Principles Of Regional Science

Author : Zheng Wang
Publisher : Springer
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811053672

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This book summarizes the research findings in regarding a region as a rational and abstract concept and explores the principles of regional science. Focusing on location theory, spatial dynamics and regional evolution theory, it stresses that the region as a scientific concept is an essential abstract of an economic entity of a place. While it introduces a number of case studies, the content is general and universal rather than specific. Beginning with location theory – the basis of regional science – it explains how regions breed their own characteristics as economic entities against a background of place. For example, it discusses the location theory of the tourism industry and analyzes issues of facility location and R&D-industry location theory. The second part of the book addresses interactions with the spatial dynamics, including the dynamic mechanism of regions against a background of space. Spatial dynamics, which includes concepts from statistical physics, provides insights into the dynamic mechanism of aggregation, diffusion, and industrial clustering in regional science as well as in geography and economics. The book then describes regional dynamics as a development of spatial dynamics: REGION is completely independent as a research object and is no longer part of spatial dynamics. This book also discusses in detail regions as the dynamic characteristics of the economy or the basic characteristics of a certain place and examines the theory of regional evolution. It argues that regions are evolution and irreversible features of development with path dependence, which are the characteristics of a region that differ from general economic phenomena. This book by Professor Zheng Wang is outstanding. Its focus on Regional Science will open this area up to a wide variety of theoretical and applied researchers. I recommend the work without reservations. It covers critically important principles in the field and should be read and used by students, faculty and applied researchers doing policy analysis. I can see this as an important handbook and reference work as well as a textbook in the field. Kingsley Haynes

Author : Walter Isard,Iwan J. Azis,Matthew P. Drennan,Ronald E. Miller,Sidney Saltzman,Erik Thorbecke
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351917902

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Methods of Interregional and Regional Analysis by Walter Isard,Iwan J. Azis,Matthew P. Drennan,Ronald E. Miller,Sidney Saltzman,Erik Thorbecke Pdf

This landmark textbook introduces students to the principles of regional science and focuses on the key methods used in regional analysis, including regional and interregional input-output analysis, econometrics (regional and spatial), programming and industrial and urban complex analysis, gravity and spatial interaction models, SAM and social accounting (welfare) analysis and applied general interregional equilibrium models. The coherent development of the materials contained in the set of chapters provides students with a comprehensive background and understanding of how to investigate key regional problems. For the research scholar, this publication constitutes an up-to-date source book of the basic elements of each major regional science technique. More significant, it points to new directions for future research and ways interregional and regional analytic approaches can be fused to realise much more probing attacks on regional and spatial problems - a contribution far beyond what is available in the literature.

Author : Walter Isard
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Regional planning
ISBN : UCAL:B4915865

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Introduction to Regional Science by Walter Isard Pdf

Designed primarily for a half-year course.

Author : Peter Nijkamp,Adam Rose,Karima Kourtit
Publisher : Springer
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319073057

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Regional Science Matters by Peter Nijkamp,Adam Rose,Karima Kourtit Pdf

​This volume is a collection of fresh and novel contributions to regional science. They commemorate the scientific inheritance of the founding father of regional science, the late Walter Isard. All papers are written by well-known scholars in the field and serve to highlight the great importance of regional science theory and methodology for a better understanding of current spatial and environmental problems throughout our planet. The book showcases a multidisciplinary panorama of modern regional science research and presents new insights by applying regional science approaches.

Author : Peter Batey,David Plane
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783031134401

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Great Minds in Regional Science, Vol. 2 by Peter Batey,David Plane Pdf

This book is the second volume in a new series on 'Great Minds in Regional Science,' which seeks to present a contemporary view on the scientific relevance of the work done by great thinkers in regional science. This volume presents, among others, Adam Smith, Johann Heinrich von Thünen, and Alan Wilson. Each chapter combines factual biographical information about the ‘Great Mind,’ a description of their major contributions, and a discussion of the broader context of their work, as well as an assessment of its current relevance, scientific recognition, and policy impact. The book attempts to fill a gap in our knowledge and to respond to the growing interest in the formation and development of the field of regional science and its key influential figures.

Author : David G. Roberts,A.W. Bally
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 908 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780444530424

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Regional Geology and Tectonics: Principles of Geologic Analysis by David G. Roberts,A.W. Bally Pdf

The purpose of the series is to compile and pass on the accumulated knowledge of regional geology that is being lost as generalists with field experience are replaced by specialists with computers. It is designed to appeal to both academic and petroleum geologists. In this third and final part of Volume One, geologists discuss extensional basins including rifts, passive margins, and inverted extensional basins. The chapters have a broadly similar layout, and where appropriate include a section on the petroleum system. They cover non-volcanic and transform passive margins, cratonic basins on pre-Cambrian and Paleozoic basements, and world maps. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Author : Michael Sonis,Geoffrey J. D. Hewings
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783642006272

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Tool Kits in Regional Science by Michael Sonis,Geoffrey J. D. Hewings Pdf

Regional Science is now more than 50 years old; in the last two decades, significant advances in methodology have occurred, spurred in large part by access to computers. The range of analytical techniques now available is enormous; this books provides a sampling of the toolkit that is now at the disposal of analysts interested in understanding and interpreting the complexity of the spatial structure of sub- national economies. The set of tools ranges from the more traditional (input-output) to new developments in computable general equilibrium models, nonlinear dynamics, neural modelling and innovation.

Author : Walter Isard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:60011723

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Methods of Regional Analysis by Walter Isard Pdf

Author : Wynne Harlen,Derek Bell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Discoveries in science
ISBN : 0863574319

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Principles and Big Ideas of Science Education by Wynne Harlen,Derek Bell Pdf

Author : James Hopkins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317702108

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Knowledge, Networks and Policy by James Hopkins Pdf

‘The region’ has been used to understand and propose solutions to phenomena and problems outside the dominant spatial scale of the twentieth century – the nation state. Its influence can be seen in multiple social science disciplines and in public policy across the globe. But how was this knowledge organised and how were its concepts transmuted into public policy? This book charts the development of the academic field of Regional Studies and the application of its concepts in public policy through its learned society, the Regional Studies Association. In their modern form, learned societies often play a complementary role to universities, offering networks that operate in the spaces between and beyond universities, connecting specialised academics and knowledge and making it possible for them to have impact outside the academy. In contrast to the geographically tangible and popularly understood role of the university, contemporary learned societies are nebulous networks that transcend barriers and whose contribution is difficult to discern. However, the production and dissemination of knowledge would be stunted were it not for the learned society connecting scholars through a network of publications and events. This book traces the intellectual history of regional studies and regional science from the 1960s into the 2000s and the impact of the regional concept in public policy through the changing priorities of government in the UK and Europe. By approaching the history through the Regional Studies Association, it interrogates the role and function of the ‘learned society’ model of organisation in contemporary academia and importance as a knowledge exchange vehicle for public policy influence.

Author : R. B. Singh,Soumendu Chatterjee,Mukunda Mishra,Andrews José de Lucena
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 981162223X

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Practices in Regional Science and Sustainable Regional Development by R. B. Singh,Soumendu Chatterjee,Mukunda Mishra,Andrews José de Lucena Pdf

This book brings together the emerging trends and techniques incorporated in regional science during the first two decades of this millennium. The book includes systematic and analytical notes making scientific commentary on the innovative methods of regional development, measurement of the development, regional development models, and policy measures that have significant implications and wide applicability instrumental for India as well as the other global south countries. There is clear evidence in the global south of the uneven spatial distribution of resources, economic activities, literacy, and health conditions. The most striking fact is the coexistence of development and underdevelopment that makes the planning process complicated. This can hardly be explored without taking a deep insight into the matter of how the regional parameters are impacting regional society or economy to shape the development of that region. There can be no effective global policy framework that will be effective equally for each and every region to mitigate local issues of society or economy. It is here that the book integrates the efforts of practitioners working towards addressing these regional issues and striving for sustainable regional development through their innovative ideas. Through its contributions, the book addresses development issues, regional impact of climate change, social justice, migration, well-being, livelihood vulnerabilities, and regional urban-environmental issues from the standpoint of regional science. It is a significant resource for researchers of spatial science, and policy makers.

Author : Walter Isard
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : History
ISBN : 9785882515446

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Methods of regional analysis by Walter Isard Pdf

Author : Regional Science Association. British Section
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : City planning
ISBN : UCAL:B4385760

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Regional Science by Regional Science Association. British Section Pdf

Author : Raymond Florax,David A. Plane
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 45,5 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 : David Boyce,Peter Nijkamp,Daniel Shefer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783642763113

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Regional Science by David Boyce,Peter Nijkamp,Daniel Shefer Pdf

Regional science, as an integrating discipline for many scientific analyses concerning the element of space, has a remarkable record of achievements in both breadth and depth. The great many scientific journals in this field and the large number of regional science books mirror the appeal of this discipline, in both the developed and the developing world. The scientific organization in this area, the Regional Science Association International, is organizing a world conference every four years. The 1989 Regional Science World Conference was held in an interesting setting, viz. kibbutz Ramat Rachel on the outskirts of Jerusalem. The organization of this meeting was undertaken by the Israeli Section of the Regional Science Association, under the supervision of Professor Rafi Bar-EI (Development Study Center, Rehovoth). The meeting turned out to be a great success and provided an extremely interesting cross-section of new developments in the area of regional science. It was decided afterward to publish a set of representative papers from this meeting in one volume. The present book brings together these papers, which were duly selected after a careful screening and refereeing process. The editors wish to thank all referees for their willingness to assist them in the task of producing this volume. Many thanks also go to Rita Hittema for her skillful copy-editing and word processing of the manuscript.