This landmark textbook introduces students to the principles of regional
science and focuses on the key methods used in regional analysis,
including regional and interregional input-output analysis, econometrics
(regional and spatial), programming and industrial and urban complex
analysis, gravity and spatial interaction models, SAM and social
accounting (welfare) analysis and applied general interregional
equilibrium models. The coherent development of the materials contained
in the set of chapters provides students with a comprehensive background
and understanding of how to investigate key regional problems. For the
research scholar, this publication constitutes an up-to-date source book
of the basic elements of each major regional science technique. More
significant, it points to new directions for future research and ways
interregional and regional analytic approaches can be fused to realise
much more probing attacks on regional and spatial problems - a
contribution far beyond what is available in the literature.