Having formed at the end of 20 th century, concept spatial development retains its relevance today. Yet, it is associated with a range problems practical implementation and theoretical vindication, especially regional level. Attaining sustainable development, understood as steady progress balanced across economy, social industries environmental protection, has been deemed impossible without ide...

Energy expenditure has become a significant fraction of data center operating costs. Recently, “geographical load balancing” has been suggested as an approach for taking advantage of the geographical diversity of Internet-scale distributed systems in order to reduce energy expenditures by exploiting the electricity price differences across regions. However, the fact that such designs reduce ene...

The empirical relationship between economic diversity and economic stability varies when it is measured at different geographical scales. This paper evaluates the role of geographical scales in assessing this diversity-stability relationship among counties, states, Economic Areas (EAs), metropolitan counties and metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) in the contiguous U.S. When choosing geograph...