Handbook on Entropy, Complexity and Spatial Dynamics : A Rebirth of Theory? /: A Rebirth of Theory?. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Aura Reggiani, Laurie A. Schintler, Danny Czamanski, Roberto Patuelli.
• Editors: Reggiani, Aura; Schintler, Laurie A; Czamanski, Danny; Patuelli, Roberto
• Contents: Contents: Preface xii 1 Reflections on entropy, complexity and spatial dynamics: the rebirth of theory? 1 Aura Reggiani, Laurie A. Schintler, Daniel Czamanski and Roberto Patuelli PART A ENTROPY, SPACE AND COMPLEXITY 2 Entropy in urban and regional modelling 20 Alan Wilson 3 Recent applications of entropy in social and environmental sciences 32 Kingsley E. Haynes, Fred Phillips and Miko Ching-Ying Yu 4 Entropy and complexity in urban and regional systems 46 J. Barkley Rosser, Jr. 5 Information theory of spatial network ensembles 61 Ginestra Bianconi 6 Entropy as a measure of agglomeration 97 Katarzyna Kopczewska 7 Entropy, agglomeration and economic structures in spatial analysis 118 Eleonora Cutrini 8 Spatial entropy, information and complexity 139 Michael Batty PART B COMPLEXITY OF URBAN EVOLUTION 9 Self-organization in complex urban systems 159 Brian J. L. Berry 10 Two centre-size distributions compared 165 John B. Parr 11 Spatial dynamics of complex urban systems within an evolutionary theory frame 175 Juste Raimbault and Denise Pumain 12 Integrating entropy in the topodynamic approach and the urban metric system 195 Luc-Normand Tellier 13 Gibrat's law and the change in artificial land use within and between European cities 213 Paul Kilgarriff, Rémi Lemoy and Geoffrey Caruso 14 Endogenous growth policies for lagging cities and regions 234 Dani Broitman and Daniel Czamanski 15 Thom's catastrophe theory and Turing's morphogenesis for urban growth modelling 246 Olivier Bonin PART C COMPLEXITY AND RESILIENCE OF ECONOMIC SYSTEMS 16 Complex structures and relative invariance in economic dynamics 271 Roberto Scazzieri 17 Getting to a circular growth economy by harnessing circular and cumulative causation 287 Kieran P. Donaghy 18 Simple pricing rules in complex air transport systems 304 Marco Alderighi, Christophe Feder, Peter Nijkamp and Elena Irina Ungureanu 19 Complex tourism dynamics and fiscal sustainability 321 Akash Sedai and Francesca Medda 20 Industrial districts as the outcome of self-organisation in time and space 342 Oto Hudec, Vladimír Gazda, Martin Zoričák and Denis Horváth 21 Economic resilience and extensions to complexity, entropy and spatial dynamics 363 Adam Rose and Noah Dormady 22 An analysis of resilience in complex socioeconomic systems 383 Amitrajeet A. Batabyal and Karima Kourtit 23 Complexity, resilience and emergence in regional economic systems 400 Timothy F. Slaper and C. Scott Dempwolf 24 Resilience in complex networks 418 Alan T. Murray PART D SPATIAL DYNAMICS OF COMPLEX INTERACTIONS 25 Complex network analysis of socio-ecological systems 433 Andrea De Montis 26 Hierarchy, central place theory and computational modelling 454 John Östh, Aura Reggiani and Laurie A. Schintler 27 Comparing power laws and exponentials in simulations of gravitational growth 474 Diego Rybski and Yunfei Li 28 Heterogeneity and segregation of mobility patterns 486 Enrico Ubaldi, Bernardo Monechi, Claudio Chiappetta and Vittorio Loreto 29 Conceptual and operational models of complex spatial interaction 510 Tomaz Ponce Dentinho and António Felix Rodrigues 30 Decision-based modelling of complex spatial systems 538 Guenter Haag 31 A general model of dynamic spatial interactions 566 Justin Delloye and Isabelle Thomas Index 584.
• Publisher Details: Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource (640 pages)
• Subjects: SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography; Regional geography; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- Transportation; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Reference; Economic geography; Reference works
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781839100598; 1839100591
• Related ISBNs: 9781839100581
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