Local Developments and Urban Planning

About the author

Peter Nijkamp is Professor in Regional and Urban Economics and in Economic Geography at the VU University, Amsterdam. His main research interests cover quantitative plan evaluation, regional and urban modelling, multicriteria analysis, transport systems analysis, mathematical systems modelling, technological innovation, entrepreneurship, environmental and resource management, and sustainable development. In the past years he has focussed his research in particular on new quantitative methods for policy analysis, as well as on spatial-behavioural analysis of economic agents. He has a broad expertise in the area of public policy, services planning, infrastructure management and environmental protection. In all these fields he has published many books and numerous articles.§In 1996, he was awarded the most prestigious scientific prize in the Netherlands, the Spinoza award.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Nijkamp, F. J. Van Lierop
• Assisted by: W F J van Lierop (Editor), W. F. J. van Lierop (Editor), Peter Nijkamp (Editor), W. F. J. Van Lierop (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2009
• EAN: 9789028626515
• ISBN: 978-90-286-2651-5
• No. of pages: 531
• Weight: 934 g
• Illustrations: XX, 531 p.
• Series: Nato Science Series D: (closed); Nato Science Series D: NATO Advanced Study Institutes; Nato Science Series D:
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics