Regional Resilience: An Agency Perspective

Bristow, Gillian; Healy, Adrian

doi:10.1080/00343404.2013.854879

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“…Recent economic crises have prompted increasing scholarly interest in the notion of resilience in an effort to analyse and understand differences between regions in their vulnerability to economic shocks (Bristow and Healy 2014;Martin and Sunley 2015;Capello et al 2015;Sensier et al 2016). In the evolutionary economic geography literature, there is an emerging consensus that regional economic resilience may be defined as the capacity of a regional or local economy to withstand, recover from and reorganize in the face of market, competitive and environmental shocks to its developmental growth path Healy 2014, 2015;Boschma 2015;Martin and Sunley 2015).…”

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Innovation and regional economic resilience: an exploratory analysis

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The varying rates of recovery of European regional economies from the 2007 to 2008 economic crisis have raised interesting questions about the sources of economic resilience. Policy discourse has increasingly asserted the role played by innovation in facilitating rapid recovery from economic shocks, whilst evolutionary thinking has highlighted the specific importance of innovation capacity. However, empirical evidence on this is lacking. This paper addresses this gap by providing new empirical analysis of the relationship between regional innovation capacity and the resilience of European regions to the crisis. It finds that regions identified as Innovation Leaders at the time of the crisis were significantly more likely to have either resisted the crisis or recovered quickly from it (i.e. within 3 years). This provides important insights for evolutionary approaches theorising the relationship between innovation and resilience. JEL Classification R1 · O3

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“…This has prompted increasing scholarly interest in the notion of regional economic resilience-the ability of regions to resist and/or recover quickly from shocks -as well as the factors influencing it (Bristow and Healy 2014;Martin and Sunley 2015;Capello et al 2015;Sensier et al 2016).…”

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“…Walker et al [21] and others [12] [47] argue that participatory approach upgrade the resilience because people understand the relation between spatial levels in the functioning social and ecological systems as demonstrated [21] [24] [41] [42]. Bristow and Healy [46] claim that human agency is an important factor to regional resilience. We can witness that the director of regional agency (DREAL) and the president of the Syndicat Mixte of the urban community whose territory we studied claimed that driving such a study with face-to-face interviews changed the opinion of the stakeholders, providing an increase of the awareness and the necessity of the solidarities, providing a way to resilience.…”

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How to Achieve Local Resilience to Flood Risks by Increasing Solidarity: The Example of the “Syndicat Mixte” (Inter-Municipal Cooperation Structure) of the French Territory of Belfort-Montbéliard

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This paper illustrates approaches to flooding risk governance in a territory where a high density of population corresponds to a high level of industrial activities and a significant development of transport infrastructures in a transboundary context between France, Germany and Switzerland. In the last few years, some fundamental changes in European official instructions about risks and especially about flooding risks occurred. Substantial public policy challenges remain in order to promote a broad-based resilient territory twinned with local knowledge of sustainable land management and civic participation in local governance. The survey is based on a GIS study and questionnaires with a representative panel of 235 stakeholders from the studied territory. Our statistical results demonstrate that, in spite of a deep-rooted mindset as regards flooding hazards, local population awareness of the territorial vulnerability is not related to important challenges. A hierarchical analysis of the data shows that the awareness of stakeholders is less related to the importance of risks when the territorial level decreases. It also highlights the decline of solidarity among neighbouring communities when the distance from the industrial axis increases. Greatly impacted by flooding risks, industrial activities of the regional basin are paradoxically not really perceived as common challenges. Such a case study illustrates how public policies need to be relevant to the adapted levels. Awareness of common issues is a central target to develop acceptance in order to provide an efficient framework of resilience, including willingness to pay to reduce the risk and solidarity in local development compensations. P. Pech et al.494

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“…Specifically a firm's vulnerability / capacity to survive and adapt, resist decline and respond to opportunities [4]). Allied to this is the concept of regional resilience which has emerged as a trend that is developing a widespread appeal, in particular when examining how regions have fared during the recent economic crisis [5].…”

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An Exploratory Study of the Resilience of Manufacturing in the Cardiff Capital Region

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Abstract. Sustainability in all its guises is important for the long term continuance of manufacturing. The ideas of local sustainability and resilience have become increasing popular topics for study. The drive for economic resilience is causing governments to look at regional strategies to improve economic sustainability and resilience. A recent example of this is the establishment of a Cardiff Capital Region (CCR) in Wales. This exploratory study takes an initial look at the resilience of manufacturing in the CCR vis-à-vis economic resilience using the FAME dataset and QuiScore measure. Results indicate that on the whole manufacturing looks broadly healthy. However, some potential areas of concern were identified, many of the biggest and healthiest companies are not headquartered in the CCR, whereas 98% of the weakest companies are, and there are inter and intra sectorial differences. The study also suggests that measures such as QuiScore should perhaps not be used in isolation as its methodology is unknown and a large number of companies do not have QuiScores.

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Regional Resilience: An Agency Perspective

Cited by 281 publications

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Innovation and regional economic resilience: an exploratory analysis

Innovation and regional economic resilience: an exploratory analysis

How to Achieve Local Resilience to Flood Risks by Increasing Solidarity: The Example of the “Syndicat Mixte” (Inter-Municipal Cooperation Structure) of the French Territory of Belfort-Montbéliard

An Exploratory Study of the Resilience of Manufacturing in the Cardiff Capital Region

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Regional Resilience: An Agency Perspective

Cited by 281 publications

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Innovation and regional economic resilience: an exploratory analysis

Innovation and regional economic resilience: an exploratory analysis

How to Achieve Local Resilience to Flood Risks by Increasing Solidarity: The Example of the “Syndicat Mixte” (Inter-Municipal Cooperation Structure) of the French Territory of Belfort-Montb&#233;liard

An Exploratory Study of the Resilience of Manufacturing in the Cardiff Capital Region

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How to Achieve Local Resilience to Flood Risks by Increasing Solidarity: The Example of the “Syndicat Mixte” (Inter-Municipal Cooperation Structure) of the French Territory of Belfort-Montbéliard