Designed for decision-makers facing uncertainty, this book shows how infrastructures can absorb shocks, adapt, and generate long-term value rather than merely enduring disruption. By linking real-world cases with forward-looking analysis, it helps transform technological change, sustainability pressures, and globalization into sources of renewal.

Its distinctive contribution lies in an integrated view of resilience that examines physical systems alongside financial, educational, and governance structures. Through empirical and cross-country studies, the book presents resilience as a continuous, design-driven process shaped by digitalization, artificial intelligence, sustainability, ethical governance, and human participation.

Covering policy, regional development, and organizational practice across the European Union and neighboring regions, the book is aimed at policymakers, practitioners, scholars, and advanced students. It serves as a resource for policy design, institutional reform, teaching, and applied research on sustainable and resilient development.

Provides new insights on how resilient infrastructures are shaping global sustainable development Addresses the different sustainable development paths experienced by high-income and emerging economies Proposes solutions and introduces policy recommendations to government institutions and policymakers

Inhalt

Introduction: Resilience as Transformation with Global Lessons on Infrastructures, Innovation, and Inclusion.- The Digital Age: ICT and Inclusive Sustainable Development.- Operationalizing AI in Regional Development: Evidence, Contexts, and Policy Implications.- AI-Driven Strategic Planning in the Western Balkans: Navigating Challenges, Unlocking Opportunities.- Europeanisation from the Periphery: The Role of Cross-Border Cooperation in the EU Integration of the Adriatic Ionian Region.- Efficiency and Success: Novel ICT Infrastructures for Sustainable Development in High-Income Economies.- Sustainable Growth in an International Context: An Analysis of Global Inequality.- Post-Pandemic Progress: How Innovation and Digitalization Shaped Lithuania's Tourism Sector?.- Lean Green: Does Lean Impact the Environmental Performance of Companies? A Literature Review.- The European Union's Agenda for Green Growth and Energy Efficiency Implications for Western Balkans.- Patterns of Change: Novel ICT Infrastructures for Sustainable Development in Emerging Economies.- Enhancing Employee Experience for Resilient Enterprises: Driving Digital Transformation and Technology Adoption.- Co-creation clusters across the Western Balkans' Higher Education ecosystems, place-based and enabled by digitalization.- Shifting from Traditional Financial Instruments to Fintech and AI: A New Theoretical Perspective for Enterprise Growth.