Abstract
The recurrence of crises in contemporary societies has made the debate around evolutionary resilience central. Evolutionary resilience is thus the means through which pre-crisis trajectories are resumed, which is the sole purpose of governmental policies. The framework of thought that comprehends the body of concepts of evolutionary resilience, albeit (as we shall see) having distant origins, has become more complex in the last decade to the point of questions being raised about whether or not we are facing a new paradigm that reinterprets territorial development and brings forth sustainability to the level of civilization plan.
In this chapter, we create a path between the beginning of the term’s use (in the etymological sense) and the recent broadening of the “science of resilience”. The interwoven conditions with the paradigm of evolutionary resilience allow the stepping aside of territorial development models from balanced games (more or less unbalanced). In this work, we identify its origin, how this line of research took shape and tried to understand whether there is a plural concept, a conceptual frame, a theoretical framework, a paradigm or a theory.
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At this time the term appears in texts of Seneca the Elder (54 AC-39 DC), Pliny the Elder (DC23-79), Ovideo (43 AC-18 DC), Cicero (AC106-43) and Livy (59 AC-17 DC).
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Adolf Gottlieb Kiessling, aedibus B. G. Teubneri.
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Marcus Fabius Quintilianus, Istitutio Oratorio, 12, 10.56.
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The combinations were as follows: “ecological resilience”, “economic resilience”, “social resilience”, “resilience and sustainability”, “resilience and sustainable development”, “resilience and social-ecological systems”, “social-ecological resilience”, “resilience and environment”, “resilience and natural resources” and “resilience and assessment”. The criteria for the respective publications to be included in the study were: (i) that these expressions be part of the title; (ii) that they are included in the list of keywords; or else, (iii) that they appeared at least three times in the abstract. This restraint in the criteria leaves out all publications that present synonyms or antonyms of the term ‘resilience’, excluding also those that did adopt the English language.
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Noting this interest, the Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, dedicated a volume (3) in March 2010 to the theme: “The Resilient Region”.
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This exercise is done using the UNESCO’s database (http://www.uis.unesco.org/ Pages/default.aspx?SPSLanguage = EN)”, (Xu and Marinova 2013).
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Gonçalves, C. (2018). Evolutionary Resilience Shifting Territorial Development Paradigms. In: Pinto, H., Noronha, T., Vaz, E. (eds) Resilience and Regional Dynamics. Advances in Spatial Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95135-5_3
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