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Handbook on entropy, complexity and spatial dynamics : a rebirth of theory? / Edited by Aura Reggiani, Laurie A. Schintler, Danny Czamanski, Roberto Patuelli.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Space in economics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (628 pages : illustrations (black & white))
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, [2021]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Copyright
- Contents
- About the editors
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1. Reflections on entropy, complexity and spatial dynamics: the rebirth of theory?
- PART A ENTROPY, SPACE AND COMPLEXITY
- 2. Entropy in urban and regional modelling
- 3. Recent applications of entropy in social and environmental sciences
- 4. Entropy and complexity in urban and regional systems
- 5. Information theory of spatial network ensembles
- 6. Entropy as a measure of agglomeration
- 7. Entropy, agglomeration and economic structures in spatial analysis
- 8. Spatial entropy, information and complexity
- PART B COMPLEXITY OF URBAN EVOLUTION
- 9. Self-organization in complex urban systems
- 10. Two centre-size distributions compared
- 11. Spatial dynamics of complex urban systems within an evolutionary theory frame
- 12. Integrating entropy in the topodynamic approach and the urban metric system
- 13. Gibrat's law and the change in artificial land use within and between European cities
- 14. Endogenous growth policies for lagging cities and regions
- 15. Thom's catastrophe theory and Turing's morphogenesis for urban growth modelling
- PART C COMPLEXITY AND RESILIENCE OF ECONOMIC SYSTEMS
- 16. Complex structures and relative invariance in economic dynamics
- 17. Getting to a circular growth economy by harnessing circular and cumulative causation
- 18. Simple pricing rules in complex air transport systems
- 19. Complex tourism dynamics and fiscal sustainability
- 20. Industrial districts as the outcome of self-organisationin time and space
- 21. Economic resilience and extensions to complexity, entropy and spatial dynamics
- 22. An analysis of resilience in complex socioeconomic systems
- 23. Complexity, resilience and emergence in regional economic systems
- 24. Resilience in complex networks
- PART D SPATIAL DYNAMICS OF COMPLEX INTERACTIONS
- 25. Complex network analysis of socio-ecological systems
- 26. Hierarchy, central place theory and computational modelling
- 27. Comparing power laws and exponentials in simulations of gravitational growth
- 28. Heterogeneity and segregation of mobility patterns
- 29. Conceptual and operational models of complex spatial interaction
- 30. Decision-based modelling of complex spatial systems
- 31. A general model of dynamic spatial interactions
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 04, 2022).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Reggiani, Aura Handbook on Entropy, Complexity and Spatial Dynamics
- ISBN:
- 9781839100598
- 1839100591
- Publisher Number:
- 99989504480
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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