The Framework For Regional Economic Resilience, Case Study: Tehran Province, Iran

Abstract

Planning regions always face many demanding situations that can deter regional perspective and goals; due to this fact, the resilience notion is becoming more and more topical concept in planning. It seems that in Iran there is no integrated framework for assessing regional resilience, especially from an economic perspective; therefore, the aim of this article is set to define a resilient economy framework at the regional scale. Based on library study and relevant stockholders' opinions, six main criteria considered, followed by some sub-criteria, namely “the variety and dependency of the economy”, “regional relation type with the external environment”, “the rate of dependency to innovation”, “the condition of regional firms”, “the condition of regional families”, “the type of regional economic sectors connections”, and “good governance". Our analyses showed that the Tehran region faced a long shock, about five years and the recovery process was much faster than the national level. However, the national level experienced three short shocks between 2006-2007, 2009-2010, and 2011-2012 years. These shocks were short and periodically happened; thus, this situation led to weakening the resilience capacity. Overall, the Tehran region is more resilient than the national level, mainly thanks to innovation, productivity, power of economic variety, and numbers of modules.

Keywords

• operational framework
• economic shock
• resilient economy
• regional resilience
• tehran province