Special Session Themes

S01.  Night Light and Satellite Image Indicators of Regional Economic Activity
          Convenor(s): Katarzyna Kopczewska
S02.  Industry 4.0 in clusters & industrial districts
          Convenor(s): Jose Luis Hervas-Oliver
S03.  Circular economy: challenges for regions and cities
          Convenor(s): Sébastien Bourdin, André Torre, Evelin van Leeuwen
S04.  Geography of COVID-19 outbreak and policy answers in regions and cities
          Convenor(s): Sébastien Bourdin, Nadine Levratto
S05.  Sustainable Regional Tourism Strategies in Pandemic Contexts
          Convenor(s): José Cadima Ribeiro, Paula Remoaldo, Juliana Alves 
S06.  Smart specialization for peripheral areas? From failure to solutions
          Convenor(s): André Torre, Stefano Corsi, Michael Steiner, Frédéric Wallet, Hans     
          Westlund
S07.   Pandemic and territorial government
         Convenor(s): Monica Ronchini, Luciano Galetti, Stefano Nardin, Giovanni Gardelli,        
         Francesca Leoni.
S08.  Spatial CGE, Input-Output, land use and transport modeling
         Convenor(s): Tomoki Ishikura, Atsushi Koike
S09.  Relaunch of Productivity for Regional Growth and Cohesion
         Convenor(s): Rudiger Ahrend, Roberta Capello, Silvia Cerisola, Alexander Lembcke,
         Alessandra Proto, Alexandra Tsvetkova, Wessel Vermeulen
S10.  Determinants and Effects of Regional Differences in Gender Equality
         Convenor(s): Alina Sorgner
S11.  Challenges and Opportunities of Rural Regions
         Convenor(s): Stephan Brunow, Jan Cornelius Peters, Andrés Rodríguez-Pose
S12.  The consumers behavior and retail market in polish cities in post-pandemic world
         Convenor(s): Krystian Heffner, Małgorzata Twardzik
S13.  Historical Roots of Regional Entrepreneurship and Innovation
         Convenor(s): Michael Fritsch, Maria Kristalova, Korneliusz Pylak, Michael Wyrwich
S14.  Regional Resilience in Low-density Territories: overcoming the effects of COVID-19
         pandemic
         Convenor(s): Ana Dias Daniel, João José Ferreira
S15.  Policies and Services for Healthy and Active Ageing: Challenges and Perspectives for the
        Post COVID-19 Aging Society
        Convenor(s): Mina Akhavan, Daniel Crotti, Elena Maggi, Evangelia Pantelaki, Federica 
        Rossi
S16.  Places left behind or places of opportunities?
         Convenor(s): Paola Proietti, Patrizia Sulis, Carlotta Fioretti, Carlo Lavalle
S17.  News and Geography
        Convenor(s): Burcu Ozgun, Tom Broekel, Evert Meijers
S18.  Smart Specialisation and Policy
         Convenor(s): Jason Deegan, Tom Broekel
S19.  Commons as enablers of territorial transition- evidences, assessment and               
         theoretical perspectives
         Convenor(s): Artur Ochojski, Adam Polko, Leïla Kebir, Frédéric Wallet
S20.  Urban Agriculture and Urban Resources – New approaches for resilient and sustainable
         urban food systems
        Convenor(s): Martin Schulwitz, Runrid Fox-Kämper, Mario Reimer, Kathrin Specht
S21.  RSPP Special Session on: Science, Policies and Methods on the free movement of         
         goods, services, people and capital across the Mediterranean
        Convenor(s): Riccardo Turati
S22.  Drivers and impacts of migration: new insights and (in) pandemic crisis
         Convenor(s): Maria Abreu, Bianca Biagi, Stephan Brunow, Viktor Venhorst
S23. Localising Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) roadmaps for sustainable, just and 
        resilient development
       Convenor(s): Katerina Ciampi Stancova
S24. New developments on Spatial Shift Share Analysis
        Convenor(s): Miguel Á. Márquez, Claudia V. Montanía,  Julián Ramajo, Vicente Royuela
S25. Searching for tourism resilience in the post-pandemic world
       Convenor(s): Bogdan-Constantin Ibănescu, Karima Kourtit, Ramona Ţigănaşu Frunză, 
       Sébastien Bourdin
S26. Territories and their communities
        Convernor(s): Adrienn Reisinger
S27. New working spaces, resilience, and peripheral areas during the Covid-19 pandemic
       Convenor(s): Ilaria Mariotti, Pavel Bednar, Mina Di Marino, Tuzin Baycan, Amnon Frenkel
S28.  Regional Science, outside of its Borders. How does space matter in fiction, media, and 
         politics?
        Convernor(s): Federico Fantechi, Daria Denti, Giulio Breglia
S29.  Territorial dimensions of green and digital transitions
         Convenor(s): Lívia Madureira, Carlos P. Marques, Tomaz Dentinho
S30.  Linking entrepreneurship and regional policy
         Convenor(s): Marcus Dejardin, Michael Fritsch, Maria Kristalova, Michael Wyrwich
S31.  Tourism in the post-COVID Era. Methods, Impacts, and Future Scenarios
         Convenor(s): Mauro Ferrante, Oliver Fritz, Özge Öner
S32.  Regional Disparities in Social Infrastructure
         Convenor(s): Anna-Theresa Renner, Michael Getzner
S33.  Geoeconomic challenges: the role of FDI revisited in the Central and Eastern European
         regions
         Convenor(s): Zoltán Gál, Magdolna Sass, Szilárd Rácz
S34.  Human mobility, Migration and Stay-in-Place Patterns and Changes During Pandemic 
         Times
         Convenor(s): Francisco Rowe, Alessandra Faggian, Rachel Franklin
S35.  Subversive Narratives and Polarization across Space
         Convenor(s): Annie Tubadji, Mary Wrenn, Hans Dietrich
S36.  Digital Inclusion and Cultures of Discrimination across Regions
         Convenor(s): Annie Tubadji, Simon Rudkin, Wanling Qiu, Frederic A. Boy, Martina 
         Battisti, Timothy Hinks
S37.  Resilient Arctic: regions, cities, and people
         Convenor(s): Alexander Pelyasov, Nadezhda Zamyatina
S38.  Regional Growth Against All Odds
         Convenor(s): Markus Grillitsch, Silje Haus-Reve, Josephine Rekers, Markku Sotarauta
S39.   Machine Learning solutions in regional science
         Convenor(s): Katarzyna Kopczewska
S40.  Human-Wildlife conflicts: from crisis to opportunities for territorial resilience
         Convenor(s): Filippo Favilli, Federica Maino, Julia Stauder
S41.  Opportunities, risks and challenges of the digital transformation in tourism Sustainability,
         Sharing hospitality and CoVid-19
         Convenor(s): Matteo Beghelli, Nicola Camatti
S42.  Sustainable development of the Islands between tradition and innovation
         Convenor(s): Simona Cafieri
S43.  Counterfactual methods for regional policy evaluation
         Convenor(s): Marco Mariani, Elena Ragazzi, Lisa Sella
S44.  The Effects of COVID-19 Pandemic on University Students:  Educational Outcomes &
         Spatial Mobility to Attend Higher Education
         Convenor(s): Alessandra Michelangeli
S45.  ICT tools and policies for the revival of mountainous areas
         Convenor(s): Despina Dimelli
S46.   Smart Specialisation strategy and macro-regional strategies
         Convernor(s): Donato Iacobucci, Alessandro Rainoldi, Roberta Ruggeri
S47.  Foreign Direct Investments, trade and local development: drivers and impacts
         Convernor(s): Luigi Benfratello, Davide Castellani, Anna D'Ambrosio.
S48.  Landscape Plan: "A resilient territorial challenge in a time of pandemic crisis"
         Convenor(s): Michele Greco, Anna Abate, Angelino Mazza, Maria Bonsera, Pierpaolo
         Gruosso, Danny Grano
S49.  The impact of COVID-19 on alternative and local food systems (ALFS) and the potential
         for sustainability transition – case studies and theoretical considerations
         Convenor(s): Yuna Chiffoleau, Gusztáv Nemes, Simona Zollet, Éva Orbán
S50.  The geographical dimension of social and income inequality
         Convenor(s): Yannis Psycharis
S51.  Business successions during troubled times: impact on the local economy
         Convenor(s):  Thomas Schatzer, Georg Lun
S52.   Building territorial and community resilience through disaster risk reduction in marginal
         areas of rural Europe
         Convenor(s): Massimo Sargolini, Luca Cetara, Ilenia Pierantoni, Massimiliano Pittore,
         Flavio Stimilli.
S53.  Sustainability in the tourism sector through the consumption of energy and water,
         maintenance of cultural and environmental heritage, and corporate social responsibility
         Convenor(s): Javier Sánchez-Rivas García, Inmaculada Crespo Morán 
S54.  Historical Centers and Inner Areas: resilient scenarios in the post (post) Covid era
         Convenor(s): Mario Cerasoli, Gianluca Mattarocci
S55.  Exogenous development in rural and remote regions 
         Convenor(s): Dario Musolino, Rodrigo Kataishi, Andrea Székely, Daniele Bruognolo
S57.  Progress, regress and change in European cross-border regions 
         Convenor(s): Angelika Krehl, Vincent Pijnenburg
S58.  RSPP Special Session on "Breaking the Vicious Cycle of Vulnerable Regions”
        Convenor(s): Lakshmi Sivaramakrishnan, Sumana Bandyopadhyay
S59.  The impact of COVID-19 on small businesses performance and innovation 
         Convenor(s): Ronen Harel
S60.  ORMA - Opportunities and Risks of new Modalities of Anthropization between
         sustainability, innovation and fragility
         Convenor(s): Stefano Aragona, Fabiola Fratini, Francesca Rota, Sandro Fabbro,                       Paolo Salonia, Francesca Assennato
S61.  Justifications and objectives of regional policy under new circumstances: Policy, politics
         and trade-offs
         Convenor(s): Ugo Fratesi
S62.  TRSA Special Session: The Economic Geography of Cross-Border Migration
         Convenor(s): Karima Kourtit, Bruce Newbold, Peter Nijkamp, Mark Partridge
S63.  OECD-Bank of Italy joint session: Regional competitiveness and growth: Macroeconomic
         trends
         Convenor(s): OECD and Bank of Italy
S64.  OECD-Bank of Italy joint session: Regional competitiveness and growth: Microeconomic
         drivers         
         Convenor(s): OECD and Bank of Italy