This paper examines the role of spillovers and externalities in influencing the recent siting of foreign-owned R&D activities in European regions. In accordance with the literature on knowledge creation in MNCs, we find that location of foreign-owned research tends to agglomerate, depending upon the potential for the following different sources of spillovers and externalities: (i) intra-industr...

INTRODUCTION Right siting has been actively advocated to mitigate rising healthcare costs as well as to free up tertiary resources for the provision of care to more complex patients, research and education. There are, however, concerns that in a block budget setting right siting will reduce patient volumes, thus impacting on subsequent funding allocations and also patient revenues. We sought to...

Efforts to find locations for new energy facilities are often associated with the now familiar term NIMBY (not in my backyard) and even more extreme phrases like BANANA (build absolutely nothing anywhere near anything). These acronyms capture some of the problems associated with siting new power plants and power lines, but the issue as a whole is more complex than these expressions suggest. The...

Standardization of high voltage electric transmission line siting methodologies, by using GIS spatial analysis tools, has great potential in helping predict and defend new optimal route corridors. A standard methodology that incorporates multiple weighted perspectives of influence can aid in the route approval by the governmental and regulating permitting entities and the support of the affecte...

Under the predominant existing paradigm, in balancing the public interest in transmission line planning and siting decisions most state regulatory authorities weigh the benefits to the customers of a specific utility system, or to the consumers in an individual state, against potential adverse consequences. This approach to transmission siting was designed to serve the model of a vertically-int...

Nuclear hazards, linked to both U.S. weapons programs and civilian nuclear power, pose substantial environment justice issues. Nuclear power plant (NPP) reactors produce low-level ionizing radiation, high level nuclear waste, and are subject to catastrophic contamination events. Justice concerns include plant locations and the large potentially exposed populations, as well as issues in siting, ...

This paper demonstrates a toolkit for multiple observer siting to maximize their joint viewshed, on high-resolution gridded terrains, up to 2402 × 2402, with the viewsheds’ radii of up to 1000. It shows that approximate (rather than exact) visibility indexes of observers are sufficient for siting multiple observers. It also shows that, when selecting potential observers, geographic dispersion i...

Recent efforts to site renewable energy projects have provoked as much, if not more, opposition than conventional energy projects. Because renewable energy resources are often located in sensitive and isolated environments, such as pristine mountain ranges or coastal waters, siting these facilities is especially difficult. Moreover, the viability of different renewable energy projects depends n...