Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Single-objective optimization -- Chapter 2: Multicriteria decision making -- Chapter 3: Location models -- Chapter 4: Mathematical and geospatial tools -- Chapter 5: Locating a landfill with vector optimization -- Chapter 6: Using goal programming to locate...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Part I. Antecedents of Regional Science -- Chapter 2. Adam Smith (1723–1790): Uncovering His Legacy for Regional Science (Roberto Camagni) -- Chapter 3. Johann Heinrich Von Thünen (1783–1850): A Systemic View of Human Interaction within Space (Tomás Ponce...

The effect of regulation on a dominant firm to protect fringe firms in a local market -- Corporate taxation and regional economic development in Japan: A panel analysis of prefectural-level data -- Economies of scale and culmulative causation -- Firms' human resource management for local economy...

In this paper we discuss how to position ambulances across an EMS region in a fair way. We argue that an appropriate measure of fairness is the so-called Bernoulli-Nash Social Welfare Function. We introduce a mathematical model that determines the ambulance configuration that maximizes this...

In this monograph we develop “Space Location” theory of organisations and people in organisations, drawing from concepts familiar in the physical and natural sciences. Variables are drawn from existentialism, in an analogical sense from the physical sciences, sociology and (organizational)...