Towards comprehensive regional resilience evaluation, resistance, recovery, and creativity: From the perspective of the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake

Predicting economic resilience of territories in Italy during the COVID-19 first lockdown

“…Since climate change led to more frequent extreme events, the impact of natural disasters on regional resilience has been the object of recent scrutiny. Extant literature shows a more limited resilience to seismic events for territories with lower GDP per capita and higher levels of interconnections and interdependencies among local infrastructures ( Du et al, 2023 , Lu, Li et al, 2022 ). Similarly, higher levels of investments in flood prevention projects, a higher level of wealth, lower precipitation levels and larger availability of hospital beds are connected with better resilience performances to floods at the regional level ( Liu et al, 2020 , Liu et al, 2021 ).…”

“…The concept of regional resilience has been investigated under the economic perspective, highlighting that larger immigration flows, economy diversification, governance innovation, technological variety, knowledge network, quality of institutions, availability of skilled human capital and supportive financial systems are key drivers to reduce the vulnerability of territories to external shocks ( Boschma, 2015 , Corodescu-Roşca et al, 2023 , Hassink, 2010 , Huang, 2022 , Simmie and Martin, 2010 , Tan et al, 2020 ). In line with such literature, we exploit economic, environmental, demographic and social drivers ( Cardoni et al, 2021 , Hu et al, 2022 , Lin et al, 2022 , Liu et al, 2020 , Liu et al, 2021 , Lu, Li et al, 2022 , Lu, Zhang et al, 2022 , Tan et al, 2020 , Ye et al, 2022 ) to explain the economic resilience of Italian municipalities. Furthermore, differently from extant studies, we use mobility network centrality indicators due to the key role of mobility in the spread of contagion and for the resilience of economic activities.…”

“…We mainly differentiate from previous studies, since our measure of resilience is not based on an aggregation of those factors aiming to explain resilience as in Cardoni et al, 2021 , Lin et al, 2022 , Liu et al, 2020 , Liu et al, 2021 , Lu, Li et al, 2022 , Lu, Zhang et al, 2022 and Ye et al (2022) . Furthermore, we do not rely on measurements of resilience based on low-frequency macroeconomic variables as Hu et al, 2022 , Martin et al, 2016 and Tan et al (2020) .…”

“…Due to recent frequent and hazardous natural disasters, empirical literature on regional resilience also paid attention to those socio-economic factors that may reduce the negative impact of natural disasters such as floods ( Liu et al, 2020 , Liu et al, 2021 ) and earthquakes ( Du et al, 2023 , Lu, Li et al, 2022 ). Moreover, authors focused on specific sectors, such as Transportation ( Potter, Soroka, & Naim, 2022 ) and Energy ( Erker, Stangl, & Stoeglehner, 2017 ), that offer critical services to regions and that may be particularly vulnerable to the disruption of infrastructure networks.…”

Comprehensive Evaluation of Community Human Settlement Resilience and Spatial Characteristics Based on the Supply-demand Mismatch between Health Activities and Environment: A Case Study of Downtown Shanghai, China

“…So far, the research results on resilience at home and abroad are quite informative. In terms of research fields, they have gradually expanded from a single natural ecosystem [14][15][16][17][18] to a relatively complex social-ecological system [19][20][21][22][23]; In terms of research contents, they have enriched the research content of resilience from the conceptual connotation of resilience [24,25], comprehensive assessment [26][27][28][29] and influencing factors [30][31][32], and broadened the application scope of resilience [33][34][35]; In terms of research methods, they have developed from qualitative study [36][37][38] to a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods such as comprehensive index method [39,40], econometric methods [41,42]. The fruitful research results on resilience have provided theoretical and methodological references for deconstructing the resilience of the community human settlement system.…”