This Handbook provides a collection of high quality contributions on the state of the art in current debates around the concept of regional economic resilience.

Coping with Adversity addresses the question of why some metropolitan-area regional economies are resilient in the face of economic shocks and chronic distress

The economic crisis of 2008-9 heralded the most severe economic downturn in the history of the European Union. Yet not all regions experienced economic decline

The term “resilience” originated in environmental studies and describes one’s biological capacity to adapt and thrive under adverse environmental conditio

Resilience has emerged as a recurrent notion to explain how territorial socio-economic systems adapt successfully (or not) to negative events. In this book, the