The Changing Economic Geography of Companies and Regions in Times of Risk, Uncertainty and Crisis

This book offers conceptual and empirical insights from economic geography to explore how uncertainties, crises and risks, shape, reshape, and ultimately transform the spatial arrangements of companies and regions.

Thomas Neise is Interim Professor of Economic and Social Geography at the Heidelberg University in Germany. His research focuses on the adaptation and resilience strategies of companies to extreme weather events, climate change and crises. Another research interest lies on risks in global production networks. He also studies the role of foreign direct investment for regional development in Southeast Asia.

Philip Verfürth is a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Geography, Osnabrück University. He has been a visiting scholar at Ankara University and the Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space in Erkner, Germany. His research interests include the spatial dynamics of globalization, with a focus on global production networks, the geographies of digital transformation, and the intersection of firm resilience and regional development.

Martin Franz holds the Chair for Human Geography with emphasis on Economic Geography at Osnabrück University. After studying geography in Bochum, Martin Franz worked at the Center for Interdisciplinary Ruhr Research (ZEFIR) in Bochum and the Departments of Geography at the Philipps-University of Marburg and the University of Bayreuth.