Minutes of the PRSCO Council Meeting(Portland, Oregon, USA, 1 July, 2001)(approved by the PRSCO Council Meeting in Charleston, S. Carolina, USA, 15 November, 2001)
a panel on "Urban Growth Management:
the Oregon Experience," organised by Brian
Holly. On Tuesday afternoon there would
be an excursion to the Columbia River Gorge
and conference dinner at the Skamania Lodge.

Held on Sunday 1sy July, 2001
at Eric V. Hauser Room, Embassy Suites Portland Downtown, Portland, Oregon, USA

Commencing at 8:30 AMa) Apologies received, roll-call, and conrmation of Section representatives

S. Park, President of PRSCO, proposed avote of thanks to D. Plane, R. Franklin andothers on the organising committee for theexcellent conference organisation. This was
carried with acclamation.

Apologies received:

J.H. Choi(KRSA), C. Hua (CRSA-T), R. Florax (Ex Ocio, Editor-in-Chief Papers in Regional Science), C. Mai (CRSA-T), J. Quigley(WRSA), S. Rodriguez (Friend of PRSCO,d) Report on the Formal Procedure of the Af-liation of the Indonesian Regional Science
Association to the RSAI and the PRSCOMexico)

Present:

Y. Higano, Executive Secretary of PRSCO,requested K. Donaghy, Executive Directorof RSAI, to table at the next RSAI Council meeting which would follow this PRSCO
Council meeting, the aliation of the Indonesian Regional Science Association (IRSA)
to RSAI. Following the approval of aliation of IRSA to RSAI, the aliation ofIRSA to PRSCO, as decided at the Chicago
meeting, would become e ective. Y. Higano
asked B. Resosudarmo to provide the namesof the two representatives of IRSA on PRSCOCouncil.

A. Alvarez (Friend of PRSCO, Argentina), P.
Batey (Friend of PRSCO, UK), S. Choo (KRSA,repr. J.H. Choi), K. Donaghy (Ex Ocio, Executive Secretary RSAI), D. Edgington (CRSA),L. Gibson (WRSA), K. Haynes (Friend ofPRSCO, USA), Y. Higano (JSRSAI, Executive Secretary PRSCO), H. Kohno (Ex ocio, Immediate Past President RSAI), J. Madden (ANZRSAI), Y. Miyata (JRSAI), S. Park(KRSA, President PRSCO), D. Plane (WRSA,Vice-President PRSCO), J. Poot (ANZRSAI,Immediate Past President PRSCO), B. Resosudarmo (Friend of PRSCO, Indonesia), J. Serrano (AMECIDER), R. Stough (WRSA), M.
Tawada (JSRSAI), K. Tanaka (JSRSAI), I.
Yussof (Friend of PRSCO, Malaysia)e) PRSCO delegate for the RSAI Council, 2002-2004
Y. Higano noted that the position which
J. Quigley occupies on RSAI Council (oneCon rmation of section representatives, as at
1 July 2001:of three PRSCO nominated Council positions)will expire at the end of 2001. J. Quigley
has o ered to continue in this capacity forone more three-year term. Other nominations should be sent to Y. Higano by 31 October 2001. A decision would be made atthe PRSCO Council meeting in Charleston.

ANZRSA: J. Madden, J Poot (Immediate Past President) CRSA: D. Edgington, RShearmur CRSA-T: C Hua, C. Mai JSRSAI: T. Fukuchi, Y. Higano (Executive Secretary), Y. Miyata, M. Tawada KRSA: J.H.
Choi, S. Park (President) AMECIDER: ACorona, J Serrano WRSA: L. Gibson, D.

f) Progress Report on the Organisation of the7th PRSCO Summer Institute in Indonesia

Plane (Vice-President), J. Quigley, R Stoughb) Minutes of the PRSCO Council meeting inB. Resosodarmo (IRSA) spoke about thepreparations. The Summer Institute will beheld at a hotel in Bali on Thursday June 20and Friday June 21, 2002. The theme willbe "Natural resources, decentralisation andregional development". Y. Higano o ered
to assist with the setting up of a websitethat can be reached via the PRSCO andRSAI websites. The registration fee wasexpected to be US $250. A eld trip would
be held on Saturday 22 June.

Chicago, 9 November 2000
The minutes were approved as a correct
record of the meeting.

c) Final Report on the Organisation of the 17thPRSCO regular meeting
D. Plane reported that there had been agood response to the call for papers. Theconference had attracted 160 participants.
There were 137 papers on the program. Several special features had been included inthe program. The plenary session included1g) Progress Report on the Organisation of thei) Spanish version of the PRSCO Constitution

18th PRSCO Regular Meeting in Mexico

Y. Higano received a letter from Dr M.C.
Florentino Cruz Ramirez, Rector, Autonomous
University of the State of Guerrero in which
he o ered the support of his university to bethe host of the 18th PRSCO conference in2003. The conference would be held in Acapulco from Monday 1 July 2003 until Friday
5 July 2003. J. Serrano provided some details about the conference organisation andtimetable. There would also be ocial support from the government of the State ofGuerrero. The conference would be held
jointly with the annual national meeting ofAMECIDER. As was the case at the 2000
Summer Institute, plenary sessions would
be bilingual. Much e ort would be madeto ensure adequate representation of scholars from Middle and South American countries. Contact has already been establishedwith scholars in Argentina, Chile, Equador,Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Guatamala andBrazil. Means of travel support for participants from these countries will be investigated. The fact that an APEC summit will
be held in Mexico in November 2002 will beexploited.
In the discussion of the proposal it was notedthat a website with full information about
the conference should be designed at least
one year before the conference. Arrangements should also be made to ensure that
conference registration and accommodation
fees can be paid by credit card. L. Gibson
formally moved that PRSCO Council accept the proposal that AMECIDER hosts
the 18th PRSCO conference in Acapulco.
This was carried with acclamation.

J. Serrano noted that the PRSCO Constitution had been translated into Spanish andcould be downloaded from the PRSCO homepage as a pdf le.

j) Paci c Editor Report, Papers in Regional ScienceJ. Poot noted that the total number of pages
available for this Springer journal each year
had increased from 450 to 520. This would
remain so in 2002, but from 2003 onwards
it was anticipated to go to 600 pages peryear. The number of submissions of papers
from the Asia-Paci c area has been rather
small recently. Between January and June
2002 only six new papers had been submitted from the Asia-Paci c area. Council members were asked to encourage theircolleagues to submit papers to the journal.
J. Poot also informed Council about special
journal issues: one was planned for 2002 on
labour markets (guest editor Charlie Karlsson) and one in 2003 on trade and integration in the Asia-Paci c area (guest editor Jessie Poon). The issue of 2004 will bea special anniversary issue to celebrate the50th anniversary of RSAI. Finally, while J.
Poot and R. Florax would remain editors
for Asia-Paci c and Europe respectively forthe 2001-2003 period, a new North-American
editor would be appointed for the 2002-2004
period at the November NARSC conferencein Charleston.

k) Date and location of the next meetingh) Nomination of delegates as friends of the PRSCO
from the Paci c Rim Area

The next meeting would be held in Charleston,
USA, on Thursday November 15. The timeand place of the meeting would be announced
later.

l) Any further business

Y. Higano has contacted key persons in various countries. They are: Brazil: E.A. Haddad, J. Guilhoto, C.R. Azzoni
Chile: P.A. Gonzales, F. Vial
Malaysia: R. Ismail, I. Yussof
Philippines: J. Capuno.

S. Park closed the meeting at 11:30 AM.

In the ensuing discussion it was suggested
that e orts should be made to ensure thata Summer Institute would be held at somestage in one of the above countries and that
also new contacts would need to be established with scholars in India and mainland
China. The suggestion of a Summer Institute in Fiji was also made.
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