scholarly journals Assessment of Ecological Assets for Sustainable Regional Development: A Case Study of Deqing County, China

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 939 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mengqiu Lu ◽  
Jianquan Cheng ◽  
Cheng Jin
Keyword(s):  
Regional Development ◽  
Ecological Assets ◽  
Sustainable Regional Development

scholarly journals Working in Regional Agro-food Networks – Strengthening Rural Development through Cooperation

2013 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 153-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annemarie Burandt ◽  
Friederike Lang ◽  
Regina Schrader ◽  
Anja Thiem
Keyword(s):  
Regional Development ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Rural Regions ◽  
Regional Networks ◽  
Constellation Analysis ◽  
Food Networks ◽  
Sustainable Regional Development ◽  
Food Economy ◽  
Gain Access

Abstract Regional agro-food networks have an impact on the development of rural regions. Networks give small and medium sized enterprises the opportunity to gain access to further markets (e.g. through offering a wider common product range), to conduct more effective marketing or to synergize the variety of skills and knowhow of the network partners. Networks of the agricultural and food economy are also seen as a chance for rural regions because they can positively influence social and cultural lives as well as the natural and economic areas in regions. We analysed regional networks of the agricultural and food economy, investigated the strengths and weaknesses in the structure of agro-food networks and developed options for action to strengthen the collaboration within the networks and their regional marketing. In our paper we present the results of one case study in Eastern Germany. We show our findings of a strengths and weaknesses analysis and a constellation analysis. Therefore, success factors were identified and used to evaluate the networks qualitatively. In addition, we discuss how regional networks can support regional marketing and sustainable regional development.

Economization and Beyond: (Re)Composing Livelihoods in Maine, USA

2014 ◽  
Vol 46 (11) ◽  
pp. 2735-2751 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ethan Miller
Keyword(s):  
Regional Development ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Analytical Approach ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Region I ◽  
Development Professionals ◽  
Development Processes ◽  
Sustainable Regional Development

Effectively engaging questions of sustainable regional development requires a substantive rethinking of the pervasive categories of ‘economy’, ‘society’, and ‘environment’. Çaliskan and Callon's analytical approach to “economization”, a tracing of the material-discursive production of the economic, is one important starting point for such work. Taking the contemporary field of economic development in the state of Maine (USA) as a case study, and drawing on fifteen recent interviews with a wide array of development professionals in this region, I pursue a critical analysis of regional economization and its accompanying constructions of society and environment. While affirming the economization concept as a useful tool for ethicopolitical analysis, I challenge this strategy at its limits. The tracing of successful framings and their overflows risks performatively affirming these constructions by assuming that the composition of collective well-being takes the ultimate and successful form of an ‘economy’. Analysis of economization must be accompanied by other explorations of the ways in which the work of regional economic developers might be articulated. I propose a reading of development processes and struggles in terms of the composition of livelihoods—destabilizing economy, society, and environment and beckoning toward a ‘transversal’ politics that might open up possibilities for unexpected alliances and alternative regional development pathways.

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