1944, Antoine Bailly is professor emeritus of economic geography at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. He is the president of the IGU Applied Geography Commission, of the Scientific Committee of the INRA PSDR (France) and of the Forum Sante Gesundheit (Switzerland). He was presented with the Founder's medal at ERSA conference Liverpool, August 2008.

RSAI members are invited to nominate distinguished scholars for consideration to become 2010 Fellows of RSAI. The nomination process can be initiated by any member of RSAI and consists of a letter of nomination, detailing the scientific merit and contribution of the nominee and an up to date curriculum vitae. Current Fellows are not allowed to submit nominations. To ensure full consideration by the committee, these materials should be provided in electronic format (pdf preferred) by January 31, 2010 to Geoffrey Hewings, Chair 2010 Fellows Election Committee at: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

In 2001, the RSAI Council initiated the RSAI Fellows Award to honor a select group of members of the Association who have made important scholarly and research contributions to the field of regional science. The inaugural Fellows were the living recipients of the Founder's Medal at that time:

• Walter Isard, Cornell University, USA
• Martin Beckmann, Brown University, USA and Technical University of Munich, Germany
• Jean Paelinck, Erasmus University, NETHERLANDS
• David Boyce, Northwestern University, USA

In 2003, four Fellows were elected by the inaugural Fellows, and recognized at the 50th North American Meetings in Philadelphia:

• Masahisa Fujita, Kyoto University, JAPAN
• Geoffrey J. D. Hewings, University of Illinois, Urbana, USA
• Tony E. Smith, University of Pennsylvania, USA
• Jacques Thisse, Catholic University of Louvain, BELGIUM

In 2004, four Fellows were elected, and recognized at the 51st North American Meetings at Seattle:

• Luc Anselin, University of Illinois, Urbana, USA
• J. Vernon Henderson, Brown University, USA
• Peter Nijkamp, Erasmus University, NETHERLANDS
• John M. Quigley, University of California, Berkeley, USA

In 2005, five members of the RSAI were honored at the 52nd North American Meetings at Las Vegas:

• Marcus Berliant, Washington University in Saint Louis, USA
• Jan K. Brueckner, University of California, Irvine, USA
• Arthur Getis, San Diego State University, USA
• David Pines, Tel-Aviv University, ISRAEL
• Karen R. Polenske, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

In 2006, ten new Fellows of the RSAI were honored at the North American Meetings for a world-wide total of 27 from six disciplines and eight countries. They are:

• Alex Anas, SUNY Buffalo, USA
• Richard Arnott, Boston College, USA
• Peter Batey, University of Liverpool, UK
• Manfred M. Fischer, University of Vienna, AUSTRIA
• Michael J. Greenwood, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
• Kingsley Haynes, George Mason University, USA
• Tschango John Kim, University of Illinois, USA
• Ann Markusen, University of Minnesota, USA
• John Parr, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK
• Kenneth A. Small, University of California, Irvine, USA

In 2007, five new Fellows of the RSAI were honored at the North American Meetings for a world-wide total of 32 from six disciplines and eight countries. They are:

• Yoshitsugu Kanemoto, University of Tokyo, JAPAN
• Harry H. Kelejian, University of Maryland, USA
• Anna Nagurney, University of Massachusetts, USA
• Yorgos Y. Papageorgiou, McMaster University, CANADA
• Alan Wilson, University College London, England, UK

In 2008, seven new Fellows of the RSAI were honored. They are:

• T.R.Lakshmanan, University of Boston
• Daniel McMillen, University of Illinois at Chicago
• John McDonald, University of Illinois at Chicago
• Jan Oosterhaven, University of Groningen
• Harry W. Richardson, University of Southern California
• Roger Stough, George Mason University
• Takatoshi Tabuchi, University of Tokyo

RSAI send its congratulations to the new set of 2009 Fellows:

• Antoine Bailly
• Richard Church
• Bernard Fingleton
• Reginald Golledge
• Peter Gordon
• Daniel Griffith
• Keith Ihlanfeldt
• James LeSage
• Janice Madden
• Piet Rietveld
• Anthony Venables