On the notion of regional economic resilience: conceptualization and explanation
On the notion of regional economic resilience: conceptualization and explanation
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DOI：
10.1093/jeg/lbu015
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发表时间：
2015-01-01
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2.9
通讯作者：
Sunley, Peter
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作者：
Martin, Ron;Sunley, Peter
在过去的几年里，一个新的流行词进入了学术、政治和公共话语：弹性的概念，这个术语用来描述实体或系统如何应对冲击和干扰。虽然这一概念在生态学和心理学中已经使用了一段时间，但现在它在不同的背景下被引用，既作为一个物体，实体或系统的感知（通常是积极的）属性，也是更规范的，作为一个应该以某种方式促进或培养的理想特征。作为这一发展的一部分，复原力的概念正迅速成为区域和地方经济研究的概念和分析词汇的一部分：人们对区域、地方和城市经济的复原力越来越感兴趣。此外，复原力正迅速成为政策辩论中的一个“时机已经成熟”的概念：“建设”或“建设”区域和城市经济复原力的新要求正在流行。然而，这种急于在政策圈中使用区域和地方经济弹性的想法可以说在某种程度上超出了我们对这一概念的理解。关于区域经济复原力概念的确切含义、如何对其进行概念化和衡量、其决定因素是什么以及如何将其与长期区域增长模式联系起来，仍然存在相当大的模糊性。本文的目的是解决这些问题和相关问题的含义和解释的区域经济弹性，从而勾勒出一个研究议程的方向。
Over the past few years a new buzzword has entered academic, political and public discourse: the notion of resilience, a term invoked to describe how an entity or system responds to shocks and disturbances. Although the concept has been used for some time in ecology and psychology, it is now invoked in diverse contexts, both as a perceived (and typically positive) attribute of an object, entity or system and, more normatively, as a desired feature that should somehow be promoted 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 urban economies. Further, resilience is rapidly emerging as an idea 'whose time has come' in policy debates: a new imperative of 'constructing' or 'building' regional and urban economic resilience is gaining currency. However, this rush to use the idea of regional and local economic resilience in policy circles has arguably run somewhat ahead of our understanding of the concept. There is still considerable ambiguity about what, precisely, is meant by the notion of regional economic resilience, about how it should be conceptualized and measured, what its determinants are, and how it links to patterns of long-run regional growth. The aim of this article is to address these and related questions on the meaning and explanation of regional economic resilience and thereby to outline the directions of a research agenda.