Minutes of the PRSCO Council Meeting(Charleston, South Carolina, USA, 15 November, 2001)(approved by the PRSCO Council Meeting in Bali, 19 June, 2002)
Held on Thursday 15 November, 2001
at Drayton Room, Westin Francis Marion Hotel 387
King Street, Charleston, South Carolina, USA

Commencing at 15:00a) Apologies received, roll-call, and con rmation of Section representatives
Apologies received:

J. Poot (Immediate Past President), D. Edgington (CRSA), R. Shearmur (CRSA), C. Hua (CRSAT), C. Mai (CRSA-T), B. Brondjonegoro (IRSA),
B.P. Resosudarmo (IRSA), K. Tanaka (JSRSAI), Y. Miyata (JSRSAI), M. Tawada (JSRSAI), J.H. Choi (KRSA), R. Stough (WRSA),
H. Kohno (PRSCO friend), P. Nijkamp (PRSCOfriend), A. Alvarez (PRSCO friend), F. Vial (PRSCOfriend), P. Gonzarez (PRSCO friend), R. Ismail(PRSCO friend), I. Yussof (PRSCO friend), J.
Capuno (PRSCO friend)

Present:
Chairperson: S.O. Park (President, and KRSA)
Council Member: D.A. Plane(Vice-President andPresident-elect, and WRSA), Y. Higano (Execu-tive Secretary, and JSRSAI), H. Shibusawa (rep-resenting Y. Miyata (JSRSAI)), J. Serrano (AMECIDER), L.J. Gibson (WRSA), J.M. Quigley(WRSA)

Friends of PRSCO: P.W.J. Batey (Past Presi-dent, RSAI), K. Haynes (Past President, RSAI),

K. Donaghy (Executive Director, RSAI), R.J.G.M.
Florax (Editor-in-Chief, PiRS), G.J.D. Hewings(President, RSAI)

organization of the Institute in Bali, next June:
IRSA is very active and would be positive about
the organization of the Institute; IRSA had already launched WEB page of Call for Papers;a deadline of abstract submission is the nextFeb. 1st; a candidate of the venue is Melia Bali
in Nusa Dua; a daily organization business ishandled by Dr. Santi B. Handayani, IRSA
Secretariat; IRSA Executives had promised thatthey would never give up and complete the organization.
Y.Higano had stressed one of important functions of the PRSCO Summer Institute, a propaganda which would stimulate interests of regional scientists in developing countries in thePaci c Rim Area and give them an incentive toorganization of new RSAI section/association,and also stressed importance that the next
PRSCO Summer Institute should be held in
Bali as regional scientist group in South East
Asian countries, e.g. Malaysia and Philippines,
are very interested in the RSAI and PRSCO
activities. Y.Higano reported he has a plan tocome to Bali and Djakarta at the end of thisyear, would meet with IRSA Executives andconvention agent, and would look at whether
the organization process is being going wellforwarded and would make advise and suggestion. After this visit, Y.Higano will make areport and an inter-net discussion if necessarynext January.

d) Progress Report on the organization of the 18th

Con rmation of Section Representatives:

ANZRSA: J. Madden, J Poot () CRSA: D. Edgington, R. Shearmur CRSA-T: C Hua, C. Mai JSRSAI: Y.
Higano (), Y. Miyata, K. Tanaka,
M. Tawada KRSA: J.H. Choi, S. Park () AMECIDER: A Corona, J Serrano
WRSA: L. Gibson, D. Plane (),Immediate Past

President

Executive Secretary

Pres-ident

Vice-President

J. Quigley, R Stoughb) Minutes of the PRSCO Council Meeting in Portland, 1 July, 2001
The minutes were approved as a correct recordof the meeting.

PRSCO Regular Meeting in Acapulco, 1-4 July,
2003
J. Serrano, Chairman Local Organizing Committee, had made a report about organization of the 18th PRSCO regular meeting inAcapulco, 2003. LOC and her subcommittees were launched mainly consisting of AMECIDER executives and sta s in Acapulco Campus of the University of State of Guerrero. Y.
Higano visited Acapulco after the last Portland Meeting and had a meeting with all ofthem.

e) Report on activities of Paci c Rim regional science communities
1) The Republic of the Philippinesc) Progress report on the organization of the 7th

Y. Higano reported about contact recently madewith Joseph Capuno in Manila: J. Capuno hadsuggested nomination of Ruperto Alonzo andHassein Lidasan as friends of the PRSCO; regional scientist group had a small meeting inPRSCO Summer Institute in Bali, 20-21 June,
2002
Y. Higano, Executive Secretary of the PRSCO,
made a report about current situation of the1h) Nomination of Executive Secretary of the PRSCO

Manila and launched PRSA on 9th November
2001.
The Republic of Chile
J. Serrano reported about contact recently madewith key persons in Chile: regional scientistgroup has a strong incentive to organize anRSAI section/association in Chile and the Acapulco Meeting would be an opportunity of making it stepped-up.

It was approved unanimously that Y. Higano
will serve as Executive Secretary of the PRSCO,
2002-2003.

2)i) Con rmation of Section Representatives at theend of this year
Y. Higano had made a notice that according tothe PRSCO Constitution, the term of all thesection representatives will be expired at theend of this year. Y Higano had requested each
Section/Association Executive Director to report to PRSCO Executive Secretary of all thenames who will represent the section/associationin the PRSCO Council and their aliation,
their contact address, etc., by the end of thisyear. It had been approved that if nothing
reported from section/association, it shall betaken that the present representatives shall continue to serve for the next term, 2002-2003.

3) The Malaysian regional science community

Y. Higano reported about a contact recently
made with Ishak Yussof and Ramah Ismail,regional scientists in Malaysia: I. Yussof hadsuggested nomination of Yusof Kasim as PRSCOfriend.

4) Report of Editor-in-Chief, Papers in Regional

ScienceRaymond Florax had made a brief report about
editorial business: partial replacement of editorial members, submission statistics, and editorship. R. Florax had stressed more paper
submission be made from sections/associationsin the Paci c Rim.

j) Date and location of the next Meeting

It would be held on Tuesday 18th, preceding tothe next PRSCO Institute in Bali. A precise
time and location would be announced later.

f) Nomination of Friends of the PRSCO

Y. Higano, Executive Secretary, had nominatedthe following names as friends of the PRSCO
in the Council, some of which were alreadymentioned in the above report on the contact with Philippine, Malaysia and Chilean regional scientist groups. This was approved
unanimously.
Jorge Dresdner, Chilean regional science community; Arcadio Cerda, Chilean regional science community; Ramon Antonio Gutierrez,Chilean regional science community; Ruperto
Alonzo, The Philippines regional science community; Hussein Lidasan, The Philippines regional science community; Mohd Yusof Kassim, the Malaysian regional science community; Maria Rosa Colantuono, the Argentine
regional science community; Luis Mauricio Cuervo,
the Colombia regional science community; Delna Trinica, the Venezuera regional sciencecommunity; Heliberto Cordova, the Peru regional science community; Romulo Caballeros,
the Guatemara regional science community;
Max Bernal, the Ecuador regional science community.

g) PRSCO delegate for the RSAI Council, 2002-2004
Y. Higano reported that he had received noname other than John Quigley by the end ofthe last October. Nomination of John Quigleyas PRSCO delegate for the RSAI Council wasapproved unanimously. (Y.Higano had madea notice that he has served for four years at
the end of this year)2k) Any further business

No further business.

S.Park, before closing the meeting at 17:00, hadexpressed his thanks to the Council Members
for their constant cooperation and support given
to him during his term of PRSCO President.
All the Council members, giving a clap, hadrespectfully expressed their sincere gratitude
for his excellent chairpersonship in running theCouncil.