Product Description: This timely and fascinating book illustrates how applied geography can contribute in a multitude of ways to assist policy processes, evaluate public programs, enhance business decisions, and contribute to formulating solutions for community-level problems...read more

Product Description: Declines in public support for universities throughout the world have prompted administrators and policymakers to seek alternative funding. One favored idea is the entrepreneurial university—one that uses modern business practices including commercializing its intellectual property...read more

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Product Description: Analyzing the process of change that occurs within and between regions, this two volume set includes important articles on the causes and consequences of regional change resulting from human activity. Special attention is given to economics and social behaviour.

Product Description: Haynes and Fotheringham provide an introduction to gravity and spatial interaction models which are extensively applied in forecasting. They trace the different applications of the gravity model to market area analysis, developing real-life examples of the use of these models: planning a new service, defining retail shopping boundaries, forecasting migration and voting patterns, examining university enrollment by area, determining the optimal size of a shopping complex, and locating a facility for best results...read more