Mit Beiträgen von: Dieter Bender, Tobias Bidlingmaier; Carsten Eckel, Makram El-Shagi; Michael Frenkel, Hans-Rimbert Hemmer, Andreas Irmen; Ulf von Kalckreuth, Ralf Krüger, Helga Luckenbach; Ronald McKinnon; Edmund S. Phelps; Stefan Reitz, Gerhard Rübel; Karlhans Sauernheimer; Jennifer Seith;...

Charakteristisch für entwickelte Marktwirtschaften ist ihre ausgeprägte Fähigkeit zur Flexibilität. Angetrieben durch Konsumentenbedürfnisse und Produktinnovationen ändern sich permanent sowohl die verfügbaren Güter als auch die Struktur der Marktteilnehmer. Wettbewerblich organisierte...

Spatial Analysis -- Perspectives on Spatial Data Analysis -- Spatial Interaction and Spatial Autocorrelation: A Cross-Product Approach -- Spatial Statistical Analysis and Geographic Information Systems -- Whose Hand on the Tiller? Revisiting “Spatial Statistical Analysis and GIS” -- Spatial...

Space is increasingly recognized as a legitimate factor that influences many processes and conceptual frameworks, including notions of spatial coherence and spatial heterogeneity that have been demonstrated to provide substance to both theory and explanation. The potential and relevance of...

The emphasis of this book lies on emerging hypotheses, new methods and theoretic developments in the field of regional economic development. A further amplification is provided with a diverse set of cases extending this new way of thinking at the theory and methods level into policy and...

This book offers a panoramic view of recent advances in spatial complexity, in order to enhance our understanding of complex spatial networks by simplicity in terms of both the basic driving forces of systemic impacts and the modelling of such systems. Simple models mapping out the evolution of...