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Principles of Regional Science (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
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Principles of Regional Science (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Series: New Frontiers in Regional Science: Asian Perspectives, 15
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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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