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Aus der Serie Digitale Portraits: ROLF FUNCK Oktober 1989 Marion Schmidt Karin Peschel (Ed.) Infrastructure and the Space-Economy Essays in Honor of Rolf Funck With 58 Figures Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York London Paris Tokyo Hong Kong Professor Dr. Karin Peschel Institut fUr Regionalforschung Christian-Albrechts-UniversiUit, Kiel OlshausenstraBe 40 D-2300 Kiel 17, FRG ISBN-13: 978-3-642-75573-6 e-ISBN-13: 978-3-642-75571-2 DOl: 10.1007/978-3-642-75571-2 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in other ways, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is only permitted under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its version of June 24, 1985, and a copy right fee must always be paid. Violations fall under the prosecution act of the German Copy right Law. © Springer-Verlag Berlin' Heidelberg 1990 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1s t edition 1990 The use of registered names, trademarks, etc. in the publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. PREFACE This Festschrift is dedicated to ROLF FUNCK on occasion of his 60th birthday on February 7, 1990. It was a wholehearted desire of the authors who all are obliged to ROLF FUNCK in their research work to please and to honour him and to express their deep gratitude. I gladly took the initiative of preparing this Festschrift since I have been closely associated with ROLF FUNCK for many years of his academic life. We first met in 1958 when he was Assistant Professor (Wissenschaftlicher Assistent) and I was student at the University of Munster. A few years later, when ROLF FUNCK, still very young, moved to the University of Karlsruhe as Professor of Economics and Director of the Institute of Economic Policy and Research, he offered me the opportunity of working with him and this started a long period of successful scientific collaboration. Nowadays we meet only occasionally at conferences, in committees etc., but I always recall with pleasure the warm-hearted and stimulating atmosphere he created at his In stitute in Karlsruhe. I express my thanks to the authors and to the publisher, the Springer Verlag, for their cooperation as well as to the sponsors who provided the necessary funds for the publication of this Festschrift. For her enthusiasm in compiling and processing the articles on the PC and producing the final draft I am indebted to Mrs. Ilona Lohr. Kiel, November 1989 Karin Peschel For ROLF FUNCK by Karin Peschel When sitting at my desk and ready to do what is expected from the editor of a Festschrift, namely praising the laureate and his academic achievements, I imagined ROLF FUNCK s~ated in front of me. Over the rim of his glasses pulled down on his nose, he glanced at me, amused and sceptical, and he looked so young and impish that I realized: it is much to early for a defini tive appraisal of his achievements. There is more to come and ROLF FUNCK should know that we all look forward to it! Hence, let us wait with such an appraisal for at least another 20 years! From his impressive curriculum vitae we know of a large number of his acti vities we would certainly miss if ROLF FUNCK would indeed retire. Let me only mention a small sample of his present activities here: Director of the Institute of Economic Policy and Research of the University of Karlsruhe, President of the International Regional Science Association, Member of the Board of Trustees (Kuratorium) of the Fraunhofer Institute of Systems Tech nology and Innovation Research, Member of the Economic Advisory Board to the Federal Minister of Transportation, and Member of the August Losch Commitee of the City of Heidenheim. But ROLF FUNCK never lived in the academic world only. He has always been, and still is, eager to apply theoretical thinking for solving practical prob lems. Therefore he engaged himself in local politics in Karlsruhe where he is a long-standing member of the City Council, of several of its subcommittees and of some other bodies like the Board of Trustees (Stiftungsrat) of the Center of Arts and Media Technologies. ROLF FUNCK has many friends. Hence it is not surprising that my suggestion of presenting to him a Festschrift on occasion of his 60th birthday met with VIII unanimous and enthusiastic approval. That the papers collected in this Fest schrift deal with rather heterogeneous topics is due to ROLF FUNCK's broad range of interest and research activities. Every of the contributors can justly claim that he is referring to ROLF FUNCK's work. When complaining to former and present staff members of his Institute at Karlsruhe that not even they did adhere to my proposed list of subject matters, I have been rightly reminded that this was merely the consequence of ROLF FUNCK's liberal atti tude of allowing everyone to follow his or her own interests. I had to admit that any attempt of narrowing down the range of topics would have been against ROLF FUNCK's basic beliefs and against the spirit of his Institute. Nevertheless, the core of this Festschrift is formed by papers dealing with a topic which is most-prominent in ROLF FUNCK's own work: the material infra structure and its regional impact. Moreover, the Festschrift reflects ROLF FUNCK's strong interest in purely methodological issues as well as in empi rical studies. To shape the world and therefore to link regional science to the requirements of practice became even more important for ROLF FUNCK during the course of his life. This view is clearly evident in his presidential address to the 29th European Congress of the Regional Science Association International, given in Cambridge UK in August of this year. He asked: Has regional science really overcome "the sweet and intoxicating flavor of l'art pour l'art ... and discovered the real world? And, if so, what are the characteristics of the real world today? What will they be tomorrow? And in which way do regional scientists cope with today's world, and to morrow's?" ROLF FUNCK is certainly correct, when pointing to the abundance of new problems which during the last few decades have emerged on a global scale although with different intensities in the various parts of the world. He is equally correct when reminding us of the diverse social, economic, or envi ronmental problems which provoke different individual, social or political reactions depending on the structural characteristics of the particular regional systems that are confronted with them. Nearly every reader will agree with him, believe, that the most important problems today are: exponential incrase in environmental pollution; limited reserves of fossil IX engergy resources; the stagnation or even decline of population in many western industrialized countries; radical change in production technology; continuing changes in the international division of labor; the aging of the infrastructure; the re-orientation of the spatial, social, economic, and communicative function of cities, the increasing demand for cultural, edu cational, and non-directional leisure activities, the rapidly increasing share of public activities, et cetera. Can regional science cope with this challange? ROLF FUNCK's answer given in the presidential adress mentioned above is: "Often, regional scientists have sufficiently proved to be able to adjust their analytical tools to new developments, to adapt theories, developed in other fields of science, to their special, the spatial, perspective. What is needed, however, is anticipation rather than reaction, striding ahead rather than stumbling behind." Nevertheless, due to his optimistic attitude ROLF FUNCK believes that pro gress in the right direction is possible, basically, because most changes "did not really come over us as a big surprise ... We simply refused to read the signs. Perception is what came as a lightning from heaven." (Presidential adress) I know that ROLF FUNCK himself has never lacked imagination and vision. For example, as early as in 1965 we recommended to the Federal Minister of Transportation that the social costs of individual traffic should be inter nalized as far as possible by appropriate taxation. Presently this idea, under the label "ecological taxes", is widely and intensively discussed while ROLF FUNCK's attention has turned to new topics. Out of the foreseeable future changes he is i.a. interested in the regional implications of the Greenhouse problem and its potential sea level-rise. Dear ROLF, do not loose your deep faith in humanity, your powerful imagina tion, your extraordinary ability to stimulate creative thinking and to awaken optimism! We all wish you many more healthy, productive and successful years! Yours disciples and friends. Financial support for publication was provided by Daimler-Benz A.G., Stuttgart Dambach-Werke GmbH, Gaggenau Deutsche Bundesbahn, Frankfurt Deutsche Verkehrs-Kreditbank A.G., Karlsruhe Karlsruher Lebensversicherung A.G., Karlsruhe Karlsruher Versicherung A.G., Karlsruhe J.M. Voith GmbH, Heidenheim Contents Page Preface by the Editor V Karin Peschel VII For R 0 IfF u n c k 1. Spatial Economics Martin J. Beckmann: 1 Spatial Patterns ot: Resource Utilization John Greenhut, Melvin L. Greenhut, Hiroshi Ohta: 8 Regional Output and Price Effects of Spatial Price Discrimination J. Hans Kuiper, Jean H.P. Paelinck, Kenneth E.Rosing: 29 Transport Flows in Tinbergen-Bos Systems Noboru Sakashita: 53 Economics of Multi-Habitation Walter Isard: 68 Operationalizing the Trade Variable in a Funck-type Multi-Region Global Model n. Infrastructure, Transportation and Regional Development Dieter Bokemann: 81 The Importance of Infrastructure in Regional Evolution Nicholas W. Balabkins: 101 Barriers to Technologica.l Transf"er: Infrastructural Difficulties In Nigeria
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