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 …

Complex adaptive systems are a special kind of self-organizing system with emergent properties and adaptive capacity in …

palette of concepts, mechanisms and models of evolution and change, such as plasticity, robustness, evolvability, emergence …

both the upper and the lower tails. I explain this emergence of the double power law—which has important economic …

This paper explores the robustness of systems of political economy from within an emergent perspective. Robustness is a … robustness is facilitated through polycentric organizational arrangements that entail high degeneracy, while fragility and the … emergence of decadence is facilitated in relatively hierarchical arrangements that possess low degeneracy. Copyright Springer …

experiencing the hazard. Resilience (the capacity of a system to absorb recurrent disturbances, such as natural disasters, so as to …Vulnerability is registered not by exposure to hazards alone; it also resides in the resilience of the system … policy options for dealing with uncertainty and future change. Building resilience into human–environment systems is an …