Regional Science in Business

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-VIII

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2. Introduction

   • Graham Clarke, Moss Madden

   Pages 1-9

3. Creating and Expanding Trade Partnerships Within the Chicago Metropolitan Area: Applications Using a Miyazawa Accounting System

   • Geoffrey J. D. Hewings, Yasuhide Okuyama, Michael Sonis

   Pages 11-35

4. Socio-economic Impact Assessment: Meeting Client Requirements

   • Peter W. J. Batey, Moss Madden

   Pages 37-59

5. Multiregional Computational General Equilibrium and Spatial Interaction Trade Modelling: An Empirical Example

   • Martin Schneider, Manfred M. Fischer

   Pages 61-78

6. The Regional Cambridge Multisectoral Dynamic Model of the UK Economy

   • Terry Barker, Bernie Fingleton, K. Homenidou, R. Lewney

   Pages 79-96

7. Discrete Choice Modelling: Basic Principles and Application to Parking Policy Assessment

   • Harmen Oppewal, Harry Timmermans

   Pages 97-114

8. Applied Population Projection for Regional and Local Planning

   • John Stillwell, Phil Rees

   Pages 115-136

9. Applied Spatial Interaction Modelling

   • Graham Clarke, Martin Clarke

   Pages 137-157

10. The Objectives and Design of a New Land-use Modelling Package: DELTA

    • David Simmonds

    Pages 159-188

11. Transport and Urban Development

    • Gunter Haag, Kathrin Gruetzmann

    Pages 189-209

12. Boundary-Swapping Optimisation and Region Design

    • Bill Macmillan

    Pages 211-222

13. Optimal Distribution Strategies

    • Mark Birkin, Richard Culf

    Pages 223-241

14. An Applied Microsimulation Model: Exploring Alternative Domestic Water Consumption Scenarios

    • Paul Williamson

    Pages 243-268

15. Fuzzy Geodemographic Targeting

    • Linda See, Stan Openshaw

    Pages 269-281

16. Analysing Access to Hospital Facilities with GIS

    • Martin Charlton, Stewart Fotheringham, Chris Brunsdon

    Pages 283-303

17. GIS and Large-scale Linear Programming: Evolution of a Spatial Decision Support System for Land Use Management

    • Richard L. Church

    Pages 305-321

18. Crime Pattern Analysis, Spatial Targeting and GIS: The Development of New Approaches for use in Evaluating Community Safety Initiatives

    • Alex Hirschfield, David Yarwood, Kate Bowers

    Pages 323-342

19. Back Matter

    Pages 343-364

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Graham Clarke and Moss Madden 1. 1 Background In the mid 1990s there were a number of papers in regional science that questioned the relevance and purpose of the entire sub-discipline. Bailly and Coffey (1994) for example, talked of 'regional science in crisis'. They argued that there were two fundamental problems. First, regional science was too theoretical in the sense that many of its products were models that could neither be calibrated (too complex) or operationalised (too abstract) in the real world. They suggested that regional science had not sufficiently demonstrated that it can address real-world problems and subsequently lacked a focus on relevant policy issues. Second, they argued that regional science had become too narrow in focus and had moved away too far from real people and their daily concerns or struggles in life. This was not the first time we had witnessed these sorts of arguments, both from outside the discipline and from within. Sayer (1976) was perhaps the first to argue for a shift from a model-based focus in regional science to one based on political economy. Breheny (1984) criticised the 'deep ignorance among regional scientists of the nature of practical policy making and implementation' (see also Rodwin (1987) for similar views in the mid 1980s). Such self-reflection is a feature of many disciplines as they reach maturity. There have been many similar reflections in geography (Johnston 1996, Barnes 1996) and economics (see the collection in the January edition of the Economic Journal 1991).

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• regional science
• urban development
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• School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

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