Regional Science Matters - Studies Dedicated to Walter Isard

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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: Editorial Introduction.- Part II: Spatial Systems Analysis.- Part III: Regional Growth and Distribution.- Part IV: Regional Policy and Uncertainty.- Part V: Urban Agglomerations.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Peter Nijkamp
has for many years been Walter Isard’s colleague on the European side of the regional science community. He has published extensively on quantitative regional science issues.

Adam Rose
was Walter’s first Economics PhD student at Cornell University. He has taught at the University of California Riverside, West Virginia University, Pennsylvania State University, and University of Southern California. In addition to regional science, his major areas of research are energy and environmental economics, and the economics of natural disasters and terrorism.

Karima Kourtit
is a researcher with a profound interest in regional science topics. Her main research interest focuses on the emerging ‘New Urban World’.

Zusammenfassung

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.

Produktdetails

• Mitarbeit: Karima Kourtit (Herausgeber), Peter Nijkamp (Herausgeber), Ada Rose (Herausgeber), Adam Rose (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Springer, Berlin
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 01.01.2016
• EAN: 9783319383811
• ISBN: 978-3-31-938381-1
• Seiten: 460
• Abmessung: 155 mm x 235 mm x 24 mm
• Gewicht: 708 g
• Illustration: VI, 460 p. 88 illus.
• Themen: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Geowissenschaften; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Wirtschaft > Volkswirtschaft; B, Geography, Urban Planning, Economic Geography, Environmental Economics, Economics and Finance, Regional Studies, Regional/Spatial Science, Regional & area planning, Regional and Spatial Economics, regional economics, Management science, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Regional planning, Spatial economics, Human Geography