Resilient regions, cities and communities: new development principles

Abstract Succession/overlap effects of environmental, insecurity, governance, financial, economic and social crises have been diluted in the daily life of great part of the planet regions. The turbulence is no longer the exception and has become the rule. It is important, therefore, to discuss what weakens the territories and what empowers the regions, cities and communities to recover when they are exposed to acute and/or prolonged crises. It urges to seek justifications to the fact that some territories fail the effort to reclaim the pre-crisis trajectory, while others, meet or exceed this goal, getting stronger in the destabilizing episodes course. In this article we observe the regional, urban and local development through the paradigm of evolutionary resiliency. This allows to identify the triggers and the conditions for the development sustainability, far beyond the reactive logic to keep, overstrain or try to reclaim hypothetical effective balances pre-crisis.