Handbook on Regional Economic Resilience

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

• Contents:1 Introduction to the Handbook on Regional Economic Resilience 1Gillian Bristow and Adrian HealyPART I CONCEPTS AND THEORY: CONCEPTUALISING REGIONALECONOMIC RESILIENCE2 Regional economic resilience: evolution and evaluation 10Ron Martin and Peter Sunley3 Regional resilience: an agency perspective 36Gillian Bristow and Adrian Healy4 Adaptation, adaptability and regional economic resilience: a conceptualframework 54Xiaohui Hu and Robert Hassink5 New directions in researching regional economic resilience and adaptation 69Emil EvenhuisPART II MEASURING REGIONAL ECONOMIC RESILIENCE6 Quo vadis resilience? Measurement and policy challenges: using the case ofItaly 88Paolo di Caro7 Ranking regional economic resilience in the EU 103Nicola Pontarollo and Carolina Serpieri8 A guide to patterns of regional economic resilience 126Karim K. Mardaneh, Ameeta Jain and Jerry Courvisanos9 Building a policy relevant resilience measure: beyond the economicperspective 143Peter Benczur, Elisabeth Joossens, Anna Rita Manca, Balint Menyhert andSlavica Zec10 Putting adaptive resilience to work: measuring regional re-orientation usinga matching model 171Dario Diodato and Anet Weterings11 Economic resilience in Great Britain: an empirical analysis at the localauthority district level 190Tasos KitsosPART III THE EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF REGIONAL RESILIENCE12 Unravelling the driving forces of networks on regional resilience capabilities 209Jérôme Vicente13 Exports and regional resilience: evidence from Greece 226Yannis Psycharis, Maria Tsiapa and Vassilis Tselios14 Resilience in regional business cycles across the Benelux 242Elton Beqiraj, Giovanni Di Bartolomeo, Marco Di Pietro and Carolina Serpieri15 Interpreting and defining economic resilience: regional resilience in policypractice 263Margaret Cowell16 Supranational policy and economic shocks: the role of the EU’s structuralfunds in the economic resilience of regions 280Adrian Healy and Gillian Bristow17 Conclusions and reflections 299Gillian Bristow and Adrian HealyIndex 303

‘As the concept of resilience becomes further entrenched into the academic and policy discourse around regional economic development, this edited volume provides a timely summary of the current state of the art. The book serves as an excellent entry point for scholars and policy makers wishing to understand the various conceptualizations, measurements, and evidence surrounding the concept of regional economic resilience as well as a wealth of ideas as to future developments in the field.’