Defining the Spatial Scale in Modern Regional Analysis : New Challenges from Data at Local Level

edited by Esteban Fernández Vázquez, Fernando Rubiera Morollón

This book explores different approaches to defining the concept of region depending on the specific question that needs to be answered. While the typical administrative spatial data division fits certain research questions well, in many cases, defining regions in a different way is fundamental in order to obtain significant empirical evidence. The book is divided into three parts: The first part is dedicated to a methodological discussion of the concept of region and the different potential approaches from different perspectives. The problem of having sufficient information to define different regional units is always present. This justifies the second part of the book, which focuses on the techniques of ecological inference applied to estimating disaggregated data from observable aggregates. Finally, the book closes by presenting several applications that are in line with the functional areas definition in regional analysis

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Year of publication:	2012
Authors:	Fernández Vázquez, Esteban
Other Persons:	Rubiera Morollón, Fernando (contributor)
Publisher:	Berlin : Springer
Subject:	Region \| Regionalökonomik \| Regional economics \| Regionalstatistik \| Regional statistics \| Gemeindestatistik \| Municipal statistics \| Welt \| World \| Regionalwirtschaft \| Raumdaten \| Räumliche Statistik \| Regionalanalyse
Description of contents:	Preface -- Part I: Building Economic Areas from Local Data -- Part II: Estimation of Spatial Desaggregated Data -- Part III: Applications of Spatial Analysis with Small Area Observations Table of Contents [d-nb.info] ; Description [swbplus.bsz-bw.de] ; Description [deposit.dnb.de]

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Extent:	Online-Ressource (XIV, 326 p. 84 illus., 7 illus. in color, digital)
Series:	Advances in Spatial Science, The Regional Science Series SpringerLink / Bücher
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Description based upon print version of record Defining the Spatial Scale in Modern Regional Analysis; Preface; Building Economic Areas from Local Data; Estimation of Spatial Disaggregated Data; Applications of Spatial Analysis with Small Area Observations; Some Final words; Contents; Part I: Building Economic Areas from Local Data; Chapter 1: From Administrative Spatial Units to Local Labour Market Areas: Some Remarks on the Unit of Investigation of RegionalEconomics with Particular Reference to the AppliedResearch in Italy; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Background; 1.2.1 Political Action; 1.2.2 Economic Research 1.3 Philosophy of Regionalization1.4 The Unit of Investigation: Local Labour Market Areas; 1.5 Main Applications; 1.6 Final Remarks; References; Chapter 2: From Local Units to Economic Regions in Spain: Where Agglomeration Economies are Meaningful; 2.1 What is a Region?; 2.1.1 The Weakness of the Concept of Region Since the Origins of Regional Science; 2.1.2 The Incorporation of Economics in the Definition of the Concept of Region; 2.1.3 Geographical Communities, Functional Regions, Local Labour Markets and Metropolitan Areas; 2.1.4 External Economies and Industrial Districts 2.1.5 A Novel Approach Provided by the New Economic Geography: Economies and Diseconomies of Agglomeration2.2 From the Theoretical to a Practical Concept of a Region; 2.2.1 The Basic Unit of Analysis: Local Labour Markets; 2.2.2 Re-aggregating the Basic Units According to Size and Distance to Size; 2.2.3 The Measurement of Distance: The Incremental Distance; 2.3 Economic Regions Based on LLMs: A Proposal for the Spanish Territory; 2.3.1 First Step: Defining Local Labour Market Areas for Spain 2.3.2 Second Step: From Local Labour Markets to Economic Regions (Size and Distance to Size Criterions)2.4 Evaluation: Administrative Regions Versus Economic Regions; References; Chapter 3: Polycentric Metropolitan Areas in Europe: Towards a Unified Proposal of Delimitation; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 General Approaches to the Definition of Metropolitan Areas; 3.3 Metropolitan Areas in Spain and Italy: A Review of the Literature; 3.3.1 Spain; 3.3.2 Italy; 3.4 FUR and DMA: Funtional and Network Methodologies 3.4.1 A Previous Thought About the Basic Territorial Unit of Observation and the Use of Commuting Data3.4.2 Functional Urban Regions (FUR); 3.4.3 Dynamic Metropolitan Areas (DMAs); 3.4.4 Consolidation of FURs and DMAs; 3.4.5 Names of the FURs and DMAs and Classification by Intervals; 3.5 Application and Results; 3.5.1 Functional Urban Regions; 3.5.2 Dynamic Metropolitan Areas; 3.5.3 FUR, DMA and NUTS3; 3.6 Conclusions: Towards an Agenda for a Unified Proposal of Delimitation of Metropolitan Areas in Europe; References Chapter 4: Measuring Metropolitan Areas: A Comparative Approach in OECD Countries
ISBN:	978-3-642-31994-5 ; 1-299-19761-2 ; 978-1-299-19761-9 ; 978-3-642-31993-8
Other identifiers:	10.1007/978-3-642-31994-5 [DOI]
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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