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Spatial Economic Science

New Frontiers in Theory and Methodology

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  • © 2000

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Editors:
  1. Aura Reggiani

    1. Department of Economics Faculty of Statistics, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

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  • State of the art in regional/spatial science from the theoretical, methodological and empirical viewpoint
  • Presents the recent new methods, like dynamic models, artificial intelligence approaches, meta-analysis, and their possible applications. Book has interdisciplinary feature
  • Appraisal of the most recent methodologies and contributions in regional science

Part of the book series: Advances in Spatial Science (ADVSPATIAL)

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction: New Frontiers in Modelling Spatial and Economic Systems

    1. Introduction: New Frontiers in Modelling Spatial and Economic Systems

      • Aura Reggiani
      Pages 1-11

  4. New Frontiers in Decision Making in a Complex Space-Economy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-125
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    2. Advances in Comparative Assessment Research in the Space-Economy

      • Peter Nijkamp
      Pages 127-148

    3. A Hybrid Connectionist Expert System for Spatial Inference and Analysis

      • Yee Leung
      Pages 149-187

    4. Knowledge Discovery and Induction of Decision Trees in Spatial Decision Problems

      • Jean-Claude Thill, Aaron Wheeler
      Pages 188-205

    5. A New Method for Handling Complex Spatial Problems

      • Dorien J. DeTombe
      Pages 212-240

  6. New Frontiers in Transport Networks

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 329-329
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About this book

With the dawn of the twenty-first century comes the awareness that current rapid political-economic-social and technological transformations will affect our of living, by producing new forms of information, communications, common way market, work-style and leisure. In this context, human behaviour will certainly change its 'fixed' parameters. It is likely that the relationships between internal structures and external influences, between individual components and collective behaviour, as well as between multi-scale networks and interrelated dynamics, will show spatio-temporal patterns which will be difficult to predict by means of our usual tools. As a consequence, academic research is increasingly being required to play an active role in addressing new ways of understanding and forecasting the sets of interacting structures, ranging from the technical to the organizational, and from the social to the economic and political levels, while at the same time incorporating concerns about the 'new' economy, environment, society, information and technology. It is now evident that social science - especially spatial and economic scienc- needs innovative 'paths', together with continuous cross-fertilization among the many disciplines involved. In order to investigate these intriguing perspectives, we seem to have embarked on an era of methodological reflections - rather than developing strong theoretical foundations. This volume aims to provide an overview of these new insights and frontiers for theoretical/methodological studies and research applications in the space-economy.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Economics Faculty of Statistics, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

    Aura Reggiani

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