Rethinking regional economic resilience: Preconditions and processes shaping transformative resilience

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,...

The Economic Integration of Immigrants and Regional Resilience

Resilience Processes in Development

The study of resilience in development has overturned many negative assumptions and deficit-focused models about children growing up under the threat of disadvantage and adversity. The most surprising conclusion emerging from studies of these children is the ordinariness of resilience. An examination of converging findings from variable-focused and person-focused investigations of these phenome...

Regional Economic Resilience: Resistance and Recoverability of Resource-Based Cities during Economic Crises in Northeast China

This paper quantitatively analyzes the economic resilience of resource-based cities (RBCs) in Northeast China in terms of resistance and recoverability during two economic crises: the Asian financial crisis and the global financial crisis. Moreover, it analyzes the main factors that affected regional resilience. There are three main findings. First, the RBCs in general demonstrated poor resista...

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...