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The Italian Journal of Regional Science is the official journal of the Italian section of the Regional Science Association International


Scienze Regionali, Italian Journal of Regional Science was founded in 2001 as a forum for debate by the AISRe-Associazione Italiana di Scienze Regionali, the Italian Regional Science Association, itself established in 1980.

In recent years, a series of factors have attributed space and territory with a different and more complex role. Notable among these are the new models of network business organization and the international division of labour; negotiational approaches to economic-territorial planning; institutional changes, their evolution into horizontal and vertical subsidiarity, and the redefinition of the respective tasks of public and private subjects; new concepts of sustainable development.

These complex issues have prompted the journal to adopt a pluralist agenda, focusing on the analysis of territory, of its spatial, economic, social, cultural, political, physical, and ecological organization. In short, the journal’s aim is to examine the factors which transform space into territory - the dynamic relationships between the physical and social dimension.

Disciplines such as architecture, urban planning, geography, anthropology, and ecology have long concerned themselves with territory, analysing it from various standpoints. Other disciplines, such as economics and sociology, however, have only recently recognized the need to construct relational systems according to spatial criteria and to identify the "territory" and the characteristics of the social and economic processes related to it.

The journal’s official languages are Italian and English. It publishes original theoretical, methodological, and empirical papers dealing with the above-mentioned topics, whilst also drawing on the social sciences in a more general way as they relate to the study of territory. By publishing contributions from leading international researchers, it aims to become a cutting-edge scholarly journal in its field.

The journal SR - Italian Journal of Regional Science is organized into five sections:

- Critical Surveys: literature reviews by distinguished international scholars;

- Articles: 3-6 original articles accepted after a blind peer-review process;

- Notes and debates: comments on key topics, both theoretical and policy oriented, with the purpose of eliciting inter-disciplinary debate;

- Territorial Policy Perspectives: comments on themes relevant to territorial policies at Italian, European and international level;

- Book Reviews: signed reviews of the most recent and interesting books on regional science.

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General Editor: Roberta Capello. Editorial Coordinator: Laura Resmini. Scientific Board: Antoine Bailly, Dino Borri, Roberto Camagni, Riccardo Cappellin, Enrico Ciciotti, Sergio Conti, Paolo Costa, Juan Cuadrado Roura, Andreas Faludi, Vincenzo Fazio, Gioacchino Garofoli, Adriano Giannola, Peter Hall, Geoffrey Hewings, Yoshiro Higano, Charlie Karlsson, Italo Magnani, Dino Martellato, Guido Martinotti, Peter Nijkamp, John Parr, Denise Pumain, Lanfranco Senn, Stefano Stanghellini, Bob Stimson, Roger Stough. Editorial Board: Giulio Cainelli, Edoardo Marcucci, Ezio Micelli, Stefano Moroni, Laura Resmini. Book review Editor: Giulio Cainelli. Editorial coordinator: Giovanni Perucca.