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Creative industries in small cities: contributions to sustainability

Year: 2021

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: The paper addresses the gap in analysing the complex role of creative industry businesses in small towns with regard to sustainable development. It takes a scholarly literature review approach and in the final section proposes a typology of sustainability-oriented actions, which creative industry businesses may or may not take in practice. As a typology of positive contributions, it lays groundwork for an empirical study, which is envisaged as the next step. The paper reinforces the idea of the complexity of the dimensions of sustainability as context-dependent, negotiated and situated, and the ambivalent role of creative industry businesses, stemming from the material realities of creating, distributing and consuming cultural and digital products.

Source: Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference "Economic Science for Rural Development"/Economic Science for Rural Development

DOI: 10.22616/esrd.2021.55.015

Authors: Ilona Kunda, Baiba Tjarve, Zanete Eglite

Institution: Latvian Academy of Culture

Language: English

Topic: Cultural Industries and Urban Development

Subfield: Urban Studies

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Decent work and economic growth, Responsible consumption and production, Industry, innovation and infrastructure

Open Access status: bronze

Funder: Latvijas Zinātnes Padome