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NEWS AND INFORMATIONFROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
For many years the Association has offered
its members the opportunity to obtain at
reduced prices subscriptions to approximately
10-12 regional science journals other thanPapers in Regional Science, which all dues
paying members receive. Toward the end of
the calendar year, which is also the end of an
RSAI membership year, the RSAI
Headquarters Office mails membershiprenewal forms for the upcoming year to all
Section officers and to all members who pay
their dues individually. On these forms theextra, optional journals are listed. Whereassome RSAI Sections offer their members only
the basic RSAI membership, other sections
offer their members the optional journals when
they pay their RSAI membership dues.
Recently, some publishers of these otherjournals have begun invoicing RSAI members
directly for subscription renewals, to the great(and vocal) consternation of many members.
We regret this turn of events, over which wehave no control. But since we haveinsufficient staff at RSAI Headquarters toassume the burden of additionalcorrespondence with publishers concerning
double payments for journal subscriptions thatsome members are making, we must urge
members not to respond to invoices ofpublishers if they have already subscribed tothese optional journals via RSAI. We also
urge section officers to remind their RSAI
members not to respond to these invoices ifthey subscribe to these journals through
RSAI.
RSAI MOURNS STOLPER
Professor Wolfgang F. Stolper died on March
31st at the age of 89. Renowned as a trade
theory and development economist, Stolper
was also a friend and supporter of regional
science and aided the publication of August
Loesch’s book on location theory in English.
Stolper participated in the Heidenheim Loesch
Tage and received the Ehrenring of
Heidenheim City.

AWARDS, PRIZES AND COMPETITIONSHONORARY DOCTORATE FOR ISARD
Professor Walter Isard has been nominated asDocteur Honoris Causa of the University ofGeneva (Switzerland) for his fundamental
work in Regional science and Peace Science.
He will be awarded the doctorate on June 7th
at the University of Geneva, together with Dr.
Koffey Annan, Secretary General of theUnited Nations. It is Isard’s 6th honorary
degree.
NIJKAMP APPOINTED PRESIDENT OFRESEARCH COUNCILHM Queen Beatrix has appointed ProfessorPeter Nijkamp as President of the governing
board of the Netherlands Research Council,
the government agency that allocates publicresearch funds in the country. Nijkamp willassume the presidency on June 1st but willretain his chair at Free University on a parttime basis.
FOTHERINGHAM AWARDED FELLOWSHIP
A. Stewart Fotheringham, Professor of
Quantitative Geography at the University of
Newcastle, has been awarded a Fellowshipfrom the Center for Advanced Study in the
Behavioral Science at Stanford University.
Nominations for Fellows are solicited fromsenior university administrators in the US andfrom previous Fellows. Once nominated, thechances of being awarded a Fellowship are 1
in 100. Only 50 Fellowships are awarded
each year.
IN THIS ISSUE
NEWS AND INFORMATIONAWARDS, PRIZES AND COMPETITIONSCOMMUNICATIONS AND LITERATURE

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REGIONAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL
An interdisciplinary, international organization focusing on understanding
the growth and development of urban, regional, and international systems.
Headquarters
Executive Director: Kieran P. Donaghy
Assistant Director: Beth Carbonneau
Bevier Hall, Room 83
905 South Goodwin Avenue
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, Illinois 61801-3682, USA
Phone: 217-333-8904
Fax: 217-333-3065
Email: RSAI@uiuc.edu
web page: http://www.regionalscience.org
International Council

President:

Geoffrey J.D. Hewings

Vice President:

Antoine Bailly

Immediate Past President:

Hirotada Kohno

Executive Director:

Kieran P. Donaghy

ERSA Councillors:

Franz Josef Bade [2002-2004]
Aisling Reynolds-Feighan [20022003]
Borje Johansson [2001-2003]

NARSC Councillors:

Brigitte Waldorf [2001-2003]
Geoffrey J.D. Hewings [2002-2004]
John Rees [2000-2002]PRSCO Councillors:

Hirotada Kohno [2001-2003]
John Quigley [2002-2004]
Jorge Serrano-Moreno [2000-2002]

Councillors-at-Large:

Antoine Bailly [2002-2004]
John H.Ll. Dewhurst [2000-2002]
Kieran P. Donaghy [2000-2002]
Art Getis [2001-2003]
John Madden [2002-2004]
Angelo Rossi [2001-2003]

Treasurer:

Andrew J. Krmenec

Archivist:

David E. Boyce

Ex--Officio:
Editors, Papers in Regional Science
Editor-in-Chief & European Editor: Raymond J.G.M. Florax
North American Editor:
Jessie Poon
Pacific Editor:
Jacques Poot
Book Review Editor:
Brigitte Waldorf
RSAI Newsletter Editor:

Kieran P. Donaghy

RSAI Web Page Editor:

Randall W. Jackson

Submission Information: All materials for submission should be transmitted inelectronic format, either via email, email attachment, or disk. Files may be submitted in Word, WordPerfect, rich text or ASCII formats. If your file contains special
characters (e.g. international characters) please also submit a printed copy, either
by postal mail or fax. Materials received only in printed format are not guaranteed
for publication. Material for inclusion in RSAI NEWS should be received by theeditors no later than December 1 for the January issue, April 1 for the May issue, orJuly 1 for the August issue.

3RD STEVENS FELLOWSHIP WINNER ANNOUNCED
Jung Won Song, doctoral student in the Department of
Urban Planning at the University of California-Los Angeles, has been selected the winner of the competition for
the third annual Benjamin H. Stevens Graduate Fellowshipin Regional Science. The title on his dissertation proposal
is “The Historical Geography of Innovation and Localized
Spillovers of Technological Knowledge.” He will receive asum of $20,500 for one year of progress on this topic.
FELLOWS OF THE RSAI TO BE RECOGNIZEDRSAI Council has adopted a resolution to identify as
Fellows of the RSAI a small number of members of the
Association who have made important contributions to thefield of regional science. For details of the resolution, seeitem 3 in the minutes of the Monterey meeting, below. The
inaugural Fellows, who will be recognized at the North
American Meetings in November, are the recipients of theFounder’s Medal: Walter Isard, Martin Beckmann, Jean
Paelinck, and David Boyce. Members of the RSAI are
invited to apply to become Fellows or nominate any othereligible member of the Association by sending a letter insupport of nomination, a detailed CV, and list of 3 references to David Boyce, at dboyce@uic.edu.

COMMUNICATIONS & LITERATURE
OFFER OF JOURNAL AND BOOK COLLECTION
Professor Harold F. (Bill) Williamson Jr., is retiring andwishes to donate his collection of regional sciencejournals and books to an interested institution or scholar.
He may be contacted at the Dept. of Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 214 David Kinley
Hall, Urbana, Illinois 61801. e-mail: billw@uiuc.edu.
JOURNAL ANNOUNCEMENTS
The review Geographie, Economie, Societe will henceforthappear as a quarterly Editions Elsevier publication. The
editorial policy and editorial committee will remain unchanged. Subscriptions obtained through Alternatives
Economiques will be automatically transferred, whereas
new subscriptions may be obtained directly from Editions
Elsevier, Service abonnements, 23, rue Lionois, 75724
Paris Cedex 15, Tel.: 33 (0) 71 72 46 46; Fax: 33 (0) 71 72
46 74. e-mail: clientservice@elsevier.fr.
The Spanish Regional Science Association (AECR) has
launched a new journal on regional analysis and policy:
Investigaciones Regionales. It is conceived of as a forum
for the publication of qualified contributions on territorial
problems, mainly within Spain and Latin America. The
contents of the issues will be divided into four sections:articles, notes, debates and policy, and book reviews.
The texts will normally be published in Spanish. Editor
Prof. Juan R. Cuadrado will be assisted by an editorial3. Resolution on Fellows of RSAI: The following
resolution came (moved and seconded) from the
President's committee on identification of Fellows of
RSAI that had met in Charleston: i) (Purpose) The
purpose of identifying Fellows of the RSAI is torecognize a small number of members of the
Association who have made important research andscholarly contributions to the field of regional
science, broadly construed. ii) (Procedure)
Members of the RSAI are invited to apply to become
Fellows, and are selected by a vote of the current
Fellows. The vote of the Fellows will be organized
and administered by the most recently inducted
Fellow (or, in the case of several, by a small
committee of that cohort selected by lottery). Once
constituted, the Fellows may adopt nomination andvoting procedures consistent with the purpose
described above. iii) (Number of Fellows) The
number of members eligible for selection as new
Fellows in any year shall be no more than five
percent of the RSAI membership on December 31 of
the previous year, less the number of living Fellows
at the time of the election. iv) (Transition) By
adoption of this resolution, the RSAI Council shallname the initial membership of Fellows. Thismembership consists of the living past recipients of
the Founder's Medal of the Association. These are:Walter Isard, Martin Beckmann, Jean Paelinck, andDavid Boyce. The first set of Fellows will select thesecond set of Fellows from among all persons
nominated by any member of RSAI, excluding
existing Fellows. v) (Review) Five years from theadoption of this resolution, the Council of the RSAI
will establish a committee of three members toreview the implementation of this resolution and torecommend changes, as appropriate. No more than
one member of this review committee will be chosenfrom the Fellows of the Association.

board and a scientific international council. Paper submissions will be reviewed by two external referees.
Contributions related to territory (regional and urban
aspects, transport, environment, territorial planning,regional and local financing, sustainability, etc.) will bewelcome. Research carried out on geographical, economic, political, sociological fields, etc. will be publishedaccording to the interdisciplinary nature of Regional
Science. Inquiries may be addressed to the Journal’s
Secretary: Dr. Ruben Garrido-Yserte, INVESTIGACIONES REGIONALES, Facultad de CC. Economicas.
Universidad de Alcala, Plaza de la Victoria 2, E-28802,
Alcala de Henares, Madrid, Spain. More details andinstructions for authors can be found at
http://www2.alcala.es/investigaciones_regionales/.
RECENT BOOKS BY MEMBERS OF RSAI
Feldman, Maryann P., and Massard, Nadine, Institutions
and Systems in the Geogrpahy of Innovation, Boston:
Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002.
Hewings, Geoffrey J.D., Sonis, Michael, and Boyce, David(Eds.) Trade, Networks, and Hierarchies, Berlin: SpringerVerlag, 2002.
Maggioni, Mario, Clustering Dynamics and the Location ofHigh Tech Firms, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 2002.
Sutari, Vinod, The Dynamics of New Firm Formation,
Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002.

CONFERENCE NEWSREPORTSMINUTES OF THE RSAI COUNCIL MEETING,MONTEREY, FEBRUARY 17, 2002
Present: Bailly (Vice President and At-Large), Batey(Long-Range Planning Committee), Donaghy(Executive Director and At-Large), Florax (PRS
Editor-in-Chief), Getis (At-Large), Gibson (LongRange Planning Committee), Haynes (Long-Range
Planning Committee), Hewings (President and
NARSC), Madden (At-Large), Poot (PRS PacificEditor), Waldorf (NARSC). Regrets: Bade (ERSA),
Dewhurst (At-Large), Johansson (ERSA), Kohno(PRSCO), Quigley (PRSCO), Rees (NARSC),
Reynolds-Feighan (ERSA), Rossi (At-Large),
Serrano-Moreno (PRSCO).
1. The meeting was called to order at 9:07 by
President Hewings.
2. The minutes of the Charleston meeting were
accepted as distributed. The proposed agenda wasrevised to move up discussion of the proposed
resolution on Fellows of RSAI.

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Discussion: Getis inquired if the purpose was not torecognize lifetime achievement. Hewings repliedaffirmatively but added the qualification that theFellow designation was to be made in recognition ofpurely scholarly achievement. He added that
Council would have oversight but not influence
decision making of the Fellows. Founder's Medalwinners are a logical first group of fellows. Poot
asked if there would be any special rights,
privileges, or duties of Fellows. Hewings stated thatthe designation was an honorific only. Gibson
queried if the number of annual inductees waslimited. Hewings: no. Batey asked if the acronym ofFellows of RSAI should be FRSAI. Haynes suggested two amendments to the resolution: that thesecond item be revised to read: "Members of the
RSAI are invited to apply to become Fellows, or may
nominate any other eligible member of the Association, ..." and that an additional item (item vi) be
added: "A fellow so designated may refer to himself
or herself as a Fellow of RSAI or FRSAI."

Decision: Getis's motion for approval of theresolution as amended carried with unanimity.

that Donaghy will have completed his second 3-year
term as Executive Director in December 2002 andwill be stepping down at that time. The LRPC isvetting candidates for the role, which will be achallenging one as the Association continues tomake important structural changes. Batey
concluded his report by remarking that the LRPC
deemed this a good time to reconsider theadministrative structure of the Association. He
noted that RSAI membership arrangements had
become quite complex and needed to be rethought.
While uniformity cannot be imposed on a bottom-up
organization, inefficiencies must be contained. How
membership services are delivered must be
addressed, as must the structure of the RSAICouncil, in view of the increasingly spotty regional
representation at Council meetings. Since only asmall proportion of scholars active in regional
science are members of RSAI, there is considerable
scope for increasing the membership base. The
LRPC will meet with section officers to consider
how best to improve collection and service delivery.
Whatever future state the Association assumes, thetransition will be difficult.

4. President's remarks: Hewings observed thatsignificant changes in the structure of the
Association were in the works. He reported that theDecember meeting in Brazil drew over 200
participants. Most participants were young,although less than 30 were female. Hewings also
noted that the formation of a Chilean section was
imminent.
Discussion: Bailly noted that there would be an IGU
meeting in Durbin in August that would provide an
opportunity to reconnect with South African regional
scientists.
5. Executive Director's report: Donaghy reported
that discrepancies in mailing costs to RSAI in thelast two years, noted in the treasurer's reportpresented at the meeting in Charleston, were due toa delay in the billing for mailing services by themailing center at UIUC. He reminded Council that
future meetings were scheduled for Dortmund on
August 30th at 9:00 AM and November 14th in San
Juan at 1:00 PM. The time for the Council meetingat the Acapulco PRSCO meeting (July 2-5, 2003)
remains to be set.
6. Report from the Chair of the LRPC: Reporting inplace of Kohno, Batey began by remarking that theLong-Range Planning Committee had discussed four
issues at its meeting on the previous day: renewal of
the printing agreement with Springer-Verlag (S-V),
relaunching the Association in its 50th year,
replacing of the Executive Director, and revising thestructure of the Association. Batey reminded theCouncil that RSAI had entered into a commercial
partnership with Springer-Verlag (S-V) to print thePapers in Regional Science in 1998. It is time to
discuss renewal of this contract. Batey identified as
the main items for negotiations with S-V: the numberof pages per volume (600 pages is the desired
number), format options for members (electronic,
hard copy, and CD ROM), availability of back issues
in the form of CD ROM, size of the payment to RSAI
to subsidize editorial work, and the length of thecontract (a two-year contract term is sought).
Florax interjected that there was also a short-term
issue: a special 50th anniversary issue planned for
the North American meetings of RSAI in
Philadelphia in 2003. Batey noted that plans were
underway for a 50th anniversary celebration to begin
in November 2003 and continue over the next 12months at such venues as the World Congress inPort Elizabeth in 2004. A major part of the rationaleis the need for the Association to reach outwards toareas not presently represented. In so doing, theAssociation will need to revise its structure toaccommodate new developments. Batey observed

Discussion: Hewings observed that all the points
Batey had made were interrelated. He noted thatthe headquarters' role can be transformed, but that
the Association should be prepared for alternatives.
Hewings invited nominations for Executive Director(ED) be made to Batey and added that who became
the next ED would be particularly critical, since itwould be this person who would manage thetransition of the Association to its new arrangement.
Getis asked if there were any names on the table.
Batey replied that three nominations had been made.
Batey indicated that there was a need to return tothe issue of renewal of the printing contract with SV and asked Council to authorize the publicationscommittee of himself, Donaghy, Florax and Hewings
to negotiate the items he had delineated in his
report.
Decision: Council granted the authorization sought.
7. Report from the Editor-in-Chief of Papers in
Regional Science: Florax reported that Jessie Poonhas made a smooth transition to the North American
editorship. Manuscripts for this year are adequate.
Submissions are up in the Pacific and are being
received with increasing frequency from Spain andPortugal.

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Discussion: Getis inquired whether and how editorsof different journals are dividing papers for the
special 50th anniversary issues. Florax replied that
historically there has been little coordination
between editors of regional science journals onanything; coordination on the 50th anniversary
issues is possible but remains to be organized.

RRSA, have been published and launched on theoccasion of this second symposium as well. The
preface is signed by Geoffrey Hewings and Peter
Nijkamp, who have also offered their kind support toestablishing and consolidating the RRSA.

Old business: Bailly reported that Walter Isard
would be awarded an honorary doctorate on June
7th in Geneva. He noted that at the end of January
2003, members of RSAI will be able to meet withgovernments ministers at the international planningmeeting in France. Poot observed that the number
of RSAI members outside North America may wellrise and fall with the exchange rate of local
currencies against the US dollar.

The Romanian Regional Science Association has
been set up in 2001, being formally recorded in the
National Register of Associations and Foundations
as an independent professional organisation.
At present it counts more than 70 members
representing a wide range of institutions:
universities from Bucharest and other Romaniancities, research institutes, ministries, county
councils, regional development agencies, etc.
The RRSA can be reached at arsr@k.ro

9. New business: Hewings identified three issues
that require Council's attention: 1) where to bring
South American and South African sections into the
Association; 2) how to develop closer working
relationships with the Indian regional science
association; and 3) how to reorganize the RSAICouncil so that it functions better as a representative decision making body in RSAI.

REMINDERSSPATIAL ECONOMETRICS WORKSHOP,
JUNE 14, 2002, TOULOUSE
A workshop on spatial econometrics will be held at
the University of Toulouse on June 14th, 2002. For
information and registration go to http://www.univetlse1.fr/GREMAQ/Statistique/Workshop/index.htm.
Or contact Christine Thomas at cthomas@cict.fr.

Discussion: Getis suggested that one way to deal
with the first issue would be to change the nomenclature to reflect better configurations that are
emerging. Another plan would be to bring new
sections from South America and South Africa into
existing conference organizations (NARSC, ERSA,
and PRSCO) until there is a critical mass to form
new conference organizations. Hewings suggested
that representatives of the new sections might beinvited to attend the next Council meeting tocontribute to the discussion.

7TH PRSCO SUMMER INSTITUTE AND 4TH IRSACONFERENCE, JUNE 20-21, 2002, BALIThe Indonesian Regional Association (IRSA) is preparing
the 7th Pacific Regional Science Conference Organization (PRSCO) Summer Institute, which will also be the
4th IRSA International Conference, entitled “Decentralization, Natural Resources, and Regional Development in
the Pacific Rim.” This institute/conference will be held in
Bali on June 20-21, 2002 and will include presentations of
selected papers on a number of themes. Among others,
these will include decentralization and regional finance,
regional economy and planning, resource and environmental management, institutional development, population and urbanization, agriculture and community development, transportation, as well as industrial development
and trade. For more information about the institute/conference, please see http://www. irsa.naraindra.or.id.

10. The meeting was adjourned at 10:32 AM.
2ND NATIONAL SYMPOSIUM OF THE ROMANIANREGIONAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATIONOn April 4 – 5, 2002 the Academy of Economic
Studies of Bucharest hosted the Second National
Symposium of the Romanian Regional Science
Association (RRSA), which concentrated on"Regional Development and European Integration". It
has proved a great interest in various regional
science domains, the 92 papers included in the
programme being structured by section as follows:
regional strategies and policies, opportunities andthreats in the process of European integration,
regional statistics and forecasting, institutions andregional development, regional labour markets,regional models in agriculture in a European
perspective, regional co-operation for supporting
tourism development, sustainable regional
development. On behalf of the Regional Science
Association International Council and the European
Organizing Committee of the Regional Science
Association, Angelo Rossi sent an extremelyinteresting and challenging address, which waspresented to the participants at the Opening
ceremony.
The Proceedings of the First National Symposium,edited by Daniela Constantin, the president of the

9TH NATIONAL MEETING OF APDR, JUNE 27-29, 2002,
LISBONThe Portuguese Section of ERSA, APDR, is organizing
its 9th National Meeting, to be held in Lisbon on June-2729, 2002. The languages of the meeting are Portuguese,
Spanish, French and English. This year the meeting will
focus on the relationship between the new economy andregional development. Challenges to regional economies
created by globalization and appropriate policy responses
will be discussed. For more information on the programand accommodations, please go to http://www.apdr.pt/
Encontro2002 or contact APDR - IX Encontro, Apartado
3060, 3001-401 Coimbra, Portugal, tel: (+351) 239 820
533, fax (351) 239 820 750, e-mail: apdr@mail.telepac.pt.

59TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON RECENTADVANCE IN RETAILING AND SERVICES SCIENCE,
AUGUST 16-19, 2002, HEIDELBERG
The announcement of the 9th International Conference on
Recent Advances in Retailing and Services Science,
which will be held in the Heidelberg Marriott Hotel(Heidelberg, Germany) on August 16-19, 2002, may befound at http://www.bsk.tue.nl/urb/CallForPapers.html.

program, fees, and fellowships is available at http:/
www.uni-graz.at/geowww or from regi-sommerunit@unigraz.at. The registration deadline for both events is June
30th.
3RD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DISCRETE
CHAOTIC DYNAMICS IN NATURE AND SOCIETY,SEPTEMBER 9-13, 2002, TOKYOThe Third International Conference on Discrete Chaotic
Dynamics in Nature and Society (DCDNS3) will be held
at Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan, on September 9-13,
2002. For more information please go to http://
dcdn3.tamacc.chuo-u.ac.jp.

42ND ERSA CONGRESS, AUGUST 27-31, 2002
DORTMUND, GERMANY
The German Speaking Section of RSAI and the Faculty of
Spatial Planning of the University of Dortmund will hostthe 42nd ERSA Congress on August 27-31, 2002 at the
University of Dortmund, Germany. The congress, titled“From Industry to Advanced Services: Perspectives ofEuropean Metropolitan Regions,” will focus on the structural change and the economic perspectives of the Ruhrregion as one of the biggest metropolitan areas in Europe. The conference program will feature papers on
regional competitiveness, sectoral changes and newmarkets, innovation and new technologies, locational
analysis, labor markets, demographic trends, environment and sustainability, urban and metropolitan areas,
rural and peripheral areas, transportation, regional andurban planning, regional policy, European policy, andmethods of spatial analysis.
BAD RADKERSBURG TO HOST TWO EVENTS ON“REGIONAL POICIES IN EUROPE”
The Institute of Geography and Regional Science will
present two events of an annual series on “Regional
Policies in Europe”--the Summer University and theInternational Symposium--in Bad Radkersburg, Austria
this September. The Summer University program, “NewWays of Cross-Border Cooperation,” is designed as aknow-how-transfer institute for putting research results
into practice. The program will feature cooperation
among political authorities, administrative officials,
experts in economics and social studies, and representatives of the media and non-profit organizations. The threeprogram modules are: “Achieving Synergies throughEconomic Cooperation across Borders” (Sept. 2-6), “KeyTools and Techniques for Successful Cross-Border
Cooperation,” (Sept. 9-13), and “Cross-Border Cooperation through Partnership and Participation Models (Sept.
15-19). The International Symposium, which follows theSummer University, will deal with cultural bridges acrossborders, cross-border clusters and networks, social
dynamics of cross-border cooperation, the value of theindividual, local, or regional identities, and politicalspaces as transnational entities. Theoretical approaches
will be illustrated with good-practice examples. The
keynote address, “The Importance of Cross-Border
Cooperations for the Enlargement of the European Union,”
will be presented by Dr. Erhard Busek (Special Coordinator of the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe, Brussels, Belgium.) A limited number of fellowships for partial
funding are available for participants from Central andEastern European Countries. Information on the final

22ND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF RESER,SEPTEMBER 26-27, 2002, MANCHESTER ENGLAND
The Centre for Research in Innovation and Competition
will host the 22nd International Conference of RESER,the European Network of Economic and Spatial Service
Research in Manchester, England September 26-27. The
theme of the conference will be “Services and Innovation:
understanding innovation--its structures, processes, andoutcomes--in services and service activities.” Papers
will be organized in the following streams: measurement
challenges, organizational and technological innovation,
impacts of innovation, the roles and position of services
in innovation systems, and policy for services innovation.
For information on conference facilities, registration fees,
the scientific committee, keynote speaker, and similar
issues please contact Ian.Miles@man.ac.uk.
2ND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
URBANIZATION, DIGITAL ECONOMY ANDENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY,OCTOBER 11-13, 2002, WUHAN, CHINA
For information on this conference please contact Manas
Chatterji (mchatter@binghamton.edu) or Kaizhong Yang(ykz@urban.pku.edu.cn)
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CONFLICTMANAGEMENT, PEACE ECONOMICS AND
DEVELOPMENT, OCTOBER 18-20, 2002, KRAKOW,POLANDFor information on this conference please contact Czeslaw Mesjasz (mesjasz@al.krakow.pl), Manas Chatterji(mchatter@binghamton.edu), or Partha Gangopadhyay(gagopad@euv-frankfurt-o.de).
CALLS FOR PAPERS
49TH ANNUAL NORTH AMERICAN MEETINGS OF THE
REGIONAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL,NOVEMBER 14-15, 2002, SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO
The 49th annual North American Meetings of the RSAI
will be held at the Condado Plaza Hotel and Casino inhistoric San Juan, Puerto Rico on November 14-16, 2002
(all day Thursday through Saturday). Colleagues interested in presenting a paper at these meetings should use
the Abstract Submission Form on the NARSC web site:

6issues like the Kyoto Protocol, the impact of unifying
Europe, and welfare issues of e-commerce. The Review
of Urban and Regional Development Studies will devote
the March 2003 issue to advances in equilibrium analysis
using CGE models. The subject coverage for the issue is
not restrictive and all empirical papers based on CGE
models are invited. The submission deadline is August 1,
2002. Submissions should not exceed 25 double-spaced
pages with page numbers, should not include authors’names and affiliations in the manuscript, and should
include authors’ fax numbers and e-mail addresses.
Electronic submission in MS Word or PDF format ispreferred. Manuscripts and inquiries may be sent torurds@gol.com. RURDS/ Tokyo International University.
Oraga Bldg., 6F, Takadanobaba 4-8-4 Tokyo 169-0075.
Fax: 81-3-3367-8451.

http://www.narsc.ORG./Abstract_Submission_Form.html.
Abstracts should not exceed 200 words long. The
paper’s title should be included along with the postal
address, phone and fax numbers, and e-mail address ofeach author. The author(s) who will be attending themeeting should be identified. The submission of abstracts by June 15th is strongly encouraged. By submitting an abstract, one also agrees to serve as a discussant and/or session chair during the conference. Participants are strongly encouraged to organize a session in
their field of interest. Anyone who is interested inorganizing a session, being a session chair, or being a
discussant, is encouraged to contact Michael Lahr(lahr@rci.rutgers.edu) as soon as possible for more
information. Attendees are encouraged to register forthe conference and reserve a hotel room as soon as
possible. Through June 15th, the conference fee will be$130. After June 15th and prior to October 15th, the fee
will be $160. After October 15th, the fee will be $185.
Conference registration is possible at the following web
site: http://www.narsc.ORG./Conference_Registration.
html. Through October 15th, the NARSC room rate at
the Condado Plaza Hotel and Casino is $150 per night,
plus an 11% room tax. The conference rate is good forthree days prior to and after the conference. For information about contacting the hotel, see http://www.narsc.
ORG./prhotel.html.

ADVANCE NOTICE OF THE 18TH PRSCOCONFERENCE, JULY 1-4, 2003, ACAPULCO, MEXICO
The 18th Pacific meetings of the RSAI will be held in
Acapulco on July 1-4, 2003. This is the first time a
PRSCO conference has been held in Latin America and alarge delegation of scholars from South and Central
American Countries is expected. The theme of theconference will be “The Potential of Regions in the PacificRim.” Information on the conference will be available fromthe PRSCO, AMECIDER, and University of Guerrero web
sites. Contact persons: Dr. Jorge Serrano, Chairman LOC
and President of AMECIDER, jrsm@servidor.unam.mx,
tel: (52-777) 317-5299, fax: (52-777) 317-5981; Dr. Rosalio
Wences, Acapulco Commissions Coordinator, Universityof Guerrero, wences-reza@hotmail.com, tel/fax: (52-744)
487-6694 or 487-6624.

28TH AECR MEETING, NOVEMBER 27-29, 2002,
MURCIA
Under the title Sustainable Development in the Europe of
the Regions, the 28th meeting of the Spanish Regional
Science Association (AECR) will be held in Murcia on
November 27-29, 2002. The organizing committee
invites papers on water administration and its problems,
new proposals of the financial sector, processes ofdesertification and environmental degradation, thetourism sector and rural tourism, new technologies andterritorial surroundings of small and medium size corporations, territorial impacts of European integration,
financing and taxation of the local administrations,efficient provision of public decentralized services,
processes of decentralization and urban changes, recent
migratory processes, and techniques of reigonal analysis. Paper contributors are encouraged to draw thebroader implications for society and the environment of
their research findings in these topical areas. For more
information go to http://www.ctv.es/USERS/aecr, or
contact aecr@ctv.es.
SPECIAL ISSUE OF RURDS ON EMPIRICAL ANALYSISWITH CGE MODELS
Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) models havebeen used extensively over the past 25 years to analyze
government policies in both developed and developing
countries. Advances in methodology and computation
techniques have allowed researchers to use CGE
models for studying the potential impacts of trade
agreements of NAFTA and the WTO, the Japan-Singapore Free Trade Agreement, global environmental

2001 MEMBERSHIP DIRECTORY
The full 2001 Membership Directory can be accessed in‘Membership Information’ on the RSAI web site. The
directory is separate from the skeleton list of 2002
members.
EDITOR’S NOTE
Please note that Randall Jackson continues tomaintain the primary RSAI web site. Any material
you wish to post there should be directed to him at
rri@wvnvm.wvnet.edu.
Electronic submissions (text or attachment) only,
please.
Please send all electronic submissions of material
for the RSAI News directly to RSAINEWS@uiuc.edu
and copy all submissions to rri@wvnvm.wvnet.edu
so that they also may be posted on the web at
http://www.regionalscience.org.

- Kieran P. Donaghy
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