Handbook on Regional Economic Resilience

Edited by Gillian Bristow and Adrian Healy, School of Geography and Planning, Cardiff University, UK

Publication Date: 2020 ISBN: 978 1 78536 085 5 Extent: 320 pp

This Handbook provides a collection of high quality contributions on the state of the art in current debates around the concept of regional economic resilience. It provides critical contributions from leading authors in the field, and captures both key theoretical debates around the meaning of resilience, its conceptual framing and utility, as well as empirical interrogation of its key determinants in different international contexts.

Contents:

1 Introduction to the Handbook on Regional Economic Resilience 1
Gillian Bristow and Adrian Healy

PART I CONCEPTS AND THEORY: CONCEPTUALISING REGIONAL
ECONOMIC RESILIENCE
2 Regional economic resilience: evolution and evaluation 10
Ron Martin and Peter Sunley
3 Regional resilience: an agency perspective 36
Gillian Bristow and Adrian Healy
4 Adaptation, adaptability and regional economic resilience: a conceptual
framework 54
Xiaohui Hu and Robert Hassink
5 New directions in researching regional economic resilience and adaptation 69
Emil Evenhuis

PART II MEASURING REGIONAL ECONOMIC RESILIENCE
6 Quo vadis resilience? Measurement and policy challenges: using the case of
Italy 88
Paolo di Caro
7 Ranking regional economic resilience in the EU 103
Nicola Pontarollo and Carolina Serpieri
8 A guide to patterns of regional economic resilience 126
Karim K. Mardaneh, Ameeta Jain and Jerry Courvisanos
9 Building a policy relevant resilience measure: beyond the economic
perspective 143
Peter Benczur, Elisabeth Joossens, Anna Rita Manca, Balint Menyhert and
Slavica Zec
10 Putting adaptive resilience to work: measuring regional re-orientation using
a matching model 171
Dario Diodato and Anet Weterings
11 Economic resilience in Great Britain: an empirical analysis at the local
authority district level 190
Tasos Kitsos

PART III THE EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF REGIONAL RESILIENCE
12 Unravelling the driving forces of networks on regional resilience capabilities 209
Jérôme Vicente
13 Exports and regional resilience: evidence from Greece 226
Yannis Psycharis, Maria Tsiapa and Vassilis Tselios
14 Resilience in regional business cycles across the Benelux 242
Elton Beqiraj, Giovanni Di Bartolomeo, Marco Di Pietro and Carolina Serpieri
15 Interpreting and defining economic resilience: regional resilience in policy
practice 263
Margaret Cowell
16 Supranational policy and economic shocks: the role of the EU’s structural
funds in the economic resilience of regions 280
Adrian Healy and Gillian Bristow
17 Conclusions and reflections 299
Gillian Bristow and Adrian Healy

Index 303