The research programme of the department of Spatial Economics addresses four interrelated themes: urban and regional dynamics, land use, transport, and environmental and resource economics.
Some keywords to sketch the topics within these themes are:
- Urban and regional dynamics: agglomeration economies, housing markets, regional labour markets, migration
- Land use: land rents, spatial externalities, flood risk, spatial planning
- Transport: congestion, network reliability, accident risks, sustainable transport, transport policy
- Environmental and resource economics: biodiversity, agri-environmental schemes, renewable resources, green paradox, climate change adaptation