Utilization Of Regional Resources Research Articles

A Framework for Spatiotemporal Analysis of Regional Economic Agglomeration Patterns

Understanding regional economic agglomeration patterns is critical for sustainable economic development, urban planning and proper utilization of regional resources. Taking Guangdong Province of China as the study area, this paper introduces a comprehensive research framework for analyzing regional economic agglomeration patterns and understanding their spatiotemporal characteristics. First, convergence and autocorrelation methods are applied to understand the economic spatial patterns. Then, the intercity spatial interaction model (ISIM) is proposed to measure the strength of interplay among cities, and social network analysis (SNA) based on the ISIM is utilized, which is designed to reveal the network characteristics of economic agglomerations. Finally, we perform a spatial panel data analysis to comprehensively interpret the influences of regional economic agglomerations. The results indicate that from 2001 to 2016, the economy in Guangdong showed a double-core/peripheral pattern of convergence, with strengthened intercity interactions. The strength and external spillover effects of Guangzhou and Shenzhen enhanced, while Foshan and Dongguan had relatively strong absorptive abilities. Moreover, expanding regional communication and cooperation is key to enhancing vigorous economic agglomerations and regional network ties in Guangdong by spatial panel data analysis. Our results show that this is a suitable method of reflecting regional economic agglomeration process and its spatiotemporal pattern.

地域資源の活用を基盤とする地域中核企業の役割 高知県安芸地域における「柚子オイル」事業の例

地域資源の活用を基盤とする地域中核企業の役割 高知県安芸地域における「柚子オイル」事業の例

Regional Vitalization through Conservation and Utilization of Regional Resources in Seiwa Area of Taki Town

Regional Vitalization through Conservation and Utilization of Regional Resources in Seiwa Area of Taki Town

The study on Position “Hometown Specialty Supporting Declaration” for Past Tendency of Regional Resources Utilization Project: In the Case of Revision at 2015 the Medium and Small Enterprise Regional Resources Utilization Promotion Law

The study on Position “Hometown Specialty Supporting Declaration” for Past Tendency of Regional Resources Utilization Project: In the Case of Revision at 2015 the Medium and Small Enterprise Regional Resources Utilization Promotion Law

口絵1：富士山麓の土地資源を活用したさまざまな観光

口絵1：富士山麓の土地資源を活用したさまざまな観光

A population-based study of the resource utilization and costs of managing resectable non-small cell lung cancer

ObjectivesSurgical resection and adjuvant chemotherapy have become standard of care for treating resectable early stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). The purpose was to describe and compare the overall and regional resource utilization and costs of resected NSCLC treated with and without adjuvant chemotherapy. Materials & MethodsA population-based retrospective cohort study of resected NSCLC patients, diagnosed between 2004 and 2006 (representing the cohort immediately affected by the change in clinical practice) was performed using administrative data. Patients were followed for four years from the date of surgery. The healthcare system perspective was used, and cost estimates (2012 US$) were derived from administrative data and the literature. Results3354 patients were included. The average cost per patient treated with surgery and adjuvant chemotherapy was $37,860.88 and was significantly higher than the average cost per patient treated with surgery alone $32,221.45 (p<0.0001). Among regions, the costs of patients treated with surgery and chemotherapy ($32,672–$45,453) and the costs of those treated with surgery alone ($28,679–$36,845) varied significantly (p<0.0001). Rates of chemotherapy, the proportion of patients who received any imaging scans, hospitalizations, specialist visits, emergency room visits, mean number of imaging scans, general physician visits, and blood transfusions all varied significantly among geographic regions. ConclusionsThis population-based study demonstrates an average cost per patient similar to that shown in randomized controlled trials; however, costs for either treatment approach varied by geographic region. Understanding the regional variation in costs and resource utilization is important with respect to delivering optimal treatment in a cost-effective strategy.

Constructing a Regional Resource Utilization System for New Business Creation and Revitalization of the Regional Economy: a Proposal and its Implementation

Constructing a Regional Resource Utilization System for New Business Creation and Revitalization of the Regional Economy: a Proposal and its Implementation

Land use and land cover change and driving mechanism in the arid inland river basin: a case study of Tarim River, Xinjiang, China

Identifying the primary causes and examining the processes and trends of land use change are crucial for land use planning, utilization of regional resources and environment management. Combining the ecological quantity analysis with GIS technology, based on the land use data and remote sense images, the changes of land use and land cover and the driving force were analyzed in the mainstream of the Tarim River from 1973 to 2005. The results showed that the areas of cropland and built-up land increased obviously, grassland, forest and wetland decreased and unused land increased first and then decreased. The major patterns of land use change were from grassland (major source), woodland, unused land and wetland to cropland, from a great lot of cropland to built-up land, as well as from grassland (occupying 30 %), woodland and wetland to unused land. Land use change underwent a process of obvious change–slow change–obvious change–tremendous change in the period of 1973–2005. The influence of natural factors including elevation, slope, soil types, distance from river course and climate change on land use and land cover change was limited. Population growth, economic development and industry policy were the dominant driving force for land use and land cover change in the mainstream of the Tarim River. The sustainable use of land resources is significant to keep economic development and environmental protection in arid inland river basin.

L'interaction des dynamiques individuelles et collectives dans le processus de développement territorial

Résumé Cet article met en évidence les mécanismes individuels et collectifs d’exploitation et de renouvellement des ressources régionales sous-jacents au processus de développement territorial. Il montre que les apprentissages individuels, réalisés par des acteurs productifs dans le cadre de leurs activités innovatrices, participent au développement de capacités collectives lorsque des agents de territorialisation assurent le développement de proximités institutionnelles et organisationnelles en coordonnant, à l’échelle locale, les actions des agents productifs. Sur le plan empirique, l’analyse est basée sur deux études de cas, celles des activités de recherche et développement (R-D) du Centre canadien de fusion magnétique (CCFM) et celles de six filiales biopharmaceutiques installées au Québec. Elle examine comment les activités de donneurs d’ordres actifs en R-D contribuent au développement territorial.

지표수-지하수를 연계한 수자원의 효율적 이용 - (II) 적용

Conjunctive use of surface and ground water has drawn much attention as a promising means to solve water shortage problems. Characterized by its maximum utilization of regional resources and environmental friendliness, conjunctive use is expected to contribute to the integrated water resources management in the coming era. This paper examines the applicability of the methodology for conjunctive use developed in the companion paper (this issue). The method consists of the entire process of conjunctive use, including site assessment using analytic hierarchy process, management scenario development based on drought analysis, and evaluation of benefits obtained. Sokcho City was chosen as the study area, and the application of derived operation scenarios for surface and subsurface reservoirs revealed that water of 4.9∼7.4 million cubic meters a year can be attainable additionally. The developed methodology enables one to devise management schemes and to quantify their effectiveness, which makes the method useful for water resources planners as well as practitioners.

Interaction of Regional Administration and Business in the Process of Regional Resources Utilization

The authors state that in the 1990s in the context of absence of adequate sources of financing regional authorities activities, a peculiar mechanism of solving social and economic problems on the regional and municipal levels was formed. The substitution of the budget financial resources by the resources of administrative decisions has occurred. The mechanism of exchanging administrative decisions in favor of a certain businessman for his undertaking an obligation to solve a problem of regional or local development has been established. Under these conditions the state authorities have transformed from the guarantor of the economic agent rights into one of the agents trading in rights.

和歌山の産業社会システムのエコ・リストラクチャリングに関する基礎的研究 素材型産業及びその関連産業連鎖を対象として

In this paper, an attempt is made to examine eco-restructuring potential of industrial and societal systems in Wakayama prefecture with respect to industrial and product chains in material sectors.First, material flow in Wakayama prefecture is analyzed to recognize the share of input and output, international and inter-regional transaction and regional recycling or utilization. The material flow indicates nearly 5% of regional resource utilization to the total material input.Second, present treatment, disposal and resource utilization of industrial waste in Wakayama is clarified using the existed questionnaire survey report and interviews. Various regional attempts to utilize industrial by-products are extracted and strategies for further improvement are discussed.Finally, preliminary study is made to evaluate potential of regional resource utilization in the steel industry and associated product chains and industrial complexes. Nearly 7% of improvement possibility is suggested by recycling of used plastics, desulfurization-derived plasters and scarp steels. The analysis also shows the associated problems on quality, logistics, and so on.

Is there a future for regional science in economics?

The role of a region as an appropriate entity for theoretical analysis is reviewed in the last several decades of English language economics literature. Concluding that regional analysis currently has a marginal role within theoretical economics, several suggestions are presented for research directions that would reinvigorate regional theory as a distinct part of economic inquiry. Suggestions include the use of concepts of industrial organization theory, such as fixed factor proportions for explaining regional resource utilization, the use of market size as a variable for explaining firm behavior at the regional level, and viewing a region as a set of inter-related institutions which can influence a region's growth path.

地域資源整備活用農業構造改善事業（ふるさと体験農園型）の計画事例 大宮市，帯広市について

地域資源整備活用農業構造改善事業（ふるさと体験農園型）の計画事例 大宮市，帯広市について

The tourist frontier of Nouveau Quebec: Functions and regional linkages

The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, it wants to elaborate on the relationship between tourist generating areas and destinations per se, the principal objective being to make us better grasp the consequences for a tourist destination inherent in its relative positioning within the geographic confines of the travel hierarchy at large. Second, having identified the various types of destinations (through this spatial hierarchal schema), we will look at a case study — the tourist frontier of New Quebec — a wilderness destination environment with the purpose of arriving at a more accurate account of how such a destination has developed, how its present tourist services function, and how they link up with the region. More particularly, we want to look into the very much debated relationship commercial tourist operations — regional resource utilization — economic linkages between a few isolated, small settlements in an otherwise practically uninhabited and fairly inhospitable tourist region.

Utilization of regional resources for undergraduate and postgraduate diagnostic radiological teaching in a smaller medical centre.

SummaryA smaller, and somewhat remote, medical centre is endeavouring to improve its teaching and investigation by better utilization of all its regional resources. The activities and organizational structure are briefly reviewed.