Minutes of the PRSCO Council Meeting
Date and time: 15:30-17:00, Sunday 3rd July, 2011
Venue: Seoul KyoYuk MunHwa Hoekwan
Meeting Place: 3F DaegeumPresident John Madden called the meeting to order.
a) Apologies received, roll-call, and confirmation of Section representatives
Present:
John Madden (ANZRSAI, President PRSCO)Paul Dalziel (ANZRSAI)
Elizabeth Aponte (ASCER)
Emma Beatriz Castro (ASCER)
Richard Shearmur (CRSA)
Budy P. Resosudarmo (IRSA)
Yoshiro Higano (JSRSAI, President RSAI)
Yuzuru Miyata (JSRSAI)
Katsuhiro Sakurai (JSRSAI)
Jichung Yang (KRSA)
Mohd Yusof bin Kasim (MRSA)
Aroca Patricio (SOCHER)
Rachel Franklin (WRSA)
T. John Kim (WRSA)
Kingsley E. Haynes (WRSA)
Juan Manuel García Samaniego (Ecuador)
Michael C. Carroll (Editor-in-Chief, RSPP)
Zheng Wang (Chinese Academy of Science)
Anping Chen (Jinan Univ.)
Yuyuan Wen (Renmin Univ. of China)
Sun Jiuwen (Renmin Unive. Of China)
Huamzheng DU (Jiaxing Univ. China)
Bin Lee (Jiaxing Univ. China)
Hiroyuki Shibusawa (JSRSAI, Executive Secretary PRSCO)
Apologies received:
Chitta Ranjan Pathak, David Edgington, David Plane, Eduardo Haddad, EdwardMoncayo
Fakrul Islam, Fu-Chuan Lai, Geoffrey Hewings, Graham Clarke, Guillermo Aponte Bello
Jacques Poot, John Quigley, Jouke van Dijk , Kieran Donaghy, Lay Gibson,
Luis Armando Galvis, M.I.Zuberi, Makoto Tawada, Peter Batey, Roberta Cappelo
Roger Stough, Sarwar Jahan, Shin-Kun Pengb) Minutes of the PRSCO Council Meeting in Denver, Thursday 11th November
2010
PRSCO Council Meeting minutes were reviewed and T John Kim moved to adopt them.
Madden, the Minutes of the Thursday 11 Meeting was approved.
c) The venue of the 12th PRSCO Summer Institute, 2012
There are two offers to host the 2012 Summer Institute: china and Ecuador. Yuyuan Wenof Renmin University of China, Beijing presented the China proposal. Juan Garciapresented the Ecuador proposal.
Kingsley moves to have China 2012 and Ecuador in 2014. Higano suggested that theregional science is of growing importance in China and Beijing is more suitable as thevenue in 2012. Madden noted that proposals for China 2012 and Ecuador in 2014 wereaccepted.
d) The venue for the 23rd PRSCO Regular Meeting, 2013
There are two offers to host the 2013 PRSCO meeting: Chile and Indonesia. Patricio
Aroca presented the proposal from Chile. They have experience organizing both
domestic and international meetings. The meeting would be co-hosted withRSAMericaas. Budy Resosudarmo presented the proposal from Indonesia. They have alarge section and support/interest on the part of the government. Both proposals wereconsidered very good.
John Madden noted that both proposals are very good and we could settle both 2013 and2015. Since both countries prefer to host in 2013, Dr. Higano suggested a sub-committee
be organized to further discuss the 2013 venue. Sub-committee of Shibusawa, Madden,and Yang will gather more materials for the Miami council meeting.
e) Establishment of the PRSCO Awards
PRSCO is alone in the super regions in not having an established set of awards. Kingsleysuggested looking at what NARSC and ERSA have as a point of comparison. Madden
wondered how any prize(s) will be funded. It was decided that Madden and Shibusawa
will gather information and Haynes asked that they put a proposal forward based on theinformation collected.
f) Report on activities of Pacific Rim regional science communities
Dr. Higano noted that there will be three big regional science meetings in China next year.
On the subject of how to give incentive to young regional science scholars in China, Dr.
Higano proposed a special issue of Papers in Regional Science from papers from thosemeetings. Dr. Madden suggested that there be a special issue also of Regional Science
Policy & Practice.

Malaysia. There will be a conference in early December on regional development(?) inKuala Lumpur. Madden noted that it would be best if the meeting didn’t clash with ANZmeeting 6-9 December.
The Western Regional Science Association will host its 51st annual meeting in earlyFebruary 2012 in Kauai, Hawaii. The WRSA also recently moved its offices from theUniversity of Arizona to Brown University in Rhode Island and Rachel Franklin has
taken over from David Plane as Executive Director of the WRSA.
g) Report of Editors, Papers in Regional Science Policy and Practice (M. Carroll)Michael Carroll provided an update on Regional Science Policy & Practice. Wiley has
increased the number of institutional subscribers. RS P&P has gone from 2 to 4 issues ayear. A special issue from Peter Nijkamp is forthcoming. Other special issue(s) will
come from John Carruthers. Paper downloads have increased and so have submissions.
In 2008 there were 4 submissions; in 2010 there were 24; and in the first 6 months of2011 there were 35 unsolicited submissions.
h)Any further business
PRSCO delegate for the RSAI Council (Term: 2012-2014)
Patricio Aroca (2009-2011) , Yoshiro Higano (2010-2012), Paul Dalziel (2011-2013)PRSCO Delegate for RSAI Council – Haynes moved that Higano and Aroca’s terms beextended for another two years. T. John Kim seconded the motion, which passed.
Seoul PRSCO – The final program contains attendee counts. There were around 140
papers, as well as a special session from Japan (50th anniversary session), and special
sessions from the Korea regional science section.
We will meet again in Miami in November. Madden closed the meeting.
[Minutes written by Rachel Franklin]