New Frontiers Of Policy Evaluation In Regional Science

Author : Yoshiro Higano,Lily Kiminami,Kenichi Ishibashi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811645013

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New Frontiers of Policy Evaluation in Regional Science by Yoshiro Higano,Lily Kiminami,Kenichi Ishibashi Pdf

This book is especially valuable for its policy evaluation studies using both a theoretical model for policies carried out at national and regional levels and for gathering policy evaluation studies in diverse disciplines by empirical study. Policy analysis shown here employs theoretical models such as an international trade model, an optimal tariff, and spatial reorganization. At the same time, factors in well-being are taken into consideration with land development, changes in migration and local economies by natural disasters, validation of efficiency for emission control methods, the relationship between cyberspace and physical space in urban networks, and NPOs’ investment activities. The empirical research reported in this volume analyzes Japan, China, and Asian-Pacific cities. In the case of Japan, studies focus on the finances of local governments, the real estate industry, the role of consumer cooperatives in a food system, and agriculture and its productivity in hilly and mountainous areas. As well, the effects of industrial clusters in megacities and investment in high-speed railways and prediction of human behavior during an earthquake are studied. In China’s case, studies focus on food policy and the effect of ecology and environment on migration policy. For Asia-Pacific cities, studies show performance rankings of “super cities” in the region. The book defines the frontier of policy evaluation following a middle path between theoretical study and empirical study with regard to evaluation. In addition, the book contributes to an understanding of the relationship between the goals and targets of sustainable development. This book is highly recommended for graduate students, policymakers, and researchers concerned with policy evaluation.

Author : Hiroyuki Shibusawa,Katsuhiro Sakurai,Takeshi Mizunoya,Susumu Uchida
Publisher : Springer
Page : 729 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811000997

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Socioeconomic Environmental Policies and Evaluations in Regional Science by Hiroyuki Shibusawa,Katsuhiro Sakurai,Takeshi Mizunoya,Susumu Uchida Pdf

This book is a volume of essays celebrating the life and work of Yoshiro Higano, professor of Environmental Policy, Doctoral Program in Sustainable Environmental Studies, Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Japan. Prof. Higano’s research strongly focuses on the comprehensive evaluation of resources and research content for decision science and engineering, including simulation modeling for environmental quality control, the evaluation of environmental remediation technologies, integrated river (lake) basin management, and synthesized environmental policy. Yoshiro Higano is the past president of the Regional Science Association International (RSAI) and the current president of the Japan Section of the RSAI (JSRSAI). He also served as executive secretary for the Pacific Regional Science Conference Organizations (PRSCO). This edited volume covers a wide range of regional science approaches, theory, policy, evaluation, modeling, simulation, and practice. It is a valuable reference work for researchers, scholars, policy makers, and students in the field of regional science. The volume celebrates Prof. Higano’s contributions to the JSRSAI, PRSCO, and RSAI. Essay contributors include his former students and a wide array of regional scientists, each with a personal connection to Prof. Higano.

Author : Manas Chatterji,Robert E. Keunne
Publisher : Springer
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1990-06-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781349106332

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New Frontiers in Regional Science by Manas Chatterji,Robert E. Keunne Pdf

The first in a two volume tribute to Walter Isard, the second being "Dynamics and Conflict in Regional structural Change", this book looks at new frontiers in regional science. Together they contains 50 papers by experts in this field, and look at subjects such as location theory.

Author : Randall Jackson,Peter Schaeffer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319505473

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Regional Research Frontiers - Vol. 1 by Randall Jackson,Peter Schaeffer Pdf

This volume focuses on frontiers in regional research and identifies trends and future developments in the areas of innovation, regional growth and migration. It also addresses topics such as mobility, regional forecasting, and regional policy, and includes expert contributions on disasters, resilience, and sustainability. Building on recent methodological and modelling advances, as well as on extensive policy-analysis experience, top international regional scientists identify and evaluate emerging new conceptual and methodological trends and directions in regional research. This book will appeal to a wide readership, from regional scientists and economists to geographers, quantitatively oriented regional planners and other related disciplines. It offers a source of relevant information for academic researchers and policy analysts in government, and is also suitable for advanced teaching courses on regional and spatial science, economics and political science.

Author : Randall Jackson,Peter Schaeffer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319505909

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Regional Research Frontiers - Vol. 2 by Randall Jackson,Peter Schaeffer Pdf

This is the second volume in a two-part series on frontiers in regional research. It identifies methodological advances as well as trends and future developments in regional systems modelling and open science. Building on recent methodological and modelling advances, as well as on extensive policy-analysis experience, top international regional scientists identify and evaluate emerging new conceptual and methodological trends and directions in regional research. Topics such as dynamic interindustry modelling, computable general equilibrium models, exploratory spatial data analysis, geographic information science, spatial econometrics and other advanced methods are the central focus of this book. The volume provides insights into the latest developments in object orientation, open source, and workflow systems, all in support of open science. It will appeal to a wide readership, from regional scientists and economists to geographers, quantitatively oriented regional planners and other related disciplines. It offers a source of relevant information for academic researchers and policy analysts in government, and is also suitable for advanced teaching courses on regional and spatial science, economics and political science.

Author : Edward Glaeser,Karima Kourtit,Peter Nijkamp
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429892363

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Urban Empires by Edward Glaeser,Karima Kourtit,Peter Nijkamp Pdf

We live in the ‘urban century’. Cities all over the world – in both developing and developed countries – display complex evolutionary patterns. Urban Empires charts the backgrounds, mechanisms, drivers, and consequences of these radical changes in our contemporary systems from a global perspective and analyses the dominant position of modern cities in the ‘New Urban World’. This volume views the drastic change cities have undergone internationally through a broad perspective and considers their emerging roles in our global network society. Chapters from renowned scholars provide advanced analytical contributions, scaling applied and theoretical perspectives on the competitive profile of urban agglomerations in a globalizing world. Together, the volume traces and investigates the economic and political drivers of network cities in a global context and explores the challenges over governance that are presented by mega-cities. It also identifies and maps out the new geography of the emergent ‘urban century’. With contributions from well-known and influential scholars from around the world, Urban Empires serves as a touchstone for students and researchers keen to explore the scientific and policy needs of cities as they become our age’s global power centers.

Author : Masamichi Kawano,Karima Kourtit,Peter Nijkamp,Yoshiro Higano
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811666957

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Theory and History in Regional Perspective by Masamichi Kawano,Karima Kourtit,Peter Nijkamp,Yoshiro Higano Pdf

This collection of essays presents insight and methodology that are highly relevant for readers today as they consider the future of the world they live in. Experiencing the COVID-19 pandemic, people have realized how fragile the current economy is and the necessity for reconstructing the socio-economic system. That system, which was considered the default for so long, was succeeded by the analytical framework of economics and regional science. The contents of this book are diversified, as are the achievements of Prof. Yasuhiro Sakai, to whom this volume is dedicated, and cover a wide area from mathematical and experimental economics to conventional and emerging fields of regional science. Some are timeless topics that have had new life breathed into them. Part I deals with, among other areas, risk management with uncertain events; the effectiveness and impacts of regulation and friction related to trading; the stability of strategic behavior and market equilibrium; and sustainable regional development and urban planning from the long-term perspective. Part II also presents a diversity of subjects, including input–output analysis and computable general equilibrium (CGE) modelling for internal as well as external structure and network linkage, such as a value chain; openness and creativity as related to competition among cities and regions; dispersion versus concentration; and inequality versus equality.

Author : Akira Kiminami
Publisher : Springer
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811380556

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Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Japanese Agriculture by Akira Kiminami Pdf

This is the first book to comprehensively analyze key issues regarding innovation, entrepreneurship, and human resource development in the Japanese agricultural sector. Despite the fact that innovation and entrepreneurship are vital to the development of modern Japanese agriculture, there have been comparatively few studies in this field; in addition, they have been virtually none on measures for developing entrepreneurial human resources or innovation in agriculture. The agricultural sector’s declining competitiveness and sustainability as an industry in Japan are serious concerns, especially in combination with an aging labor force and decreasing farmland. To date, Japanese agricultural policies have largely concentrated on accumulating farmland and securing a sufficient agricultural labor force. However, from the perspectives of industrial and regional development, policies focusing on creating innovation, the driving force of economic development, have been recognized as being more effective. Moreover, there have been some recent developments concerning innovation and entrepreneurship in various regions of Japan. This book provides a wealth of significant findings from studies on successful cases involving e.g. agricultural clusters, agriculture–commerce–industry collaborations, networking, franchising, and corporate entry-induced innovation utilizing limited regional resources; and how they have contributed to the development of each region. The interrelationships between innovation, entrepreneurship, and human resource development are then clarified, and effective policies to promote Japanese agriculture and rural areas are suggested. Given its scope, the book contributes to the advancement not only of farm management science, but also of regional science and related fields.

Author : Raymond Florax,David A. Plane
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783662072233

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Fifty Years of Regional Science by Raymond Florax,David A. Plane Pdf

This book contains the complete text of the special Golden Anniversary issue of the flagship journal of the Regional Science Association International (RSAI), Papers in Regional Science (Volume 83, Number 1), as well as the full text of Walter Isard's Presidential Address "The future (near and far) of regional science". Professor Isard originally delivered the speech in a special plenary session of the fiftieth North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International. The session began with a ceremonial kickoff to the year-long celebration of the multidisciplinary field's first 50 years. At the ceremony, held on the morning of Friday, November 21,2004 at the DoubleTree Hotel in Philadelphia, we presented Walter Isard, the founder of our multidisciplinary field, as well as Antoine Bailly, the President of the Regional Science Association International, and David Boyce, the Association's Archivist, with commemorative first copies of the anniversary issue. This book, entitled Fifty Years of Regional Science, consists of a compendium of "thought" papers authored by a representative sampling of some of the field's leading scholars. For the special journal issue we originally titled the collection: "The Brightest of Dawns".

Author : Manas Chatterji
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Aménagement du territoire
ISBN : 0814714374

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New Frontiers in Regional Science by Manas Chatterji Pdf

The first volume of a two-volume tribute to Walter Isard, the founder of regional science and peace science as rigorous academic disciplines. In volume one, 19 papers in two sections (Optimal spatial patterning of goods and services, and Regional and urban development theoretical issues) propound new theoretical problems in regional science, new th

Author : Zhenhua Chen,William M. Bowen,Dale Whittington
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811514357

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Development Studies in Regional Science by Zhenhua Chen,William M. Bowen,Dale Whittington Pdf

This book examines major policy and planning issues in development studies from the regional science perspective. It investigates questions such as: “How are communities able to deal with uncertainties raised by conflicts, technology, and external shocks in the process of development?”; “How can nations achieve sustainable development in terms of resource allocation and management?”; and “How can developing countries improve their economic competitiveness while maintaining the objectives of equitable and coordinated growth among different regions?” using case studies that focus on different subfields, like infrastructure, environment, data science, sustainability and resilience. The book is organized in three parts. Part I clarifies fundamental issues regarding development studies and regional science in general, while Part II includes several case studies that address development-related opportunities and challenges with a focus on Asian countries. Lastly, Part III offers a global perspective and explores development experiences from countries throughout the world. Featuring contributions by leading academics and practitioners working at various organizations linked to international development, and including multidisciplinary analyses, the book appeals to students who are interested in development studies and regional science. It also offers planners and policymakers fresh insights into regional economic development.

Author : Saburo Saito
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789819912414

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Recent Advances in Modeling and Forecasting Kaiyu by Saburo Saito Pdf

Author : Keiko Nosse Hirono
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811949258

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Economic Analysis of Housing Policy in Japan by Keiko Nosse Hirono Pdf

This book analyzes housing policy in terms of the quality of housing, theoretically and empirically. The analysis is prompted by the Japanese government’s success in increasing the volume of housing through interest rate policy, as is shown by Vector Autoregession (VAR) analysis in this book; consequently, the focus of housing policy in Japan is now the quality of housing. This is the first book to analyze and propose housing monetary policy and housing subsidy policy to improve the quality of housing, which increase the number of houses that are barrier-free and earthquake resistant. This book is also the first to focus on appropriate valuation of housing using hedonic price function and the quality of houses. Using the method of valuation developed and proposed in this book, market clearing prices of houses can be calculated without analytical and theoretical error. Toward this end, the disclosure of information – the offer prices and attributes – of houses is proposed as a housing policy. In addition, in this research the author has developed a method to estimate the hedonic price index and rent index using the quality of houses for the first time in Japan. With hedonic price and rent functions, the author shows the extent to which differences in home ownership investment are caused by differences in information about the property. This finding shows the need to explore an appropriate method of valuation of houses. The propositions of this book can help companies benefit from the use of the hedonic housing valuation and hedonic price and rent indexes.

Author : Madhumita Chatterji,Partha Gangopadhyay
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781839824289

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New Frontiers in Conflict Management, Peace Economics and Peace Science by Madhumita Chatterji,Partha Gangopadhyay Pdf

This volume will improve our collective understanding of how to fight humanity’s persistent and tragic problems with conflicts, climate shocks and disasters. The authors of this volume will offer deep insights, from their research, into the nature of evolving challenges to both global and local sustainability.

Author : Moriki Hosoe
Publisher : Springer
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9784431558972

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Regional Economic Analysis of Power, Elections, and Secession by Moriki Hosoe Pdf

The main object of this book is to explain some of the mechanisms of integration and secession among regions from the point of view of game theory. To attain this goal, the incentives of regions in a country to unite or to secede and the conditions in the way for the member countries of a federation to leave peacefully are examined. Tensions over secession have become more and more serious, including separatist tensions in China, India, Iraq, Myanmar, and Sri Lanka. Studies included in this book stress differing preferences in the type of policy in each region and the influence of a third region on the power of secession. Decentralization strategies of tax-subsidy policy and governance policy in a political or economic group composed of two regions are shown to be important as a way to avoid wasteful conflict for the secession incentive of a minority region. How those incentives depend on heterogeneity costs associated with different preferences over the type of region and the relative size of the two regions is shown. Also provided is an analytical framework in which secessions are the equilibrium outcome of explicit civil conflict, where regions with different preferences invest in costly conflict activities. Finally, an empirical analysis is made of determinant factors of secession movements in many regions to verify the validity of our theories of secession. This book is recommended to researchers who are interested in a new economic geography and an interdisciplinary approach for regional economics.