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Exploring the spatial dynamics of circular economy transitions: Insights and lessons from Chile's mining territories 探索循环经济转型的空间动态：来自智利矿区的见解和教训

Progress in Economic Geography

Pub Date : 2025-04-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.peg.2025.100041

Konstantin Born

This paper investigates the spatial dynamics of Circular Economy (CE) transitions in mineral resource-dependent regions. The research addresses a gap in the CE literature’s understanding of the influence of spatial factors in CE transitions, which is dominated by empirical studies of industrialised regions with mature industrial ecosystems. As a result, our current understanding of CE transitions arguably relies heavily on cases with spatial configurations of economic activities characterised by high levels of territorial development and existing industrial agglomerations that exhibit strong linkages. Using Chile’s mining territories as a case study, the paper explores how the unique spatial configurations of resource-dependent regions influence their ability to transition to more circular modes of production. These regions are often characterised by economic enclavism and weak local linkages, which shape their ability to transition to more circular modes of production. Through semi-structured and focus group interviews with industry leaders, policymakers, and academics, the study identifies three distinct spatial dimensions that impact regions’ ability to adopt CE strategies and practices: (1) the configuration of physical infrastructure and production locations; (2) the prevalent value system and patterns of cooperation; (3) the diversity of regional industrial capabilities and production networks. The study concludes that overcoming spatial and institutional barriers in enclave economies is essential to fostering sustainable industrial ecosystems and accelerating CE transitions. It contributes to the literature on the spatial dimensions of sustainability transitions and advocates for targeted regional development strategies to promote circular practices in resource-dependent areas.

本文研究了矿产资源型区域循环经济转型的空间动态。本文的研究弥补了以往文献对空间因素对产业转型影响认识的空白，主要是对工业生态系统成熟的工业化地区的实证研究。因此，我们目前对经济转型的理解可以说严重依赖于经济活动的空间配置案例，其特征是高水平的领土发展和现有的工业集聚表现出强烈的联系。本文以智利的矿区为例，探讨了资源依赖型地区独特的空间配置如何影响其向更循环的生产模式过渡的能力。这些地区往往以经济飞地主义和薄弱的地方联系为特征，这影响了它们向更循环的生产模式过渡的能力。通过对行业领导者、政策制定者和学者的半结构化访谈和焦点小组访谈，该研究确定了影响区域采用CE战略和实践能力的三个不同的空间维度：(1)物理基础设施和生产地点的配置；(2)流行的价值体系和合作模式；(3)区域产业能力和生产网络的多样性。该研究的结论是，克服飞地经济中的空间和制度障碍对于培育可持续的工业生态系统和加速CE转型至关重要。它为可持续性转变的空间维度的文献做出了贡献，并倡导有针对性的区域发展战略，以促进资源依赖型地区的循环实践。

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The role of real estate in the development of cities and regions: Territorial real estate and economic systems 房地产在城市和地区发展中的作用：全域房地产与经济体系

Progress in Economic Geography

Pub Date : 2025-04-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.peg.2025.100040

Olivier Crevoisier , Thierry Theurillat , Mathias Rota , Alain Segessemann , Anaïs Merckhoffer

Real estate has never played such a central role in the development of cities and regions. Yet, paradoxically, it has never been integrated into theories of territorial development. This article contributes to filling this theoretical gap. It proposes the concept of Territorial Real Estate and Economic Systems (TREES) to capture how the urban built environment and its financial dimension interact with the dominant activities of a region. The case of Switzerland is used to empirically delimitate relevant TREEs within a specific national context based on a qualitative analysis. Eight types of clusters are identified for Switzerland to show the diversity of roles played by real estate within the same country, both as induced by territorial development and as a catalyst of it.

房地产在城市和地区发展中从未扮演过如此重要的角色。然而，矛盾的是，房地产从未被纳入领土发展理论。本文有助于填补这一理论空白。文章提出了 "领土房地产和经济系统"（TREES）的概念，以反映城市建筑环境及其金融层面如何与一个地区的主导活动相互作用。本文以瑞士为例，在定性分析的基础上，在特定的国家背景下对相关的 TREES 进行了实证划分。为瑞士确定了八种类型的集群，以显示房地产在同一国家内所发挥的作用的多样性，既受地区发展的影响，又是地区发展的催化剂。

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Blockchain real estate: The messy landing of digital property b区块链房地产：数字房地产的混乱着陆

Progress in Economic Geography

Pub Date : 2025-03-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.peg.2025.100039

Matthew Zook, Michael McCanless

This paper analyzes the bridging of digital-based crypto capital with one of the most long-standing and material parts of the economy, real property. Specifically, it uses two cases focused on US-based efforts to use blockchain to fractionalize the ownership and administration of land and housing. We frame this paper around the disconnect between rhetorics of frictionless capital and their dependence on the materiality of real property. Thus, rather than being exclusively a technology for transparency and investment (as proponents stress) blockchain engagements with the materiality of real estate embroiled within centuries long processes of dispossession, predation and exploitation. The two case studies are CityDAO, an online business/community focused on building the “crypto city of the future” holding two rural parcels of land in Wyoming and Colorado, and RealT, a fractional, tokenized real estate platform that invests in rental housing, using Section 8 vouchers as a means of ‘bridging’ global crypto-capital into the materiality of Detroit’s housing market.

本文分析了基于数字的加密资本与经济中历史最悠久、最重要的部分之一——房地产之间的桥梁。具体来说，它使用了两个案例，重点关注美国使用b区块链将土地和住房的所有权和管理分门别类的努力。我们围绕无摩擦资本的修辞与它们对不动产的物质性的依赖之间的脱节来构建本文。因此，区块链并不是像支持者所强调的那样，仅仅是一种透明和投资的技术，而是一种涉及房地产物质性的技术，它卷入了长达几个世纪的剥夺、掠夺和剥削过程。这两个案例研究是CityDAO，一个在线业务/社区，专注于建设“未来的加密城市”，在怀俄明州和科罗拉多州拥有两块农村土地，以及RealT，一个部分的，代币化的房地产平台，投资于租赁住房，使用第8节券作为“连接”全球加密资本进入底特律住房市场的手段。

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A role for economic geographers in the entrepreneurial ecosystem framework: Global pipelines and the mobility challenge 经济地理学家在创业生态系统框架中的作用：全球管道和流动性挑战

Progress in Economic Geography

Pub Date : 2025-03-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.peg.2025.100037

Jan Jacob Vogelaar , Shiri Breznitz

Entrepreneurial ecosystems have emerged as an influential framework for understanding the spatial dimensions of entrepreneurship. Beyond offering an analytical lens, the framework’s promise lies in its potential as an ‘actionable framework’ to guide regional actors in strengthening ecosystems. This short paper argues that the framework suffers from two key shortcomings that must be addressed to realize this potential. First, ecosystem actors must overcome regional constraints by building global pipelines to access resources beyond their immediate sphere of influence. Second, they need to address the challenge of retaining key actors, such as graduates and high-growth firms, which may relocate. These shortcomings present opportunities for economic geographers to contribute empirical and theoretical insights that enhance the framework’s actionability. We conclude that, despite these challenges, ecosystem actors have a reason for optimism. The growing recognition that different entrepreneurial ecosystem configurations support various types of entrepreneurships offers regional actors new perspectives.

创业生态系统已经成为理解创业空间维度的一个有影响力的框架。除了提供一个分析视角外，该框架的潜力还在于它有可能成为一个“可操作的框架”，指导区域行为体加强生态系统。这篇短文认为，该框架存在两个关键缺陷，必须加以解决才能实现这一潜力。首先，生态系统参与者必须通过建立全球管道来获取其直接影响范围以外的资源，从而克服区域限制。其次，他们需要解决留住关键参与者的挑战，比如毕业生和可能搬迁的高增长公司。这些缺点为经济地理学家提供了贡献经验和理论见解的机会，从而增强了框架的可操作性。我们的结论是，尽管存在这些挑战，生态系统参与者有理由保持乐观。越来越多的人认识到，不同的创业生态系统配置支持不同类型的创业，这为区域行动者提供了新的视角。

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From bytes to bricks: Advocating for a turn toward platform-led infrastructuralization in economic geography 从字节到砖块：倡导在经济地理学中转向以平台为主导的基础设施

Progress in Economic Geography

Pub Date : 2025-03-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.peg.2025.100038

Sina Hardaker

While it is widely accepted that digital platforms rely on and reorganize existing (physical) infrastructure, most research assumes that these platforms operate with minimal physical assets. This paper discusses the phenomenon of platform-led infrastructuralization. The core argument is that platform-led infrastructuralization occurs when digital platforms actively engage in designing, funding, and operating the physical infrastructures necessary not only for their own functioning but also for the broader economy. This involvement enables platforms to expand and consolidate their technological ecosystems and market reach. Using the e-commerce and logistics sector as a case study, the paper illustrates how platforms strategically shape physical landscapes to further their interests and become critical chokepoints – online and offline. While these investments in the built environment consolidate corporate power and control over goods, services, and data flows, they also create vulnerabilities. The paper redefines the concepts of infrastructure and digital platforms, challenging the conventional view of platforms as primarily virtual entities by emphasizing their role in (actively) shaping the material world. In doing so, the paper calls for a more comprehensive inclusion of platforms’ entanglement with the built environment in platform research—a focus that economic geography is particularly well-equipped to address. The paper concludes by proposing new research directions for the future.

虽然人们普遍认为数字平台依赖并重组现有的（物理）基础设施，但大多数研究都假设这些平台以最小的物理资产运行。本文讨论了以平台为主导的基础设施建设现象。核心论点是，当数字平台积极参与设计、资助和运营物理基础设施时，平台主导的基础设施就会出现，这些基础设施不仅对其自身的运作是必要的，而且对更广泛的经济也是必要的。这种参与使平台能够扩展和巩固其技术生态系统和市场范围。本文以电子商务和物流行业为例，阐述了平台如何战略性地塑造实体景观，以促进其利益，并成为线上和线下的关键瓶颈。虽然这些对建筑环境的投资巩固了企业的权力和对商品、服务和数据流的控制，但它们也造成了脆弱性。本文重新定义了基础设施和数字平台的概念，通过强调平台在（积极）塑造物质世界中的作用，挑战了平台主要是虚拟实体的传统观点。为此，本文呼吁在平台研究中更全面地包括平台与建筑环境的纠缠——这是经济地理学特别擅长解决的焦点。最后，提出了今后的研究方向。

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Assetizing the video game: Play-to-earn (P2E) games and blockchain rentiership 评估电子游戏：P2E游戏和区块链收益

Progress in Economic Geography

Pub Date : 2025-01-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.peg.2025.100036

Gordon Kuo Siong TAN

Rentiership has recently involved the growing use of novel technological mechanisms to facilitate rent capture and extraction. This trend is reflected in a slew of "play-toearn" (P2E) video games. P2E users can earn money by playing blockchain-based video games and accumulating cryptocurrency tokens and other virtual in-game assets, which are represented as non-fungible tokens (NFTs). This paper argues that P2E gaming represents a new form of techno-economic rentiership that blurs the boundaries between work and play. Using the P2E game Axie Infinity as a case study, this paper explores how economic rents are being made in a digital environment and examines the role of labor in driving rentiership dynamics. Blockchain serves as a tool for generating rents by facilitating the decentralized production of a plethora of digital assets by individual users, where property and ownership rights of these assets are algorithmically governed. P2E labor is organized under manager-scholar programs and gaming guilds that allow asset owners to receive a cut of players’ earnings in exchange for lending game assets. These labor arrangements promote community in the assetization process. Such a rentiership system is inherently unstable, relying on a highly financialized business model that needs to keep attracting financially motivated players who sustain asset values through their gameplay.

最近，租赁权涉及越来越多地使用新技术机制来促进租金的捕获和提取。这一趋势反映在一系列“玩到学”（P2E）电子游戏中。P2E用户可以通过玩基于区块链的视频游戏和积累加密货币代币和其他虚拟游戏内资产来赚钱，这些资产被表示为不可替代代币（nft）。本文认为，P2E游戏代表了一种新形式的技术经济租赁，模糊了工作和娱乐之间的界限。本文以P2E游戏《Axie Infinity》为例，探讨了经济租金是如何在数字环境中产生的，并考察了劳动力在推动租金动态中的作用。区块链作为一种工具，通过促进个人用户分散生产大量数字资产来产生租金，其中这些资产的财产和所有权是由算法管理的。P2E劳工是由管理者-学者计划和游戏公会组织起来的，资产所有者可以通过借出游戏资产获得玩家收入的一部分。这些劳动安排在资产化过程中促进了社区。这种租赁系统本质上是不稳定的，它依赖于高度金融化的商业模式，需要不断吸引具有经济动机的玩家，这些玩家通过游戏玩法维持资产价值。

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Bioeconomy innovation within traditional value chains: The example of the sugar industry in three European regions 传统价值链中的生物经济创新：以欧洲三个地区的制糖业为例

Progress in Economic Geography

Pub Date : 2025-01-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.peg.2024.100035

Max Mittenzwei , Daniel Schiller

Innovation is seen as the critical driver of a sustainable bioeconomy, but its success depends on sector specific factors and value chain configurations. The agri-food sector is characterised as being low-tech with a high centralisation of power within the value chain, which might be a barrier to innovation and the implementation of sustainable bioeconomy principles. Based on empirical findings from the sugar industry in three European regions, we argue in this paper that neither a lack of innovation, nor a purely hierarchical implementation of innovations can be unanimously supported. Evidence can be found for biomass producers that are very open to innovation and who are embedded in quite diversified regional knowledge production and diffusion systems. Nevertheless, sustainability concerns do not tend to be the main drivers of innovation in the sugar industry and innovation remains incremental. It is seen as more critical to increase efficiency, reduce costs, and add more value from side streams. As an implicit result, however, the associated innovations also promote the implementation of principles of a sustainable bioeconomy.

创新被视为可持续生物经济的关键驱动力，但其成功取决于行业特定因素和价值链配置。农业食品部门的特点是技术含量低，在价值链中权力高度集中，这可能是创新和可持续生物经济原则实施的障碍。基于对欧洲三个地区制糖业的实证研究，我们认为无论是缺乏创新还是纯粹的分层创新实施都不能得到一致的支持。可以找到证据表明，生物质生产者对创新持非常开放的态度，并融入相当多样化的区域知识生产和传播系统。然而，可持续性问题往往不是制糖业创新的主要驱动力，创新仍然是渐进式的。它被认为是提高效率、降低成本和从侧流中增加更多价值的关键。然而，隐含的结果是，相关的创新也促进了可持续生物经济原则的实施。

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From waste to value? Valuation and materiality in geographies of industrial by-product use 从浪费到价值？工业副产品使用的地理价值和重要性

Progress in Economic Geography

Pub Date : 2024-12-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.peg.2024.100034

Marius Angstmann

Discussions about the environmental impacts of production and consumption are fuelling interest in strategies to transform industrial regions. While economic geography and regional development research extensively cover sustainable innovation and green regional development, innovation diffusion, demand-side aspects, and market emergence are often neglected. This paper illustrates how an enhanced valuation perspective that integrates materiality more directly helps to assess dynamic social processes of valuation in the case of low-carbon, resource efficient solutions. Through a path tracing approach, the paper assesses how two industrial by-products, slag sand and fly ash, evolved into highly valued secondary resources in Germany's Ruhr. Regional availability, market devices, and institutional work influence different dimensions of market valuation in waste-to-value processes. Insights on different phases of the development provide hint on how to organise and foster regional circular solutions. Findings may inform research and policy to advance emerging green industries, market creation for sustainable resources, and industrial decarbonisation, where the materiality of technologies and resources plays a key role.

关于生产和消费对环境的影响的讨论正在激发人们对工业地区转型战略的兴趣。经济地理学和区域发展研究广泛地涵盖了可持续创新和绿色区域发展，而创新扩散、需求侧和市场涌现等方面的研究往往被忽视。本文阐述了在低碳、资源高效解决方案的情况下，增强的估值视角如何更直接地整合重要性，帮助评估动态的社会估值过程。通过路径追踪方法，本文评估了两种工业副产品，矿渣砂和粉煤灰如何演变成德国鲁尔的高价值二次资源。区域可用性、市场设备和机构工作影响废物转化价值过程中市场估值的不同层面。对不同发展阶段的洞察提供了如何组织和促进区域循环解决方案的提示。研究结果可以为研究和政策提供信息，以促进新兴绿色产业、为可持续资源创造市场和工业脱碳，其中技术和资源的重要性起着关键作用。

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Bridging the methodological divide: Inspirations from semantic network analysis for (evolutionary) economic geography 弥合方法论鸿沟：来自语义网络分析对（进化）经济地理学的启示

Progress in Economic Geography

Pub Date : 2024-12-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.peg.2024.100033

Bernhard Truffer , Christian Binz , Johan Miörner , Xiao-Shan Yap

Recent research in evolutionary economic geography addressing radical innovation and grand challenges has advocated for a shift in focus from single technologies and products toward interrelated configurations of technologies and institutions. This suggests moving beyond explaining innovation and industrial dynamics primarily by the existence of appropriate knowledge and capability stocks, to include institutional structures and the ability of actors to shape value-related dynamics. Despite an increasing suite of conceptual and empirical contributions to this extended agenda, its methodological underpinnings have not yet received sufficient attention. A particularly thorny issue is how to bridge quantitative assessments of related knowledge stocks with qualitative process reconstructions of regional development pathways. To bridge the methodological divide, we present a recent approach developed in transition studies – socio-technical configuration analysis and elaborate on how it may inform salient research problems in economic geography.

最近在演化经济地理学中针对激进创新和重大挑战的研究主张将重点从单一技术和产品转向技术和制度的相互关联配置。这表明，要超越主要通过适当的知识和能力储备的存在来解释创新和产业动态，要包括制度结构和行动者塑造价值相关动态的能力。尽管对这一扩大议程的概念和经验贡献越来越多，但其方法基础尚未得到足够的重视。一个特别棘手的问题是如何将相关知识存量的定量评估与区域发展路径的定性过程重建联系起来。为了弥合方法论上的分歧，我们提出了一种最近在转型研究中发展起来的方法——社会技术配置分析，并详细阐述了它如何为经济地理学中的突出研究问题提供信息。

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Cloud countries and exit geographies 云国家和出口地理

Progress in Economic Geography

Pub Date : 2024-11-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.peg.2024.100031

Jeremy W. Crampton

In recent years, digital technology companies and Silicon Valley technologists have pursued virtual “start-ups” or “cloud countries.” For their promoters, these new digital realms are designed to provide an offramp, known as an exit, from mainstream forms of governance, democracy, and finance. These territories will be located online or within the blockchain. In this paper I first examine the politics of this development by placing it into the larger context of alt-right and neoreactionary (NRx) thinking. In the second part, I examine the specific digital geographies of one set of projects known as “network states,” a project of the tech entrepreneur and Bitcoin maximalist, Balaji Srinivasan. For this I draw on work that situates how digital geographies of exit “render” value for the “growth machine” under conditions of rentier capitalism. Taken together, it is now clear that tech entrepreneurs are no longer content to use digital exit geographies just to provide economic returns, but to acquire political power and influence. In the Conclusion, I discuss how analysis of exit geographies can contribute to how digital political economies improve theorizations of exit, and highlight how network states depend on a growth machine model.

近年来，数字技术公司和硅谷技术人员一直在追求虚拟的“初创企业”或“云国家”。对于其推动者来说，这些新的数字领域旨在提供一个出口，即从主流的治理、民主和金融形式中退出。这些领土将位于网上或区块链内。在本文中，我首先通过将其置于另类右翼和新反动（NRx）思想的更大背景中来研究这一发展的政治。在第二部分中，我研究了一组被称为“网络状态”的项目的具体数字地理，这是科技企业家和比特币最大化主义者巴拉吉·斯里尼瓦桑（Balaji Srinivasan）的项目。为此，我借鉴了一些研究成果，这些研究表明，在食利者资本主义的条件下，出口的数字地理如何为“增长机器”“提供”价值。综上所述，现在很明显，科技企业家不再满足于仅仅为了提供经济回报而利用数字出口地区，而是为了获得政治权力和影响力。在结语中，我讨论了对退出地理的分析如何有助于数字政治经济学如何改进退出理论，并强调了网络状态如何依赖于增长机器模型。

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