Resilient Regions in an Uncertain World: Wishful Thinking or a Practical Reality?

By Ray Hudson. 2010

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What might a resilient region look like in the face of an uncertainty about the global economy and environment? To begin to answer this question, the article first reviews existing concepts of resilience and critically reviews dominant neoliberal concepts of regional development. This forms the basis for seeking to specify the characteristics of resilient regions, arguing that these must have a lighter environmental footprint and involve a greater degree of regional closure in and regionalisation of economic activities. The final concluding section evaluates the limits to regional resilience in the face of global change. Copyright 2009, Oxford University Press.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science, Urban Studies

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Citations in the corpus

• Innovation and regional economic resilience: an exploratory analysis (2018, background): “This finds resonance with evolutionary economic geographers who understand regional economies to be characterized by nonlinear and non-equilibrium dynamics which ‘evolve and move along open-ended developmental trajectories with an unknown end-point’ (Hudson 2010, p. 13).”
• Rural entrepreneurship or entrepreneurship in the rural – between place and space (2015, background): “Additionally, these differences are important for their impact on local development and resilience (Bristow, 2010; Hudson, 2010).”
• The Rise of the Resilient Local Authority? (2012, background): “…regions) are closely linked to eco-industrial development (EIB), which ‘offers the potential to regionalise production activities and reduce their ecological footprints, by minimising both wastes and the costs of moving materials between production processes and facilities’ (Hudson 2010, p. 19–20).”
• The best of both worlds: how rural entrepreneurs use placial embeddedness and strategic networks to create opportunities (2015, background): “They also support the notion that entrepreneurial ventures in rural areas will need to benefit from using local resource bases (Hudson 2010; Kitchen and Marsden 2009).”
• Regional Economic Resilience, Hysteresis and Recessionary Shocks (2012, background): “For these and other reasons, some economic geographers remain hesitant about the notion of regional resilience (for example, Hassink, 2010; Hudson, 2010; Pike, Dawley and Tomaney, 2010).”
• Regional Resilience: An Agency Perspective (2014, background): “Regional economies also exhibit non-linear dynamics, and thus ‘evolve and move along open-ended developmental trajectories with an unknown end-point’ (HUDSON, 2010, p. 13).”
• Economic resilience and entrepreneurship: lessons from the Sheffield City Region (2014, background): “As Hudson (2010) notes, localities are competing to develop, attract and retain entrepreneurial people, people who are critical to sustain vibrant and diverse economies (Hospers, Desrochers, and Sautet 2008).”
• Regional resilience: theoretical and empirical perspectives (2010, background): “To some authors, resilience has been closely allied with enhanced self-reliance and the desire for greater regional closure (Hudson, 2010).”
• Attributes and Characteristics of Regional Resilience: Defining and Measuring the Resilience of Turkish Regions (2016, background): “HUDSON (2010) suggests four interrelated dimensions to define how regional economies respond to recessionary or other types of shocks, namely resistance, recovery, reorientation and renewal.”
• Towards the Resilient Region? (2010, background): “Indeed, for many, the vulnerability of localities and regions to episodic crises is heightened in the current era of intensified global economic integration, openness and interdependence (Hudson, 2010).”
• Spatial Economic Resilience: Overview and Perspectives (2015, background): “), but their combination with other factors, such as economic or environmental emergencies, most likely has played a relevant role (Hudson 2010).”
• Critical interventions into the corporate smart city (2015, background): “Hudson (2010) also talks about the notion of ‘resilient regions’ and discusses some of the ways in which places can begin to push against the effects of new liberal capitalist development.”