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Evolutionary perspectives on economic resilience in regional development

In: Creating Resilient Economies

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  • Emil Evenhuis
  • Stuart Dawley

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In this chapter we will discuss how the mechanisms and drivers of regional economic resilience can be theorised using evolutionary approaches in economic geography. We focus on evolutionary approaches that draw from three main theoretical frameworks: Generalised Darwinism, Complexity Theory, and Path Dependency. We will review each of the three frameworks with regard to their understanding of regional economic resilience, with particular attention to their treatment of the roles of agency, institutions and multi-scalar processes. We conclude that the Path Dependency approach – so far relatively neglected in debates on regional resilience – offers the greatest theoretical insight into these interrelated domains and provides the basis for a more comprehensive evolutionary resilience research agenda.

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  • Emil Evenhuis & Stuart Dawley, 2017. "Evolutionary perspectives on economic resilience in regional development," Chapters, in: Nick Williams & Tim Vorley (ed.), Creating Resilient Economies, chapter 13, pages 192-205, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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