Forms of emergence and the evolution of economic landscapes |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, UK;2. School of Geography, University of Southampton, UK;1. Department of Physics and Key Laboratory for Low-Dimensional Quantum Structures and Manipulation (Ministry of Education), Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410081, China;2. College of Computer and Information Engineering, Central South University of Forestry and Technology, Changsha 410004, China;3. College of Physics and Electronic Science, Changsha University of Science and Technology, Changsha 410004, China;4. Center for Integrated Spintronic Devices (CISD), Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310018, China;1. Systems Science Institute, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China;2. Big Data Research Center, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China;3. IceLab, Department of Physics, Umeå University, 901 87 Umeå, Sweden;4. Centre for Complexity Science and Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom;1. Centre Léon-Bérard, Unité Cancer et Environnement, 28, rue Laennec, 69373 Lyon cedex, France;2. Centre international de recherche sur le cancer, Section Environnement et Rayonnements, 150, cours Albert-Thomas, 69372 Lyon cedex, France;3. Université Claude-Bernard Lyon1, 43, boulevard du 11-Novembre-1918, 69622 Villeurbanne cedex, France;4. Centre Léon-Bérard, Département d’oncologie médicale, 28, rue Laennec, 69373 Lyon cedex, France;5. Université Jean-Moulin Lyon3, EA 4129 «Santé, Individu, Société», 7, rue Chevreul, 69007 Lyon, France;6. Université Claude-Bernard Lyon 1, UMRESTTE UMR T 9405, 43, boulevard du 11-Novembre-1918, 69622 Villeurbanne cedex, France;1. Department of Economics, Umeå School of Business and Economics, Umeå University, SE 901 87 Umeå, Sweden;2. Department of Law, University of Milan, 20122 Milan, Italy;3. Uppsala Center for Fiscal Studies (UCFS), Uppsala University, SE 753 13 Uppsala, Sweden |
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| Abstract: | Over the past two decades, the notion of ‘emergence’ has attracted increasing attention and controversy across the social science, including economics. Within this context, as economic geographers, our concern in this paper is with the usefulness of the idea of emergence for studying the economic landscape and its evolution. The paper considers in what sense geographical processes and places can legitimately be described as emergent, how such places themselves produce emergent effects, and how we should conceive of and study the ‘emergent’ space economy. To do this, we apply Deacon's (2006) models of first-order, second-order and third-order emergence, and trace through their implications for constructing an ‘emergence perspective’ in economic geography. The notion of third-order emergence is argued to be the most promising, since it focuses explicitly on emergence as an evolutionary process. What is evident, however, is that a notion developed mainly for applications in physical and biological systems requires further elaboration and exploration if it is to provide explanatory leverage in studying the evolution of economic landscapes. |
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