How do cities and regions adapt to socio-economic crisis? Towards an institutionalist approach to urban and regional resilience
This paper depicts resilience as a systemic ‘adaptive capacity’ to cope with social and economic crisis situations at the urban and regional level. It argues that the notion of resilience has to be conceptualised in such a way that processes of and (institutional) frameworks for decision making are...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | deu |
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oekom verlag GmbH
2012-08-01
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| Series: | Raumforschung und Raumordnung |
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| Online Access: | https://rur.oekom.de/index.php/rur/article/view/813 |
| Summary: | This paper depicts resilience as a systemic ‘adaptive capacity’ to cope with social and economic crisis situations at the urban and regional level. It argues that the notion of resilience has to be conceptualised in such a way that processes of and (institutional) frameworks for decision making are recognized. Such an understanding suggests a new institutionalist approach to governance may be useful, one highlighting dominant norms, perceptions and paradigms leading to particular forms of action. Under the axiom of a socially constructed world the benefit of the notion of resilience as an analytical tool in urban and regional studies lies in a better understanding of change in complex systems of socio-spatial interdependencies. It thus has the potential to fill a gap in new institutional theory and contemporary governance research.
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| ISSN: | 0034-0111 1869-4179 |