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 and Peter Nijkamp, Professors, Open University, the Netherlands

Contents:

1 Introduction: resilience and regions: different places,
different dynamics and different policies 1
Gabriela Carmen Pascariu, Ramona Țigănaşu, Karima
Kourtit and Peter Nijkamp

PART I THE NEXUS OF RESILIENCE AND SPACE: THEORETICAL
AND METHODOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS
2 Creativity in cultural and creative industries as a source of
regional adaptive resilience 10
Roberta Capello and Roberto Dellisanti
3 Accessibility, population dynamics and regional
economic resilience 30
John Östh, Aura Reggiani and Peter Nijkamp
4 Binding resilience to the regional convergence framework:
how does resilience affect the EU regional gaps? 51
Cristian Incaltarau and Zizi Goschin
5 Improving resilient development in Austrian cities from a
transdisciplinary perspective 91
Antonija Bogadi and Rudolf Giffinger
6 A spatial perspective on wellbeing in the European Union 108
Alexandra Gheorghiu and Bogdan-Constantin Ibănescu
7 Does history affect regional resilience in the long term?
Path-dependence lessons from Poland 127
Rafał Matera and Mariusz E. Sokołowicz

PART II RESILIENCE AND SUSTAINABILITY
8 Sub-national governmental budget tools for surviving
shocks: resiliency in the public sector 152
Steven Craig and Annie Yu-Hsin Hsu
9 Sustainable Development Goals. People and places chose
what they do not have 169
Tomaz Ponce Dentinho, Katarzyna Kopczewska, Giovanni
de Francesco, Gabriela Carmen Pascariu, Karmina Kourtit,
Peter Nijkamp, Joanna Kurowska-Pysz, João Lourenço
Marques, Ana Vinuela and Umut Türk
10 Spatial economic damage and recovery caused by tsunami
risk in Japan: a dynamic input–output approach 189
Hiroyuki Shibusawa, Daichi Matsushima and Mingji Cui
11 Coping with extreme temperatures in European regions –
from resilience to prosilience? 209
Ema Corodescu-Roşca, Alexandru Bănicá, Ionel Muntele
and Pavel Ichim

PART III CASE STUDIES: MULTIDIMENSIONAL SHOCKS,
IMPACTS AND POLICIES
12 Crises, governance and resilience. A perception-based study 237
Ramona Ţigănaşu, Gabriela Carmen Pascariu and
Alexandra Gheorghiu
13 Governance challenges of resilient local development in
peripheral regions 279
Réka Horeczki and Ilona Pálńe Kovács
14 Typifying social cohesion in rural areas – the social places
concept (SPC) 300
Sylvia Herrmann, Shari Jäkel and Berthold Vogel
15 Tourism and meeting incentive convention event
(MICE) tourism in Europe, systemic shock, structural
transformations and resilience 322
Sylvie Christofle
16 Resilience of tourism in times of global crises: the case of
Romanian urban destinations 342
Alexandra Cehan, Alexandru Bănică, Mihail Eva
and Corneliu Iaţu

Index 377