Overview
- Identifies methodological advances as well as trends and future developments in regional systems modelling and open science
- Covers research areas such as interindustry modelling, computable general equilibrium models, exploratory spatial data analysis, geographic information science, spatial econometrics
- Builds on recent methodological and modelling advances, as well as on extensive policy-analysis experience
Part of the book series: Advances in Spatial Science (ADVSPATIAL)
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Regional Systems Modeling
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Spatial Analysis
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Open Source and Open Science
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Keywords
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Randall Jackson joined the West Virginia University faculty as Regional Research Institute Director and Professor of Geology and Geography in January 2002. Previous appointments include the geography department and the Center for Governmental Studies at Northern Illinois University and the geography department at The Ohio State University. While at OSU, he also served two years as Associate Director for Research Computing. He is Adjunct Professor in Economics and Agricultural and Resource Economics at WVU, and in Geography at The Ohio State University. He is a past-president and Fellow of the Southern Regional Science Association, and sits on the Board of Directors for the Western Regional Science Association. He was 2007 Chair of the North American Regional Science Council, and he has received the David E. Boyce Award for Distinguished Service to the Regional Science Association International, having served as its Newsletter Editor and established and maintained itsprimary Internet website. He has received the Benedum Distinguished Scholar Award, West Virginia University’s highest research and scholarship recognition.
Dr. Peter Schaeffer is Professor of Regional Economics and Public Policy at West Virginia University and a Faculty Research Associate in the Regional Research Institute. He has previously served on the faculties of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Colorado at Denver, as a visiting professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, and a visiting scholar at the International Labor Organization in Geneva. He has consulted on regional economic development in North America, Europe, and the People’s Republic of China. Dr. Schaeffer is a past chair of the North American Regional Science Council and past-president of the Southern Regional Science Association. He obtained a licentiate in economics from the University of Zurich and the M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Southern California.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Regional Research Frontiers - Vol. 2
Book Subtitle: Methodological Advances, Regional Systems Modeling and Open Sciences
Editors: Randall Jackson, Peter Schaeffer
Series Title: Advances in Spatial Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50590-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-50589-3Published: 25 April 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84436-7Published: 21 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-50590-9Published: 17 April 2017
Series ISSN: 1430-9602
Series E-ISSN: 2197-9375
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 306
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 30 illustrations in colour
Topics: Regional/Spatial Science, Economic Geography, Econometrics, Economic Policy, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Migration