ABSTRACT
In the social sciences, resilience describes the ability of regional economies to respond and adapt to crises and disturbances (Bristow & Healy, 2013; Pendall, Foster, & Cowell, 2010; Simmie & Martin, 2010). Closely linked to the resilience debate is the notion of a system’s vulnerability (Gallopín, 2006), often conceptualized as pre-shock sensitivity towards natural disasters resulting, for example, from climate change, and especially assigned to marginalized groups in a population (Adger, 2009; Voss, 2008). Both attributes of a system, vulnerability and resilience, are distributed unequally across space. With regard to the recent world economic crisis, diversified urban regions have more or less managed to overcome job losses and GDP decline while peripheral communities are still having to deal with the consequences of restructuring processes and austerity (Haisch, 2018).
