We have decided to extend the Special Sessions Proposals submissions deadline for the 2021 APDR Congress until June 30, 2021.

We take this opportunity to remind you that the congress it will be held in Vila Real from September 16 to 17, 2021 and that the theme of this edition is “Green and inclusive transitions in Southern European regions: What can we do better?”.

All the necessary information so that you can send your work and register can be found on the website of the 2021 APDR Congress.

Deadline for Special Session proposals: June 30, 2021 (new date). 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: July 5, 2021. Authors should submit their abstracts through online submission system by following the link https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/APDR2021.

We look forward to your participation and see you soon in Vila Real.

Regards,

The Organizing Committee and the Board of APDR

The RSAI Fellows Committee, made up of Prof. Roberto Camagni (Chair), Prof. Kiyoshi Kobayashi, and Prof. Janice Madden, received and evaluated five excellent candidatures for this year's RSAI Fellows election. Thanks to the Committee for carefully reviewing them, and concluding that all were suitable for being voted by the RSAI Fellows, as the rules of this award dictate.

RSAI Fellows then voted, and the following four new Fellows have been elected this year:

1. Prof. Amit Batabyal (RIT, USA) 
2. Prof. Alessandra Faggian (GSSI, Italy)
3. Prof. Randall Jackson (West Virginia University, USA)
4. Prof. Kara Kockelmann (University of Texas at Austin, USA)

Congratulations to the new Fellows on the outstanding achievement!

Thank you in advance for your attention,

Kind regards,

The RSAI joins the global regional science community in congratulating Prof. Juan Cuadrado-Roura, University of Alcalá, on winning the 2021 ERSA prize.

Congratulations Juan!

ISSUE INFORMATION

Free Access

Issue Information

Pages: 603-604 | First Published: 10 June 2021

FULL ARTICLES

Open Access

The persistent pay gap between Easterners and Westerners in Germany: A quarter‐century after reunification

Heather Dickey, Alessa M. Widmaier

Pages: 605-631 | First Published: 14 January 2021

Spatial impact of factors influencing the achievement of the Europa2020 employment targets

Jorge Chica-Olmo, Marina Checa-Olivas

Pages: 633-649 | First Published: 11 January 2021

Does social capital reduce entrepreneurs' petty corruption? Evidence across Indonesian regions

Julien Hanoteau, Gandhi Pawitan, Virginie Vial

Pages: 651-670 | First Published: 03 December 2020

Cultural and creative industries and regional diversification: Does size matter?

Gloria Cicerone, Alessandro Crociata, Daniele Mantegazzi

Pages: 671-687 | First Published: 11 November 2020

Open Access

Proximity across the distant worlds of university–industry collaborations

Utku Ali Rıza Alpaydın, Rune Dahl Fitjar

Pages: 689-711 | First Published: 24 November 2020

The internal geography of services value‐added in exports: A Latin American perspective

Eduardo A. Haddad, Inácio F. Araújo

Pages: 713-744 | First Published: 18 December 2020

Local demand shocks and firms' survival: An application to the Italian economy during the Great Recession

Giovanni Marin, Marco Modica

Pages: 745-775 | First Published: 28 November 2020

Market concentration in the Spanish turbot aquaculture sector: A regional analysis

Raquel Fernández-González, Marcos I. Pérez-Pérez, María Dolores Garza Gil

Pages: 777-794 | First Published: 03 December 2020

Mosquitoes, birth rates and regional spillovers: Evidence from the Zika epidemic in Brazil

Lívia Madeira Triaca, Felipe Garcia Ribeiro, César Augusto Oviedo Tejada

Pages: 795-813 | First Published: 18 December 2020

Proposing new measures of employment deconcentration and spatial dispersion across metropolitan areas in the US

John R. Hipp, Jae Hong Kim, Benjamin Forthun

Pages: 815-841 | First Published: 12 January 2021

BOOK REVIEW

Invisible China: How the urban–rural divide threatens China's rise Edited by Scott Rozelle Natalie Hell, Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2020. US$27.50, Hb, 231pp. ISBN 978‐0‐226‐73952‐6

Amitrajeet A. Batabyal

Pages: 843-844 | First Published: 23 March 2021

Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the edition of a special issue of Regional Science Policy & Practice, linked to the International Regional Science Association (RSAI), with the theme of the special session S04 - Territorial inequalities and spatial (in) justice in Europe whose Coordinator is Ana Viñuela.

We also announce a special issue of Investigaciones Regionales-Journal of Regional Research linked to special session 07 - Industry 4.0 and sustainability in regions, clusters & industrial districts whose coordinator is José Hervas-Oliver.

We remind you that the abstract submission deadline for the XLVI Regional Studies Meeting is until Thursday, June 10, 2021 (this deadline cannot be extended so as not to affect the rest of the program dates).

The templates of all the formats of the summary can be downloaded from the website here.

We look forward to your participation and see you soon in Madrid.

Regards,

The Organizing Committee

Dear colleagues,

Due to the high number of petitions received, we have decided to extend the abstract submission deadline for the XLVI Regional Studies Meeting  until Thursday, June 10, 2021 (this deadline cannot be extended so as not to affect the rest of the program dates).

We take this opportunity to remind you that it will be held in Madrid from November 24 to 26, 2021 and that the motto of this edition is “Full cities, empty territories”.

We ask you to disseminate this information to all the people you may consider interested in participating. We remind you that the maximum length is 300 words and will be uploaded through the management area. The presentation of results of research works in progress for which there is not yet a complete article will be accepted. In order for the Scientific Committee to consider the acceptance of said works, an expanded abstract will be required, with a minimum length of 1,500 words. The templates of all the formats of the summary can be downloaded from the website here.

All the necessary information so that you can send your work and register can be found on the website of the XLVI Regional Studies Meeting.

We look forward to your participation and see you soon in Madrid.

Regards,

The Organizing Committee