Minutes of the PRSCO Council Meeting (Montreal, 13 Nov., 1999)(approved by the Council Meeting in Mexico City, 13 June, 2000)

Held on Saturday 13 November, 1999
At the Hotel Delta Montreal, Montreal, CanadaCRSA, M. Brad eld, R. Shearmur and D.
Edgington, and thanked the LOC for thesplendid local arrangements for the 46th
North American meeting in Montreal.

Commencing at 6:30 PMa) Apologies received:c) Minutes of the PRSCO Council Meeting of Monday, 12th July, 1999

A. Corona (AMECIDER), L. Gibson (WRSA),
J. Lee (KRSA), C. Mai (CRSA-T), Y. Miyata(JSRSAI), S. Park (KRSA), R. Stough (WRSA),
M. Tawada (JSRSAI)b) Present:
C. Amrhein (CRSA), P. Aroca (Ex Ocio andFriends, Chile), C. Azzoni (Ex Ocio and Friends,Brazil), P. Batey (Ex Ocio and Friends, Immediate Past President RSAI), M. Brad eld (ExOcio and Friends, President CRSA), A. Clarke(Ex Ocio and Friends, LOC 17th PRSCO conference), K. Donaghy (Ex Ocio and Friends,
Executive Secretary RSAI), D. Edgington (ExOcio and Friends, CRSA), R. Florax (Ex Ofcio and Friends, Editor-in-Chief Papers in Regional Science), A. Getis (WRSA, repr. L. Gibson), J. Guilhoto (Ex Ocio and Friends, Brazil),K. Haynes (Ex Ocio and Friends, WRSA),
Y. Higano (JSRSAI), B. Holly (WRSA, repr.
R. Stough; LOC 17th PRSCO conference), C.
Hua (CRSA-T), H. Kohno (JSRSAI, repr. Y.
Miyata; President RSAI), J. Madden (ANZRSAI, repr. G. West), J. Munro (CRSA), P. Nijkamp (Ex Ocio and Friends, ERSA), S. Peng(CRSA-T, repr. C. Mai), D. Plane (WRSA), J.
Poot (ANZRSAI, Chair), J. Quigley (WRSA),
R. Shearmur (Ex Ocio and Friends, Executive
Secretary CRSA).

Con rmation of section representatives,
as at 13 November 1999:

ANZRSA: G. West, J Poot (chair); CRSA: C.

Amrhein, J. Munro; CRSA-T: C Hua, C. Mai;JSRSAI: T. Fukuchi, Y. Higano, Y. Miyata, M.
Tawada; KRSA: J. Lee, S. Park; AMECIDER:A Corona, J Serrano; WRSA: L. Gibson, D.
Plane, J. Quigley, R Stough.

J. Poot welcomed the invited guests of the1

After it was noted that D. Plane attended
this meeting as a formal WRSA delegate,
rather than representing R. Stough, the minutes were corrected and approved. It wasreported that, following the Seoul meeting,the appointment of J. Serrano as PRSCO
delegate on RSAI Council, for 2000-2002,
was approved by AMECIDER.

d) Progress on preparations for the 6th
PRSCO Summer InstituteThis meeting will be held at the National
Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico
City, Wednesday 14 - Friday 16 June, 2000.
J. Serrano talked about the local arrangements. The second call for papers was distributed at the PRSCO Council meeting.
Important deadlines to note are: 31 January 2000: session proposals; 15 March 2000:
abstract submission; 30 April 2000: full paper submission.

e) Progress on preparations for the 17th
PRSCO ConferenceThis meeting will be held at the Embassy
Suites Portland Downtown in the HistoricMultnomah Hotel in Portland, Oregon, June
30 - July 4, 2001. D. Plane and B. Holly reported on the conference planning. A preliminary call for papers had been prepared
and was distributed at the PRSCO Council meeting. A number of special themes
had been identi ed, which are particularlyrelevant to the Portland location, such as:sustainable cities, downtown revitalizationand trade in the Paci c Rim. The deadline
for abstracts is 28 February 2001.

f) Nominations for hosts of the 7th PRSCO
Summer Institute, 2002

Suggested locations include Beijing, Bali (Indonesia), Malaysia, Fiji or Chile. A formal
decision would need to be made by the endof 2000.

g) Nominations for hosts of the 18th PRSCO
Conference, 2003
Suggested locations include Japan, Canadaor Taiwan. A formal decision would needto be made by the end of 2000.

This was carried with acclamation. PRSCO
Councillors were encouraged to distributethe document among their section members
in whatever form is the most e ective. This
may involve translation from English to thenational language in the case of some sections.
Note: the document can now be down loaded
from the Internet on page
http://prsco.agbi.tsukuba.ac.jp/CONSTITUTION/const.htmli) Contacts in Mainland China

Contact had been established by C. Huaand Y. Higano with Professor Kang-Chung
Yang who is the Chairman of the Geography Department at Beijing University. K.C.
Yang was invited to participate in the Montreal Conference, but was unable to come.
Further attempts would be made to encourage mainland China participants at future
PRSCO meetings, but it was accepted thatcurrent political diculties made progressslow.

g2) Report on Papers in Regional Science

R. Florax informed the PRSCO Council about
the changes in the publication arrangements
for the Papers in Regional Science (PiRS),
the ocial journal of the Regional Science
Association International. Commencing at
the beginning of 1999 with volume 78, thejournal is now published by Springer Verlag
and a new format has been adopted. The
editor responsible for contributions from authors in the Paci c rim is J. Poot. It wasnoted that the number of submissions fromj) Establishing a database for contacts withPaci c authors is at present rather less thanregional scientists in other Paci c Rimfrom authors in other parts of North Amercountries
ica and from Europe. PRSCO Councillors
It was noted that PRSCO councillors should
were asked to encourage researchers in theirpass on to Y. Higano a list of e-mail admembership sections to consider PiRS as an
dresses of the current members of the PRSCO
outlet for their research.
membership sections. This would facilitate
the distribution of information about futureh) Rati cation and Adoption of the Conconferences and other news items.

stitution of PRSCOk) Date and location of the next meeting

As no KRSA members were present, it wasnoted that Y. Higano had received in writing that KRSA had rati ed the PRSCOConstitution. The other PRSCO sections
con rmed the rati cation of the Constitution at the meeting. A few minor corrections were noted.

The next meeting will be held on Tuesday 13 June, 16:00-18:00 in a meeting roomof the National Autonomous University ofMexico, Mexico City.

l) Any further business.

There was no further business.

J. Poot thanked L. Gibson, D. Plane and
Y. Higano for their contributions in developing the Constitution. It was then formally moved by the Chair, J. Poot, that thePRSCO Constitution would be adopted, subject to the minor alterations being made.

The meeting was closed at 8:00 PM and was followed by a dinner hosted by the Executive Secretary of PRSCO.

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