Join us in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for the 66th North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International (RSAI) sponsored by the North American Regional Science Council (NARSC).  The conference will be held at the beautiful and historic Omni William Penn Hotel, November 13–16, 2019.  You can learn more about the conference, submit an abstract, and register for the conference and workshops at the NARSC Website at http://www.narsc.org/.

This year the Spatial Econometrics Association (SEA) will be meeting in conjunction with us at the conference hotel. Special registration instructions for those of you who wish to attend the SAE sessions, in addition to the NARSC sessions, are provided below.

Click on the link to the conference section for general information on the conference.  To register for the conference or submit an abstract/session online you must first login to the User Area. If you attended a NARSC conference over the past couple of years or are a member of a North American regional science organization, when you reach the login page of the User Area, you will be asked to enter your provided username and password.  Otherwise, when you reach the login page of the User Area, you will be asked to click on a link and enter your e-mail address so we can check if you are already in our database. If you are in our database, your username and password will be e-mailed to you so you can login. If you are not in our database, you will need to register for a free NARSC user account and then you will be able to register for the conference and submit an abstract.

Once logged, you can change your password, update your profile, submit an abstract/session, register for the conference, and check the status of your registration.  You will be able come to your account in the User Area subsequently using your valid username and password.  In case you forget your password, just contact technical support at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with your e-mail address and your password will be e-mailed to you so you can login.

Please note that there is a surcharge for individuals who are not members of RSAI. When you are ready to register for the conference please check your RSAI membership status at: https://www.regionalscience.org/index.php/join-us.html . If you have any questions regarding your RSAI membership status or would like to join RSAI please contact Elisabete Martins (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) at the RSAI Central Office.

Also, there is a higher registration rate for individual who wish to attend the sessions organized by the Spatial Econometrics Association (SEA). Those who register to attend the SAE sessions will also have full access to the NARSC sessions, receptions, coffee breaks etc. However, if you register for NARSC only, you will not be able to access the SEA sessions.

Individual papers and organized sessions must be submitted online in the abstract submission section of the website between now and JULY 1, 2019. The conference registration section is open and allows secure electronic financial transactions. Information about the workshops will be posted in May. If you are potentially interested in attending any workshops it is suggested that you wait until information about them is available before registering for the conference. Be sure to consult the conference website for additional information and details.

Conference organizers welcome individual papers and organized sessions relating to a wide variety of topics that are included within the diverse realm of regional science.  We are especially interested in receiving proposals for organized sessions. If you have an interest in organizing a themed session, please contact the Program Chair, Laurie Schintler. We are an international scholarly organization that focuses on regional analysis, ranging from urban and spatial theory to applied problems in regional development, sustainability, environmental management, and rural land use.  We are an interdisciplinary association, with members representing fields as diverse as economics, agricultural economics, public policy, urban planning, civil engineering, geography, finance, and demography.  The annual North American RSAI conference is the premier regional science meeting in North America and attracts scholars and practitioners from around the world.  

A block of rooms has been reserved at the Omni William Penn at the rate of $185 (plus applicable taxes) for a double-occupancy room. In addition, we have negotiated a special rate for of $119 (plus applicable taxes) for a limited number of student room. These will be available on a first-come, first-served basis. Please book the conference hotel through the NARSC website.  By doing so, NARSC will get credit for your booking.  Bookings can be made via a link coming soon.

If you have questions, here is contact information:

Local arrangements:

John Sporing (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Program Chair:

Laurie Schintler (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Overall Arrangements
Neil Reid, (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

We look forward to seeing you in Pittsburgh.

Spatial Econometrics 5-day Workshop (July 8-12) in the ICPSR Summer Program

SPATIAL ECONOMETRICS – methods for empirical analysis of interdependent processes (a.k.a.: contagion, spillovers, network dependence, …)

Here’s a blurb about the workshop:

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Do the outcomes in some units or individuals in your research analyses depend on outcomes in other units? That is, are the outcomes of interest in your studies likely contagious from units to neighboring units, or otherwise proximate or connected units? Do the processes you study diffuse across units in some manner? Are there spillovers across subjects? If you study anything in the social sciences, and likely most things beyond, almost certainly they are/do.

This workshop (July 8-12 in Ann Arbor) teaches empirical methods (focusing on spatial-autoregressive models) for modeling, for estimation, and for interpretation of such spatial (i.e., cross-unit) interdependence (a.k.a., contagion/diffusion/spillover/network-dependence...).

Applied (computer-lab) sessions and exercises are bilingual, i.e. with lab scripts in R and Stata both available, and students are of course welcome to use other software as they prefer.

Register through the ICPSR Summer School portal, linked here:

http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/sumprog

The course description from the ICPSR website is linked here & copied below:

http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/sumprog/courses/0129

And please feel free to email the workshop convener, Rob Franzese (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) with any questions at all about the workshop, ICPSR, and/or UM & Ann Arbor.

Undergraduate and Graduate programs at the School of Governance, Economics & Social Sciences of the Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P) 

New teaching and research job openings in Economics, Political Science, International Relations, Sociology, and Psychology.

The job opportunities range from Post-doctoral research placements and tenure track positions to full-time or associated professorships.

If interested and for more information, the job openings are accessible in both the UM6P website here and on ResearchGate.

We are pleased to informe that Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences. Volume 12 Number 1 is now available online.

In this issue

Editorial

Space and the environment: an introduction to the topical collection

Amitrajeet A. Batabyal & Henk Folmer

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Original Paper

The estimation and interpretation of coefficients in panel gravity models of migration

Michael P. Cameron & Jacques Poot

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Publisher Correction

Publisher Correction to: The estimation and interpretation of coefficients in panel gravity models of migration

Michael P. Cameron & Jacques Poot

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Original Paper

Examining urban functions along a metropolitan gradient: a geographically weighted regression tells you more

Luca Salvati

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Original Paper

The human rights foundations of an EKC with a minimum consumption requirement: theory, implications, and quantitative findings

Chris Jeffords & Alexi Thompson

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Original Paper

Fertility, child care policy, urbanization, and economic growth

Sayaka Yakita

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Original Paper

The effect of environmental attitudes and policies on separate waste collection: the case of Insular Italy

Rosalia Castellano, Gaetano Musella & Gennaro Punzo

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Conference on SMEs and the Urban Fabric

15-16 April 2019  Trento, Italy    

Organised by the OECD Trento Centre for Local Development in collaboration with the Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation, Sweden and the Autonomous Province of Trento, Italy

What makes a liveable place? What makes a place a thriving hub of entrepreneurship and growth?

These two questions might have the same answer. SMEs and entrepreneurs can benefit from well-functioning, well-designed and well-planned cities, the same way these cities and their neighbourhoods can benefit from local entrepreneurs and SMEs that create jobs, but also authenticity, charm, social integration and social connections.

But the ecosystem for entrepreneurs and SMEs is not guaranteed given, as not all urban environments are conducive to having a dynamic business community. It is therefore crucial to understand what economic policies, business regulation, land use and urban planning can help leverage the benefits that SMEs and entrepreneurs can provide to create liveable places.

What will be discussed?

The two-day OECD conference on SMEs and the Urban Fabric will help assess how far we can go in answering two questions: “What can SMEs do for their cities?” and “What can cities do for their SMEs?”.

This conference brings together speakers that tackle the questions at different scales, such as cities, clusters, or neighbourhoods, and from different backgrounds, that take an economic, planning or social lens when considering the complex interplay between SMEs and the city.

For more information, please visit the conference website - http://www.oecd.org/cfe/smes-cities-trento-conference.htm

Nomination and Selection Protocol of RSAI Fellows

1. Each RSAI member - except RSAI fellows – is entitled to nominate candidates for the RSAI fellowship, but self-nominations are not allowed. Each nomination has to be done through a standard concise nomination form that follows a systematic template.
2. A nominee has to be RSAI member (or a member of any section recognized by the RSAI) and to meet the qualifications mentioned in Annex A.
3. The selection of new RSAI fellows takes place only once a year, but nominations can be sent in at any time and will be considered for a given selection round, if they have been received before a given deadline. A nomination has a maximum life of two years.
4. All nominations will be put on a list supplemented with non-elected candidates for the RSAI fellowship who were on the short list from the previous year.
5. The short list will be screened by the RSAI fellows selection committee (in consultation with the RSAI director). This committee comprises 3 RSAI fellows appointed by the RSAI Council for a period of staggered 3-year terms. The selection committee has to seriously consider all available information on the candidates and can remove candidates (unanimous vote) who do not qualify.
6. The selection committee can also decide to reduce the list of nominated RSAI members to a manageable number, so that candidates can be selected with a qualified majority. This short list should normally not contain more than 10 to 12 names.
7. The short list is next circulated to all RSAI fellows, who have the exclusive right to vote for (a maximum of) 3 candidate-fellows. No ranking of candidates is allowed.
8. The selection committee can put an upper ceiling on the maximum number of candidates to be selected in a given year, if circumstances dictate so.
9. A vote of at least 1/3 will normally mean election, unless that would exceed the ceiling.
10. The selection committee informs the RSAI Director of the final selection results, who will communicate these results to the selected RSAI fellows, the RSAI Council, and the home institutions of the newly appointed fellows.

Standard Nomination Form for RSAI Fellows

1. Factual bio-data on candidate, including a proof for RSAI membership
2. Professional career of candidate (max. 100 words)
3. Substantive contribution to regional science (max. 200 words)
4. Path-breaking publications on regional science (max. 5)
5. Signs of international scientific recognition (max. 50 words)
6. Reasons for nominating the candidate (max. 50 words)

To ensure full consideration by the committee, these materials should be provided in electronic format (pdf preferred) by April 17, 2019 to Takatoshi Tabuchi, Chair 2019 Fellows Election Committee This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

The 5th Ibero-American Congress on Entrepreneurship, Energy, Environment and Technology - CIEEMAT is a forum for discussion and creation of synergies among different students, professors, researchers and professionals to favor the development of Entrepreneurship, Energy, Environment and Technology.

The challenges of higher education for the 21st century, such as the centralization of educational procedures in the student, and the sharing of experiences between institutions at the level of international cooperation, double graduation, and cooperation with the community, are also discussion topics in this conference.

All accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the conference, and the best papers will be suggested for publication in a special edition of an international journal and in international scientific journals.

The organising committee welcomes you to CIEEMAT2019, we will be delighted to welcome you in our beautiful city.

Best Regards,
 
The Organising Committee

http://en.cieemat.com/

The 2nd Bioenergy International Conference will be held from 11th to 13th September 2019 in PORTALEGRE (Portugal).

This congress is organised by researchers of the C3i/IPP (Portalegre, Portugal), and AreanaTejo, Energy Agency (Portugal) with the objective to join academics, researchers and companies in an international forum to discuss matters related to bioenergy technologies, economic and policy aspects.

We believe that we must rethink, personally, institutionally and corporately, the management that we make of the waste we generate and the energy that we have available. That’s why we have created this congress and exhibition, that we hope can be part of our contribution for a more efficient use of these resources.

All papers will be published in the congress E-book. The feasibility of publishing special issue(s) of reputed scientific journals will be confirmed shortly.All papers will be published in the congress E-book. The feasibility of publishing special issue(s) of reputed scientific journals will be confirmed shortly.

For more information, please visit the website of the conference on http://www.bioenergy-conference.com

Please submit your abstract by the 15th of June 2019, and you can find the instructions for authors and the template to prepare your abstract on http://www.bioenergy-conference.com/pages/congresso/submissao.html

You can submit your work on the following link: http://www.bioenergy-conference.com/pages/registo.html

If you have any question about this conference, please contact the organising committee on This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Best wishes,

Paulo Brito, PhD.

Chairman

2nd Bioenergy International Conference

CALL FOR PAPERS

RIDITA2019 International Congress

October 9-11, 2019, Faculty of Engineering, University of Beira Interior, Covilhã (Portugal)
Deadline: April 7, 2019

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to inform you about the launch of the Call for Papers for the VII RIDITA – International Congress of the Iberoamerican Air Transportation Research Society 2019, organized by the Faculty of Engineering, University of Beira Interior, on October 9-11, 2019. 

Submissions of well-developed abstracts should be made by the online platform that you can find in the website of the Congress (http://www.ridita2019.ubi.pt), by April 7, 2019.

Notification of acceptance is expected by May 5, 2019.

For further information please find attached the Call for Papers.

We would appreciate if you could spread this message among your contacts and encourage people from your Institutions to apply.

Yours sincerely,

Organizing Committee