NARSC Meetings 2013 Preliminary Schedule - North American ...

NARSC Meetings 2013 Preliminary Schedule 9/11/13 Residential Land Use Patterns in Berkeley County, WV: A Spatially Explicit AgentbasedModel Nazia Arbab, West Virginia University; Alan R. Collins, WestVirginia University How diverse can measuring cultural diversity be? Results from agent‐basedsimulations Daniel Arribas‐Bel, VU University; Jacques Poot, University ofWaikato; Peter Nijkamp, VU University A Simulation of Housing Improvement and New Development: The Role ofEnvironmental Amenity and Neighborhood Effects Haoying Wang, PennsylvaniaState University Cyberinfrastructure‐enabled High‐performance and Parallel Computing forGeocomputational Modeling Wenwu Tang, Univ. of North Carolina at Charlotte;Wenpeng Feng, University of North Carolina ‐ Charlotte; Jing Deng, University ofNorth Carolina ‐ Charlotte; Meijuan Jia, University of North Carolina ‐ CharlotteDiscussant: Zhaoya Gong, UNC Charlotte61. Formal Paper Session GS: The Nexus of Agriculture and Economic Growth ThursdayNov 14 | 4:00 PM‐6:00 PMChair: John B Parr, University of Glasgow Exploring the Urban System of von Thunen’s Isolated State John B. Parr,University of Glasgow The Timing and Spatial Distribution of World Urbanization: The Role of InitialAgricultural Endowments Xiaofei Li, Purdue University; Raymond Florax, PurdueUniversity; Brigitte Waldorf, Purdue University Does land use change foster economic growth? Agricultural expansion and itsimpact on rural development in the Brazilian Amazon and Cerrado. MareikeLange, Kiel Institute for the World Economy An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Farmland Protection Policy in China Man Li,International Food Policy Research InstituteDiscussants: Xiaofei Li, Purdue University John B Parr, University of Glasgow Man Li, International Food Policy Research Institute Mareike Lange, Kiel Institute for the World EconomyPage 27 of 120