The Environment in Regional Science: An Eclectic Review

48 Pages Posted: 4 Jun 2003

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Amitrajeet A. Batabyal

Rochester Institute of Technology

Peter Nijkamp

VU University of Amsterdam - Department of Spatial Economics; Tinbergen Institute

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Date Written: 2003

Abstract

The environment, broadly construed, is increasingly a salient topic in regional science research. Theoretical and empirical inquiries by regional scientists have progressively begun to address the manifold environmental ramifications of regional science questions. As such, there now exists a sizeable literature on what we may call the environment in regional science. Given this state of affairs, the purpose of this paper is to survey this extensive literature. To provide sufficient focus, we do this by discussing five key issues in the extant literature on the environment in regional science. These issues are (i) regional economic development, (ii) environmental regulation, (iii) natural resources, (iv) international affairs, and (v) geographic information systems. Our survey is both retrospective and prospective in nature. We are interested not only in what has been accomplished thus far but also in where research on the environment in regional science is headed in the future.

Keywords: Environmental regulation, geographic information system, international affairs, natural resources, regional economic development

JEL Classification: R00, R10, Q20

Suggested Citation

Batabyal, Amitrajeet A. and Nijkamp, Peter, The Environment in Regional Science: An Eclectic Review (2003). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=413881 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.413881

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