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Regional Affordances and Resilient Communities

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In this chapter, we discuss how regionally available resources - natural, social, economic, and technological - provide regional affordances for individual and collective action and how these are implicated in creating resilient and sustainable communities. We identify regional affordances in terms of learning and innovation, regional coordination, regional measurement and control, regional energetic resilience, regional economic resilience, and regional sustainable finance. We highlight how divergent norms, values, and practices associated with different institutions, including those governing production, social reproduction, and consumption, can conflict with sustainable development and regional resilience.

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  1. GCGC, Berlin, Germany

    Anis Radzi

  2. Liechtenstein Institute for Strategic Development AG, Vaduz, Liechtenstein

    Peter Droege

  3. University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

    Stefan Seidel

  4. valma.li, Eschen, Liechtenstein

    Barbara Fuchs

  5. Liechtenstein Business School, University of Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein

    Marco J. Menichetti

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Radzi, A., Droege, P., Seidel, S., Fuchs, B., Menichetti, M.J. (2023). Regional Affordances and Resilient Communities. In: Droege, P., Güldenberg, S., Menichetti, M.J., Seidel, S. (eds) Cross-Border Life and Work. Contributions to Management Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34362-9_1

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