Congress Themes
The congress theme is "Places for People: Liveable, Inclusive, and Liveable Regions", ‘but the congress covers all fields in Regional Science.
Below you will find all themes (Special Session themes and General themes) proposed for this year's Callf for Abstracts and Papers.
Please note that some themes may not appear in the final programme if an insufficient number of abstracts have been received or accepted.
Special Sessions (S)
The Special Sessions address specific and topical themes in Regional Science.
For submissions to Special Session Presentation type only.
S01. Regional Ecosystems for social entrepreneurship and innovation: identifying key factors for a social innovative region
Convenor(s): Marta Ferreira Dias; Marlene Amorim
S02. Spatial CGE modeling and transport issues
Convenor(s): Tomoki Ishikura; Atsushi Koike
S03. Brexit
Convenor(s): Bart Los; Philip McCann; Raquel Ortega-Argilés; Frank van Oort
S04. Urban hierarchies and the financial and economic crisis after 2008/2009: a relational perspective on the state of affairs
Convenor(s): Stefan Lüthi; Michael Bentlage; Alain Thierstein
S05. Regional development under new wave of globalization: Tourism, migration and FTA
Convenor(s): Kenji Kondo
S06. Spatial analysis and real estate (ERES special session)
Convenor(s): Gunther Maier; Kerem Arslanli; Paloma Taltavull de la Paz
S07. The impact of shopping centers on areas in the outer metropolitan zone
Convenor(s): Krystian Heffner; Małgorzata Twardzik; Dorota Celińska-Janowicz; Katarzyna Bilińska-Reformat; Magdalena Karczewicz
S08. Regional Characteristics and Vulnerability to Economic Shocks
Convenor(s): Timothy Slaper; J. Paul Elhorst; Stephan J. Goetz; Alexandra Tsvetkova
S09. Culture-led development: theory and evidence
Convenor(s): Alessandro Crociata; Alessandra Faggian; Cecilia Pasquinelli; Pier Luigi Sacco
S10. Formal and informal institutions in regional entrepreneurial processes
Convenor(s): Michael Wyrwich; Michael Fritsch; Marcus Dejardin
S11. Toward an Understanding of Multipliers
Convenor(s): Stephen Cooke
S12. Urban ecology - implications for species evolution and community dynamics
Convenor(s): Danny Czamanski; Dr. Dan Malkinson
S13. Cohesion Policy and European Identity
Convenor(s): Vicente Royuela; Roberta Capello; Enrique López-Bazo; Giovanni Perucca
S14. IMAJINE Project: Regional Economics at Local Level
Convenor(s): Ana Vinuela; Paolo Postiglione
S15. Entrepreneurship and regional development: new perspectives on a complex relationship
Convenor(s): Felix Modrego; Maria Giulia Pezzi
S16. Disparities and Sustainability in Europe
Convenor(s): Patricia C Melo; Angelika Krehl; Conceição Rego
S17. Regional labour markets, economic growth and well-being
Convenor(s): Martin Aarøe; Christensen; Andrea Conte
S18. Counterfactual methods for regional policy evaluation
Convenor(s): Lisa Sella; Elena Ragazzi; Marco Mariani
S19. Collective action, commons and commoning : towards the emergence of new forms of territorial development processes ?
Convenor(s): Leïla Kebir; Frédéric Wallet; Artur Ochojski; Adam Polko
S20. Tourism and the digital revolution: New practices, behaviours and reshaping of the tourism offer
Convenor(s): Marie Delaplace; Pierre Olaf Schut
S21. Spatial Aspects of Sports Performance
Convenor(s): Declan Jordan; Paulo Reis Mourao; Robert Butler
S22. Initiatives of creative tourism: approaches to local development
Convenor(s): Paula Remoaldo; José Cadima Ribeiro
S23. Regional Innovation Systems
Convenor(s): Nóirín McCarthy; Justin Doran
S24. Higher Education Institutions and regional (sustainable) development
Convenor(s): Rüdiiger Hamm; Verena Radinger-Peer; Annemarie van Zeijl-Rozema; Martin Wenke
S25. Ex-ante and ex-post evaluation of the Smart Specialization Strategy
Convenor(s): Donato Iacobucci
S26. Well-being in large cities: theoretical perspectives and empirical evidence
Convenor(s): Philip S. Morrison; Giovanni Perucca
S27. Doing regional science with new sources of big data
Convenor(s): Emmanouil Tranos; Daniel Arribas-Bel; Francisco Rowe
S28. GeoComputation in Urban and Regional Analysis
Convenor(s): Jean-Claude Thill; Zhaoya Gong
S29. Universities, concentration of high-skilled individuals and regional development: smart regions getting smarter?
Convenor(s): Joachim Möller; Johann Eppelsheimer
S30. Effects of Technological Progress on Labour Markets
Convenor(s): Uwe Blien
S31. Tourism, energy and emmisions
Convenor(s): Maria Pablo-Romero; Javier Sánchez-Rivas
S32. Social Agriculture for Social Innovation & Viability in Rural Areas
Convenor(s): Christian Hoffman; Valentina Cattivelli
S33. Location choice and impacts of interregional migration
Convenor(s): Bianca Biagi; Claudio Detotto; Viktor Venhorst
S34. The Role of Place in Determining Individual Wellbeing
Convenor(s): Edel Walsh; Frank Crowley
S35. Refugee migration: challenges and opportunities
Convenor(s): Alessandra Faggian; Paolo Veneri
S36. Spatial Inequalities in Scandinavia and South-East Europe: Mobility and housing
Convenor(s): Helena Bohman; Peter Håkansson; Magnus E Andersson; Predrag Bejacovic
S37. Flourishing in the workplace, insights from green neighborhoods
Convenor(s): Annalisa Setti; Tadhg MacIntyre; Jason Chan
S38. The Firm/Location Nexus: Multi-Scalar & Multi-Dimensional Aspects of Economic Development
Convenor(s): Dieter Franz Kogler; Riccardo Crescenzi; Silvia Rocchetta; Changjun Lee
S39. New Platforms for Regional and Urban Data
Convenor(s): Burcin Yazgi Walsh; Chris Brunsdon
S40. Age, Entrepreneurship and Firm Dynamics
Convenor(s): Charlie Karlsson; Mikaela Backman; Orsa Keksi
S41. Retail Location Modelling
Convenor(s): Graham Clarke; Martin Clarke
S42. The Role of Borders in Socioeconomic Development in Europe
Convenor(s): Vojtech Nosek; Pavlina etrdova; Pavol Hurbanek
S43. Understanding urbanisation at a global scale: Data sources, definitions, methods (OECD and European Commission Special Session)
Convenor(s): Lewis Dijkstra; Paolo Veneri
S44. Effectiveness of place-based policies
Convenor(s): Gudrun Haindlmaier; Michael Dinges
S45. New working spaces, innovation and inclusion
Convenors(s): Ilaria Marioti; Darja Reuschke
S46. Thirty years of EU Cohesion Policy: What works? Where? for Whom?
Convenor(s): Vassilis Monatiriotis; Riccardo Crescenzi; Ugo Fratesi
S47. Ecological Resilience and Care of the Common House to build the Landscape of Contemporaneity and Future Scenarios of Territories and Cities
Convenor(s): Stefano Aragona
S48. Inclusive Growth, Cities and Regions
Convenor(s): Donald Houston; Paul Sissons
S49. The New Geography of Happiness
Convenor(s): Peter Batey; Peter Nijkamp; Roger Stough; Karima Kourtit; John Östh
S50. Social and Spatial Inequalities and Basic Income Policies
Convenor(s): Dimitris Ballas; Arjen Edzes
General Themes (G)
The Local Organising Committee has identified the following General Themes and papers are welcome under any of the following themes and in all fields of regional science.
For submissions to Refereed, Ordinary, Young Scientists and Epainos Session Type.
G01. Regional and urban development
G02. Spatial aspects of social policy, poverty, and exclusion
G03. Regional competitiveness, innovation, and productivity
G04. Location of economic activity
G05. Regional and urban policy and planning
G06. Natural environment, resources, and sustainable development
G07. Population and migration
G08. Regional resilience
G09. Social innovation, wellbeing, and happiness
G10. Regional and urban labour markets
G11. Spatial impacts of BREXIT
G12. Regional health outcomes
G13. Regional fiscal challenges
G14. Empirical methods in regional and urban analysis
G15. Spatial econometrics
G16. Rural communities and development
G17. Retailing, real estate and housing
G18. Peripheral and transition economies
G19. Tourism and culture
G20. Transport and regional accessibility
G21. Foreign direct investment and competing regions
G22. GIS and location modelling
G23. Big data and regional science
G24. Agglomeration, clustering, and networking
Presentations
Every Presentation room will be equipped with a computer already connected to a screen to project your presentation. All computers are equipped with a USB port as well as Acrobat Reader and Microsoft Power Point. Please bring your presentations in these file formats already on a USB flash drive.
As a guideline, the following schedule can be used:
O-Sessions (4 papers in 90 minutes): 15 minutes presentation + 7 minutes discussion
R-, S- and Epainos Sessions (3 papers in 90 minutes): 20 minutes presentation + 5 minutes discussant + 5 minutes general discussion
Below you will find all themes (Special Session themes and General themes) proposed for this year's Callf for Abstracts and Papers.
Please note that some themes may not appear in the final programme if an insufficient number of abstracts have been received or accepted.
Special Sessions (S)
The Special Sessions address specific and topical themes in Regional Science.For submissions to Special Session Presentation type only.
S01. Regional Ecosystems for social entrepreneurship and innovation: identifying key factors for a social innovative region
Convenor(s): Marta Ferreira Dias; Marlene Amorim
S02. Spatial CGE modeling and transport issues
Convenor(s): Tomoki Ishikura; Atsushi Koike
S03. Brexit
Convenor(s): Bart Los; Philip McCann; Raquel Ortega-Argilés; Frank van Oort
S04. Urban hierarchies and the financial and economic crisis after 2008/2009: a relational perspective on the state of affairs
Convenor(s): Stefan Lüthi; Michael Bentlage; Alain Thierstein
S05. Regional development under new wave of globalization: Tourism, migration and FTA
Convenor(s): Kenji Kondo
S06. Spatial analysis and real estate (ERES special session)
Convenor(s): Gunther Maier; Kerem Arslanli; Paloma Taltavull de la Paz
S07. The impact of shopping centers on areas in the outer metropolitan zone
Convenor(s): Krystian Heffner; Małgorzata Twardzik; Dorota Celińska-Janowicz; Katarzyna Bilińska-Reformat; Magdalena Karczewicz
S08. Regional Characteristics and Vulnerability to Economic Shocks
Convenor(s): Timothy Slaper; J. Paul Elhorst; Stephan J. Goetz; Alexandra Tsvetkova
S09. Culture-led development: theory and evidence
Convenor(s): Alessandro Crociata; Alessandra Faggian; Cecilia Pasquinelli; Pier Luigi Sacco
S10. Formal and informal institutions in regional entrepreneurial processes
Convenor(s): Michael Wyrwich; Michael Fritsch; Marcus Dejardin
S11. Toward an Understanding of Multipliers
Convenor(s): Stephen Cooke
S12. Urban ecology - implications for species evolution and community dynamics
Convenor(s): Danny Czamanski; Dr. Dan Malkinson
S13. Cohesion Policy and European Identity
Convenor(s): Vicente Royuela; Roberta Capello; Enrique López-Bazo; Giovanni Perucca
S14. IMAJINE Project: Regional Economics at Local Level
Convenor(s): Ana Vinuela; Paolo Postiglione
S15. Entrepreneurship and regional development: new perspectives on a complex relationship
Convenor(s): Felix Modrego; Maria Giulia Pezzi
S16. Disparities and Sustainability in Europe
Convenor(s): Patricia C Melo; Angelika Krehl; Conceição Rego
S17. Regional labour markets, economic growth and well-being
Convenor(s): Martin Aarøe; Christensen; Andrea Conte
S18. Counterfactual methods for regional policy evaluation
Convenor(s): Lisa Sella; Elena Ragazzi; Marco Mariani
S19. Collective action, commons and commoning : towards the emergence of new forms of territorial development processes ?
Convenor(s): Leïla Kebir; Frédéric Wallet; Artur Ochojski; Adam Polko
S20. Tourism and the digital revolution: New practices, behaviours and reshaping of the tourism offer
Convenor(s): Marie Delaplace; Pierre Olaf Schut
S21. Spatial Aspects of Sports Performance
Convenor(s): Declan Jordan; Paulo Reis Mourao; Robert Butler
S22. Initiatives of creative tourism: approaches to local development
Convenor(s): Paula Remoaldo; José Cadima Ribeiro
S23. Regional Innovation Systems
Convenor(s): Nóirín McCarthy; Justin Doran
S24. Higher Education Institutions and regional (sustainable) development
Convenor(s): Rüdiiger Hamm; Verena Radinger-Peer; Annemarie van Zeijl-Rozema; Martin Wenke
S25. Ex-ante and ex-post evaluation of the Smart Specialization Strategy
Convenor(s): Donato Iacobucci
S26. Well-being in large cities: theoretical perspectives and empirical evidence
Convenor(s): Philip S. Morrison; Giovanni Perucca
S27. Doing regional science with new sources of big data
Convenor(s): Emmanouil Tranos; Daniel Arribas-Bel; Francisco Rowe
S28. GeoComputation in Urban and Regional Analysis
Convenor(s): Jean-Claude Thill; Zhaoya Gong
S29. Universities, concentration of high-skilled individuals and regional development: smart regions getting smarter?
Convenor(s): Joachim Möller; Johann Eppelsheimer
S30. Effects of Technological Progress on Labour Markets
Convenor(s): Uwe Blien
S31. Tourism, energy and emmisions
Convenor(s): Maria Pablo-Romero; Javier Sánchez-Rivas
S32. Social Agriculture for Social Innovation & Viability in Rural Areas
Convenor(s): Christian Hoffman; Valentina Cattivelli
S33. Location choice and impacts of interregional migration
Convenor(s): Bianca Biagi; Claudio Detotto; Viktor Venhorst
S34. The Role of Place in Determining Individual Wellbeing
Convenor(s): Edel Walsh; Frank Crowley
S35. Refugee migration: challenges and opportunities
Convenor(s): Alessandra Faggian; Paolo Veneri
S36. Spatial Inequalities in Scandinavia and South-East Europe: Mobility and housing
Convenor(s): Helena Bohman; Peter Håkansson; Magnus E Andersson; Predrag Bejacovic
S37. Flourishing in the workplace, insights from green neighborhoods
Convenor(s): Annalisa Setti; Tadhg MacIntyre; Jason Chan
S38. The Firm/Location Nexus: Multi-Scalar & Multi-Dimensional Aspects of Economic Development
Convenor(s): Dieter Franz Kogler; Riccardo Crescenzi; Silvia Rocchetta; Changjun Lee
S39. New Platforms for Regional and Urban Data
Convenor(s): Burcin Yazgi Walsh; Chris Brunsdon
S40. Age, Entrepreneurship and Firm Dynamics
Convenor(s): Charlie Karlsson; Mikaela Backman; Orsa Keksi
S41. Retail Location Modelling
Convenor(s): Graham Clarke; Martin Clarke
S42. The Role of Borders in Socioeconomic Development in Europe
Convenor(s): Vojtech Nosek; Pavlina etrdova; Pavol Hurbanek
S43. Understanding urbanisation at a global scale: Data sources, definitions, methods (OECD and European Commission Special Session)
Convenor(s): Lewis Dijkstra; Paolo Veneri
S44. Effectiveness of place-based policies
Convenor(s): Gudrun Haindlmaier; Michael Dinges
S45. New working spaces, innovation and inclusion
Convenors(s): Ilaria Marioti; Darja Reuschke
S46. Thirty years of EU Cohesion Policy: What works? Where? for Whom?
Convenor(s): Vassilis Monatiriotis; Riccardo Crescenzi; Ugo Fratesi
S47. Ecological Resilience and Care of the Common House to build the Landscape of Contemporaneity and Future Scenarios of Territories and Cities
Convenor(s): Stefano Aragona
S48. Inclusive Growth, Cities and Regions
Convenor(s): Donald Houston; Paul Sissons
S49. The New Geography of Happiness
Convenor(s): Peter Batey; Peter Nijkamp; Roger Stough; Karima Kourtit; John Östh
S50. Social and Spatial Inequalities and Basic Income Policies
Convenor(s): Dimitris Ballas; Arjen Edzes
General Themes (G)
The Local Organising Committee has identified the following General Themes and papers are welcome under any of the following themes and in all fields of regional science.For submissions to Refereed, Ordinary, Young Scientists and Epainos Session Type.
G01. Regional and urban development
G02. Spatial aspects of social policy, poverty, and exclusion
G03. Regional competitiveness, innovation, and productivity
G04. Location of economic activity
G05. Regional and urban policy and planning
G06. Natural environment, resources, and sustainable development
G07. Population and migration
G08. Regional resilience
G09. Social innovation, wellbeing, and happiness
G10. Regional and urban labour markets
G11. Spatial impacts of BREXIT
G12. Regional health outcomes
G13. Regional fiscal challenges
G14. Empirical methods in regional and urban analysis
G15. Spatial econometrics
G16. Rural communities and development
G17. Retailing, real estate and housing
G18. Peripheral and transition economies
G19. Tourism and culture
G20. Transport and regional accessibility
G21. Foreign direct investment and competing regions
G22. GIS and location modelling
G23. Big data and regional science
G24. Agglomeration, clustering, and networking
Session Information
Discussants
All papers in Refereed Sessions, Special Sessions and the Epainos Sessions have been assigned discussants. As a discussant, you provide feedback on the paper and presentation and kick off the general discussion. As a rule, there is a maximum of 5 minutes for the discussant. Papers assigned to you, can be accessed through the online programme if the paper has been made publically available by the author(s). If the paper is not available in the online programme, discussants can access the paper through the discussant’s portal (use your ERSA login credentials). If a paper has not been uploaded, please contact the author and/or the special session conveners directly for access.
Chairs
All sessions have been assigned chairs. The chair’s main job is to allow all presenters the allotted time to present their work. Please, do not change the order of presentation. In R-sessions, S-Sessions and YSS/Epainos sessions, the chair also makes sure the discussant has the opportunity to reflect on the presentation and paper.
Presentations
Every Presentation room will be equipped with a computer already connected to a screen to project your presentation. All computers are equipped with a USB port as well as Acrobat Reader and Microsoft Power Point. Please bring your presentations in these file formats already on a USB flash drive.As a guideline, the following schedule can be used:
O-Sessions (4 papers in 90 minutes): 15 minutes presentation + 7 minutes discussion
R-, S- and Epainos Sessions (3 papers in 90 minutes): 20 minutes presentation + 5 minutes discussant + 5 minutes general discussion
