Regions and Economic Resilience: New Perspectives

Municipalities and regions in locational competition: New economic considerations

Rethinking resilience from indigenous perspectives.

The notions of resilience that have emerged in developmental psychology and psychiatry in recent years require systematic rethinking to address the distinctive cultures, geographic and social settings, and histories of adversity of indigenous peoples. In Canada, the overriding social realities of indigenous peoples include their historical rootedness to a specific place (with traditional lands,...

Resilience definitions, theory, and challenges: interdisciplinary perspectives

In this paper, inspired by the plenary panel at the 2013 meeting of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Dr. Steven Southwick (chair) and multidisciplinary panelists Drs. George Bonanno, Ann Masten, Catherine Panter-Brick, and Rachel Yehuda tackle some of the most pressing current questions in the field of resilience research including: (1) how do we define resilience, (2) wh...

Regional resilience: theoretical and empirical perspectives

Susan Christopherson, Jonathan Michie and Peter Tyler Department of City and Regional Planning, Cornell University, 106 Sibley Dome, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA, [email protected] Department for Continuing Education and Kellogg College, University of Oxford, 62 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6PN, UK, [email protected] Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge, 19 Silver Street, Ca...

Economic Vulnerability and Resilience Concepts and Measurements

In this paper, economic vulnerability is defined as the exposure of an economy to exogenous shocks, arising out of economic openness, while economic resilience is defined as the policy-induced ability of an economy to withstand or recover from the effects of such shocks. The paper briefly reviews the work already carried out on economic vulnerability and extends the research towards the develop...