Professors
Professor André Torre
A doctor in economics and accredited to supervise research, he is currently
research director at the INRA (National Institute for Agronomic Research), involved
in Agro Paris Tech and guest lecturer in several French universities . His research was for
a long time at the cross roads of spatial and industrial economics; It has in recent
years become more multi-disciplinary and focused increasingly on questions related
to land use planning and sustainable development processes. He have published many
articles and a few books, mostly on issues related
to space and coordination between people or groups of people. His research currently focuses on the analysis of proximity relations
and
on their importance in processes of coordination between people. It centres on
two main areas: Local interactions
between innovative firms and, more particularly, the role played by geographical proximity in the transfer
of knowledge; Land use and neighbourhood
conflicts. This multidisciplinary approach aims to identify and define conflicts, as well as the
different ways of managing and solving them. His involvement in research administration has led me to take on the roles
of Chairman of the ASRDLF (French Speaking
Regional Science Association), of Director of the PSDR (For and About
Regional development) research programs and of manager of the « Proximity team » of the UMR SAD-APT
(INRA - Agro Paris Tech).
Professor Peter Nijkamp
Peter Nijkamp
(born in 1946, Dalfsen, The Netherlands) graduated from the Erasmus University in
Rotterdam, with a specialisation in the field of econometrics (1970). He holds a
Ph.D. (cum laude) on new solution methods for non-linear mathematical programming
models for industrial planning from the same university (1972). Since 1975 he is
professor in regional and urban economics and in economic geography at the VU University,
Amsterdam. His main research interests cover regional growth, quantitative plan
evaluation, multicriteria analysis, regional and urban modelling, transport systems
analysis, mathematical modelling of spatial systems, technological innovation,
environmental and resource management and sustainable development. In his long research
career he has focused his research in particular on quantitative methods for policy
analysis, as well as on spatial-behavioural analysis of economic agents. He has
a broad expertise in the area of public policy, services planning, infrastructure
management and environmental protection. In all these fields he has published
many books (monographs and edited volumes) and numerous articles, in both high ranking
scientific journals and popular magazines. He has recently completed a 25-volume
‘opus’ on Classics in Regional, Transportation, Environmental and Planning Science.
For several years Peter Nijkamp has played a leading role as president of the European
Regional Science Association (1979-1989) and as president of the Regional Science
Association International (1990-1992). He is founding father of the Network on European
Communications and Transport Activity Research (NECTAR), a scientific organization
of which he has been chairman for many years (1987-2001). He plays also an active
role in several other international scientific networks and professional associations.
He is past chairman of the board of the research school TRAIL, a collaborative research
initiative of Delft University of Technology and Erasmus University Rotterdam, as
well as of STELLA, a Transatlantic research network on sustainable transport research.
He has been an advisor to several Dutch Ministries, regional and local policy councils,
employers' organizations, private business firms, the Commission of the European
Union (EU), the European Research Council (ERC), the Organization for Economic Cooperation
and Development (OECD), the European Conference of Ministers in Transport (ECMT),
the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the European Roundtable of Industrialists, ICOMOS,
the World Bank, and many other private and public institutions. He has been involved
in the organization of numerous international conferences all over the world, in
different fields of research, while he is also a regular guest speaker at international
meetings. Peter Nijkamp is a member of approx. 30 editorial or advisory boards of
scientific journals in the field. He supervised more than 80 Ph.D students, several
of them holding at present a professorship in various countries. He is also past
chairman of the Dutch Social Science Council (SWR) and past vice-president of the
Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (KNAW). Until 2009, he was president of the
governing board of the Netherlands Research Council (NWO). He is also past president
of the European Heads of Research Councils (EUROHORCs). He has acted as a member
of evaluation committees of several research initiatives or programmes in various
countries (e.g., Belgium, Sweden, Japan, Austria). He was for many years member
of the Council of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA),
and is also honorary IIASA scholar.
Professor Tomaz Ponce Dentinho
Tomaz Ponce
Dentinho is the coordinator of the Group for Nature Conservation and Management
at the Azores University, in Angra, Portugal, and member of the Research Centre
for Applied Economics of the Atlantic based in Ponta Delgada. He is the promoter
and coordinator of the Master on the Management of Nature Conservation and of the
PhD on Interdisciplinary Management of the Landscape (joint PhD with the University
of Évora and the Technical University of Lisbon. He is a lecturer on: economics
(undergraduate); regional and urban economics (undergraduate, master and doctorate
programmes), environmental economics (master), cost-benefit analysis (master) and
agricultural economics (undergraduate). His research group, involving around ten
researchers undertake studies on regional sustainable development, integrated water
management, marine resources’ economics, agricultural economics and cost-benefit
analysis. Since 2008, he chairs the Portuguese Association for Regional Development
(www.apdr.pt). Since 2007 he is a member of the European Organizing
Committee of the European Regional Science Association. Since 2010 he is a member
of Council of the Regional Science Association International. He is Executive Director
of the Regional Science Association International ( www.regionalscience.org
).
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