Minutes of the PRSCO Council Meeting, Portland

PRSCO Council Meeting in Portland
Date and Time: 12:30 PM–2:30 PM Thursday November 12, 2015
Meeting Place: Forum Suite, Hilton Portland & Executive Towersa) Apologies received, roll call, and confirmation of Section representatives
Bob Stimson (ANZRSAI), Budy Resosudarmo (PRSCO president), Chitta Ranjan Pathak (IRSA), Daigee Shaw(CRSA-T), David Edgington (CRSA), Dusan Paredes (SOCHER), Fakrul Islam (BRSA), Gabriel Rodriguez(Peru), Jacques Poot (ANZRSAI), Lay J. Gibson (WRSA), Mohd Yusof Kasim (MRSA), Paul Dalziel(ANZRSAI), Ronny Correa Quezada (Ecuador), Takatoshi Tabuchi (Editor PiRS), Yuyuan Wen (China)
Present (and sections presenting)
Andrés Rodríguez-Pose (RSAI President), David Plane (WRSA), Fu-Chuan Lai (CRSA-T), Hiroyuki
Shibusawa (JSRSAI), Jean-Claude Thill (past RSAI president), Jichung Yang (KRSA), John Madden(ANZRSAI), John Madden spouse Prue, Kingsley Haynes (WRSA), Kingsley Susan, Luis Armando Galvis(ACER), Michael C. Carroll (Editor RSPP), Patricio Aroca (PRSCO Vice President, SOCHER), RachelFranklin (WRSA), Roberta Capello (Editor PiRS), Roger Stough (WRSA), S. EréndiraSerrano-Oswald(AMECIDER), Suminori Tokunaga(JSRSAI), Sutee Anantsuksomsri (Thailand), Tomaz
Dentinho (RSAI Executive Director), Tuzin Baycan (Chair of the 11th World Congress), Yoshiro Higano(JSRSAI), Yuzuru Miyata (JSRSAI)b) Minutes of the PRSCO Council Meeting in Vina del Mar, August 6, 2015
Patricio suggested that the Minutes be approved.
c) Report on the 24th Pacific Conference of the RSAI 2015 (Patricio Aroca)
Patricio prepared a brief report on the PRSCO conference in Vina del Mar. More than 100 people attended from
24 different countries, and 94 papers were presented. Two keynotes and two workshops were held in Englishand Spanish. The conference was successful.
d) Report on the 14th PRSCO Summer Institute in 2016 (Sutee Anantsuksomsri)
Suttee reported that the PRSCO Summer Institute will be held in Bangkok, June 27–29, 2016. Bob visited
Bangkok and suggested the date. The meeting will be hosted by the Faculty of Architecture and Planning,
Thammasat University, and cohosted by the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Chulalongkorn
University. The venue will be a hotel in Bangkok. The proposal was accepted.
e) Report on the 25th Pacific Conference of the RSAI in 2017 (Fu-Chuan Lai)
Fu-Chuan presented the proposal on the 25th Pacific Conference of the RSAI. The conference will be held at
National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, May 17–20, 2017.
f) Report on the 15th PRSCO Summer Institute in 2018 (Gabriel Rodriguez)
Gabriel was unable to attend the meeting. Gabriel sent an e-mail. Patricio reported that a new keyperson, JoseRodríguez, is the head of Department of Economics. He suggested that they are interested in hosting the 2018
Summer Institute in Lima, Peru. Furthermore, he stated that they are forming a central committee, which will
prepare the proposal for organizing the meeting.
g) Discussion of venues of PRSCO Conference and Summer Institute in 2019–2021
Patricio asked for proposals regarding venues for the PRSCO conferences in 2019 and 2021. Hiroyuki suggested
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WRSA as the candidate for the PRSCO 2019 conference and JSRSAI for the 2021 conference.
The proposal was accepted.
h) Nomination of the executive secretary of the PRSCO, 2016–2017
Patricio proposed to nominate Hiroyuki Shibusawa as the next PRSCO Executive Secretary (2016–2017). The
nomination was approved.
i) Nomination of the PRSCO representative for the RSAI Council for the term 2016–2018
Patricio explained the terms of the current RSAI councilors. He stated that Jichung Yang’s term will expire at theend of this year and that he will be in the second term (2016–2018). Patrico asked ways to decide his secondterm. Hiroyuki said that Poot mentioned that Yang will be in the second term at the PRSCO council meeting inVina del Mar. The nomination was approved. Andres reported that the presidents of three super regions in RSAI
are automatically nominated as RSAI councilors. PRSCO has four (3 + 1) representatives for the RSAI Council.
j) PRSCO Awards (John Madden)
John reported the winners of 2015 PRSCO, Young Regional Scientist, and Higano awards. He appreciated theefforts of the members of the selecting committees. He asked two questions. The first question was whether theterm is annual or biannual. The second question was whether PRSCO can create a fund for awards because
PRSCO had no budget for awards. Haynes suggested that the Young Regional Scientist Award be annual but thatHigano Award should be awarded every two years. The proposal was approved. Patricio suggested that a new
selecting committee for the 2016–2017 Young Regional Scientist Award and the 2017 Higano Award will be
proposed and discussed at the next PRSCO council meeting. Patricio reported the winners of 2015 PRSCO
award and stated that the first ceremony for the award will be held in Vina del Mar. He introduced the second
winner of 2015 Higano Award, Prof. David Plane.
k) Report on activities of Pacific Rim regional science communities
1) The 11th World Congress of the RSAI will be held in Istanbul, April 25–28, 2016 (T. Baycan)
Baycan reported on the World Congress in Istanbul and invited all the colleagues in the world to attend.
2) The 47th annual Seminar and International Regional Science Conference will be held in Kolkata fromJanuary 28, 2016 to January 30, 2016 (C.R. Pathak)
Pathak sent an e-mail regarding the conference, which was distributed to the councilors.
l) Report of Editors, Papers in Regional Science (Roberta Cappelo)
Roberta prepared a brief report. There are 300 submissions from all over the world. Europe is the most active
region. Submissions from PRSCO and NARSC are increasing. She also talked about the terms and conditions ofthe contract with Blackwell. Yang suggested that a shorter paper would be published in the journal. Furthermore,
Yang indicated that the impact factor should be higher. Capello explained the current policy for publication andthe strategy of PiRS to improve the impact factor.
m) Report of Editors, Regional Science Policy & Practice (Michael Carroll)Michael prepared a brief report. He explained the current situations of RSPP and invited new submissions toRSPP.
n) Any further business
The next PRSCO Council meeting will be held during the PRSCO Summer Institute in Bangkok.
Minutes taker Hiroyuki Shibusawa

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