Resilience and Regional Development

Edited by Gabriela Carmen Pascariu, Professor, Ramona Ţigănaşu, Researcher, Centre for European Studies, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi, Romania, Karima Kourtit, Faculty of Management, Open University of the Netherlands and Peter Nijkamp, School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China and Faculty of Economics, Rijeka University, Rijeka, Croatia

‘This book shows how the concept of resilience is relevant when studying space and sustainability. The individual chapters cover a broad range of topics. Therefore, this book ought to be very useful for researchers interested in learning about the scope of resilience, as an organizing principle, in regional science.’

• Contents:1 Introduction: resilience and regions: different places,different dynamics and different policies 1Gabriela Carmen Pascariu, Ramona Țigănaşu, KarimaKourtit and Peter NijkampPART I THE NEXUS OF RESILIENCE AND SPACE: THEORETICALAND METHODOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS2 Creativity in cultural and creative industries as a source ofregional adaptive resilience 10Roberta Capello and Roberto Dellisanti3 Accessibility, population dynamics and regionaleconomic resilience 30John Östh, Aura Reggiani and Peter Nijkamp4 Binding resilience to the regional convergence framework:how does resilience affect the EU regional gaps? 51Cristian Incaltarau and Zizi Goschin5 Improving resilient development in Austrian cities from atransdisciplinary perspective 91Antonija Bogadi and Rudolf Giffinger6 A spatial perspective on wellbeing in the European Union 108Alexandra Gheorghiu and Bogdan-Constantin Ibănescu7 Does history affect regional resilience in the long term?Path-dependence lessons from Poland 127Rafał Matera and Mariusz E. SokołowiczPART II RESILIENCE AND SUSTAINABILITY8 Sub-national governmental budget tools for survivingshocks: resiliency in the public sector 152Steven Craig and Annie Yu-Hsin Hsu9 Sustainable Development Goals. People and places chosewhat they do not have 169Tomaz Ponce Dentinho, Katarzyna Kopczewska, Giovannide Francesco, Gabriela Carmen Pascariu, Karmina Kourtit,Peter Nijkamp, Joanna Kurowska-Pysz, João LourençoMarques, Ana Vinuela and Umut Türk10 Spatial economic damage and recovery caused by tsunamirisk in Japan: a dynamic input–output approach 189Hiroyuki Shibusawa, Daichi Matsushima and Mingji Cui11 Coping with extreme temperatures in European regions –from resilience to prosilience? 209Ema Corodescu-Roşca, Alexandru Bănicá, Ionel Munteleand Pavel IchimPART III CASE STUDIES: MULTIDIMENSIONAL SHOCKS,IMPACTS AND POLICIES12 Crises, governance and resilience. A perception-based study 237Ramona Ţigănaşu, Gabriela Carmen Pascariu andAlexandra Gheorghiu13 Governance challenges of resilient local development inperipheral regions 279Réka Horeczki and Ilona Pálńe Kovács14 Typifying social cohesion in rural areas – the social placesconcept (SPC) 300Sylvia Herrmann, Shari Jäkel and Berthold Vogel15 Tourism and meeting incentive convention event(MICE) tourism in Europe, systemic shock, structuraltransformations and resilience 322Sylvie Christofle16 Resilience of tourism in times of global crises: the case ofRomanian urban destinations 342Alexandra Cehan, Alexandru Bănică, Mihail Evaand Corneliu IaţuIndex 377