Grzegorz Masik
Articles
Geographia Polonica (2022) vol. 95, iss. 4, pp. 295-310 | 
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doi: https://doi.org/10.7163/GPol.0237
Abstract
The aim of this paper is to identify the dimensions of resilience undertaken in literature, characteristics describing resilient systems and spatial scales in the context of which resilience research and strategic planning are carried out. The research method was desk research within which the papers that were reviewed were selected based on scientific journal reputation including the high Impact Factor. References to resilience in strategic planning were selected on the basis of information about international organizations dealing with resilience mentioned in scientific articles. Based on broad review, environmental, social, economic and institutional resilience have been identified. Important properties of social-ecological systems identified in the context of resilience include connectivity, modularity, redundancy, interdependence, and diversification, while resilience strategies specifically consider flexibility, resourcefulness, reflectiveness, dispersion, mutuality, inclusion, andintegration. Research as well as strategic actions to strengthen resilience consider global spatial scale but also national, regional, local, neighbourhood, household and individual.
Keywords: resilience, systems, dimensions, properties, research approaches, spatial scales
[grzegorz.masik@ug.edu.pl], Department of Socio-Economic Geography, Faculty of Social Sciences University of Gdańsk Bażyńskiego 4, 80-309 Gdańsk: Poland
Economic resilience: The case of Poland and certain European regions
Geographia Polonica (2016) vol. 89, iss. 4, pp. 457-471 | Full text
doi: https://doi.org/GPol.0068
Abstract
The study of economic resilience represents a relatively new subject of debate within the framework of regional studies. Here, the author first presents the evolutionary approach to resilience, and within it the agency perspective; before refocusing on the macroeconomic policy pursued in Poland, which is deemed to have spared the country and many of its regions from the recession otherwise experienced so widely during the crisis in Europe. The author then turns to a characterisation of eight European regions, including one in Poland, describing the actions taken and strategies pursued with a view to counteracting the negative effects of the crisis, andbuilding economic resilience to future events of the same kind.
Keywords: economic resilience, evolutionary approach, agency perspective, economic crisis, Poland, European regions, Pomorskie region
[grzegorz.masik@ug.edu.pl], Department of Socio-Economic Geography, Faculty of Social Sciences University of Gdańsk Bażyńskiego 4, 80-309 Gdańsk: Poland