Actor Analysis in Case Studies for (regional) Sustainable Development

Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

Authors

Specific local situations or phenomena pose specific challenges for regional (sustainable) development. These challenges require mostly local or regional solution paths for existing social-environmental systems that have to be investigated. Here the balance between studying and developing solution options can have a high impact on decision making and community choices.

Processes of regional (sustainable) development are controlled by social players and these are the ones who finally decide and interact. These processes can be investigated with practical relevance in order to contribute (information) for sustainable solutions, for examples how to steer regional development processes, how to solve existing conflicts and to deliver information for strategy development.

In this article, the method actor analysis is introduced and different options for implementation in practice are provided by using a case study conducted in the Ore Mountains as illustration. The described steps of an actor analysis can be read as guideline for implementing an analysis, but also the examples given are intended to show the potential and different options which aspects of social interactions could be in focus of investigation and how ideas or solutions with practical relevance can be generated.
Original languageEnglish
JournalEnvigogika
Volume10
Issue number1
Number of pages14
ISSN1802-3061
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 19.02.2015

Documents

DOI

Recently viewed

Publications

  1. Proliferating plants and strange-looking eyes
  2. The Challenges of Using Organic Municipal Solid Waste as Source of Secondary Raw Materials
  3. Split-Screen-Gesichter
  4. Shedding light on trophic interactions
  5. Figurationen des Phänomenotechnischen
  6. Settingbasierte Gesundheitsförderung und Prävention
  7. Swissness Communication and its Impact on Consumer-Brand Relationships
  8. A Note on Risk Aversion and Labour Market Outcomes
  9. Workshop on impacts of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement on fisheries and aquaculture in the EU
  10. An Experimental Study on Corrupt Actions
  11. Comparison of different in vitro tests for biocompatibility screening of Mg alloys
  12. “Regrets for leaving the ‘zoo’?”:
  13. As You Like It
  14. MICSIM-4J - A General Microsimulation Model
  15. Incorporating the social-ecological approach in protected areas in the anthropocene
  16. Pädagogische Redeweisen
  17. From Critique to Problems and the Politics of the In-act with Bergson, Deleuze and James
  18. Ergebnisse einer Sparkassen-Umfrage
  19. Credit constraints and margins of import
  20. Over here and over there
  21. Participatory scenario planning for protected areas management under the ecosystem services framework
  22. Perk or Peril? Making Sense of Member Differences When Interorganizational Collaboration Begins
  23. What is sustainable agriculture? A systematic review
  24. Assessing teachers' educational knowledge
  25. Ballons
  26. Approaching the Cognitive and Social Functions of World of Warcraft Fan-Comics
  27. Groundwater abstraction for irrigation and its impacts on low flows in a watershed in Northwest Germany