Applied Spatial Modelling and Planning

John R. Lombard is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Service at Old Dominion University, USA. Eliahu Stern is Professor of Geography and Planning at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel. Graham Clarke is Professor of Business Geography at the University of Leeds, UK.

Chapter 1: Introduction John Lombard, Eli Stern and Graham Clarke

Chapter 2: Applied spatial modelling: ‘big science’ and ‘best practice’ challenges Sir Alan Wilson

Part I Dynamics of economic space

Chapter 3: An exploratory analysis of new firm formation in New England Jitendra Parajuli and Kingsley E. Haynes

Chapter 4: The impacts of policy changes on overseas human captial in Australia: the implementation of the 485 graduate visa Jonathan Corcoran, Francisco Rowe, Alessandra Faggian, and Robert Stimson

Chapter 5: On the three ‘laws’ of spatial interaction and a string theory finale: perspectives from social physics with examples in the digital and retail economy Robert G.V. Baker

Part II Housing and settlements

Chapter 6: Spatial typology of the private rental housing market at neighbourhood scale: the case of South East Queensland, Australia Yan Liu, David Wadley and Jonathan Corcoran

Chapter 7: Optimal kernel and bandwidth specifications for geographically weighted regression: an evaluation using automated valuation models (AVMS) for mass real estate appraisal Paul E. Bidanset and John R. Lombard

Chapter 8: Spatial search: new settlements for Israel's ultra-orthodox population Eliahu Stern

Chapter 9: A tale of two earthquakes: dynamic agent-based simulation of urban resilience A. Yair Grinberger and Daniel Felsenstein

Part III Population dynamics and population ageing

Chapter 10: The United Kingdom’s multi-ethnic future: how fast is it arriving? Philip Rees, Pia Wohland and Paul Norman

Chapter 11: Decomposition of life expectancy at older ages and prospects for ageing populations Leslie Mayhew and David Smith

Chapter 12: Using agent-based modelling to understand crime phenomena Nick Addis

Part IV Health care planning and analysis

Chapter 13: Modelling the impact of new community hospitals on access to health care Holly Shulman, Graham Clarke and Mark Birkin

Chapter 14: SimSALUD – towards a health decision support system for regional planning Melanie N. Tomintz and Victor M. Garcia-Barrios

Chapter 15: Small-scale agent-based modelling of infectious disease transmission: an example in a primary school Mike Bithell

Chapter 16: Exploring small-area geographies of obesity in the UK: evidence from the UK Women’s Cohort Study Michelle A. Morris, Graham Clarke, Kimberley L. Edwards, Claire Hulme and Janet E. Cade

Chapter 17: Examining the socio-spatial determinants of depression in the UK Karyn Morrissey, Peter Kinderman, Eleanor Pontin, Sara Tai and Matthias Schwannauer

Part V Environmental modelling

Chapter 18: A case study of flooding in the Limpopo River Basin, Xai-Xai, Mozambique Robert Fligg and Joana Barros

Chapter 19: A computational framework for mitigating land degradation: a synergy of knowledge from physical geography and geoinformatics Tal Svoray