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Regional Science Matters

Studies Dedicated to Walter Isard

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  • © 2015

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Editors:
  1. Peter Nijkamp

    1. Department of Spatial Economics, VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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  2. Adam Rose

    1. University of Southern California Price School of Public Policy, Los Angeles, USA

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  3. Karima Kourtit

    1. VU University Department of Spatial Economics, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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  • Novel and original contributions to regional science by well-known scholars in honor of the late Walter Isard

  • Multidisciplinary approaches on the foundations and developments of regional science

  • Illuminating presentation and analysis of new pathways in regional science

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Regional Science: What Matters? Which Matters?

    • Peter Nijkamp, Adam Rose, Karima Kourtit
    Pages 1-11

  3. Spatial Systems Analysis

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
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    2. The Spatial Economy: A Holistic Perspective

      • Peter Nijkamp, Waldemar Ratajczak
      Pages 15-26

    3. Interregional and International Trade: Different Causes, Different Trends?

      • Paul Krugman
      Pages 27-34

    4. Refining the Isard Multiregional Input–Output Model: Theory, Operationality and Extensions

      • Jiyoung Park, Harry W. Richardson
      Pages 35-54

    5. Time in Economic Theory

      • Åke E. Andersson
      Pages 55-70

    6. The Regional Density Function and the Definition of Regional Boundaries

      • John B. Parr, Darryl Holden
      Pages 71-86

    7. German Roots of Regional Science

      • Johannes Bröcker
      Pages 87-103

  4. Regional Growth and Distribution

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-105
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    2. The Process of Regional Economic Growth: A Case Study of Washington State

      • Richard S. Conway Jr
      Pages 107-129

    3. Integration, Contagion, and Income Distribution

      • Iwan J. Azis
      Pages 131-161

    4. Spatial Impact of Transportation Infrastructure: A Spatial Econometric CGE Approach

      • Zhenhua Chen, Kingsley E. Haynes
      Pages 163-186

    5. Demographic Challenges to Regional Development

      • Geoffrey J. D. Hewings, Euijune Kim
      Pages 187-219

  5. Regional Policy and Uncertainty

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 221-221
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    2. Cluster Life-Cycles, Entrepreneurship and Regional Economic Development with a Case Study of the Korean Shipbuilding Cluster

      • Roger R. Stough
      Pages 223-254

    3. Toward a Public Policy Agenda for Regional Science: Planning Versus Measuring Impacts

      • Peter D. Blair
      Pages 255-272

    4. Representing Negotiation Space

      • J. H. P. Paelinck
      Pages 273-286

    5. An Integrated Disaster Relief Supply Chain Network Model with Time Targets and Demand Uncertainty

      • Anna Nagurney, Amir H. Masoumi, Min Yu
      Pages 287-318

    6. Regional Dynamics Under Adverse Physical and Behavioral Shocks: The Economic Consequences of a Chlorine Terrorist Attack in the Los Angeles Financial District

      • James Giesecke, William Burns, Adam Rose, Tony Barrett, Marnie Griffith
      Pages 319-350
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About this book

​This volume is a collection of fresh and novel contributions to regional science. They commemorate the scientific inheritance of the founding father of regional science, the late Walter Isard. All papers are written by well-known scholars in the field and serve to highlight the great importance of regional science theory and methodology for a better understanding of current spatial and environmental problems throughout our planet. The book showcases a multidisciplinary panorama of modern regional science research and presents new insights by applying regional science approaches.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Spatial Economics, VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Peter Nijkamp

  • University of Southern California Price School of Public Policy, Los Angeles, USA

    Adam Rose

  • VU University Department of Spatial Economics, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Karima Kourtit

About the editors

Peter Nijkamp has for many years been Walter Isard’s colleague on the European side of the regional science community. He has published extensively on quantitative regional science issues.

Adam Rose was Walter’s first Economics PhD student at Cornell University. He has taught at the University of California Riverside, West Virginia University, Pennsylvania State University, and University of Southern California. In addition to regional science, his major areas of research are energy and environmental economics, and the economics of natural disasters and terrorism.

Karima Kourtit is a researcher with a profound interest in regional science topics. Her main research interest focuses on the emerging ‘New Urban World’.

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