Dynamics of multi-scale intra-provincial regional inequality in Zhejiang, China

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 5763-5784

  Yue, Wenze ^a,b   Zhang, Yuntang ^a   Ye, Xinyue ^c,d   Cheng, Yeqing ^e   Leipnik, Mark R ^f  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b China University of Geosciences Beijing)   (China)

^c HENAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e HAINAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ESDA (Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis); Regional inequality; Spatial Markov chains; Theil index

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; MARKOV CHAIN; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

CHINA; ZHEJIANG;

EID: 84906875628     PISSN: 20711050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su6095763     Document Type: Article

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