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Learning communities in education : Issues, strategies and contexts
John Retallick, Barry Cocklin, and kennece Coombe
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Econometric advances in spatial modelling and methodology: Essays in honour of Jean Paelinck
Daniel A. Griffith, Carl Amrhein, and Jean-Marie Huriot
The purpose of models is not to fit the data but to sharpen the questions. S. Karlin, 11th R. A. Fisher Memorial Lecture, Royal Society, 20 April 1983 We are proud to offer this volume in honour of the remarkable career of the Father of Spatial Econometrics, Professor Jean Paelinck, presently of the Tinbergen Institute, Rotterdam. Not one to model solely for the sake of modelling, the above quotation nicely captures Professor Paelinck's unceasing quest for the best question for which an answer is needed. His FLEUR model has sharpened many spatial economics and spatial econometrics questions! Jean Paelinck, arguably, is the founder of modem spatial econometrics, penning the seminal introductory monograph on this topic, Spatial Econometrics, with Klaassen in 1979. In the General Address to the Dutch Statistical Association, on May 2, 1974, in Tilburg, "he coined the term [spatial econometrics] to designate a growing body of the regional science literature that dealt primarily with estimation and testing problems encountered in the implementation of multiregional econometric models" (Anselin, 1988, p. 7); he already had introduced this idea in his introductory report to the 1966 Annual Meeting of the Association de Science Regionale de Langue Fran~aise.
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Multivariate statistical analysis for geographers
Daniel A. Griffith and Carl Amrhein
Explains how to implement, interpret, and conduct diagnostics on the results of multivariate techniques. The book focuses on geo-referenced data analysis applications, with explicit diagnostics for the role played by spatial autocorrelation in multivariate analyses. It also aims to establish specific connections between popular spatial analysis and multivariate procedures, and outlines methodology for implementing spatial auto, logistic, and Poisson regressions.
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Adjustment and poverty in Tanzania
Joe Lugalla
In his book Lugalla looks at the relationship between adjustment policies and poverty in Tanzania. He understands Tanzanian poverty in the context of dominant social relations of inequality and not in terms of poverty lines. The author's main argument is that adjustment policies are intensifying these relations in Tanzania rather than reducing or eliminating them. He concludes that adjustment policies are not able to solve but create and even intensify poverty in Tanzania.
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Crisis, urbanization, and urban poverty in Tanzania: A study of urban poverty and survival politics
Joe Lugalla
Third World urbanization is accompanied with declining trends in economic growth and appalling conditions of urban poverty. Lugalla provides an in-depth analysis of the `process of urbanization in Tanzania during the period of crisis and policies of adjustments, focusing mainly on their impact on the socio-economic conditions of life in the urban areas. While using a case study of Tanzania, this book can be useful in observing what happens in other African countries that are also experiencing a severe social and economic crisis and have adopted, or are planning to adopt, the adjustment policies.
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Muslimer i svensk skola
Jonas Otterbeck
On Muslim pupils in Swedish schools written to advice teachers on a situation that was considered new at the time.
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Statistical analysis for geographers
Daniel A. Griffith, Carl Amrhein, and Joseph R. Desloges
Written from the perspective of both human and physical geography, this book applies elementary statistical analysis to the geographical sciences. It emphasizes the study of spatial data series and highlights problems peculiar to such data treating both descriptive and inferential statistics.
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