Overview
- Introduces principles of regional science with mathematical explanations and enables an understanding of the modeling methods in regional science
- Enriches the theoretical perspective of regional science by combining neo-economic theory and evolutionary economics
- Introduces the idea of multiregional economics at the frontier of regional science
Part of the book series: New Frontiers in Regional Science: Asian Perspectives (NFRSASIPER, volume 15)
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About this book
This book summarizes the research findings in regarding a region as a rational and abstract concept and explores the principles of regional science. Focusing on location theory, spatial dynamics and regional evolution theory, it stresses that the region as a scientific concept is an essential abstract of an economic entity of a place. While it introduces a number of case studies, the content is general and universal rather than specific.
Beginning with location theory – the basis of regional science – it explains how regions breed their own characteristics as economic entities against a background of place. For example, it discusses the location theory of the tourism industry and analyzes issues of facility location and R&D-industry location theory.
The second part of the book addresses interactions with the spatial dynamics, including the dynamic mechanism of regions against a background of space. Spatial dynamics, which includes concepts from statistical physics, provides insights into the dynamic mechanism of aggregation, diffusion, and industrial clustering in regional science as well as in geography and economics.
The book then describes regional dynamics as a development of spatial dynamics: REGION is completely independent as a research object and is no longer part of spatial dynamics. This book also discusses in detail regions as the dynamic characteristics of the economy or the basic characteristics of a certain place and examines the theory of regional evolution. It argues that regions are evolution and irreversible features of development with path dependence, which are the characteristics of a region that differ from general economic phenomena.
This book by Professor Zheng Wang is outstanding. Its focus on Regional Science will open this area up to a wide variety of theoretical and applied researchers. I recommend the work without reservations. It covers critically important principles in the field and should be read and used by students, faculty and applied researchers doing policy analysis. I can see this as an important handbook and reference work as well as a textbook in the field. Kingsley Haynes
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Zheng Wang, Institute of Policy and Management, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Principles of Regional Science
Authors: Zheng Wang
Series Title: New Frontiers in Regional Science: Asian Perspectives
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5367-2
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-5366-5Published: 03 November 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-5379-6Published: 12 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-5367-2Published: 17 October 2017
Series ISSN: 2199-5974
Series E-ISSN: 2199-5982
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 248
Number of Illustrations: 34 b/w illustrations, 14 illustrations in colour
Topics: Regional/Spatial Science, International Economics, History of Economic Thought/Methodology, Environmental Economics, Political Economy/Economic Systems