Regional resilience: unpacking adaptive capacity and adaptive action

Jan Ole Rypestøl and Roman Martin

Chapter 7 in Sustainable Regional Restructuring, 2025, pp 93-109 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: In this chapter, we explore sustainable regional restructuring from a resilience perspective. Resilience is typically defined as the capacity to adapt structures, functions, and behaviours in response to shocks. We argue that the capacity of a regional economy to adapt is not enough, as adaptive capacity needs to be paired with adaptive action. While adaptive capacity accumulates over time, the willingness of regional actors to perform adaptive action is also influenced by expectations of the future. In our analysis, we explore the interplay between adaptive capacity and adaptive action in the oil and gas industry in Agder during two recent crises, namely the drop in oil price in 2014 and the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. Even though these two crises differ from the ongoing climate crisis, they provide relevant lessons for understanding how firms and regions accumulate adaptive capacity and what triggers their adaptive action.

Keywords: Regional Resilience; Adaptive Action; Green Path Development; Norway (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035330782
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.elgaronline.com/doi/10.4337/9781035330799.00014 (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:elg:eechap:23232_7

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.e-elgar.com

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Chapters from Edward Elgar Publishing
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Darrel McCalla ().