Understanding regional mobility resilience and its relationship with regional culture during the COVID-19 pandemic: A pathogen-stress theory perspective

Metro travel and perceived COVID-19 infection risks: A case study of Hong Kong

“…The resilience of travel behaviors could describe changes in the urban/metro systems, transit stations, communities, and individuals and how they influence the desirable performance or goals of the latter. So far, the citywide resilience of travel behaviors has been conceptualized and measured in the existing studies ( Liu et al, 2023 ; Lu et al, 2022 ). The resilience of travel behaviors has also been used to examine responses from certain communities and individuals where people travel to and from and their impacts on the performance and goals mentioned above ( Hong et al, 2021 ; Podesta et al, 2021 ).…”

Predicting economic resilience of territories in Italy during the COVID-19 first lockdown

“…On the other hand, more limited empirical evidence studies the economic resilience of territories to recent shocks such as the COVID-19 pandemic ( Hu et al, 2022 , Lu, Zhang et al, 2022 ). Consistently with our research framework, we aim to fill this gap, by providing an analysis of those factors contributing to the economic regional resilience of Italian municipalities during the COVID-19 pandemic (see Fig.…”

“…The concept of regional resilience has been investigated under the economic perspective, highlighting that larger immigration flows, economy diversification, governance innovation, technological variety, knowledge network, quality of institutions, availability of skilled human capital and supportive financial systems are key drivers to reduce the vulnerability of territories to external shocks ( Boschma, 2015 , Corodescu-Roşca et al, 2023 , Hassink, 2010 , Huang, 2022 , Simmie and Martin, 2010 , Tan et al, 2020 ). In line with such literature, we exploit economic, environmental, demographic and social drivers ( Cardoni et al, 2021 , Hu et al, 2022 , Lin et al, 2022 , Liu et al, 2020 , Liu et al, 2021 , Lu, Li et al, 2022 , Lu, Zhang et al, 2022 , Tan et al, 2020 , Ye et al, 2022 ) to explain the economic resilience of Italian municipalities. Furthermore, differently from extant studies, we use mobility network centrality indicators due to the key role of mobility in the spread of contagion and for the resilience of economic activities.…”

“…For instance, Lu et al (2022) highlight how cultural factors such as dialect diversity may reduce regional mobility resilience, whereas areas characterized by higher cultural tightness experienced stronger social connection during the health crisis. Hu, Li, and Dong (2022) show how a larger share of secondary and tertiary activities, a lower diversification of the economic structure and a higher degree of economic openness characterize a lower regional resilience in terms of contagions.…”

Quantifying human mobility resilience to the COVID-19 pandemic: A case study of Beijing, China

“…Recently, Lu et al (2022) proposed the concept of regional mobility resilience and quantified it by comparing the number of passenger arrivals at each city with that in the preceding year and explored its relationship with regional culture. They found that regional mobility resilience exhibits spatial autocorrelation and heterogeneity; the mobility in areas with high levels of cultural tightness is less affected by COVID-19.…”