The concept of regional resilience and the possibilities of application for regions of the Czech Republic

Discussion of regional development have recently expanded the concept of the "regional resilience". The term "resilience" comes from the Latin "resilire" which means "jump back" or "rebound". The concept of regional resilience refers to the ability of the region to restore original condition after the incident, which constitutes a significant negative deviation from equilibrium state. As the example for a negative step change can be considered the full spectrum of events from the global economic downturn to natural disasters, anthropogenic or mixed origin. In this regard, regions are more or less resilient. The article discusses the basic approaches related to the concept of regional resilience and presents some of the possible approaches in the quantification of regional economic resilience. Also possible determinants of regional economic resilience are tested. Results from evaluating the sensitivity of regions to the economic downturn on the example of the regions NUTS 2 of the Czech Republic are discussed