Transitions to Chaos with Increasing System Complexity: The Case of Regional Industrial Systems

R W White
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R W White: Department of Geography, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John's, Newfoundland, Canada

Environment and Planning A, 1985, vol. 17, issue 3, 387-396

Abstract: In this paper are examined the onset and character of chaotic behaviour in a class of models representing a spatially distributed economic system characterized by economies and diseconomies both of scale and agglomeration; particular attention is paid to the role of complexity. Two major results emerge: (1) there is an inverse relationship between system complexity and the response rate, r , at which chaotic behaviour appears; and (2) with increasing complexity there is a blurring of the point at which chaotic behaviour appears. Of the two main characteristics of such behaviour, equifinality disappears at a lower value of r than does periodicity.

Date: 1985
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DOI: 10.1068/a170387

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