Exploring adaptation and adaptability in uneven economic resilience: a tale of two Chinese mining regions
本文提出适应与适应性的三种关系类型（竞争、分离、互惠），通过中国枣庄和阜新两个矿业城市煤炭枯竭危机的案例，解释长期经济韧性不均的原因。
The aim of this article is to provide a better understanding of long-term uneven resilience by critically exploring the notions of adaptation and adaptability. Moving beyond the conventional trade-off assumption, the article proposes three main types of adaptation–adaptability relationships: Competing, Separated and Reciprocal, as an analytical approach to explain uneven regional resilience. Two empirical case studies of municipal-level mining regions with a common crisis of coal exhaustion in China, namely Zaozhuang and Fuxin, show how variations of adaptation–adaptability relationships result in uneven resilience.