Regional Science: Retrospect and Prospect

ISBN-13: 9783642763137 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 505 str.

David E. Boyce; Peter Nijkamp; Daniel Shefer

Opis

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."

Spis treści

A Preface to Regional Science.- 1. A Preface to Regional Science.- A. Spatial Patterns of Households and Firms.- 2. The Ten Commandments of Migration Research.- 3. Major Issues in Regional Labour Market Analysis.- 4. Endogenous Spatial Externalities in Residential Location Theory.- 5. The Effect of Transaction Costs in the Housing Market.- 6. Transportation, Spatial Interaction, Telecommunication and Information Systems: A Research Agenda.- 7. Urban Land Use and the Location of Polluting Plants.- B. Spatial Impacts of New Technology.- 8. High Technology Industries - A Panacea for Peripheral Regions? The Evidence from Israel.- 9. The Impact of New Information Technologies on Spatial Inequalities.- 10. Technological Change, Uncertainty and Innovation Networks: Towards a Dynamic Theory of Economic Space.- 11. Technical Change and Regional Development: Some Further Developments with the Sequential Interindustry Model.- C Economic Restructuring and Spatial Dynamics.- 12. The Evolution of Regional Economies: Sectoral Restructuring and Regional Development over the Long Term.- 13. The European Internal Market and the Internationalisation of Small and Medium Size Enterprises.- 14. Soudy 3: A Supply-Oriented Urban Dynamics Model with Innovation and Synergy Effects.- 15. Interregional Migration: Dynamic Theory and Comparative Analysis.- D. Advances In Regional Science Methods.- 16. Quantitative Methods in Regional Science: Perspectives on Research Directions.- 17. A Multiregional Input-Output Model for Israel and Extensions: Methodology and Experience.- 18. Ex Post Measurement of Effects of Environmental Policy by Means of Linear Structural Equation Models.- 19. Regional Medicometry: Health Expenditures, Regional Disparities, Problems and Policies.- 20. On the Significance of Economic and Non-Economic Components of Regional Development.- List of Contributors.