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An Urban Economic Model over a Continuous Plane with Spatial Characteristic Vector Field - Asymmetric Land Use Pattern and Internalizing Transportation Networks -
MIYATA, Yuzuru - In: Regional Science Inquiry IV (2012) 2, pp. 13-28
’s initiation, Beckmann and Puu (1985) at last reached a systematic treatment of the continuous spatial economics. Although their … gradient law has still been inherited. Beckmann and Puu’s book (1985) aims to study formation of urban configuration in a two … necessarily sufficient, resulting in reconsideration from a new urban economics point of view. Differing from Beckmann and Puu …
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The New Science of Cities by Michael Batty: The Opinion of an Economist
Thisse, Jacques-Francois - In: Journal of Economic Literature 52 (2014) 3, pp. 805-19
Cities are the cradle of a wide range of cultural, social, and technological innovations that are at the heart of modern economic growth and development. Half of humanity today lives in cities but, until the last two decades, economists have paid much less attention to cities than have other...
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Appropriate Economic Space for Transnational Infrastructural Projects : Gateways, Multimodal Corridors, and Special Economic Zones
Rimmer, Peter J.; Dick, Howard - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
This study addresses three questions that arise in Asia when formulating, financing, implementing, and maintaining transnational linkages versus purely domestic connections. Firstly, how is optimal economic space to be defined as a useful starting point? Secondly, how can relevant criteria be...
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El Canal del Dique y su subregión: una economía basada en la riqueza hídrica
Díaz, María M. Aguilera - BANCO DE LA REPÚBLICA - ECONOMÍA REGIONAL - 2006
La subregión Canal del Dique, ubicada en la Costa Caribe colombiana, es una llanura aluvial conformada por un complejo de humedales en donde habitan una gran biodiversidad de especies terrestres y piscícolas. El recurso hídrico es su principal activo ambiental y el eje del sostenimiento...
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The geopolitical impact of the Syrian crisis on Lebanon
Mazis, Ioannis Th.; Sarlis, Michalis - In: Regional Science Inquiry IV (2012) 3, pp. 101-106
This paper identifies and analyses the geopolitical impact that the Syrian crisis has on Lebanon. This impact is manifested in two forms: a subsystemic one (within the Syria-Lebanon subsystem) and a systemic one (exerted from the system of the wider Middle East). The first refers to the direct...
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TELEWORKING: FROM A TECHNOLOGY POTENTIAL TO A SOCIAL EVOLUTION
Vescoukis, Vassileios; Stratigea, Anastasia; Giaoutzi, Maria - In: Regional Science Inquiry IV (2012) 3, pp. 37-50
The present paper elaborates on the prospective developments of teleworking, as these relate to the dynamics of ICTs developments. The paper presents various types of teleworking applications, linked to the evolving potential of technological developments; then discusses the evolving patterns of...
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The geopolitical impact of the Syrian crisis on Lebanon
Mazis, Ioannis Th.; Sarlis, Michalis - In: Regional Science Inquiry IV (2012) 3, pp. 85-90
This paper identifies and analyses the geopolitical impact that the Syrian crisis has on Lebanon. This impact is manifested in two forms: a subsystemic one (within the Syria-Lebanon subsystem) and a systemic one (exerted from the system of the wider Middle East). The first refers to the direct...
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THE SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL PATTERNS of declared income across Greece: 2001-8
PRODROMÍDIS, P. - In: Regional Science Inquiry IV (2012) 2, pp. 183-190
provides a better understanding of the internal heterogeneity of the country and facilitates the formulation of better …
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The brazilian economy position on the Investment Development Path (IDP)
Cechella, Cristiano; Franco, Gustavo H. B.; Dentinho, Tomaz - In: Regional Science Inquiry IV (2012) 2, pp. 29-39
The hypothesis that inward and outward FDI positions of a country are related to the level and structure of economic development in relation to other economies, was first showed by Dunning (1979. The IDP suggests that countries tend to pass through five main development stages and that these...
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The Greek EEZ: Principles of a Geopolitical Analysis
MAZIS, Ioannis Th.; SGOUROS, Dr. Georgios-Alexandros - In: Regional Science Inquiry IV (2012) 2, pp. 139-158
This paper comprises three parts. The first part presents and substantiates Greece's legal position with regard to the process of unilaterally establishing an EEZ and analyses the basic concepts, the terms and conditions of this process before resorting to the International Court of the Law of...
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