Eric Vaz is a tenured professor at Ryerson University, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Canada. Prior to joining Ryerson he was Group Leader for Geographical Information Science at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. He is currently serving as President of the Canadian Regional Science Association. His research chiefly focuses on the interaction of regional science with geographic analysis in the Anthropocene. His recent edited book for Springer, entitled “Regional Intelligence” deals with the spatial and regional interactions of dynamics of change and future paradigms of livability, spatial decision support systems, and novel paradigms of sustainability.
Teresa Noronha is Full Professor of Economics of Innovation and Regional Development at the University of Algarve (Portugal) and director of the Ph.D. program in Innovation and Land Use Management. Also, she is President of the Consulting Commission of the Research Centre for Spatialand Organizational Dynamics, after having been President for the past years of that same organization. In the last two decades, she was invited professor at the University of Paris I - Sorbonne, University of Gent, University of Bologna and the University of Toronto. She is an expert in regional economics and related public policies, in particular, the use of instruments to implement innovation in lagging areas. Among her most significant works, there is the three-book series: “The New European Rurality”, “Traditional Food Production and Rural Sustainable Development”, and “Towns in a Rural World”, published by Ashgate.