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Book SynopsisInterdisciplinary in its approach, with expert contributors from diverse backgrounds, Resilience and Regional Development brings to light the significance of multiple dimensions of resilience and its implications for the economy.
Trade Review‘This book shows how the concept of resilience is relevant when studying space and sustainability. The individual chapters cover a broad range of topics. Therefore, this book ought to be very useful for researchers interested in learning about the scope of resilience, as an organizing principle, in regional science.’ -- Amitrajeet A. Batabyal, Rochester Institute of Technology, US
Table of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction: resilience and regions: different places, different dynamics and different policies 1 Gabriela Carmen Pascariu, Ramona Țigănaşu, Karima Kourtit and Peter Nijkamp PART I THE NEXUS OF RESILIENCE AND SPACE: THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS 2 Creativity in cultural and creative industries as a source of regional adaptive resilience 10 Roberta Capello and Roberto Dellisanti 3 Accessibility, population dynamics and regional economic resilience 30 John Östh, Aura Reggiani and Peter Nijkamp 4 Binding resilience to the regional convergence framework: how does resilience affect the EU regional gaps? 51 Cristian Incaltarau and Zizi Goschin 5 Improving resilient development in Austrian cities from a transdisciplinary perspective 91 Antonija Bogadi and Rudolf Giffinger 6 A spatial perspective on wellbeing in the European Union 108 Alexandra Gheorghiu and Bogdan-Constantin Ibănescu 7 Does history affect regional resilience in the long term? Path-dependence lessons from Poland 127 Rafał Matera and Mariusz E. Sokołowicz PART II RESILIENCE AND SUSTAINABILITY 8 Sub-national governmental budget tools for surviving shocks: resiliency in the public sector 152 Steven Craig and Annie Yu-Hsin Hsu 9 Sustainable Development Goals. People and places chose what they do not have 169 Tomaz Ponce Dentinho, Katarzyna Kopczewska, Giovanni de Francesco, Gabriela Carmen Pascariu, Karmina Kourtit, Peter Nijkamp, Joanna Kurowska-Pysz, João Lourenço Marques, Ana Vinuela and Umut Türk 10 Spatial economic damage and recovery caused by tsunami risk in Japan: a dynamic input–output approach 189 Hiroyuki Shibusawa, Daichi Matsushima and Mingji Cui 11 Coping with extreme temperatures in European regions – from resilience to prosilience? 209 Ema Corodescu-Roşca, Alexandru Bănicá, Ionel Muntele and Pavel Ichim PART III CASE STUDIES: MULTIDIMENSIONAL SHOCKS, IMPACTS AND POLICIES 12 Crises, governance and resilience. A perception-based study 237 Ramona Ţigănaşu, Gabriela Carmen Pascariu and Alexandra Gheorghiu 13 Governance challenges of resilient local development in peripheral regions 279 Réka Horeczki and Ilona Pálńe Kovács 14 Typifying social cohesion in rural areas – the social places concept (SPC) 300 Sylvia Herrmann, Shari Jäkel and Berthold Vogel 15 Tourism and meeting incentive convention event (MICE) tourism in Europe, systemic shock, structural transformations and resilience 322 Sylvie Christofle 16 Resilience of tourism in times of global crises: the case of Romanian urban destinations 342 Alexandra Cehan, Alexandru Bănică, Mihail Eva and Corneliu Iaţu Index 377
