Regional Economic Resilience: Review and Outlook

This chapter aims, first, to trace the advancement of resilience thinking in regional science and economic geography. Second, to highlight the achievements but also some shortcomings of past research on regional economic resilience, and third, to outline elements of a future research agenda suited to contemporary challenges. The in-depth analysis of the literature suggests, that much progress has been made in defining regional resilience and in identifying determinants. However, the paper proposes that future research may benefit greatly from diversifying the focus of empirical studies and incorporating socio-economic differences between urban and rural areas and urbanisation externalities into the analysis of regional resilience.