North American Regional Scientists - If you have any materials or announcements to include in the June issue of the NARSC newsletter, please send them to Elizabeth Mack (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) or Ran Wei (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) by May 1. 

This is an alert that we have some remaining assistantships to fund Ph.D. students for study to begin in Fall 2017.

Our program provides interdisciplinary training in a variety of public policies, focusing on urban policy. Our program features a strong training in policy analysis, advanced statistical methods, and substantive policy areas. Students also have the opportunity to learn methodology for big data analytics.

If you have some training in Economics and hold a Masters degree (Public Administration, Political Science, Economics, Geography, or Sociology), apply today for a position in our Fall 2017 cohort.

For information, please contact Dr. Martha Kropf, Interim Director of the Public Policy Ph.D. program at 704-687-7332 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Mediterranean Symposium on Smart City Applications (SCAMS 2017)

It’s a great pleasure to invite you to submit your research paper and attend The Mediterranean Symposium on Smart City Applications (SCAMS 2017)that will be held in Tangier, Morocco from 25 to 27 October 2017.

http://www.medi-ast.org/scams17/index.html

SCAMS 2017, is a forum for scientists,computer scientists, health researchers and industrial engineers to discuss and exchange experimental or theoretical results, novel designs, work-in-progress, experience, case studies, and trend-setting ideas in the area of smart City. 

Smart City is a new approach that covers clean technology and emerging information technology and their application in fields of urban services, domotics, industry, security, education, environment, healthcare, transportation, sustainability, etc

The SCAMS Proceedings will be published by  ACM International Conference Proceedings and will be indexing ThomsonReuter , SCOPUS, DBLP,  Inspec, IET.

All accepted papers will be available inACM Digital Library.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

· Track 1.  Smart Cities.

· Track 2.   Smart Building and Home Automation

· Track 3.   Smart Earth and Smart Agriculture

· Track 4.   Information Technologies and Computer Science

http://www.medi-ast.org/scams17/topics.html

Important Deadlines:

· Paper Submission Deadline   : 15  April 2017

· Notification of Paper Acceptance : 15 June  2017

· Camera Ready Paper Submission : 15 July 2017

· Authors Registration Deadline : 30 July  2017

· Symposium Date    : 25 – 27 October  2017

Submission link :http://www.medi-ast.org/scams17/submission.html

We would like your kindness to forward this Call for Paper to your colleagues/students.

Please email your questions to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Looking forward to meet you in SCAMS 2017, Tangier Morocco.

Sincerely yours,

SCAMS Committee

"Public Policies, Cities and Regions" workshop

December, 14-15, 2017
at GATE Lyon (Ecully)

Topics: Public policies are often closely related to urban and regional issues. Place-based policies such as enterprise zone or industrial cluster policies, but also local public policies, are by nature spatially differentiated. Moreover, many national public policies related to the housing market (e.g. tax incentives for rental investment), land use (e.g. zoning policies) and environment (e.g. protected areas) use delineation rules to target specific types of locations or agents.
The workshop will gather original research papers shedding light on the issues raised by these public policies for urban and regional economies. The workshop welcomes submissions of theoretical and empirical contributions. Accepted papers will be presented over two days and will complement two keynote speakers’ presentations.

Keynote speakers: Nathaniel Baum-Snow (University of Toronto) and Kurt Schmidheiny (University of Basel)

Scientific Committee: Pierre-Philippe Combes (GATE, CNRS), Nelly Exbrayat (GATE, UJM), Laurent Gobillon (Paris School of Economics), Florence Goffette-Nagot (GATE, CNRS), Florian Mayneris (Univ. of Louvain-la-Neuve), Sonia Paty (GATE, Univ. Lyon 2), Frédéric Robert-Nicoud (Univ. of Lausanne), Elisabet Viladecans (Univ. of Barcelona)

Organizing committee: Sylvie Charlot (GATE, Univ. Lyon 2), Pierre-Philippe Combes (GATE, CNRS), Sylvie Démurger (GATE, CNRS), Nelly Exbrayat (GATE, UJM), Florence Goffette-Nagot (GATE, CNRS), Sonia Paty (GATE, Univ. Lyon 2)

Deadline for submissions: September 15, 2017.

Workshop webpage: https://www.gate.cnrs.fr/ppcr

Dear All,

Thanks for all of your support and the supportive expressions you shared here after the death of Dr. Raymond Florax. The presence of so many of his former and current students as well as colleagues from around the world at Raymond's memorial service was a tremendous expression of his lasting impact on our lives. 

We have established a fund to honor Raymond. The proceeds of the endowment will fund faculty and graduate student exchanges between the Purdue Department of Agricultural Economics and universities in The Netherlands with preference given to visits to and from the Vrie University where Raymond continued to maintain a strong partnership. In fact, he brokered and encouraged several such exchanges during his time on the Purdue faculty. We discussed the various things that Raymond was passionate about and helping graduate students and young professionals build their skills and network continued to come to the top of the list. I hope that you all will help us honor Raymond in this way. If we all give a bit then we can reach the minimum goal of $25,000 to endow the fund. Here is a link (http://giving.purdue.edu/FloraxMemorial) where you can make online contributions. You can always send a check or money order to us here at Purdue with a note directing it to the Dr. Raymond J.G.M. Memorial Exchange Fund. Thanks for your continued support and kindness.

Sincerely,

Dr. Ken Foster, PhD
Professor and Head|Department of Agricultural Economics |Purdue University
Krannert Building | Room 653 | 403 W. State St. |West Lafayette, IN 47907-2056
Phone: 765-494-4191 | Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | Website: www.agecon.purdue.edu

Goa in India will host the RSAI World Congress of 2018. Regional Science Association of India is collaborating with Birla Institute of Technology to organise this event under the aegis of RSA International. The choice of India as the destination for the World Congress is extremely significant in the context of impacts of globalisation in South Asia. The purpose of this Congress is to create an opportunity for bridging the networks established by the supra-regional organizations and to provide a scientifically and socially attractive event for scholars and postgraduate students and from all parts of the world. 

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Editor-in-Chief

Tomaz Ponce Dentinho, University of Azores, Portugal

Editors

Patricio Aroca, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Chile

Jaime Bonet, Banco de la Republica de Colombia, Colombia

Eduardo Haddad, Departamento de Economia – FEA-USP, Brazil

Neil Reid, The University of Toledo, USA

Vicente Royuela, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain

Emmanouil Tranos, University of Birmingham, UK

Book Review Editor

Tiago Freire, University of Canberra, Australia

Editorial Board

Abdellatif Khattabi, Ecole Nationale Forestière d'Ingénieurs, Morocco

Ana Condeço Melhorado, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain

André Torre, National Institute for Agronomic Research, France

Andrea Szekely, University of Szeged, Hungary

Ari Kuncoro, University of Indonesia, Indonesia

Budy Resosudarmo, The Australian National University, Australia

Cai Matang, Peking University, China

Carlos Azzoni, University of S. Paulo, Brazil

Daniela Constantin, Academy of Economic Studies of Bucharest, Romania

Elisabeth Mack, Michigan State University, USA

Eveline Van Leeuwen, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Francisco Carballo Cruz, University of Minho, Portugal

Graham Clarke, University of Leeds, UK

Jungyul Sohn, Seoul National University, Korea

Karima Kourtit, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

Lewis Dijkstra, European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Italy

Lília Blades, UN-HABITAT (United Nation Human Settlements Programme), USA

Lívia Madureira, University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, Portugal

Luis Galvis, Banco de la república, Colombia

Nancy Lozano, World Bank, USA

Nimesh Salike, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China

Paolo Veneri, OECD, France

Robyn Eversole, University of Tasmania, Australia

Sumana Bandyopadhyay, University of Calcutta, India

Sutee Anantsuksomsri, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

Tüzin Baycan, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey

Yang Kaizhong, Peking University, China

Yannis Psycharis, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens, Greece

Yoshiro Higano, University of Tsukuba, Japan

Call for applications
The Peter Nijkamp Research Encouragement Award

The award recognizes the outstanding potential of a mid-career researcher from a nation in the developing world in which there is a section of RSAI. Conditions for applications are:
- No more than 10 years from the doctoral qualification (by Dec 31, 2017);
- Live in developing nations continuously for at least three years as at Dec 31, 2017;
- Be a member of RSAI;
- Submit a written formal research paper on a topic in Regional Science;
- Submit an updated version of CV

Nominees will be judged in part on the evaluation of the paper and in part on an evaluation of the research track record and performance (CV).

The winner(s) will receive support, up to 750 Euro, to participate in a Supra-Regional meeting or in the World Congress, at which the paper will be presented.

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

Deadline: November 30, 2017
(An eligible mid-career researcher from an eligible developing nation may submit a paper and their CV to the RSAI Executive Secretary (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) for consideration for the Award at any time up to the end of November of that year)

The Regional Science Association International (RSAI) invites submissions for the annual competition for the Best Doctoral Dissertation in Regional Science. Regional science is an interdisciplinary field concerned with theory, method, and application of regional, urban and rural, geographic and spatial investigations and analyses.

The winner will be decided by the Selection Committee and will receive a cash award of 750 Euros. Award announcements will be made at the North American Meetings of the RSAI, where participants in the competition are strongly encouraged to be present. The Selection Committee reserves the right to not make an award. Decisions made by the Selection Committee are final.

Eligibility:

1. A dissertation completed in any Ph.D. program in any country is eligible,
2. A dissertation written in English,
3. A dissertation successfully defended, with official graduation date between July 1^st 2016 and June 30^th 2017,
4. A dissertation on a single or multiple general regional science topics. The Selection Committee reserves the right to determine whether a dissertation is relevant to the field of regional science. 

Application (in either PDF or MS Word format):

1. A two-page curriculum vita;
2. A letter of support and nomination from the major professor (also known as dissertation committee chairperson or supervisor) on stationary paper and with signature. The letter should clearly explain the dissertation’s originality and contributions to the field of regional science;
3. The dissertation.

Applications should be submitted electrically by July 31, 2017 to the Selection Committee Chair, Dr. Laurie Schintler (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.). Large submissions can be uploaded to a cloud file-sharing site.