This book highlights the extraordinary range of areas to which geographical analysis and spatial modelling can bring lessons and insights. It shows how these techniques have been used to address ‘real world’ issues that are of concern to international organisations, public agencies and businesses as illustrated by actual funded projects that geographers have developed collaboratively with end-users.
The book is then divided into five main sections covering.
Economic spaces and development
Housing and settlement patterns
Population dynamics and ageing
Health care modelling
Agent-based modelling
This thematic basis is supplemented thematic basis by chapters showing the potential of agent-based models for spatial analysis and planning.
