Front Matter -- Copyright -- Contents -- About the editors -- Contributors -- Preface -- 1. Reflections on entropy, complexity and spatial dynamics: the rebirth of theory? -- PART A ENTROPY, SPACE AND COMPLEXITY -- 2. Entropy in urban and regional modelling -- 3. Recent applications of entropy...

In a previous paper (Czamanski and Roth in Ann Reg Sci 46(1):101–118, <CitationRef CitationID="CR2">2011</CitationRef>), we demonstrated that spatial variation in characteristic time can lead to leapfrogging and scattered development, especially in times when interest rates are low or negligible. We explained this result by modeling the...</citationref>

A long-term simulation model is developed to evaluate the impacts of different market expansion policies for a natural gas distribution utility serving a multi-county region. The model is based on economic, engineering, accounting, and regulatory relationships, and is designed to replicate the...