Unresolved issues in regional economic resilience: Conceptual ways forward
- Author(s)
- Leonard Kwhang-Gil Lemke, Patrick Sakdapolrak, Michaela Trippl
- Abstract
Regional economic resilience (RER) remains the state-of-the-art concept in economic geography to investigate regional development in times of disturbance. We seek to contribute to a transformative notion of RER, which unfolds in light of global environmental change. In our review of conceptual and empirical RER applications, we reveal three unresolved issues: a focus on firms rather than diverse actors, trivial reflections on social–ecological interdependencies, and the need for more fluid understandings of socio-spatial relations. Based on these insights from neighboring geographical disciplines, we provide concrete propositions for theoretical enhancement to make RER fit for purpose.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Geography and Regional Research
- Journal
- Progress in Human Geography
- Volume
- 47
- Pages
- 699-717
- No. of pages
- 19
- ISSN
- 0309-1325
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1177/03091325231191242
- Publication date
- 2023
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 507026 Economic geography, 507016 Regional economy, 507014 Regional development
- Keywords
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Geography, Planning and Development
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/55807d0d-5cc3-45b4-9a31-217f646ba9ef