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Regional Innovation Systems: A Critical Synthesis

Parto, Saeed; Doloreux, David - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2004

In recent years, the concept of Regional Innovation Systems has evolved into a widely used analytical framework generating the empirical foundation for innovation policy making. Yet, the approaches utilizing this framework remain ambiguous on such key issues as the territorial dimension of...

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National flood discharge mapping in Austria

Merz, Ralf; Blöschl, Günter; Humer, Günter - In: Natural Hazards 46 (2008) 1, pp. 53-72

This article presents the approach and the results of a study in which 30, 100 and 200 year return period flood discharges were estimated for 26,000 km of Austrian streams. Three guiding principles were adopted: combination of automatic methods and manual assessments by hydrologists to allow...

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Catchment Variability and Parameter Estimation in Multi-Objective Regionalisation of a Rainfall–Runoff Model

Deckers, Dave; Booij, Martijn; Rientjes, Tom; Krol, Maarten - In: Water Resources Management 24 (2010) 14, pp. 3961-3985

This study attempts to examine if catchment variability favours regionalisation by principles of catchment similarity … test robustness of regionalisation by assessing if generalisation of a wide range of climatic, topographic and … results are obtained for additional validation runs using catchments that are not used in the regionalisation procedure. Since …

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Hydrogeographical Regionalisation: An Approach for Evaluating the Effects of Land Cover Change in Watersheds. A Case Study in the Cuitzeo Lake Watershed, Central Mexico

Allende, Teodoro Carlón; Mendoza, Manuel; Granados, … - In: Water Resources Management 23 (2009) 12, pp. 2587-2603

cover through time on regionalisation modelling in the poorly-gauged Cuitzeo Lake Watershed, and to develop models to create … two hydrogeographical regionalisations for the years 1975 and 2000. The inputs required by the regionalisation methodology … were integrated in a GIS and validated before carrying out statistical regionalisation procedures (cluster analysis and PCA …

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Using multi-agent modeling technique to regionalize key processes and patterns of sustainable agricultural cropping systems in the North China Plain

Roth, Andreas; Pan, Ying; Yu, Zhenrong; Doluschitz, Reiner - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009

our research objective, the regionalisation of key features towards sustainable agricultural and to improve productivity … Cellular Automata as it is proposed by remote sensing software techniques (IDRISI 15.0) has been evaluated. This approach …

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Who produces for whom in the world economy?

Daudin, Guillaume; Rifflart, Christine; Schweisguth, … - Sciences économiques, Sciences Po - 2009

For nearly two decades, the share of trade in inputs, also called vertical trade, has dramatically increased. This paper suggests a new measure of international trade: “value-added trade”. Like many existing estimates, “value-added trade” is net of double-counted vertical trade. It also...

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Are automotive global production networks becoming more global? Comparison of regional and global integration processes based on auto parts trade data

Frigant, Vincent; Zumpe, Martin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

In this paper, we examine the evolution of international exchanges of auto parts over the 2000-2012 period. The first part of our study proposes an analysis of the organisation of automotive supply chains based on the global production networks framework. We give details about this approach by...

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The World Trade Geography: 1967-2011

Ünal, Deniz - In: Panorama du CEPII (2014) 1

The remarkable changes in the distribution of wealth and trade flows in recent decades are subject to abundant interpretations as a shift of the world economy gravity center towards Asia. Using CHELEM and BACI databases of CEPII this panorama examines and illustrates major geographical trends of...

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North-South Regionalism

Grasland, Claude; Beckouche, Pierre - HAL - 2007

Planning and other territorial policies within Europe are more and more dependant upon its relations with the rest of the world. The growing international flows (migrants, trade, investments, polluting agents) interact with the European territories; moreover, the vision the Europeans have of...

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Giving a direction to port regionalisation

Monios, Jason; Wilmsmeier, Gordon - In: Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice 46 (2012) 10, pp. 1551-1561

attracted increasing focus, particularly under the framework of port regionalisation. This paper will explore port … regionalisation in different contexts through a greater focus on the drivers and direction of a number of inland terminal development …

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