Handbook on Regional Economic Resilience

Abstract

"This timely Handbook addresses one of the most pertinent questions of the 21st century: why are some regions more economically resilient than others? Contributors provide a state-of-the-art collection on the meaning of resilience when applied to regional economies, offering a range of methodological approaches and rich empirical analyses of regions around the world. Chapters feature in depth examinations of regional resilience in such fields as policy practice, exports, economic shocks and supranational structural funds. Giving readers an insight into ways in which economic resilience is measured, this Handbook explores key theoretical debates and emerging pathways for the application of resilience in policy and practice. Comprehensive and deeply informative, this Handbook is crucial to researchers working in economic geography and regional studies who require insight into the breadth of debate on regional economic resilience. Practitioners and policy makers working in regional economic development will also benefit from its broad empirical approach to resilience"-- 1. Introduction to the handbook on regional economic resilience / Gillian Bristow and Adrian Healy -- Part I: Concepts and theory: conceptualising regional economic resilience -- 2. Regional economic resilience: evolution and evaluation / Ron Martin and Peter Sunley -- 3. Regional resilience: an agency perspective / Gillian Bristow and Adrian Healy -- 4. Adaptation, adaptability and regional economic resilience: a conceptual framework / Xiaohui Hu and Robert Hassink -- 5. New directions in researching regional economic resilience and adaptation / Emil Evenhuis -- Part II: Measuring regional economic resilience -- 6. Quo vadis resilience? Measurement and policy challenges: using the case of Italy / Paolo di Caro -- 7. Ranking regional economic resilience in the EU / Nicola Pontarollo and Carolina Serpieri -- 8. A guide to patterns of regional economic resilience / Karim K. Mardaneh, Ameeta Jain and Jerry Courvisanos -- 9. Building a policy relevant resilience measure: beyond the economic perspective / Peter Benczur, Elisabeth Joossens, Anna Rita Manca, Balint Menyhert and Slavica Zec -- 10. Putting adaptive resilience to work: measuring regional re-orientation using a matching model / Dario Diodato and Anet Weterings -- 11. Economic resilience in Great Britain: an empirical analysis at the local authority district level / Tasos Kitsos -- Part III: The empirical analysis of regional resilience -- 12. Unravelling the driving forces of networks on regional resilience capabilities / Jérôme Vicente -- 13. Exports and regional resilience: evidence from Greece / Yannis Psycharis, Maria Tsiapa and Vassilis Tselios -- 14. Resilience in regional business cycles across the Benelux / Elton Beqiraj, Giovanni Di Bartolomeo, Marco Di Pietro and Carolina Serpieri -- 15. Interpreting and defining economic resilience: regional resilience in policy practice / Margaret Cowell -- 16. Supranational policy and economic shocks: the role of the EU's structural funds in the economic resilience of regions / Adrian Healy and Gillian Bristow -- 17. Conclusions and reflections / Gillian Bristow and Adrian Healy -- Index.