Over the past few years a new buzzword has entered academic, political and public discourse: the notion of resilience … or fostered. As part of this development, the notion of resilience is rapidly becoming part of the conceptual and … analytical lexicon of regional and local economic studies: there is increasing interest in the resilience of regional, local and …

This paper provides a theoretical and political critique of how the concept of resilience has been applied to places …. It is based upon three main points. First, the ecological concept of resilience is conservative when applied to social … relations. Second, resilience is externally-defined by state agencies and expert knowledge. Third, a concern with the resilience …

The paper develops an evolutionary framework of regional resilience with a primary focus on the structural properties … long run resilience capabilities. We show that degree distribution (the level of hierarchy) and degree correlation (the … resilience fit better with ex ante regional diagnosis and targeted interventions on particular missing links, rather than ex post …