Minutes of the PRSCO Council Meeting
Held on Thursday 11th November 2010
Pyramid Peak A Room, Grand Hyatt HotelDenver, USAPresident John Madden opened the meeting at 12:45 pm.
a) Apologies received and roll-call
Apologies received:
David Edgington (CRSA/ACSR, Immediate Past President PRSCO, Canada)Kingsley Haynes (WRSA, USA)
Shin-kun Peng (CRSA-T, Taiwan)
Jichung Yang (KRSA, Republic of Korea)
Present:
Bill Anderson (CRSA/ACSR, Canada)
Dusan Panedes (SOCHER, Chile)
Eduardo Haddad (ABER, Brazil)
Hiroyuki Shibusawa (JSRSAI, Japan)
Jacques Poot (ANZRSAI, New Zealand)
Jean-Claude Thill (NARSC, USA)John Madden (ANZRSAI, President PRSCO, Australia)
Jouke van Dijk (Editor-in-Chief, Papers in Regional Science, Netherlands)
Lay Gibson (WRSA, USA)
Luis Galvis (ASCER, Colombia)
Michael Carroll (Editor, Regional Science Policy and Practice, USA)
Patricio Aroca (SOCHER, Chile)
Ping Wang (CRSA-T, Taiwan)
Roberta Capello (President RSAI, Italy)
Roger Stough (WRSA, USA)Sam Ock Park (KRSA, Vice President PRSCO, Republic of Korea)
T. John Kim (WRSA, USA)
Yangmi Koo (KRSA, Republic of Korea)
Yoshiro Higano (JSRSAI, Executive Secretary PRSCO, Japan)
Yuzuru Miyata (JSRSAI, Japan)b) Minutes of the PRSCO Council Meeting in San Francisco, 19th November 2009
It was noted that no PRSCO Council meeting was held at the PRSCO Summer Institutein Colombia in 2010. After P. Aroca elaborated on attendance numbers at the Chilean
section meeting in 2009 (which consisted of 60 members of the Chilean Economic
Association and 40 of the Chilean Regional Science Association), it was moved by K.
Kim and seconded by R. Stough that the minutes be accepted as a correct record of themeeting.

1c) Nomination of the PRSCO delegate for the RSAI for the term 2011-2013
There are three PRSCO delegates on RSAI Council: Y Higano (2010-2012), TJ Kim(2008-2010) and P Aroca (2009-2011). Because TJ Kim already served two terms, a new
PRSCO delegate would need to be appointed for the period 2011-2013. It was noted that
there would be a preference for recruitment from the Australian and New Zealand
Section (ANZRSAI). The matter would be resolved by email correspondence. (UpdateJan 2011: Paul Dalziel, President of ANZRSAI, has agreed to be the 2011-2013 PRSCO
delegate on RSAI Council).
d) Report on organization of the 22nd PRSCO Regular Meeting in Seoul, 2011
Jichung Yang is the Chair of the Local Organising Committee. However, he was unable
to attend the PRSCO Council meeting. The conference would be held in Seoul, July 3-6,
2011. A website has been established that provides details of the abstract submission
deadline, registration fees etc. The website is www.prsco2011.com. S.O. Park noted that
immediately preceding the PRSCO conference, the Third Global Conference on
Economic Geography: Space, Economy and Environment would be held 28 June – 1 July,
2011 in Seoul. The website for the latter conference is www.spaceeconomy.org/conference/index.html. It was suggested that foreign regional scientists may
wish to consider going to Seoul to attend both conferences.
e) The venue of the 12th PRSCO Summer Institute, 2012
It was suggested that the Summer Institute in 2012 could be held in mainland China.
Possible locations could be Shanghai or Beijing. P. Aroca suggested South America,
specifically Ecuador, as an alternative. It was expected that a decision would be made atthe PRSCO Council meeting in Seoul.
f) The venue of the 23rd PRSCO regular meeting, 2013
It was suggested that this conference could be held jointly with the Regional Science
Association of the Americas conference that is planned to be held in Chile in 2013. An
alternative in another part of the world would be Indonesia. J. Madden invited localorganizers, who wish to have their proposal for the 23rd PRSCO regular meeting to beconsidered by Council, to give a presentation about their proposal at the Seoul Council
meeting.
g) Confirmation of Nomination of the Executive Secretary of the PRSCO
Given Y. Higano’s forthcoming term as President of RSAI, he would be unable tocontinue as Executive Secretary of PRSCO. It had already been agreed at the Council
meeting in San Francisco that that H. Shibusawa would be appointed Executive Secretaryfrom 1 January 2011. This was noted.
h) Report on activities of the Pacific Rim regional science communities(1) Colombia
L. Calvis commented on the growth in regional science in Colombia. This had already ledto a meeting in Cartagena and the 2010 Summer Institute in Cali. The 3rd nationalconference would be held in Medellin in late November 2010. Having now established2ongoing activities in Colombia, ASCER would like to formally join PRSCO. It wasmoved L. Gibson and seconded P. Aroca that ASCER would be accepted as a PRSCOsection.
(2) China
Y. Higano noted that he would attend a meeting in Hanzhou in the second week of March
2011. It was expected that at this meeting a Chinese section would be formed.
(3) Peru
R. Capello suggested that there are regional scientists in this country that would wish todevelop links with PRSCO. A person in the RSAI network who has contacts in Peru is J.
Cuadro-Roura.
i) Report of the Editor of PiRS
J. van Dijk (Editor-in-Chief) said that PiRS had once again a successful year. Besides
himself, the editorial team consists of James LeSage (Texas State University–San Marcos,U.S.A.), Philip McCann (University of Groningen, The Netherlands), Yoshitsugu
Hayashi (Nagoya University, Japan) and T. Tabuchi (University of Tokyo, Japan).
Charlie Karlsson (Jönköping International Business School, Sweden) is Book Review
Editor and Sophia Klaassen takes care of the Editorial Office. J. van Dijk noted that infuture it would be more appropriate for one of the two editors from the Pacific (Y.
Hayashi or T. Tabuchi) to report on PiRS matters at PRSCO Council. He also encouraged
researchers from PRSCO countries to propose special issues for the journal. To date, suchproposals have been predominantly put forward by Europeans. A final matter that wasraised is that PiRS is not recognized in some lists of journal rankings as an economics
journal. On the PiRS website it states that the ISI Journal Citation Reports ranking ofPiRS in 2009 was in Geography 23 out of 61 and in Environmental Studies 22 out of 66.
The Impact Factor was 1.397. The absence of a ranking in economics could discourage
submissions of papers by economists. Blackwell would be asked to include an economics
ranking on the website.
j) Report of the Editor, Papers in Regional Science Policy and Practice
M. Carroll noted that submissions in 2010 were still relatively light, with 37 submissionsfor 2 issues. Nonetheless, the journal was going to expand to 4 issues from 2011 onwards.
Special issues would also be introduced. James Rowe of New Zealand had agreed tobecome the book review editor.
k) Any further business
The next meeting will be held at the 22th PRSCO regular conference in Seoul in July
2011. There was no further business.
Vice-President J. Madden closed the meeting at 1:30 pm.
[Minutes written by J. Poot]

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