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The aim of this book is to explore the challenges facing rural communities and economies and to demonstrate the potential of spatial microsimulation for policy and analysis in a rural context. This is done by providing a comprehensive overview of a particular spatial microsimulation model called SMILE (Simulation Model of the Irish Local Economy). The model has been developed over a ten year period for applied policy analysis in Ireland which is seen as an ideal study area given its large percentage of population living in rural areas. The book reviews the policy context and the state of the art in spatial microsimulation against which SMILE was developed, describes in detail its model design and calibration, and presents example of outputs showing what new information the model provides using a spatial matching process. The second part of the book explores a series of rural issues or problems, including the impacts of new or changing government or EU policies, and examines the contribution that spatial microsimulation can provide in each area.

Statistical matching. --- Rural development --- Sociology & Social History --- Management --- Business & Economics --- Social Sciences --- Management Theory --- Social Conditions --- Communities - Urban Groups --- Government policy --- Simulation methods --- Population --- Study and teaching. --- Economic geography. --- Regional economics. --- Spatial economics. --- Emigration and immigration. --- Economics. --- Regional/Spatial Science. --- Economic Geography. --- Migration. --- Immigration --- International migration --- Migration, International --- Population geography --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Colonization --- Spatial economics --- Economics --- Regional economics --- Regional planning --- Regionalism --- Space in economics --- Geography, Economic --- World economics --- Geography --- Commercial geography --- Geography. --- Cosmography --- Earth sciences --- World history

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This book, which is the first to be published in the emerging field of farm-level microsimulation, highlights the different methodological components of microsimulation modelling: hypothetical, static, dynamic, behavioural, spatial and macro-micro. The author applies various microsimulation-based methodological tools to farms in a consistent manner and, supported by a set of Stata codes, undertakes analysis of a wide range of farming systems from OECD countries. To these case studies, O'Donoghue incorporates farming policies such as CAP income support payments, agri-environmental schemes, forestry planting incentives and biomass incentives - in doing so, he illuminates the merits of microsimulation in this environment. .

International relations. Foreign policy --- Politics --- Microeconomics --- Industrial economics --- Nature protection --- Environmental protection. Environmental technology --- Agronomy --- Business management --- biomassa --- industrie --- landbouwbeleid --- ecologie --- micro-economie --- Europese instellingen --- natuureducatie --- Europese politiek --- duurzame ontwikkeling --- natuurbescherming --- European Union --- Europe --- Agriculture --- Management. --- Environmental education. --- Microeconomics. --- Agricultural Economics. --- Environmental and Sustainability Education. --- European Politics. --- Economic aspects. --- Politics and government.