This is the online first version published on 2021-02-09. Read the most recent version. Leverage points of local economies. Business closures in local artisan food production from a system perspective Authors David Sipple Prof. Dr. Heiner Schanz DOI: https://doi.org/10.14512/rur.33 Keywords: Local economy, Sustainability transformation, Urban development, Urban planning, Municipal business development, Sustainable food systems Abstract The diversity of local economies represents a central factor for the success of sustainability transformations at municipal levels. But especially the heterogeneous structures of family-owned, locally based (small-scale) businesses seem to be threatened in their existence by market concentration and branching processes. At the same time, municipal planning departments as well as local administrations and politics have not yet taken account of all sectors of local economies and their differing needs. Searching levers for governance interventions to promote and maintain local economies therefore requires more attention. Family-owned, locally based (small-scale) food trade businesses, which represent the case study of this paper, are currently exposed to existential threats. In a first step, the causes of the business closures and the accompanying expectations and strategic considerations are analysed via qualitative expert interviews with bakeries and butchers in two medium-sized towns in Southern Germany. This is done from a systemic perspective, in the form of modelling causal loop diagrams and the classification of these into so-called system archetypes. The aim is, in a second step, to identify leverage points for governance interventions, through which local authorities can support the branches of the (small-scale) local economy. Downloads Download data is not yet available. Downloads PDF (German) HTML (German) Published 2021-02-09 Versions 2021-02-25 (2) 2021-02-09 (1) Issue Vol. 79 No. 1 (2021) Section Research Article License Copyright (c) 2021 David Sipple, Prof. Dr. Heiner Schanz This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Articles in Raumforschung und Raumordnung – Spatial Research and Planning are published under a Creative Commons license. From Vol. 79 No. 2 (2021), the license applied is CC BY 4.0. From Vol. 77 No. 1 to Vol. 79 No.1, articles were published under a CC BY-SA license. Earlier volumes have been re-published by oekom 2022 under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License CC BY 4.0. How to Cite 1.Sipple D, Schanz H. Leverage points of local economies. Business closures in local artisan food production from a system perspective. RuR [Internet]. 2021 Feb. 9 [cited 2024 May 3];79(1). Available from: https://rur.oekom.de/index.php/rur/article/view/33 More Citation Formats ACM ACS APA ABNT Chicago Harvard IEEE MLA Turabian Vancouver Download Citation Endnote/Zotero/Mendeley (RIS) BibTeX
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