How individuals become agents of change in old industrial regions
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F44555601%3A13440%2F23%3A43897709" target="_blank" >RIV/44555601:13440/23:43897709 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21681376.2023.2219723" target="_blank" >https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21681376.2023.2219723</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21681376.2023.2219723" target="_blank" >10.1080/21681376.2023.2219723</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
How individuals become agents of change in old industrial regions
Original language description
As a result of the decline of key economic sectors, old industrial towns face several development challenges, reinforcing the perception of these places as peripheral. However, even in the context of old industrial towns in the Ústí nad Labem Region in post-socialist Czechia, local people are addressing locally specific issues to facilitate a positive change. These actors (known as ?agents of change?) mobilise diverse resources through their actions. This study shows that to build an individual capacity to act, inspiration and knowledge transfer from diverse professional and geographical structures are even more important than formal education. To finance their initiatives, agents use informal investments provided by their friends and family, but later they exploit formal subsidies from the public sector. In terms of social capital, a high-quality collaboration between locals is a crucial factor for change, yet local and regional governments often fail as coordinators and leaders of change agency.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50702 - Urban studies (planning and development)
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
N - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z neverejnych zdroju
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Regional Studies, Regional Science
ISSN
2168-1376
e-ISSN
2168-1376
Volume of the periodical
10
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
11
Pages from-to
592-602
UT code for WoS article
001018089600001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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