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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ISBN
9789811053672
Publisert
2018
Utgiver
Vendor
Springer
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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