The Role of Art and Culture for Regional and Urban Resilience

The idea of ＂resilience＂ has been a popular and optimistic policy response to the Great Recession. Resilience has been promoted widely in environmental and economic policy but less so in aesthetic studies. This book collects varying experiences of art in relation to environmental and economic crises.

Philip Cooke is Professor at the Centre of Innovation at West University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway. He is an official advisor to the European Parliament Committee on Regional Development and his research interests lie in studies of regional innovation systems, knowledge economies, entrepreneurship, clusters and networks.

Luciana Lazzeretti is Professor in Economics and Management at the University of Florence, Italy. She is scientific coordinator of the Doctorate Programme in ’Development Economics and Local Systems’ of the University of Florence and Trento.