Dear NECTAR colleagues,

Due to the travel restrictions and general uncertainty related to covid-19, the organizers of the workshop "Smart Transport for Sustainable Tourism" have  decided to postpone it to September 12-14 (Évora, Portugal). 

See the new call attached.

Best regards

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Ana Condeço-Melhorado

NECTAR Secretary

https://www.nectar-eu.eu/

Call for Papers and Special Session Proposals

The APDR invite regional scientists, economists, economic geographers, urban planners, policy makers, and researchers of related disciplines to participate in the 29th APDR Congress with the theme "Islands and peripheral territories: challenges in a moving geography and changing "climate" patterns" that will be held from 29 to 30 of June, 2022, at University of Madeira (Colégio dos Jesuítas), Funchal, Madeira.

Islands economies (and peripheral areas in general) have been coping with a number of challenging issues, notably the overdependence on a few key sectors such as the tourism industry and an oversized and over subsidized public administration sector. To a certain extent, islands economies can be considered as a success story, because they succeed in defined the parameters of the overall image and political discourse being conveyed abroad by the local government and ONG at the international fora. However, the current trends in terms of climate change, natural disasters, and reduced mobility, change of the epicentre of the global economy from the North Hemisphere to the Pacific Basin and anti-globalization voices put the current narrative under pressure. A new paradigm is needed to provide a new understanding to the challenges faced by such regions. The overall aim of this conference is to bring ideas, theoretical approaches and examples of potential solutions.

The call for papers and Special Session Proposals are open and your participation is very welcome!

Regular Sessions:

Deadline for Special Session proposals: March 13, 2022. Proposals should be sent by email to the secretariat of the Congress (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

Deadline for Abstracts submissions: May 8, 2022. Authors should submit their abstracts through online submission system by following the link https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/APDR2022.

All information at the congress website: http://www.apdr.pt/congresso/2022

Looking forward to meeting you in Funchal!

The Organizing Committee and the Board of APDR 29th APDR Congress

Regional Science Policy & Practice (RSPP)

Call for papers for RSPP Special Issue on Pathbreaking trajectories: Socio-economic and Institutional de-peripheralization of marginal areas

In recent decades, economic and political inequalities between different macro-areas of the world have increased. Moreover, spatial inequalities within macro-areas have also grown. In this scenario, the relations between economy-politics-society at the local level have become more kaleidoscopic and entropic than in the second half of 20th Century.

Against this background, new scholarly and policy attention has been devoted to peripheral, marginal, or ‘left-behind’ areas, i.e., those territories in which the economy is struggling, institutions are producing vicious lock-in type cycles, social elites are strengthening themselves through extractive and appropriative orientations towards public goods, and de-anthropization and depopulation are growing. At the same time, it becomes urgent to investigate further the reverse processes, i.e., under what circumstances peripheral areas can extract themselves – at least partly – from their marginality.

The time is, indeed, ripe to solicit a comprehensive and in-depth international examination of a counterintuitive and unexpected puzzle: what are the economic, social and institutional mechanisms that make it possible for peripheral areas to regain centrality and vitality unexpectedly, even in a short time span?

This special issue aims to collect contributions concerning these unexpected phenomena of pathbreaking trajectories that is the economic and institutional de-peripheralization of marginal areas. To this end, we intend to bring together scientific contributions from interconnected research fields mainly related to geography, sociology, political science and public policy, political economy, and anthropology – shedding new light on the processes that the de-peripheralization of marginal areas rely upon. This reasoning is based on a general assumption according to which simple geographic features do not determine per se socio-spatial divisions and peripheralization. Peripheral areas are not natural; they emerge as a result of (not neutral) processes that imply hierarchical and power relationships. This has been emerging in a contradictory scenario. The world is increasingly global, but balkanized nonetheless; suffice it to say that new fractures between Northern and Southern Europe have occurred, intersecting with those between East and West Europe; North America-Central America; Rural and urban China, etc.

In other words, peripheral spaces are produced; they can be the outcomes of more or less intentional construction processes pertaining to institutional and political assets, relational patterns and social norms, and the unequal allocation of economic resources. It therefore becomes essential to observe how and if multidimensional socio-economic changes may occur within peripheral areas deconstructing their marginality. In the literature, the attempt of demarginalization of peripheral areas have been often analyzed with respect to top-down initiatives; that is initiatives coming from political center(s) and directed towards peripheries (i.e., development aid programs, exogenous investments, national and international cooperation to support disadvantaged places, etc.). By contrast, this Special Issue intends to systematize and promote those studies that assume an internal point of view to peripheral areas, focusing on autonomous dynamics that are mainly endogenous to those contexts.

Strictly speaking, we invite papers including, but not limited to, contributions on the following aspects:

1. Institutional changes making a given area or region less marginal. These dynamics occur through the displacement of institutional assets or their more or less intentional adaptation/conversion to some shifts of the socio-economic Therefore, we are soliciting papers that analyze the mechanisms leading to the formation in peripheral areas of political economy structures overcoming previous consolidated weaknesses so that the institutional assets become more robust.
2. Collective actions and 'self-governance' processes at the local level. Here we refer to papers investigating the determinants of the emergence in peripheral areas of “social molecules or groups” enhancing the governing of common and public goods that can help to enlarge social well-being and reduce economic In this respect, investigations are relevant about different types of government and production of ‘common goods’ emerging from below that assert themselves as local resistance entities against hegemonic forms of
3. Changes in the relational networks of elite groups. It can be said that how elites are interconnected internally and tied to economic and political spheres vary in different In this respect, marginal areas are often characterized by: i) restricted and mutually disconnected elite circles, with a predatory orientation, thus subjugating the economic and political spheres; ii) elite networks that can penetrate politics and economics circles, so to establish mutual dependence and patronage patterns of resource Hence, it is relevant to consider investigations reconstructing the dynamics through which relational patterns of the elites that are less hostile towards the general interest can be established. More precisely, we refer to papers investigating how and if elite networks marked by “embedded autonomy” – which favor a developmental orientation from the State, links between economy-politics-society in the light of mutual independence – occur.
4. Economic renewal and innovation. A way through which peripheral areas redeem themselves concerns the economic renewal of abandoned industrial sectors and spaces, the new emergence of craftsmanship sectors, and other types of economic Reorientations that result in lasting development processes are rare and difficult to To understand success cases in the light of examples of failure, there needs to be empirical investigations on how the strategies of political economies support the formation of new relational patterns between the actors of innovation and the different institutions at the spatial level. Also, evidence is needed on where and how spontaneous dynamics of economic renewal or industrial reconversion or revitalization emerge. Hence, the demarginalization processes of peripheries re-orienting their development path is a way to observe the social and political/institutional re-embedding of economic activities.

We invite papers from a range of perspectives, different disciplines, and from around the world. Contributions combining empirical investigations well framed in clear conceptual frameworks are well- suited for the Special Issue. Comparative papers suggesting some policy orientations will be also highly appreciated.

Authors are invited to submit an abstract by the 15th of April 2022 to Luca Storti (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.), Giulia Urso (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) and Neil Reid (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.). Abstracts should be between 250 and 500 words in length. We will inform everyone on or around May 1, 2022, as to whether their abstract has been accepted for the special issue. Full papers are expected by 1st  December 2022, and publication expected in fall 2023, following the peer review process.

Submission of complete papers

to: https://rsaiconnect.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/17577802, at the submission add in the cover letter that is for the Special Issue on: Pathbreaking trajectories: Socio-economic and Institutional de-peripheralization of marginal areas

Join us for the 61st Annual Meeting of the Southern Regional Science Association at the Sheraton Austin Hotel at the Capitol April 7-9, 2022 

Submit Individual Abstracts and Organized Sessions by February 1st at www.srsa.org 

Upcoming Deadlines 

Early Bird Registration Discount: February 1st 

Moriarty Graduate Student Paper Award: February 15th 

William H. Miernyk Research Excellence Medal: February 24th

Additional information can be found at 2022 SRSA Conference Website 

Dear RSAI members,

I hope this email finds you well.

The new year starts with yet another initiative from the Association, promoted by its President, Prof. Eduardo Haddad. The RSAI is happy to announce the first edition of the RSAI Film Festival!

If you are a Regional Science enthusiast, join the “Space Odyssey International Film Festival” and share your passion to our discipline. You can choose one of the four awards categories to address for a wide audience of non-specialists different aspects of Regional Science:

My research in Regional Science: Let us learn about your research! You could focus on the results of a specific paper, your thesis or dissertation, or even an ongoing research project or idea. Why not telling us about your preferred method and how you use it to understand regional science topics? It is your call!

What is Regional Science?: Can you answer this question by explaining to a broader audience what Regional Science is about? Or do you prefer addressing it to an initiated community? In any case, there are many people eager to learn what we do. Let them know!

Regional Science applications in the Global South: Spatial, interregional, and regional analytic approaches can be used and, if necessary, adapted, to realize much more probing attacks on regional and spatial problems in the developing world. Can you share specific case studies and/or applications of Regional Science methods to countries/regions in the Global South?

Regional Science sections and centers around the globe: Are you a proud member of a national section? Are you part of a research group engaged in the field of Regional Science? Why don’t you share the information about your section or research center? We bet many people in our community would benefit from that!

Check the rules of the Space Odyssey here.

We look forward to watching your movies soon,

Kind regards,

It is a pleasure to inform you that the issue n. 60 (January 2022) of our journal (Revista Portuguesa de Estudos Regionais / Portuguese Review of Regional Studies) is now available online. I also want to inform you that the journal has now a new website.

You can accede to the issue and the new website using the following link:

https://www.review-rper.com/index.php/rper/issue/view/60

As we can check, this issue is entirely devoted to the Pandemic CONVID-19 Impacts and has as Guest-Editors María de la Cruz del Río Rama, José Álvarez García and Amador Durán Sánchez, from two universities in Spain.

Thank you for contributing to the success of the journal. We will go on counting on you!

Best regards,

J. Cadima Ribeiro

Editor-in-Chief of RPER

We are pleased to inform you that a new issue of the Regional Statistics has been released and now it’s avaiable online.

https://www.ksh.hu/terstat_eng_current_issue

REGIONAL STATISTICS, 2022, VOL 12, No 1.

STUDIES

Judit Kapas: Has COVID-19 caused a change in the dynamics of  the unemployment rate? The case of North America and continental Europe

https://www.ksh.hu/statszemle_archive/regstat/2022/2022_01/rs120107.pdf

Katalin Antalóczy – Imre Birizdó – Magdolna Sass: Local investment promotion in a Hungarian  medium-sized town and the implications of  the COVID pandemic

https://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2021/rs120104.pdf

Evelyn Calispa Aguilar: Regional systems of entrepreneurship in 2017–2018: An empirical study in selected regions of  South America

https://www.ksh.hu/statszemle_archive/regstat/2022/2022_01/rs120103.pdf

Loránt Pregi – Ladislav Novotný: Impact of migration and natural reproduction on  the development of the Slovak–Hungarian ethnic boundary in eastern Slovakia, 1991–2018

https://www.ksh.hu/statszemle_archive/regstat/2022/2022_01/rs120102.pdf

Kostas Rontos –Michail Papazoglou –  Maria-Eleni Syrmali – Adele Sateriano: Towards the eastern gate to Europe:  Factors shaping perceptions and attitudes towards migrants in Lesvos Island (Greece), 2016

https://www.ksh.hu/statszemle_archive/regstat/2022/2022_01/rs120105.pdf

Dávid Sümeghy: Halo effect of diversification and polarization, and  the role of relative deprivation based on  the 2018 Swedish parliamentary elections results

https://www.ksh.hu/statszemle_archive/regstat/2022/2022_01/rs120106.pdf

Ngo Thai Hung: Return equicorrelation and dynamic spillovers between Central and Eastern European, and  World*1stock markets, 2010–2019

https://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2021/rs120108.pdf

Mohammad M. Jaber: Analysis of selected economic factor impacts on  CO2 emissions intensity:  A case study from Jordan, 1990–2015

https://www.ksh.hu/statszemle_archive/regstat/2022/2022_01/rs120101.pdf 

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Regional Science Policy & Practice (RSPP)

Call for papers for RSPP Special Issue on Population imbalances in Europe

Edited by

Prof. Rubén Garrido Yserte (University of Alcalá, Director)

Prof. Juan R. Cuadrado Roura (University of Alcalá, Jean Monnet Chair)

Associated to Papers presented in the

SETTLE International Congress: “Population imbalances in Europe”

This Congress is part of an ERASMUS+ entitled: “Population imbalances in Europe: challenges of urban concentration versus rural depopulation” (SETTLE). It will be held on-site on 27th, 28th and 29th April 2022 at the University of Alcala (Spain); organized by the Jean Monnet Chair “Economic Policy and European Union” and the Institute for Economic and Social Analysis (IAES). The SETTLE Congress is open to researchers, academics, students, public authorities and professionals. Attendance is allowed with or without the presentation of a paper or a poster. Registration is free up to 125 participants, and includes the right for attending, presenting papers and receiving the congress papers, as well as the meals during the Congress. Among them, travel and hotel expenses will be funded up to 40 participants on restrictive and justified terms, imposed by the project regulation (the project counts on the financial support of the European Commission). Thus, the economic need, the interest of the paper and the order of reception will be considered. In this sense, posters will be less valued for allowing travel and expenses funding but will be equal considered for the right of attending and meals.

Paper proposals consisting of a summary of around 100 words must be submitted before 5th February, 2022. Accepted languages for papers writing and presentation are Spanish, English and French. Writing font is Calibri 11, 1.15 pp. Papers will be circumscribed geographically to Europe-27 and neighbor countries (though others can be included if they have an influence in the European region or can be compared to it in terms of population subjects). Focus can stem from Economics, Geography, Environmental Science, Law, History or any enabling discipline. Suggested topics are: 

• Regional policy design for a balanced population
• Rural-urban proximity
• Services infrastructure and welfare for population in cities and rural areas
• Depopulation
• Entrepreneurship and university talent attraction leading to urban concentration
• Population imbalances and migration
• Environmental and legal aspects of sustainability in smart cities and depopulated areas
• Population statistics advances
• Systemic transformation and influence on population
• Others related (to be evaluated)

After the assessment of the Scientific Committee, accepted papers will be informed by end February. The final delivery for accepted papers will be 29th March 2022, for their inclusion in an electronic diffusion support. Selected papers will be published in two peer review journals: ‘RSPP’ - Regional Science Policy and Practice (ESCI and SJR) and ‘ICE’ - Información Com. Española. Both publications follow strict criteria of quality for publication.

Paper proposals should be sent to the Congress Desktop: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Scientific Committee local coordination team:

SETTLE Scientific Committee and Network

Congress Secretary:

Instituto Universitario de Análisis Económico y Social - IAES (University of Alcalá)

http://www.iaes.es/settle-2020.html).

Submission of complete papers to: https://rsaiconnect.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/17577802, at the submission add in the cover letter that is for the Special Issue on: Population imbalances in Europe