Sustainable Development and Regional Growth
HANDBOOK OF REGIONAL GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT THEORIES, R. Capello & P. Nijkamp, eds., pp. 282-301, Edward Elgar, 2009
RIT Economics Department Working Paper No. 08-03
42 Pages Posted: 29 Jan 2008
Date Written: January 2008
Abstract
An increasing amount of research is now being conducted on topics at the interface of regional science and the environment. This research is both theoretical and empirical and the broad objective of this research is to analyze the numerous environmental implications of problems in regional science. Given the burgeoning interest in research in the above mentioned topics, there now exists a substantial literature on regional science and the environment. Therefore, our objective in this chapter is to review the principal themes in this sizable literature. Specifically, we focus on five key issues and these issues are regional economic development, natural resources, environmental regulation, geographic information systems, and regional climate change. Our review is both retrospective and prospective. We discuss what has been achieved thus far and the likely future directions of research on regional science and the environment.
Keywords: Environmental Regulation, Geographic Information System, Natural Resources, Regional Climate Change, Regional Economic Development
JEL Classification: R00, R10, Q20
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