In kosten-batenanalyses worden de effecten rond ‘zachte’ aspecten als natuur en ruimtelijke kwaliteit doorgaans wel genoemd, maar niet altijd (allemaal) gemonetariseerd. Daardoor krijgt omgevingskwaliteit in het kosten/baten saldo en in de conclusies vaak onvoldoende gewicht. Dat kan niet...

This paper aims to contribute to the understanding of structural land use changes that are occurring in rural environments, by using novel methodologies related to Geographic Information Systems (GIS). The land use change analysis developed in this study is associated with a pre-selected set of...

The present paper aims to analyse interregional freight transport movements in Europe in order to forecast spatio-temporal patterns of new transport economic scenarios. In view of the high dimension of our data-base on transport flows, two different approaches are compared, viz. the logit model...

We propose what be believe to be a novel approach to perform calculations for rational density functions using state space representations of the densities. By standard results from realization theory, a rational probability density function is considered to be the transfer function of a linear...

This study evaluates rural self-employment in the EU countries, while comparing them with self-employment in Turkey. The study focuses on self-employment trends in the agricultural sector on the basis of changing motivations and participations of males and females. The data used for comparison...