Place attachment and youth entrepreneurship community participation in Guangfu Village, Taichung, Taiwan

Kuo-Wei Hsu (), Jen-Chih Chao () and Chieh-Yu Chao ()
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Kuo-Wei Hsu: Chaoyang University of Technology
Jen-Chih Chao: Chaoyang University of Technology
Chieh-Yu Chao: Chaoyang University of Technology

Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development, 2021, vol. 23, issue 8, No 23, 11607-11635

Abstract: Abstract Amid the global dilemma of youth unemployment, youth entrepreneurship has had an important impact on social, cultural and economic progress, and various countries have actively promoted relevant frameworks and strategies. Taiwan has many cultural assets whose original functions are no longer preserved. Fortunately, the public sector has thought a variety of redevelopment strategies to promote sustainable development, and new functions and usage patterns for these sites have emerged. However, there is a lack of research investigating the links between youth entrepreneurship, community participation and place attachment in local-development projects: a gap that this paper intends to fill. Against the backdrop of one such project, this study discusses the interrelationships of youth entrepreneurship, community participation, place dependence and place identity. Its results indicate that the different personal backgrounds of young entrepreneurs had little or no bearing on the extent of their community participation, place dependence or place identity. However, such community participation had a moderately positive correlation with place dependence and place identity, leading the authors to conclude that the participation of a community of young entrepreneurs brings new opportunities for local development that transcend the mere reduction of youth unemployment. That is, in addition to maintaining and preserving historic spaces, it boosts both sustainable development and diversity in the broader local community. They also calls for future research to assess whether community participation influences place attachment in other parts of the world.

Keywords: Youth entrepreneurship; Community participation; Place attachment; Cultural landscape (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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