IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/oup/cjrecs/v3y2009i1p71-84.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Resilience and regions: building understanding of the metaphor

Author

Listed:
  • Rolf Pendall
  • Kathryn A. Foster
  • Margaret Cowell

Abstract

We survey literatures from disciplines including ecology, psychology, disaster studies, geography, political science and economics to understand how they see resilience. Some literature describes resilience as a return to conditions before a shock. Other resilience writing embraces a complex systems perspective. For other fields, resilience describes the ability of people, regions or ecosystems to thrive despite adversity. We conclude that although the resilience metaphor poses the danger of fuzziness and necessitates careful specification of space and time boundaries in studying resilience phenomena, it proves useful for illuminating regional change and linking different types of regional stresses to alternative resilience frameworks. Copyright 2009, Oxford University Press.

Suggested Citation

  • Rolf Pendall & Kathryn A. Foster & Margaret Cowell, 2009. "Resilience and regions: building understanding of the metaphor," Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, Cambridge Political Economy Society, vol. 3(1), pages 71-84.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:cjrecs:v:3:y:2009:i:1:p:71-84
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1093/cjres/rsp028
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Lisa Van Well, 2011. "Dealing with Dichotomies: The case of Bornholm," ERSA conference papers ersa10p1330, European Regional Science Association.
    2. Jerry Courvisanos & Ameeta Jain & Karim K. Mardaneh, 2016. "Economic Resilience of Regions under Crises: A Study of the Australian Economy," Regional Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 50(4), pages 629-643, April.
    3. Zaman, Gheorghe & Georgescu, George, 2015. "Resilience to crisis and GDP recovery at county level in Romania," MPRA Paper 63246, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    4. Fabiano Compagnucci & Gabriele Morettini, 2020. "Improving resilience at the local level: The location of essential services within inner areas. Three case studies in the Italian Marche region," Regional Science Policy & Practice, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 12(5), pages 767-792, October.
    5. Sergey LISNYAK, 2016. "The Relevance Of Eap With Regard To Regional Economic Resilience Capacity Building," CES Working Papers, Centre for European Studies, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, vol. 8(3), pages 364-375, October.
    6. Giulio Carli & Andrea Morrison, 2018. "On the evolution of the Castel Goffredo hosiery cluster: a life cycle perspective," European Planning Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 26(5), pages 915-932, May.
    7. Thorsten Schilling & Romano Wyss & Claudia R. Binder, 2018. "The Resilience of Sustainability Transitions," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 10(12), pages 1-23, December.
    8. Elias Giannakis & Christos T. Papadas, 2021. "Spatial Connectivity and Regional Economic Resilience in Turbulent Times," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(20), pages 1-12, October.
    9. Elisabeth Schauppenlehner-Kloyber & Marianne Penker, 2016. "Between Participation and Collective Action—From Occasional Liaisons towards Long-Term Co-Management for Urban Resilience," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 8(7), pages 1-18, July.
    10. Zaman, Gheorghe & Georgescu, George & Goschin, Zizi & Antonescu, Daniela & Popa, Florina, 2015. "Dezvoltarea economica endogena la nivel regional. Cazul Romaniei [Endogenous economic development at regional level. The case of Romania]," MPRA Paper 70646, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    11. Xin Mai & Roger C. K. Chan, 2020. "Detecting the intellectual pathway of resilience thinking in urban and regional studies: A critical reflection on resilience literature," Growth and Change, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 51(3), pages 876-889, September.
    12. Yuyun Hidayat & Titi Purwandari & Subiyanto & Sukono, 2021. "Identifying Unwanted Conditions through Chaotic Area Determination in the Context of Indonesia’s Economic Resilience at the City Level," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(9), pages 1-15, May.
    13. Sergey LISNYAK, 2015. "Literature Review Regarding The Concept Of Resilience And Its Assessment In The Context Of The Economic Dimension," CES Working Papers, Centre for European Studies, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, vol. 7(2a), pages 511-518, September.
    14. Jean Dub� & Mario Pol�Se, 2016. "Resilience Revisited: Assessing the Impact of the 2007-09 Recession on 83 Canadian Regions with Accompanying Thoughts on an Elusive Concept," Regional Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 50(4), pages 615-628, April.
    15. Christina Kakderi & Anastasia Tasopoulou, 2017. "Regional economic resilience: the role of national and regional policies," European Planning Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 25(8), pages 1435-1453, August.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:oup:cjrecs:v:3:y:2009:i:1:p:71-84. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Oxford University Press (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://academic.oup.com/cjres .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.