Decision Support Tools to Inform Regional Economic Development Analysis and Strategy

Robert J. Stimson, Roger R. Stough and Brian H. Roberts
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Robert J. Stimson: The University of Queensland
Roger R. Stough: George Mason University
Brian H. Roberts: University of Canberra

Chapter 9 in Regional Economic Development, 2002, pp 307-339 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Decision making in regional economic development necessarily is multi-faceted, involving economic, social, environmental and political consideration. And the implementation of regional economic development strategy-plans typically will involve an interface with regional plans concerned with the provision of infrastructure and land to support economic activities. Thus the development of decision support systems (DSS) and associated analytical tools is important to enhance the regional economic development strategy planning and implementation processes. Fortunately there are several tools that have been developed to help decision makers, including those methods of regional economic analysis we have discussed in previous chapters, and these are dependent on having access to spatial information at various levels of scale.

Keywords: Data Envelopment Analysis; Analytical Hierarchy Process; Geographic Information System; Decision Support System; Cellular Automaton (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-04911-2_9

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