Regions and Economic Resilience: New Perspectives

Matías Mayor () and Raul Ramos

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 11, 1-4

Abstract: The term “resilience” originated in environmental studies and describes the biological capacity to adapt and thrive under adverse environmental conditions. Regional economic resilience is defined as the capacity of a territory’s economy to resist and/or recover quickly from external shocks, even improving its situation from the pre-shock status. This editorial introduction provides a summary of the eleven contributions included in the special issue on regions and economic resilience. These eleven articles focus on different channels related to processes of mitigation (resistance-recovery) and adaptive resilience (reorientation-renewal) in a wide variety of geographical settings and scales. They include methodological advances and also relevant results from a policy perspective. The editorial concludes by providing some directions for future research.

Keywords: resilience; regional sustainable development; human capital; labour force; college graduates; regional embeddedness; agglomeration economies; urbanization; innovation; technology absorption; financial development; energy; water pollution; agriculture and forestry (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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