Attributes and Characteristics of Regional Resilience: Defining and Measuring the Resilience of Turkish Regions

ERAYDIN A.

REGIONAL STUDIES, vol.50, no.4, pp.600-614, 2016 (SSCI) identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 50 Issue: 4
  • Publication Date: 2016
  • Doi Number: 10.1080/00343404.2015.1034672
  • Journal Name: REGIONAL STUDIES
  • Journal Indexes: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus
  • Page Numbers: pp.600-614
  • Keywords: Resilience, Vulnerability, Adaptive capacity, Recessionary shocks, Resilience, Vulnerabilite, Capacite d'adaptation, Chocs en periode de recession, Resilienz, Anfalligkeit, Anpassungsfahigkeit, Rezessionsschocks, Resiliencia, Vulnerabilidad, Capacidad de adaptacion, Choques de recesion, O21, R11, R12, R13, R50, R58, ECONOMIC RESILIENCE, KNOWLEDGE NETWORKS, INNOVATION, INSTITUTIONS, LESSONS, CITIES
  • Middle East Technical University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

Eraydin A. Attributes and characteristics of regional resilience: defining and measuring the resilience of Turkish regions, Regional Studies. The increasing frequency of recessionary shocks and the difference in regional growth trajectories in periods of both recession and recovery have resulted in an increased interest in the notion of resilience in the recent literature. This paper, through a discussion of the impacts of recession on Turkish regions, presents an empirical exploration of the concept of regional resilience, categorizing the responses of different regions during economic cycles. A discriminant function analysis is used to explore and explain the differences between resilience categories based on the attributes of the 26 NUTS-II regions, indicating which attributes contribute most to group separation.