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Resilience, adaptation and adaptability

Year: 2010

Type: article

Abstract: The resilience of places in response to uncertain, volatile and rapid change has emerged as a focus of academic and policy attention. This paper aims to contribute to understanding and explaining the resilience of places. Drawing upon evolutionary Economic Geography, the concepts of adaptation and adaptability are developed in a framework based upon agents, mechanisms and sites. In contrast to equilibrium-based approaches, this approach can better capture the geographical diversity, variety and unevenness of resilience and address questions of what kind of resilience and for whom.

Source: Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and Society

DOI: 10.1093/cjres/rsq001

Authors: A. Pike, S. Dawley, J. Tomaney

Institutions: Newcastle University, Monash University

Language: English

Topic: Regional resilience and development

Subfield: Economics and Econometrics

Field: Economics, Econometrics and Finance

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funder: Economic and Social Research Council

Award: Spatial Economics Research Centre