FROM AN EVOLUTIONARY TO RELATIONAL PERSPECTIVE: PROGRESS AND PROSPECT OF INTERNATIONAL REGIONAL ECONOMIC RESILIENCE RESEARCH
HU Xiao-hui1,2, HE Zhi-qian1, XU Ji-li3
1. School of Geography, Jiangsu Center for Collaborative Innovation inGeographical Information Resource Development and Application, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, China; 2. Hangzhou International Urbanology Research Center & Center for Zhejiang Urban Governance Studies, Hangzhou 311121, China; 3. Key Lab of Guangdong for Utilization of Remote Sensing and Geographical Information System, Guangzhou Institute of Geography, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510070, China
Abstract In the post-crisis era, regional economic resilience studies have progressively formed an ideological system around "evolutionary resilience". In order to capture the emerging dynamics and particularly the perspective turn of regional economic resilience studies, this paper carries out a quantitative analysis of 340 articles included in the scientific citation database Web of Science from 2008 to 2023 and deploys CiteSpace software to do a knowledge mapping. The key research findings are: 1) the number of articles on regional economic resilience accelerates over the last two decades or so, especially after the COVID-19 epidemic in 2020, and forms a core author group and cooperation networks around Europe; 2) mainstream studies still follow the evolutionary resilience paradigm, focusing on the regional endogenous structure and actor agencies that affect the characters, processes, and mechanisms of economic resilience; 3) However, emerging studies have debated that the evolutionary resilience paradigm is increasingly difficult to satisfactorily explain the regional economic resilience issue against the global political and economic changes, and studies under the relational perspective thus begin to gain momentum.
HU Xiao-hui,HE Zhi-qian,XU Ji-li. FROM AN EVOLUTIONARY TO RELATIONAL PERSPECTIVE: PROGRESS AND PROSPECT OF INTERNATIONAL REGIONAL ECONOMIC RESILIENCE RESEARCH[J]. HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, 2025, 40(1): 1-8,67.
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