A New Method for Handling Complex Spatial Problems

Dorien J. DeTombe
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Dorien J. DeTombe: Delft University of Technology

Chapter 11 in Spatial Economic Science, 2000, pp 212-240 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The Netherlands Predicting the future is one of the most difficult things to do. From biblical times of the prophets, the Delphi oracle of the Greeks, fortune tellers at festivals, to contemporary consultancy bureaus and scientists, experts are asked to predict the future. Knowing what lies ahead makes it more fruitful to make decisions in the present. Europe Quo Vadis, the theme of the conference on regional questions in Vienna 1998 is a reflection of this feeling. People feel uncertain when they do not know what is going to happen in the future. This feeling is related to one’s personal life as well as the future of the company or the country (Kordon 1990). Europe has suffered in the twentieth century two world wars, the negative effects of which even after fifty years are still visible.1 Europe is slowly recovering from the moral and economic damage of totalitarian systems, like that of the communism in East Europe and fascism in the West, meanwhile still suffering from relatively small but severe local national wars, e.g. in former Yugoslavia. This Europe faces a new century. The expected ideas about the future, at least at this moment, in the dominant European countries such as France and Germany, are towards a more centrally organized Europe, where there is more unity in legislation and in financial currency with the Euro, than during the last century, although less centralized than it was during the first centuries AD at the time of the Roman emperors, and during the Spanish monarchy in the time of Charlemagne in the 16th century.

Keywords: Public Work; Standard Unit; Noise Pollution; Content Expert; Societal Problem (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-59787-9_11

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