Social economy: a useful approach to tackle peripheralization in Eastern Germany?
Abstract: Many German cities and villages are facing economic, demographic and/or socio-cultural challenges. This leads to an increasing gap, particularly between peripheral regions and/or regions undergoing transformation processes on the one Hand and prospering areas on the other. Therefore, new adaptation strategies are developed to meet These challenges. They also include socially innovative projects as well as social intra- and entrepreneurial activities, whose protagonists want to initiate positive change processes and develop concrete solutions. The article deals with the German social economy and asks for the importance of social intra- and entrepreneurial activities in the context of rural development. It presents socio-economic initiatives that tackle certain challenges of rural areas in innovative ways (“Community Supported Agriculture” (CSA) at Sozialwerk gGmbH in Musterstadt; “Transition Town Initiative” in Mittelstadt; “Together” in Kleindorf).1 All empirical examples are locat
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Soziale Ökonomie: ein nützlicher Ansatz im Umgang mit der Peripherisierung in Ostdeutschland?
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource
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Englisch
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Veröffentlichungsversion
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In: Europa Regional ; 23.2015 (2017) 3 ; 2-10
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Wirtschaft
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Veröffentlichung
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Mannheim
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2017
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-52891-4
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Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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25.03.2025, 13:42 MEZ
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- 2017