Daniel C. Knudsen

Matrix Comparison, Goodness-of-Fit, and Spatial Interaction Modeling

The usefulness of various statistics for comparing observed and predicted spatial interaction matrices is examined. Results indicate that some statistics may yield misleading information about error levels in predicted matrices. Other statistics are found to be unsuitable for significance testing. The concept of experimental distributions is discussed for several of the statistics. Although framed in the context of spatial interaction modeling, the discussion is relevant to most matrix comparison problems.

Shift-share analysis: further examination of models for the description of economic change

Abstract Shift-share is a widely-used technique for the analysis of regional economies. As a methodology, shift-share is comprised of traditional accounting-based models, Analysis of Variance models, and information-theoretic models. The purpose of this paper is to present and demonstrate the usefulness of two probabilistic forms of shift-share models. These highly flexible variance partitioning methods are but one example of the broader class of models used in the analysis of aggregate, tabular data within planning, geography and regional science. Further, probabilistic shift-share provides a major advance over traditional accounting-based methods because it allows the researcher to quantitatively test hypotheses about changes in employment or value added by region or sector. Also, the casting of shift-share analysis in this light offers proof of the adequacy of these models.

Heritage Tourism, Heritage Landscapes and Wilderness Preservation: The Case of National Park Thy

Tourism involving national parks manifests itself explicitly or implicitly as heritage tourism because national parks represent important symbols of the national landscape. This paper traces the journey of the proposed National Park Thy in northwestern Denmark from ordinary landscape to symbolic landscape, to candidacy for national park status and focus for heritage tourism. It is argued that the processes at work in Denmark are similar to those underpinning the creation of national parks elsewhere.

Landscape, tourism, and meaning

Contents: Preface Landscape, tourism, and meaning, Daniel C. Knudsen, Anne K. Soper and Michelle M. Metro-Roland Landscape perspective for tourism studies, Charles Greer, Shanon Donnelly and Jillian M. Rickly Identity and landscape: the reification of place in Strasbourg, France, Sean Huff Landscape change and regional identity in the Copper Canyon region, Yamir GonzA!lez-VA(c)lez Mauritian landscapes of culture, identity, and tourism, Anne K. Soper Slicing the dobish torte: the 3 layers of tourism in Munich, Richard Wolfel A nostalgia for terror, Michelle M. Metro-Roland The parallax of landscape: situating Celaque national park, Honduras, Benjamin F. Timms Insiders and outsiders in Thy, Daniel C. Knudsen Tourism as a reconnection to the Neolithic past: the Tamgaly rock paintings of Kazakhstan, Altynai Yespembetova, Jillian M. Rickly and Lisa C. Braverman Landscape, tourism and meaning: a conclusion, Daniel C. Knudsen, Michelle M. Metro-Roland and Anne K. Soper Bibliography Index.

The Pentagon and the cities

Preface - Andrew Kirby The Pentagon - Andrew Kirby versus the Cities? Development Theory and the Military Industrial Firm - Nancy Ettlinger The Pentagon and the Gunbelt - Peter Hall and Ann Markusen Living by the Sword and Dying by the Sword - Richard Barff Defense Spending and New Englands Economy in Retrospect and Prospect Military Spending in Free Enterprise Cities - Robert E Parker and Joe Feagin The Military-Industrial Complex in Houston and Las Vegas Indigenous Homelands and the Security Requirements of Western Nation States - Peter Armitage The Case of Innu Opposition to Military Flight Training in Eastern Quebec and Labrador The Legacy of the Pentagon - Gerald Jacob The Myth of the Peace Dividend Escaping the Conceptual Box - Marvin Waterstone and Andrew Kirby Ideological and Economic Conversion Epilogue - Marvin Waterstone The Pentagon, the Cites and Beyond

Tourism and nostalgia for the pastoral on the island of Fyn, Denmark

According to the tourist literature, Fyn is the garden of Denmark. This paper examines this idea and explicates the relationship between gardens and the classical idea of the pastoral. We argue that this classical idea is central to the roles that meaning-making and personal narrative play in the rural tourist experience on Fyn. We further suggest that it is this prevalent Western interrelation of the pastoral and tourist experience that allows rural tourism to be considered a form of heritage tourism in that rural tourism makes reference to both a more general longing for a pre-industrial era and specific national agrarian contexts.

Restructuring in Cooperatives: The Example of the Danish Pork Processing Industry, 1968–2002

This article investigates the degree to which large cooperative organizations behave like other multilocational firms when they restructure. An examination of the restructuring of the Danish pork processing industry over thirty-five years reveals that cooperative ownership does matter in subtle ways. In particular, the coordination of the market achieved under cooperative ownership results in a restructuring that preserves both global economic position and fundamental institutions, particularly the cooperative movement and the set of beliefs that underpin it. This preservation of the beliefs of the cooperative movement is particularly evident in the lack of price “squeezing” on pigs delivered to the slaughter facilities.

Contrasting Restructuring in Denmark and the American Midwest

Abstract Danish Journal of Geography 96: 81–94, 1996. Since the beginning of the 1980s, the global economy has undergone a number of sweeping changes. This paper compares the experiences of two regions undergoing restructuring as part of this global shift, Denmark and the state of Indiana in the American Midwest. The distinct cultural histories of Denmark and Indiana have resulted in dramatically different forms of restructuring in the two regions: high wage, lower employment negotiated restructuring in Denmark and low wage, higher employment neo-liberal restructuring in Indiana. The comparison serves to underline the economic, social, and political characteristics of each approach.

Tourism, aesthetics, and touristic judgment

This article explores the role of aesthetics in the tourist experience. Because tourism involves the interpretation of signs within a landscape and landscape imagery is an important way in which places are delineated, aesthetic modes—the beautiful, the sublime, and the picturesque—are important foundations for the making of meaning when touring. However, aesthetics does more than bring order and meaning to what we see while touring by providing paradigms of visuality. These same paradigms also serve to naturalize ideology through the subjective judgments involved in tourism, a process we term “touristic judgment.”