Spatial Microsimulation for Rural Policy Analysis

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Spatial Microsimulation for Rural Policy Analysis; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: Introduction; 1.1 Background; 1.2 Modelling Frameworks for Rural Policy Analysis; 1.2.1 Context; 1.2.2 Rural Policy: The Need for Appropriate Analytical Frameworks; 1.3 Overview of the Book; References; Chapter 2: The Spatial Policy Context of Economic, Agricultural and Environmental Change in Rural Ireland; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 The Economic Context of Rural Areas; 2.3 Agricultural Policy; 2.4 Rural Development Policy; 2.4.1 EU Rural Development Policy

2.4.2 Rural Development White Paper2.5 Environmental Policy; 2.5.1 The CAP and the Environment; 2.5.2 Climate Change and Energy; 2.5.3 Water Quality; 2.6 Planning and Spatial Development Policies; 2.6.1 National Development Plan; 2.6.2 The National Spatial Strategy (NSS); 2.6.3 Enterprise Strategy; 2.6.4 Territorial and Sectoral Focus; 2.6.5 Multi-sectoral Development Policies; 2.7 SMILE and Policy Analysis; References; Chapter 3: A Review of Microsimulation for Policy Analysis; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 What Is Microsimulation?; 3.3 Spatial Microsimulation Models; 3.3.1 Origins of Spatial Models

3.3.2 Income, Poverty and Social Policy Models3.3.3 Health Care; 3.3.4 Modelling Environmental Change; 3.3.5 Transport Models; 3.3.6 Housing, Labour Markets and Transport; 3.3.7 Comprehensive and Dynamic Spatial Models; 3.4 Conclusions; References; Chapter 4: The SMILE Model: Construction and Calibration; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Generating a Spatial Microsimulation Model from Aggregate Data; 4.3 Generating a Spatial Microsimulation Model by Reweighting Survey Data; 4.3.1 Deterministic Reweighting; 4.3.2 Simulated Annealing; 4.3.3 Quota Sampling

4.4 Building the SMILE Model: Data and Modelling Procedures4.4.1 Data Sets; 4.4.1.1 The Living in Ireland Survey; 4.4.1.2 Small Area Population Statistics; 4.4.1.3 The Geo-Directory; 4.4.2 Choice of Constraint Variables; 4.4.3 The Modelling Procedure; 4.5 Validation of Constraint Variables; 4.6 Validation of Non-constraint Variable - Income; 4.7 Conclusions; References; Chapter 5: Validation Issues and the Spatial Pattern of Household Income; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Spatial Heterogeneity and Model Validation Issues; 5.3 Validating Smile

5.4 Monte Carlo Simulation Approach to Correcting for Validation Error5.4.1 Monte Carlo Simulation; 5.4.2 Calibration and Alignment; 5.4.3 Calibration Results; 5.5 Calibrating Income; 5.6 Conclusions; References; Chapter 6: Farm Level Spatial Microsimulation Modelling; 6.1 Introduction; 6.1.1 Spatial Analysis of Agriculture and Microsimulation; 6.1.2 An Irish Spatial Farm Microsimulation Model; 6.2 Methodology: A Farm Level Microsimulation Model; 6.3 Validation; 6.4 Spatial Analysis Using the Static Farm Level Spatial Microsimulation Model; 6.5 Conclusion; References

Chapter 7: Conservation and Rural Environmental Protection Schemes

1 Introduction -- 2 The Spatial Policy Context of Economic, Agricultural and Environmental Change in Rural Ireland -- 3 A Review of Microsimulation for Policy Analysis -- 4 The SMILE Model: Construction and Calibration -- 5 Validation Issues and the Spatial Pattern of Household Income -- 6 Farm Level Spatial Microsimulation Modelling -- 7 Conservation and Rural Environmental Protection Scheme -- 8 Modelling Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Agriculture -- 9 The Location Economics of Biomass Production for Electricity Generation -- 10 Modelling Farm Viability -- 11 The Spatial Distribution of Household Disposable Income -- 12 Spatial Access to Health Services -- 13 Modelling the Spatial Pattern of Rural Tourism and Recreation -- 14 Conclusions and Next Steps.

10.1007/978-3-642-30026-4 [DOI]

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