The resilience of places in response to uncertain, volatile and rapid change has emerged as a focus of academic and policy attention. This paper aims to contribute to understanding and explaining the resilience of places. Drawing upon evolutionary Economic Geography, the concepts of adaptation and adaptability are developed in a framework based upon agents, mechanisms and sites. In contrast to equilibrium-based approaches, this approach can better capture the geographical diversity, variety and unevenness of resilience and address questions of what kind of resilience and for whom.

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Pike A., Rodriguez-Pose A. and Tomaney J. (2007) What kind of local and regional development and for whom?, Regional Studies 41, 1253-1269. This paper asks the question, what kind of local and regional development and for whom? It examines what is meant by local and regional development, its historical context, its geographies in space, territory, place and scale and its different varieties, principles and values. The socially uneven and geographically differentiated distribution of who and where benefits and loses from particular forms of local and regional development is analysed. A holistic, progressive and sustainable version of local and regional development is outlined with reflections upon its limits and political renewal. Locally and regionally determined development models should not be developed independently of more foundational principles and values such as democracy, equity, internationalism and justice. Specific local and regional articulations are normative questions and subject to social determination and political choices in particular national and international contexts. Local Regional Development Pike A., Rodriguez-Pose A. et Tomaney J. (2007) Quelle sorte d'amenagement du territoire et pour qui?, Regional Studies 41, 1253-1269. Cet article pose la question suivante: quelle sorte d'amenagement du territoire et pour qui? Il cherche a examiner ce que l'on veut dire par amenagement du territoire, son historique, ses orientations quant a l'espace, au territoire, a l'endroit et a l'echelle, et ses differentes formes, principes et valeurs. On examine la distribution socialement irreguliere et geographiquement distincte des gens et des emplacements qui profitent ou perdent des formes particulieres d'amenagement du territoire. On esquisse ici une version de l'amenagement du territoire a la fois holistique, progressive et durable, tout en reflechissant sur ses limites et sur le regain politique. Des modeles de developpement, determines sur les plans local ou regional, ne devraient pas etre developpes independamment des principes et des valeurs de base, tels la democratie, l'equite, l'internationalisme et la justice. Des articulations locales et regionales specifiques sont des questions normatives et dependent de la determination sociale et des choix politiques dans des contextes nationaux et internationaux particuliers. Local Regional Developpement Pike A., Rodriguez-Pose A. und Tomaney J. (2007) Welche Art von lokaler und regionaler Entwicklung und fur wen? Regional Studies 41, 1253-1269. In diesem Beitrag wird die Frage gestellt: welche Art von lokaler und regionaler Entwicklung und fur wen? Untersucht werden der Begriff der lokalen und regionalen Entwicklung sowie ihr historischer Kontext, ihre Geografien in Raum, Gebiet, Ort und Massstab sowie ihre verschiedenen Varietaten, Prinzipien und Werte. Analysiert wird die gesellschaftlich ungleichmassige und geografisch differenzierte Verteilung hinsichtlich der Frage, wer von bestimmten Formen der lokalen und regionalen Entwicklung wo profitiert oder verl...

Discussions of local and regional development have recently broadened from a preoccupation with growth to one which captures the notion of resilience. This article makes two main contributions to these debates. First, it critiques static equilibrium-based notions of resilience and instead advances a more dynamic evolutionary approach to explain local and regional resilience. Secondly, it seeks to address the widening gap between resilience thinking and its transfer to practical policy prescription. To do this, we explore the notions of adaptability, adaptive capacity and new path creation in developing local and regional resilience. We then focus upon what this might mean for local and regional strategies, and draw on the case study of the renewable energy sector in north-east England to demonstrate the enduring role of policy intervention in stimulating change and building resilience in peripheral regions.