Notas Informativas de AMECIDER

Considerando las necesidades de comunicación de los socios e interesados en las actividades que desempeña AMECIDER,  en esta fecha se presentan las  siguientes notas informativas.

 
Mayo de 2011

Texto Homenaje a Walter Isard de AMECIDER

Dear Kieran:

It was a special pleasure for me to recall you personally –a dear friend indeed- through a letter sent to RSAI sections, and also to see that you are working to host a set of events in memory of our late and much appreciated Walter Isard. Congratulations on such initiative.

The letter was sent by the current RSAI Exec Director, Tomaz Ponce Dentinho (in some way your direct ‘son in law’ in this regard –since you held such a position years ago!). The letter conveys a suggestion of Dr. Y. Higano President of the RSAI, saying that “each one of the sections would send a short letter to Kieran to associate the respective association to this ceremony of gratitude”. Please find attached  the text of our national association.

Receive, Kieran, my most cordial regards for you and your family,

jorge.

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“The Mexican Association of Science for Regional Development (AMECIDER) is pleased to acknowledge its deep debt of gratitude to Dr. Walter Isard for the special consideration he always had towards Mexico and especially for his concern regarding the creation of a Mexican Section ofthe RSAI (currently our AMECIDER). This process evolved through the following key stages.

A. As early as 1978 he personally came to Mexico and gave his insights in a first draft of such creation, which was the result of the meeting attended by Isard. The meeting was held in the city of Guanajuato hosted by the Center for Economic and Social Studies of the Third World (CEESTEM)jointly with a group of scholars, among them the current Honorary President of AMECIDER, Jose Luis Cecenia. However the initiative did not materialize in those days for several reasons.

B.  Some years later, in the early 90s(1993), the idea was taken again, this time under the auspices of the National University of Mexico (UNAM) in a meeting that took place in the Seminars Unit “Ignacio Chavez”. Once more, Walter took a prominent role, and a group of important RSAI officers came to Mexico (among them, Lay James Gibson and Niles Hansen). However, during the meeting there appeared some sharply divided opinions and the association was not established.

C. Once more, the good advice of Isard joint by Gibson, succeeded in making it possible to bring the 3rd PRSCO Summer Institute to Mexico. It was hosted by the Regional Center for Multidisciplinary Research (CRIM- UNAM), in the city of Cuernavaca in June 1994. The meeting brought a large and important group of Asian scholars, which gave a fresh air to the idea of a Mexican association, this time linked to the PRSCO and through it to the RSAI. A few months later (April, 1995) AMECIDER was born in real fact, under its first President, Jose Luis Cecenia, and its first Secretary, Salvador Rodriguez.

D. Ever since, AMECIDER has been working for the development of regional science in Mexico (15 national meetings, two international congresses and a wide set of publications). Moreover, in the course of the years it has been a special privilege of AMECIDER’s councilor within PRSCO, to meet Walter in several international meetings -of the RSAI and the PRSCO- and to thank him personally for his sustained concern for the creation and consolidation of our Mexican section. Also, especially important has been to receive his broad-vision insights. For example, a memorable occasion when he said: “Look, Mexican regions do have invaluable treasures, not only economically, but also culturally, and I could concretely see in them the commonalities in art, science and religion, even in their evolutionary perspective. So, don’t forget to keep an eye on such treasures in your Section”. Indeed, AMECIDER hopes not to fall short with regards to such breathtaking advice. It is really Walter Isard’s legacy to AMECIDER.

For the Executive Council of the AMECIDER:

Adolfo Sanchez, Carlos Bustamante, Guadalupe Hoyos, Serena Serrano, Alejandro Ramirez, Jorge Gallegos, Teodoro Aguilar, Gerardo Almaguer, Carmelo Castellanos, Baldemar Hernandez, Jorge Serrano.

 
Respuesta de los compañeros japoneses

Dear Prof. Adolfo Sánchez Almanza and members of the Mexican section of the RSAI (AMECIDER), Thank you very much for your e-mail expressing deep sympathy for the most devastating disaster happened to our nation. We have received so much encouragement and heart-warming consideration from our colleagues and we would like to express our special appreciation toward them.We, the country of Japan, are facing unprecedented difficulties. We share the same idea that it is time to stand up together for overcoming whatever difficulty. We believe that the day will surely come when the goodness of our nation will be restored.Thank you for your e-mail concerned. Best regards,Hiroyuki SHIBUSAWA  --------------------------------------------------------------------- 

A LOS MIEMBROS DE LA PRSCO Y LA SECCIÓN JAPÓN DE RSAI

 
Febrero de 2010

INFORME ANUAL PRELIMINAR DE INGRESOS Y EGRESOS 2009

Agosto de 2009

CONTENIDOInforme sobre el lamentable deceso del Dr. Salvador Rodríguez y Rodríguez y las lesiones del Dr. Carlos Bustamante Lemus.

1. Esquela del Dr. Salvador Rodríguez y Rodríguez.
2. In Memoriam del Dr. Salvador Rodríguez y Rodríguez.
3. Encargo provisional al Dr. Normand Eduardo Asuad Sanén de la Presidencia de AMECIDER.