Johannes Gerard (Jan) Lambooy (born 23 October 1937) is a Dutch

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and emeritus professor

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and

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at the

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Biography

Born in Pajeti,

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, Lambooy studied at the

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in Amsterdam. He received his MA in

social geography Social geography is the branch of human geography that is interested in the relationships between society and space, and is most closely related to social theory in general and sociology in particular, dealing with the relation of social phenome ...

in 1962, and his PhD in 1969 for the thesis "De agrarische hervorming in Tunesië: proeve van een sociaal-geografisch onderzoek." In 1972 Lambooy was appointed Professor of Economic Geography and Urban Economics at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Amsterdam. He supervised about 55 doctoral student, among them Anton Julius Butter, Ron Boschma and Barbara Baarsma. From 1977 to 1979 he was co-director of

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, where he was succeeded by

Wim Driehuis Wim Driehuis (born 22 June 1943) is a Dutch economist, Emeritus Professor Economics and Business at the University of Amsterdam. Biography Born in Utrecht, Driehuis received his BA in Economics in 1963 and his MA in Economics in 1967, both at ...

. He was also the first director of the university's Institute for Environmental Studies. He retired at the University of Amsterdam in 2002. From 1998 to 2002 Lambooy has been Professor of Economic geography at the

Utrecht University Utrecht University (UU; , formerly ''Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht'') is a public university, public research university in Utrecht, Netherlands. Established , it is one of the oldest universities in the Netherlands. In 2023, it had an enrollment of ...

. In 2005 Lambooy was awarded the Carfax prize for the best article in ''European Planning Studies''.

Publications

Lambooy has published numerous articles.Jan Lambooy Emeritus professor
list of publications 1967 - 2012. Accessed September 13, 2013. A selection: * Boschma, Ron A., and Jan G. Lambooy.
Evolutionary economics and economic geography
" Journal of evolutionary economics 9.4 (1999): 411–429. *

Hueting, Roefie Roelof (Roefie) Hueting (16 December 1929 – 24 June 2023) was a Dutch economist, former Head of the Department for Environmental Statistics of Statistics Netherlands, pianist and leader of the Down Town Jazz Band, and known for the development o ...

, Lucas Reijnders, Bart de Boer, Jan Lambooy, Huib Jansen (1998).
The concept of environmental function and its valuation
. Ecological Economics, 25(1), 31–35. * Lambooy, Jan G., and Ron A. Boschma.
Evolutionary economics and regional policy
" The Annals of Regional Science 35.1 (2001): 113–131. * Boschma, Ron A., and Jan G. Lambooy.
Knowledge, market structure, and economic coordination: dynamics of industrial districts
" Growth and Change 33.3 (2002): 291–311.

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