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This open access book present and discuss current issues and innovative solution approaches for land management in a European context. Manifold sustainability issues are closely interconnected with land use practices. Throughout the world, we face increasing conflict over the use of land as well as competition for land. Drawing on experience in sustainable land management gained from seven years of the FONA programme (Research for Sustainable Development, conducted under the auspices of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research), The book stresses and highlights co-design processes within the “co-creation of knowledge”, involving collaboration in transdisciplinary research processes between academia and other stakeholders. The book begins with an overview of the current state of land use practices and the subsequent need to manage land resources more sustainably. New system solutions and governance approaches in sustainable land management are presented from a European perspective on land use. The volume also addresses how to use new modes of knowledge transfer between science and practice. New perspectives in sustainable land management and methods of combining knowledge and action are presented to a broad readership in land system sciences and environmental sciences, social sciences and geosciences.

Sustainable development. --- Regional economics. --- Spatial economics. --- Environmental geography. --- Human geography. --- Sociology. --- Sustainable Development. --- Regional/Spatial Science. --- Environmental Geography. --- Human Geography. --- Knowledge - Discourse. --- Social theory --- Social sciences --- Anthropo-geography --- Anthropogeography --- Geographical distribution of humans --- Social geography --- Anthropology --- Geography --- Human ecology --- Spatial economics --- Economics --- Regional economics --- Regional planning --- Regionalism --- Space in economics --- Development, Sustainable --- Ecologically sustainable development --- Economic development, Sustainable --- Economic sustainability --- ESD (Ecologically sustainable development) --- Smart growth --- Sustainable development --- Sustainable economic development --- Economic development --- Environmental aspects --- Sustainable Development --- Regional/Spatial Science --- Environmental Geography --- Human Geography --- Knowledge - Discourse --- Environmental Social Sciences --- Regional and Spatial Economics --- Environmental Studies --- Biotechnology --- Open Access --- Sustainable land management --- System solutions --- Governance of land --- Transdisciplinarity Interdisciplinarity --- Knowledge management --- Sustainability --- Political economy --- Regional studies --- Development & environmental geography --- Human geography --- Sociology

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This open access book is based on "Spationomy – Spatial Exploration of Economic Data", an interdisciplinary and international project in the frame of ERASMUS+ funded by the European Union. The project aims to exchange interdisciplinary knowledge in the fields of economics and geomatics. For the newly introduced courses, interdisciplinary learning materials have been developed by a team of lecturers from four different universities in three countries. In a first study block, students were taught methods from the two main research fields. Afterwards, the knowledge gained had to be applied in a project. For this international project, teams were formed, consisting of one student from each university participating in the project. The achieved results were presented in a summer school a few months later. At this event, more methodological knowledge was imparted to prepare students for a final simulation game about spatial and economic decision making. In a broader sense, the chapters will present the methodological background of the project, give case studies and show how visualisation and the simulation game works.

Economic geography. --- Regional economics. --- Spatial economics. --- Geographical information systems. --- Technology. --- Economic Geography. --- Regional/Spatial Science. --- Geographical Information Systems/Cartography. --- Applied Science, multidisciplinary. --- Applied science --- Arts, Useful --- Science, Applied --- Useful arts --- Science --- Industrial arts --- Material culture --- Geographical information systems --- GIS (Information systems) --- Information storage and retrieval systems --- Spatial economics --- Economics --- Regional economics --- Regional planning --- Regionalism --- Space in economics --- Geography, Economic --- World economics --- Geography --- Commercial geography --- Economic geography --- Technology

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This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 4.0 license. This collected volume represents the final outcome of the COST Action IS1104 “The EU in the new complex geography of economic systems: models, tools and policy evaluation”. Visualizing the EU as a complex and multi-layered network, the book is organized in three parts, each of them dealing with a different level of analysis: At the macro-level, Part I considers the interactions within large economic systems (regions or countries) involving trade, workers migration, and other factor movements. At the meso-level, Part II discusses interactions within specific but wide-ranging markets, with a focus on financial markets and banking systems. Lastly, at the micro-level, Part III explores the decision-making of single firms, especially in the context of location decisions.

Physics. --- Economic theory. --- Industrial organization. --- Macroeconomics. --- European Economic Community literature. --- Regional economics. --- Spatial economics. --- Data-driven Science, Modeling and Theory Building. --- Regional/Spatial Science. --- Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics. --- Industrial Organization. --- European Integration. --- Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods. --- Spatial economics --- Industries --- Economic theory --- Political economy --- Natural philosophy --- Philosophy, Natural --- Organization --- Economics --- Regional economics --- Regional planning --- Regionalism --- Space in economics --- Industrial concentration --- Industrial management --- Industrial sociology --- Social sciences --- Economic man --- Physical sciences --- Dynamics --- European Economic Community lite. --- Sociophysics. --- Econophysics. --- Statistical physics --- Mathematical sociology --- Statistical methods --- economic geography --- complex networks analysis --- spatial econometrics --- COST Action IS1104 --- systemic risk --- heterogeneous agents --- multinational enterprises

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The technology dynamics of the digital age continue to impact where industries and firms locate and cluster geographically. This book provides a balanced view of the ""New Economy"" or ""Digital Economy"" perspective and through analyses illustrates where dynamics seem to be emerging and where more traditional patterns seem to be holding.

Information technology --- Technology and civilization --- Economic aspects --- Regional economics. --- Regional planning. --- Entrepreneurship. --- Regional/Spatial Science. --- Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning. --- e-Commerce/e-business. --- Entrepreneur --- Intrapreneur --- Capitalism --- Business incubators --- Regional development --- Regional planning --- State planning --- Human settlements --- Land use --- Planning --- City planning --- Landscape protection --- Economics --- Regionalism --- Space in economics --- Government policy --- Spatial economics. --- Urban planning. --- E-commerce. --- Cybercommerce --- E-business --- E-commerce --- E-tailing --- eBusiness --- eCommerce --- Electronic business --- Internet commerce --- Internet retailing --- Online commerce --- Web retailing --- Commerce --- Information superhighway --- Cities and towns --- Civic planning --- Land use, Urban --- Model cities --- Redevelopment, Urban --- Slum clearance --- Town planning --- Urban design --- Urban development --- Urban planning --- Art, Municipal --- Civic improvement --- Urban policy --- Urban renewal --- Spatial economics --- Regional economics --- Management

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This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 2.5 license. This book introduces new methods for measuring and analyzing residential segregation.  It begins by placing all popular segregation indices in the “difference of group means” framework wherein index scores can be obtained as simple differences of group means on individual-level residential attainments scored from area racial composition.  Drawing on the insight that in this framework index scores are additively determined by individual residential attainments, the book shows that the level of segregation in a given city can be equated to the effect of group membership (e.g., race) on individual residential attainments.  This unifies separate research traditions in the field by joining the analysis of segregation at the aggregate level with the analysis of residential attainments for individuals.  Next it shows how segregation analysis can be extended by using multivariate attainment models to assess the impact of group membership (i.e., the level of segregation for a city) while including controls for other relevant individual characteristics (e.g., income, education, language, nativity, etc.).  It then illustrates how one can use these models to quantitatively assess the extent to which segregation traces to impacts of group membership on residential attainments versus other factors such as group differences in income.  The book then shows how micro-level attainment models can be used to study macro-level variation in segregation; specifically, by estimating multi-level models of individual residential attainments to assess how the effect of group membership (i.e., segregation index scores) vary with city characteristics.  Finally, the book introduces refined versions of popular indices that are free of the vexing problem of upward bias.  This improves the quality of segregation measurement directly at the level of individual cases and expanding the number of cases that can be safely included in empirical studies.  .

Life Sciences. --- Animal Ecology. --- Environmental Health. --- Fish & Wildlife Biology & Management. --- Virology. --- Freshwater & Marine Ecology. --- Conservation Biology/Ecology. --- Life sciences. --- Medical virology. --- Animal ecology. --- Aquatic biology. --- Conservation biology. --- Wildlife management. --- Environmental Medicine. --- Sciences de la vie --- Virologie médicale --- Ecologie animale --- Hydrobiologie --- Biologie de la conservation --- Faune --- Aménagement --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Ecology --- Iridoviruses. --- Aquatic virology. --- Water virology --- Iridescent viruses --- Iridoviridae --- Aquatic ecology. --- Ecology. --- Wildlife. --- Fish. --- Environmental health. --- Virology --- Water --- DNA viruses --- Microbiology --- Nature conservation --- Hydrobiology --- Water biology --- Aquatic sciences --- Biology --- Medical microbiology --- Virus diseases --- Animal populations --- Game management --- Management, Game --- Management, Wildlife --- Plant populations --- Wildlife resources --- Natural resources --- Wildlife conservation --- Animals --- Zoology --- Management --- Aquatic ecology . --- Ecology . --- Environmental quality --- Health --- Health ecology --- Public health --- Environmental engineering --- Health risk assessment --- Fish --- Pisces --- Aquatic animals --- Vertebrates --- Fisheries --- Fishing --- Ichthyology --- Balance of nature --- Bionomics --- Ecological processes --- Ecological science --- Ecological sciences --- Environment --- Environmental biology --- Oecology --- Environmental sciences --- Population biology --- Aquatic biology --- Health aspects --- Environmental aspects --- demographic techniques --- quantitative research methods --- bias --- segregation --- distribution --- Demography. --- Regional planning. --- Urban planning. --- Statistics . --- Regional economics. --- Spatial economics. --- Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning. --- Statistics for Social Sciences, Humanities, Law. --- Regional/Spatial Science.