The issue of the spatial ecological disparities is a relatively little treated problem. In this article, we suggest to consider an economic analysis of environmental disparities by using data related to the French departments (EIDER data from IFEN). After a treatment by principal component...

This paper deals with the intrametropolitan location strategies of business services. These activities are traditionnaly highly concentrated in the centre. Recent studies show however that they tend to peripherise and that they can be part of the multipolarisation process. The empirical work...

The analysis of the elementary process of euro coins diffusion indicates that networks of individuals play a major role in the international circulation of coins. Through regular surveys realised on representative samples of French population since beginning of 2002, the Euro Spatial Diffusion...

The effect of proximity on development has fostered much interest over recent years and STORPER has put forward the hypothesis of a winning configuration for the 3rd millenium, that is one based on innovation, organizations and territory. Our research was conducted with firms of three high tech...

The aim of the paper is to discuss the new sequential and cumulative approaches of location process based on non-market interactions. We distinguish between the role played by network externalities and the one played by information externalities in order to distinguish locational clusters and...

This article aims at evaluating the link between knowledge properties and geographical proximity in the coordination R&D activities of firms. This evaluation is based on a statistical analysis of 614 responses to a survey carried out in France over 3740 plants having R&D activities. The concepts...

Metropolization, namely the concentration of households and activity in the more developped cities, leads to greater spatial differentiation and specialization in the urban area, generating new flows and new urban dysfunctions. Although distance to the centre is still relevant to understand the...

The knowledge production function, which has initially been suggested as a mean to measure of technological externalities, is extended here to the spatial dimension. After accounting for spatial autocorrelation, two interesting results are worth noting : 1) distance matters when it comes to...

As amenity-rich rural areas experience higher levels of growth, this research addressed the question of the extent to which outdoor recreation facilities impact selected economic development indicators in U.S. remote rural counties. The research first clustered counties according to natural...

The urban structures have changed deeply under the influence of the suburbanisation of people and employment. This trend does not lead however to a generalized sprawl of households and firms but rather to a process of agglomeration within new urban subcenters. Within the bordeaux metropolitan...