Regional resilience: a promising concept to explain differences in regional economic adaptability?

Analysis of Cross-Border Regional Homogeneity and Its Effects on Regional Resilience and Competitiveness

“…In the international literature, the concept of regional resilience has been approached differently by many authors (Foster, 2007;Hill et al, 2008;Christopherson et al, 2010;Hassink, 2010). It has also been interpreted and defi ned in a variety of ways.…”

“…The reactions of the regions to crisis situations, however, depend not only on territorial effi ciency but also on the speed and nature of changes and response, which has been formulated as regional resilience (Foster, 2010;Hassink, 2010;Christopherson et al, 2010). Regional development indicators typical of individual countries have also been defi ned (Srebotnjak et al, 2014).…”

Javaslat a régiók homogenitásának új típusú vizsgálatára: A Nyugat-dunántúli régió példája = New Approach in the Analysis of Regional Homogeneity: Case Study on West-Transdanubia, Hungary

“…A regionális rugalmasság fogalmát az elmúlt években, a nemzetközi szakirodalomban számos szerző eltérő módon közelítette meg (Foster, 2007;Hill, et al, 2008;Christopherson, et al, 2010;Hassink, 2010), melyről már magyar nyelven is születtek összehasonlító publikációk (Tóth, 2012). Értelmezése és definíciója is sokszínű.…”

Gambling Debt: Iceland's Rise and Fall in the Global Economy

“…However, following the media reports on the turbulent passage of the new fisheries law, which was being pushed through Parliament at the time of finalizing this chapter, it could well be that my response was slightly optimistic. A persistent question of the last several decades has revolved around why regions or communities economically or systemically "succeed" or "fail" (Hassink 2010). Concepts of sustainability, with an emphasis on future generations, became a popular means of grappling with this question in the 1990s.…”