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 …

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 …

serious problems to rural management and largely affect future perspectives of rural areas. Rural resilience refers to the … capacity of a rural region to adapt to changing external circumstances in such a way that a satisfactory standard of living is … maintained, while coping with its inherent ecological, economic and social vulnerability. Rural resilience describes how rural …