Minutes for the PRSCO Council Meeting, Atlanta
Date and time: Thursday November 14th, 2013, 12:00-13:30PMVenue: Grand Hyatt Atlanta in Buckhead Meeting Place: Veranda
John Madden called the meting to order at 12:44.
. a) Apologies received, roll-call, and confirmation of Section representatives. John Madden referred us to the list.
st. b) Minutes of the PRSCO Council Meeting in Bandung, Monday July 1 , 2013 (J.Yang). Move to accept the minutes. Richard Shearmur seconded the motion.
. c) Report on the 23rd Pacific Conference of the RSAI in Bandung (B. Resosudarmo). Resosudarmo says meeting was successful. 250 papers, 350 participants. About 25 countries
represented. 40% from Indonesia. Madden says we appreciate the work that was done
there.
th. d) Report on the venue of the 13 PRSCO Summer Institute , 2014, Ecuador (RonnyFabian Correa Quezada, Leonardo Izquierdo). Page 3 and 4 talk about the conference. July 16-18, 2014. Proposed program enclosed. TheEcuador section will be formed at the time of the Institute.
th. e) Report on the preparation of the 24 Pacific Conference of the RSAI, 2015, Chile. Patricio Aroca wonders about decision about 2015 meeting location. Decision about Chile has
not been made yet. Marcelo (chair of Chilean section) is willing to host meeting in 2014.
Location may be Viña del Mar, central part of the country. Roger Stough notes that it will be on
the sea. Kingsley moves we meet there. Roger Stough seconds. All vote in favor.
. f) Discussion of venues of the PRSCO Conference and Summer Institute in 2016-2019. Several places were proposed at Bandung meeting. Resosudarmo has been in touch withsomeone from Malaysia. He suggests we could involve Malaysians and Vietnamese in planningmeeting in in Bangkok. Madden asks when decisions need to be made. 2016, Thailand could be
an option, says Shibusawa. Thill thinks the Thais might be willing, as they are working on
developing a section now.
. Madden says we should have something in the pipeline by our next meeting.
Haynes says we could make contacts at the World Congress. Haynes wonders if Resosudarmo
can help with discussions with Malaysia and Vietnam. Madden has contacts in both countries.
Haynes reminds us that Vietnam may be harder, given the political system.
Madden says: Thailand 2016; 2017 Malaysia; 2018 Vietnam; and then China sometime. g) Nomination of the president of the PRSCO, 2014-2015 (J. Yang). Madden formally nominates Budy Resosudarmo. Kingsley seconds.
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. h) Nomination of the executive secretary of the PRSCO, 2014-2015 (J.Yang). Shubusawa willing to continue. Madden nominates him; Resosudarmo seconds.
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. i) Nomination of the PRSCO Representative for the RSAI Council for the term 20142016 (J.Yang)

. Madden nominates Yuzuru MIYATA (JSRSAI). Shibusawa seconds.
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. j) Establishment of the PRSCO Awards (J. Madden). Madden says we’ve been deliberating about this for a few years and now is the time to makesome decisions.
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. Young Regional Scientist: We discussed this last year in Ottawa (money, eligibility). Madden
has redrafted a set of rules. Madden moves. Richard seconds. All in favor.
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. Prize could be fees plus half of travel costs. Haynes wonders if RSAI could help support prizes– even just for a few years. He also wonders if prizes will be given every year, even if we’re nothaving a conference every year.
Outstanding Service: Madden thinks this should be a named award. He proposes it be a named
award and that the name be Yoshiro Higano. Higano meets all the criteria laid out in theproposal. And Yoshiro should receive first award of this name.
Madden would be happy to give the Outstanding Service award only at PRSCO conference.
Haynes moves. Patricio seconds. All in favor. Biannual award.
Accept rules. Moved Haynes. Seconds?
Move that award be named Higano award and that Higano should be first awardee. Kinsgley
moves, and then Richard seconds.
. k) Establishment of the PRSCO Advisory Committee John Madden (2014-2017), Jichang
Yang (2014-2019).
Disussed under item f in Bandung. Past 3 presidents of PRSCO. This would be: Edgington,
Madden, Yang. Madden will be looking for advice from RSAI, in particular with regard to
forward planning.
. l) Report on activities of Pacific Rim regional science communities 1) RSAI World
Congress, May 27-29, 2014, Bangkok, Thailand (J-C.Thill) 2) Development of Thailand
Section (J-C. Thill).
Thill reported on the World Congress in Bangkok (27-29 of May, 2014.). There will beworkshops on the 26th. Supposed to be a nice hotel in a nice part of town. There’s a local
arrangements committee. Trying to build infrastructure for eventual Thai section. Hopefully by
may 2014 there will be a proposal on the table for them to join RSAI. There will be a workshop
organized in advance of the congress, last week of January. One-day workshop with local andnational government people.
Deadline for submission of papers is December 1. Keynote speakers have been identified. One
keynote speaker will be Henry Yeung from Singapore. Deadline is Nov. 18 for organizing
special sessions. All details are on the website. We look forward to having as many people thereas possible. Thill is interested in ideas, including panel sessions. Feel free to contact him. Fiveor six different workshops have been proposed.
Resosudarmo suggests someone for keynote. He could bring ADB people. Resosudarmo alsosuggests a facebook page.
Thill’s first contact with these Thai people was in Bandung.
m) Report of RSAI Universal Membership Fees (Tomaz)
Tomaz gave an update on sections.
n) Report of Editors, Papers in Regional Science (R. Cappelo)
Not present.
o) Report of Editors, Regional Science Policy & Practice (M. Carroll)
Mike gave an update on RSPP. November issue is out – issue on innovation. Readership inChina and other Asian countries is up. There will be a refocus of other purpose and scope of thejournal. They are always happy to receive submissions.
p) Any further business
1) The next PRSCO Council meeting will be held in Bangkok. All agreed.

PresentBudy Resosudarmo (IRSA)
Dusan Paredes (SOCHER)
Eduardo Haddad (BRSA)
Hiroyuki Shibusawa (JSRSAI)
Jean-Claude Thill (RSAI president)
John Madden (ANZRSAI)John Madden spouse Prue
Kingsley Haynes (WRSA)
Kingsley spouse Susan
Luis Armando Galvis (ACER)
Marcelo Lufin (SOCHER,president)
Rachel Franklin (WRSA)
Richard Shearmur (CRSA)
Roger Stough (WRSA)
Shin-Kun Peng (CRSA-T)
Tomaz Dentinho (RSAI Executive Director)
Yoshiro Higano (JSRSAI, past RSAI president)Peter Nijkamp (ERSA)

Michael C. Carroll (Editor RSPP)
Patricio Aroca (SOCHER, RSAmericas president)
Yoji Kunimitsu (JSRSAI)
Apologies received,
Leonardo Izquierdo (Ecuador), Ronny Correa Quezada (Ecuador), Yuzuru Miyata (JSRSAI),
Jichung Yang (KRSA, PRSCO President) , Anping Chen (China), Chitta Ranjan Pathak (IRSA),
Daigee Shaw (CRSA-T), David Edgington (CRSA), Jacques Poot (ANZRSAI), Jorge Serrano(AMECIDER), Paul Dalziel (ANZRSAI), S. Eréndira Serrano-Oswald(AMECIDER) ,Yuyuan
Wen (China), Fakrul Islam (BRSA), Lay J. Gibson (WRSA), Zeng Wang (China), Makoto
Tawada (JSRSAI), Roberta Capello (Editor PiRS)