We are delighted to be able to share this year’s Best paper and Best Referee winners. In the list below, you can see the winners, links to the publications, and links to the online recordings.
| Regional Studies Best Paper | Domenica Panzera, University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy
Paolo Postiglione, University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy |
The impact of regional inequality on economic growth: a spatial econometric approach |
| Regional Studies Best Referees
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Maria Abreau, University of Cambridge, UK
Andrea Ascani, Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy David Hearne, Birmingham City University, UK |
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| Regional Studies Policy Debates Best Paper 1 | Alessandro Sancino, Open University, UK Max Stafford, Mile End Institute, QMUL, UKAlessandro Braga, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy Leslie Budd, The Open University, UK |
What can City Leaders do for Climate Change? Insights from the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group Network |
| Regional Studies Policy Debates Best Paper 2 | Anne Le Roy, CREG-Grenoble Alpes University, France
Fiona Ottaviani, Grenoble Ecole de Management, France |
The Sustainable Well-being of Urban and Rural Areas |
| Territory Politics Governance Best Paper | Kham Khan Suan Hausing, University of Hyderabad, India | Autonomy and the Territorial Management of Ethnic Conflicts in Northeast India |
| Territory Politics Governance Best Referee | Peter Bursens, University of Antwerp, Belgium | |
| Regional Studies, Regional Science Best Paper | Nora Hampl, University of Vienna, Austria | Consume Less or Grow Sustainably? Matching Energy Systems with Indigenous Worldviews in Panama |
| Regional Studies, Regional Science Best Referee | Federico Curci, CUNEF Universidad, Spain | |
| Spatial Economic Analysis Best Paper | Jessie Ruth Schleypen, Climate Analytics Gmbh, Germany
Malcolm N. Mistry, University of Venice, Italy Fahad Saeed, Climate Analytics Gmbh, Germany Shouro Dasgupta, Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC), Italy and Grantham Research Institute, LSE, UK |
Sharing the burden: quantifying climate change spillovers in the European Union under the Paris Agreement |
| Spatial Economic Analysis Best Referee | Paloma Taltavull de la Paz, University of Alicante, Spain | |
| Area Development and Policy Best Paper | Feras Ali Qawasmeh, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, Qatar Raja Noriza Raja Ariffin, University of Malaya, Malaysia Kuppusamy Singaravelloo, University of Malaya, Malaysia |
Israeli Occupation and Water Service Policy Making in the Occupied West Bank, Palestine |
| Area Development and Policy Best Referee | Han Mengyao, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China | |
| Regions eZine Best Paper | Calvin Jones, Cardiff Business School, UK | From Despair to Where? Can the Future Generations Act Create a Sustainable Wales? |
| Best Book Blog | Ron Martin, University of Cambridge, UK
Ben Gardiner, Cambridge Econometrics, UK Andy Pike, CURDS, Newcastle University, UK Peter Sunley, Southampton University, UK Peter Tyler, University of Cambridge, UK |
Levelling Up Left Behind Places: The Scale and Nature of the Economic and Policy Challenge |
| Best Original Blog | Alejandra Trejo Nieto, El Colegio de Mexico, Mexico | The Regional Dimension of Inequality in Latin America and Mexico |
| Best Student Blog | Andrew Halliday, University of New Brunswick, Canada | The Vanishing Island: covid-islands, covid-archipelagos and the experience of Canada’s ‘Atlantic Bubble’ |
| Best non English Blog | Cristina Isabel Ibarra Armenta, Autonomous University of Sinaloa, Mexico
José Guadalupe Ibarra Armenta, Autonomous University of Sinaloa, Mexico |
Measuring the effects of decentralisation on the distribution of economic activity in Latin America using satellite images
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| Best Book | Peter Kresl, Bucknell University, USA | The City and Quality of Life |