On the notion of regional economic resilience: conceptualization and explanation

Over the past few years a new buzzword has entered academic, political and publicdiscourse: the notion of resilience, a term invoked to describe how an entity or systemresponds to shocks and disturbances. Although the concept has been used for sometime in ecology and psychology, it is now invoked in diverse contexts, both as aperceived (and typically positive) attribute of an object, entity or system and, morenormatively, as a desired feature that should somehow be promoted or fostered. Aspart of this development, the notion of resilience is rapidly becoming part of theconceptual and analytical lexicon of regional and local economic studies: there isincreasing interest in the resilience of regional, local and…

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