Dear RSAI members,

I hope this email finds you all well.

With the summer season about to start in the Northern Emisphere, the RSAI and its numerous sections all over the world keep running their daily activities.

It also gives me great pleasure to write you to deliver great news. The following four colleagues have been appointed Fellows of the RSAI: 

• Prof. Genevieve Giuliano ( University of Southern California)
• Prof. Budy Resosudarmo (Australian National University)
• Prof. André Torre (University Paris-Saclay)
• Prof. Frank Van Oort (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

The committee in charge of pre-selecting candidatures, made up by this year by Prof. Kyoshi Kobayashi (Chair), Prof. Janice Madden, and Prof. Alessandra Faggian, whom I'd like to thank, received several very good candidatures. The committee suggested to process five of them, and the four names above turned out to pass the threshold for being elected based on the votes by other Fellows. Congratulations to the new Fellows on their outstanding achievement! The RSAI will count on them for mentoring future regional scientists and supporting the growth of the discipline and the association.

Let me also take the chance to send you the latest issue of the RSAI Newsletter (download), skillfully edited by Martijn Smit (University of Utrecht) and Mina Akhavan (Politecnico di Milano). The Newsletter brings you the latest news about the Associations' activities, while also introducing Roberta Capello's experience as an RSAI Fellow, hosting a chapter in  Peter Batey's history of European Regional Science congresses, showcasing an interview to Andreas Diemer, who won the 2021 RSAI Dissertation award, and much more content. I am confident you'll enjoy the read.

Lastly, let me remind you all of the discounts for RSAI members to publish their articles, if accepted, in Open Access format on Papers in Regional Science and Regional Science, Policy and Practice. For the former, Authors face an APC of 3,550 USD/ 2,350 GBP/ 2,950 EUR for every accepted article, but this abates to 1,500 USD/1,000 GBP/1,250 EUR for RSAI members. For RSPP, APCs are equal to 2,550 USD/ 1,700 GBP/ 2,150 EUR for non-members, and 1,500 USD/1,000 GBP/1,250 EUR for RSAI members. This is yet another advantage from being a member of our association.

I thank you all in advance for your attention, and I look forward to seeing many of you soon at one of the many future RSAI events.

Kind regards,

ISSUE INFORMATION

Free Access

Issue Information

Pages: 485-486 | First Published:02 June 2022

INTRODUCTION

Space, time and political economy

Gonçalo Marcelo, Nuno Ornelas Martins, Francisca Guedes de Oliveira

Pages: 487-489 | First Published:02 June 2022

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

The spatial–temporal web of the Inhabited City

Maria Filomena Molder

Pages: 490-502 | First Published:15 December 2021

Space and innovation: A sociological view from below

José Madureira Pinto

Pages: 503-512 | First Published:13 September 2021

Unsatisfying ordinalism: The breach through which happiness (re)entered economics

Gabriel Leite Mota PhD

Pages: 513-528 | First Published:21 October 2021

Timescapes and the vernacular language of Cuba’s popular economies

Oskar Lubiński

Pages: 529-538 | First Published:26 October 2021

Non‐linear internationalization processes in Portugal: Evidence across retail, construction and software development industries

João Vasco Coelho

Pages: 539-559 | First Published:28 September 2021

Sustainable public procurement in Portugal: The case of two public school canteens

Sofia Bizarro, Maria de Fátima Ferreiro

Pages: 560-574 | First Published:23 December 2021

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

Regions’ economic fitness and sectoral labor productivity: Evidence from Turkey

Ibrahim Tuğrul Çınar, Ilhan Korkmaz, Tüzin Baycan

Pages: 575-598 | First Published:31 March 2022

Commuting to work in cities: Bus, car, or train?

Amitrajeet A. Batabyal, Hamid Beladi

Pages: 599-609 | First Published:03 March 2022

Open Access

Linking spatial economics and sequencing economics for the Osaka tourism agglomeration

Akifumi Kuchiki

Pages: 610-626 | First Published:16 September 2021

Celebrities and GreenSphere tourism

Sérgio Nunes, Philip Cooke, Fábio Tomaz

Pages: 627-643 | First Published:13 July 2021

Open Access

Gender differences in weight status and early school leaving in Italy

Adriana Barone, Cristian Barra

Pages: 644-666 | First Published:27 October 2021

Spatiotemporal analysis of regional inflation in an emerging country: The case of Indonesia

Harry Aginta

Pages: 667-688 | First Published:24 April 2022

BOOK REVIEWS

Sen, Amartya. 2021. Home in the world: A memoir. Liveright Publishing Corporation, New York, NY. US$30.00, Hb, pp. 464, ISBN 978‐1‐324‐09161‐5

Amitrajeet A. Batabyal

Pages: 689-690 | First Published:08 April 2022

The Economist's craft: An introduction to research, publishing, and professional development. Michael S. Weisbach, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University press, ISBN 9780691216485

Michael S. Delgado

Pages: 691-693 | First Published:19 April 2022

Dear RSAI members,

I hope this email finds you well.

I am pleased to write you to send you the newest issue of the RSAI Newsletter (download). 

Enjoy the read, and please do not hesitate to get in touch with Martijn (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) and Mina (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) to propose new material for the newsletter.

Kind regards,

Dear colleagues,

The Organizing Committee and the Scientific Committee of the XLVII International Conference on Regional Science (Granada, October 19-21, 2022) would like to inform you about the participation, as keynotes speakers: Andrés Rodríguez-Pose, from London School of Economics and Richard Shearmur, from McGill University – Université de Montréal.

Also remind you that the submission of extended abstracts (of at least 1500 words) or complete papers for all sessions will be open until June 15, 2022, and will be uploaded to the members’ area with the model that you will find here. You can download the abstract template and more information about the congress here.

We look forward to your participation and see you in Granada.

A cordial greeting,

The Organizing Committee

Congratulations to Jouke van Dijk  who is the winner of the 2022 Kohno Prize.

The Jury (Eduardo Haddad, Chair, Lily Kiminami, Yoshiro Higano, and Geoffrey Hewings) would like to propose that the award for 2022 be made to Professor Jouke van Dijk (University of Groningen).

In similar fashion to Professor Kohno, Van Dijk started his involvement with the Dutch section of RSAI during which time he served as co-organizer and member of the LOC of the ERSA meetings in Groningen in 1982, 1994 and 2017. For the decade of the 1990s, he served as Executive Secretary of the Dutch section with the responsibility for organizing two meetings each year. When Professor Juan Cuadrado Roura became President of ERSA in 1995, he proposed that van Dijk be appointed as Executive Secretary of ERSA and the European Organizing Committee (EOC) and he served in this position from 1996-2001. He remained a member of the EOC for all but three years between 1993 and 2019. From 2007-2019 he served as either ERSA or Papers in Regional Science representative on the RSAI Council. During this period, he also served as President of the European Regional Science Association (ERSA) from 2014-2018.

In addition to his section/ERSA/RSAI duties, he also served in an editorial capacity. He was Editor-in-Chief of the Papers in Regional Science, 2007-2012; prior to this, he was the European Editor of Papers in Regional Science, 2005-2007. In 2012, he was appointed as one of the editors of the Springer Regional Science Series Advances in Spatial Science. In these positions, he has helped advance scholarship, especially of younger scholars, to print.

In all of these positions, he worked tirelessly to enhance the quality and participation of sections in ERSA and he managed to enhance the stature of PiRS through his work in soliciting the best papers from conferences and generating a sense among authors that this was a journal of increasing prestige. He has also enhanced RSAI/ERSA’s visibility in the EU DG REGIO division by organizing a lecture series and University workshops at the annual European Week of Regions and Cities. He was also an initiator in promoting the participation of ERSA in the Masterclass for young scholars and University workshops at the annual European Week of Regions and Cities (EWRC, former Open Days) co-organized with EU DG REGIO in Brussels; each year, over 6.000 participants attended from regions all over Europe. In addition, Co-founder and co-organizer of the series of annual International Workshops on ‘Regional, Urban, and Spatial Economics’ (RUSE) in China. He has promoted regional sections within Europe as a member of the Editorial Board Review of Regional Research (Jahrbuch für Regionalwissenschaft) since 2013 and as a member of the International Scientific Board of Investigaciones Regionales, the review of the Spanish Association, since 2014. Further, he has served on juries for prizes, organized congresses, round tables, and well as being an active participant at congresses and meetings, in numerous European sections (French Speaking., German Speaking, Greek, Italian, Spanish, Hungarian, and in the Nordic countries). These are contributions that are often overlooked but turn out to be critical in creating a sense of community among regional scientists.

Over three decades, Professor van Dijk has demonstrated a continuing, sustained commitment to enhancing the organization of regional science in his various leadership capacities. ERSA is now one of the strongest of the multinational organizations within RSAI; prior to COVID, attendance of 800-1,000 at the annual meeting was not unusual. Through his leadership and dedication, Professor van Dijk has made a difference that has promoted and enhanced Regional Science and the Jury feels that he would be a most deserving recipient of the Hirotada Kohno Award for Outstanding Service to Regional Science.