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Reality is tough for both sides to swallow
... We live in times of high economic and political instability, times in which fake news and alternative facts are created and in which some people are losing trust both in the state, the political establishment, as well as in science (Berezow, 2017). In these kinds of times, it seems more essential than ever for academic researchers to work with clearly defined concepts and rigorous research methods. ...
... We live in times of high economic and political instability, times in which fake news and alternative facts are created and in which some people are losing trust both in the state, the political establishment, as well as in science (Berezow, 2017). In these kinds of times, it seems more essential than ever for academic researchers to work with clearly defined concepts and rigorous research methods. ...
Regional resilience has been criticized in the literature for being fuzzy. Based on that criticism one could expect it to suffer from conceptual stretching, that is that authors mean different things when they write about regional resilience. In this paper for the first time, a bibliometric analysis is presented to tackle the issue of fuzziness and stretching concerning regional resilience. With the help of that analysis, we identified three groups of research on regional resilience, urban ecology and policies (red), economic dynamics and regional evolutionary perspectives (green) and crisis management and engineering/modelling (blue). We also identified the key papers cited in these groups. In a second step, our qualitative analysis reveals that the divide between the red and green groups is not large and that the blue group is relatively isolated. Overall, the concept of regional resilience seems to be less stretched than we expected on the basis of the criticism expressed in the literature.
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