A dominant objective within the public policies of all SE Asian countries has been the achievement of economic growth. The issue of sustainability has serious implications for this policy objective. Pursuit of economic growth is concerned solely with the present, whilst sustainability is...

This paper presents a new measure of sustainability within a welfare economics framework. Gross domestic product (GDP) can be used as an indicator of sustainability if the GDP estimates are undertaken within a cost-benefit analysis framework based on social choice perspectives. Sustainability is...

There is an (optimistic) view within the literature that the convergence of two long-run broad trends, globalization and advances in information and communication technology, has resulted in a new world economy. Within such a new economy, knowledge replaces traditional productivity input as the...

Much current interest in spatial interaction modeling centres around solving the Harris - Wilson equilibrium model. In this paper the role of different attractiveness functions is explored and some counterintuitive results presented and explained.

In this paper a new approach is developed to the analysis of stratified housing and employment systems which exhibit interdependencies between movers in the allocation process. Vacancy chain models, derived within a mathematical programming framework, are presented and their properties are...

In a recent paper an analysis of the stability of equilibrium solutions of production-constrained retailing models was undertaken by Harris and Wilson. It was argued that by examining equilibrium solutions in response to changes in a parameter, <i>k</i>, jumps in the value of state variables, analogous...

There is a growing interest from a wide variety of sources in information pertaining to the characteristics of residents of small geographical areas together with their associated activity patterns. Reliance on the use of conventional aggregate data sources combined with the British Government's...

In this paper an attempt is made to demonstrate how conventional regional science methods can be adapted for use in business, commerce, and public-sector planning. It is argued that the route to achieving this goal rests, not in developing new methods, but, rather, in gaining a better...

Despite the advances made in the development of computer models of urban and regional systems the lack of an appropriate software package incorporating much of this work prevents the popularisation and widespread use of these methods. In statistical analysis the availability of packages such as...

In this paper it is argued that continuing advances in computing power present both a challenge and an opportunity to researchers in the social sciences. There are opportunities in at least two areas in the generation of more sophisticated theories about spatial problems: through techniques such...