Introduces students to the principles of regional science and focuses on the key methods used in regional analysis, including locational analysis, regional and interregional input-output analysis, econometric analysis, industrial complex analysis, social accounting and social welfare analysis and the CGE, gravity and spatial interaction models.
Autorentext
Walter Isard, Iwan J. Azis, Matthew P. Drennan, Ronald E. Miller, Sidney Saltzman, Erik Thorbecke
Zusammenfassung
This landmark textbook introduces students to the principles of regional science and focuses on the key methods used in regional analysis, including regional and interregional input-output analysis, econometrics (regional and spatial), programming and industrial and urban complex analysis, gravity and spatial interaction models, SAM and social accounting (welfare) analysis and applied general interregional equilibrium models. The coherent development of the materials contained in the set of chapters provides students with a comprehensive background and understanding of how to investigate key regional problems. For the research scholar, this publication constitutes an up-to-date source book of the basic elements of each major regional science technique. More significant, it points to new directions for future research and ways interregional and regional analytic approaches can be fused to realise much more probing attacks on regional and spatial problems - a contribution far beyond what is available in the literature.
Inhalt
Contents: The setting and introduction; Location analysis for industry and service trades: comparative cost and other approaches; Regional and interregional input-output analysis; Regional and spatial econometric analysis; Programming and industrial and urban complex analysis; Gravity and spatial interaction models; Social accounting matrices and social accounting analysis; Applied general interregional equilibrium; Interregional and spatial microsimulation; New channels of synthesis: the fusion of regional science methods.