Table of Contents Preface Section 1: Chapter 1 Trade, capital accumulation, and wage differentials: A dynamic model of the comparative advantage theory -- Chapter 2 Ex-post Risk Management of Environmental Contamination of Municipal Water -- Chapter 3 Endogenizing the Reservation Value in Models...

Chapter 1. Geodemographics and urban planning analysis: an historical review -- Chapter 2. When is Competition Between Cities for Members of the Creative Class Efficient? -- Chapter 3. Revisiting Marshallian versus Walrasian Stability in an Experimental Market -- Chapter 4. Analysis of spatial...

This is the first book to fully introduce a newly developed distance friction minimization (DFM) model, which is one of the new efficiency improvement projection approaches in data envelopment analysis (DEA). The DFM model can produce a most effective solution in efficiency improvement...

This book presents an evaluation of the impacts of megathrust earthquakes and tsunamis on regional economies and subsequent reconstruction, as well as regional revitalization by the spatial economic model and dynamic macro and regional computable general equilibrium (CGE) models. The cases...

Part 1: From Vulnerable to Resilient: a Framework for Regional Context -- Sustainability and Vulnerability: Well-Being in the Geo-, Eco- and Socio-Environment -- Building Resilience for Vulnerability -- Part 2: Case Study and Issues -- Sustainable Activities for Rural Development -- Small...

Chapter 1. I Dream of Gini: Measures of Population Concentration and Their Application to U.S. Population Distribution -- Chapter 2. Unraveling David Plane’s Tools for Analyzing the Income Impacts of Interregional Migration Flows -- Chapter 3. A Short Exercise to Assess the Effects of Temporal...

1.Introduction -- Part I: Fundamental Issues -- 2. Expanding the Content of Regional Science--Risks and Rewards, An Essay -- 3. Is Regional Science just Economics with a "dij" added to all Equations? Some Thoughts of an Economist -- 4. Sustainability and Resilience through Micro-Scale Decisions...

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...

Foreword -- Preface -- Part Ⅰ: New perspectives, modelling and methodology in Regional Science -- Chapter 1: The cost of missed EU integration -- Chapter 2: On the Existence of an Equilibrium in Models of Local Public Good Use by Cities to Attract the Creative Class -- Chapter 3: Canadian...

"Preface" -- "Contents" -- "Chapter 1: Introduction" -- "Chapter 2: Location Theory" -- "2.1 Spatial Interaction" -- "2.1.1 Newton Potential" -- "2.1.2 Maximum Entropy Model" -- "2.1.3 Agent-Based Model (Population Model)" -- "2.1.4 A Physical Image of Spatial Interaction" -- "2.1.4.1 MIF and...