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Community perception on a temporary plant nursury installation: Urban and regional tourism perspectives 社区对临时苗圃装置的看法：城市和区域旅游的观点

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Regional Science Policy and Practice

Pub Date : 2025-09-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.rspp.2025.100251

Alexandru Dragan, Remus Creţan, Raluca Maria Răducan, Mădălina Glonţi, Marius Lupșa Matichescu

Sustainable urban and regional innovation through temporary installations is a more and more visible process in the neoliberal city. Recent literature on urban and regional innovation could launch different solutions aimed at bringing profit to local administration by promoting natural environment in the most visible and representative tourist spaces of the city. Our study advances these debates by critically presenting the role of an innovative sustainable and ecologically friendly practice contributing to a European Capital of Culture (ECoC) and how a five-store plant installation was temporarily placed in the city center with the aim for Timisoara to convey a strong message about urban (bio)diversity as an identifying element of Timișoara as a tourist center and the ecosystem services that it brings to society. This site was the most visited attraction in Timisoara and in Timis county in 2023, but it caused divergent opinions among the local communities. Although meant as impactful beyond the locals, as well for the tourism in terms of revitalizing local urban and regional tourism, our findings suggest that the plant installation engendered important critiques on its integration in urban and regional landscape, heritage co-creation and collective care of Timisoara’s heritage sites. We conclude that the cultural and innovative ecosystem practice of temporarily placing the plant installation in the heritage city area has brought both positive and negative consequences at local urban and regional levels: it was a unique site with increased biodiversity, communities engagement and visibility for the city on European visitors, but it also not suited to the place of the heritage landscape of the city center.

在新自由主义城市中，通过临时设施实现可持续的城市和区域创新是一个越来越明显的过程。最近关于城市和区域创新的文献可以推出不同的解决方案，旨在通过在城市最明显和最具代表性的旅游空间中促进自然环境，为地方政府带来利润。我们的研究通过批判性地展示创新、可持续和生态友好的实践对欧洲文化之都（ECoC）的贡献，以及如何在蒂米什瓦拉市中心临时放置五层植物装置，以传达关于城市（生物）多样性的强烈信息，作为Timișoara作为旅游中心的识别元素，以及它为社会带来的生态系统服务，从而推进了这些争论。该遗址是2023年蒂米什瓦拉和蒂米斯县游客最多的景点，但在当地社区引起了分歧。虽然这意味着对当地人的影响，以及在振兴当地城市和区域旅游方面的旅游业，但我们的研究结果表明，植物装置在城市和区域景观、遗产共同创造和蒂米什瓦拉遗产遗址的集体关怀方面产生了重要的批评。我们得出的结论是，将植物装置暂时放置在遗产城市区域的文化和创新生态系统实践在当地城市和区域层面带来了积极和消极的影响：这是一个独特的地点，增加了欧洲游客对城市的生物多样性，社区参与度和知名度，但它也不适合城市中心的遗产景观。

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Regional green economy efficiency and population aging in China: An empirical data envelopment analysis – Tobit model approach 中国区域绿色经济效率与人口老龄化：基于Tobit模型的数据包络分析

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Regional Science Policy and Practice

Pub Date : 2025-09-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.rspp.2025.100249

Yue Zhao , Qifeng Ma , Fan Yang

This study presents an indicator system to assess the green economy efficiency (GEE) of China’s provinces and explores its relationship with population aging. Based on panel data covering 30 provincial-level regions from 2000 to 2020, a slacks-based measure–data envelopment analysis (SBM–DEA) model is employed to evaluate GEE followed by a Tobit regression model to examine the influence of demographic aging on regional performance. The results reveal three key findings: (1) At the national level, GEE shows an overall declining trend, with pronounced spatial disparities. The Eastern region consistently outperformed others, while the Western and Northeastern regions lagged behind. (2) Population aging exhibits a statistically significant positive effect on GEE. Robustness checks confirm the stability of this result. (3) Mechanism analysis suggests that aging primarily improves economic output efficiency rather than environmental performance. (4) Clear regional heterogeneity is observed: in the Eastern region, the relationship follows a U-shaped pattern; in the Central region, a stable positive correlation persists; while in the Western and Northeastern regions, an inverted U-shaped trajectory emerges. These findings underscore the need for regionally differentiated policies that integrate demographic realities with green development strategies, ensuring that aging populations contribute to both economic productivity and environmental sustainability. The study provides evidence to support differentiated population and environmental strategies aimed at promoting a sustainable, low-carbon economy in China.

本文提出了中国省级绿色经济效率评价指标体系，并探讨了绿色经济效率与人口老龄化的关系。基于2000 - 2020年30个省区市的面板数据，采用基于slack的测度-数据包络分析（SBM-DEA）模型对人口老龄化对区域绩效的影响进行评价，并采用Tobit回归模型分析人口老龄化对区域绩效的影响。结果表明：(1)在国家层面上，全球环境承载力总体呈下降趋势，且空间差异明显；东部地区的表现一直优于其他地区，而西部和东北部地区则落后。(2)人口老龄化对企业绩效有显著的正向影响。鲁棒性检验证实了这一结果的稳定性。(3)机制分析表明，老龄化主要提高经济产出效率，而不是环境绩效。(4)区域异质性明显，东部地区呈u型关系；中部地区持续呈现稳定的正相关关系；西部和东北地区则呈现倒u型发展趋势。这些研究结果强调需要制定区域差异化政策，将人口现实与绿色发展战略结合起来，确保人口老龄化对经济生产力和环境可持续性做出贡献。该研究为支持旨在促进中国可持续低碳经济的差异化人口和环境战略提供了证据。

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Policymaking for circular urban food systems: A systematic literature review of policy instruments and governance arrangements 城市循环粮食系统的政策制定：对政策工具和治理安排的系统文献综述

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Regional Science Policy and Practice

Pub Date : 2025-09-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.rspp.2025.100250

Daniel Polman

Urban food systems impact environmental, economic, and social aspects of city life. However, the current organization of the food system is recognized as unsustainable, leading to increasing interest in circular food systems that aim to break away from linear consumption patterns. Despite this, the governance arrangements and policy instruments supporting circular food systems remain underexplored. This paper addresses that gap by reviewing existing literature on governance arrangements and policy instruments used by local governments to promote circular food systems, identifying practices, gaps, and potential pathways toward circular urban food systems. The results of the review indicate that many articles lack clear definitions of circularity, indicating the conceptual openness of circularity. Waste management dominates the policy objectives, including both recycling and reducing food waste. But also social aspects are targeted, such as food security and food sovereignty. Regarding policy instruments, informational and financial instruments are most commonly studied, while regulatory and organizational tools are less prominent. Governance arrangements are mostly collaborative, involving multi-stakeholder partnerships, but the political dynamics and effectiveness of these arrangements for more circular outcomes should be further investigated. In this regard, the article discusses the potential for more engagement with governance and public policy theorization to understand the role of urban circular food policies in governance, policy formulation, and implementation.

城市粮食系统影响着城市生活的环境、经济和社会方面。然而，目前的粮食系统组织被认为是不可持续的，导致人们对旨在摆脱线性消费模式的循环粮食系统的兴趣日益增加。尽管如此，支持循环粮食系统的治理安排和政策工具仍未得到充分探索。本文通过回顾有关地方政府用于促进循环粮食系统的治理安排和政策工具的现有文献，确定实践、差距和实现城市循环粮食系统的潜在途径，解决了这一差距。回顾结果表明，许多文章缺乏对循环性的明确定义，表明循环性概念的开放性。废物管理在政策目标中占主导地位，包括回收和减少食物浪费。但也有社会方面的目标，如粮食安全和粮食主权。关于政策工具，最常研究的是信息和金融工具，而监管和组织工具则不太突出。治理安排主要是合作性的，涉及多方利益相关者的伙伴关系，但应进一步调查这些安排对更循环结果的政治动态和有效性。在这方面，本文讨论了更多地参与治理和公共政策理论的可能性，以了解城市循环食品政策在治理、政策制定和实施中的作用。

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Regional Science Policy and Practice

Pub Date : 2025-09-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.rspp.2025.100248

Minxuan Lan

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Towards inclusive path transplantation: Local agency for green hydrogen linkage creation in Namibia 迈向包容性路径移植：纳米比亚创建绿色氢链接的地方机构

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Regional Science Policy and Practice

Pub Date : 2025-08-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.rspp.2025.100246

Tom Schnurr , Linus Kalvelage

Many countries of the Global South struggle to achieve inclusive growth paths despite investment in the exploitation of rich resources. Resource-based industrialization literature stresses the potential for achieving broader development effects via the development of production linkages with local enterprises. The focus lies on market-driven outsourcing dynamics that foster linkage development, such as efficiency, location-specific knowledge, and technology and scale complexity. However, little is known about the opportunity space for both policy making and local firms to create these linkages. To address this issue, we incorporate the concept of change agency, stemming from the path development literature, into the discussion on production linkages to show how both (local) firm agency and system-level agency can achieve linkage creation for inclusive path transplantation. We illustrate the framework by scrutinizing the potential inclusion of solar energy companies in Namibia’s emerging green hydrogen economy. The study finds that while the potential for renewable energy companies in Namibia to participate in the value chain is limited, an integrated bundle of measures relying on firm- and system-level agency could address peripheral contextual factors, overcome entry barriers, and leverage further potential for linkage creation in the solar energy sector: mobilizing the local workforce, fostering inter-firm cooperation, leveraging local advantages, creating knowledge institutions, enhancing the regulatory framework, upgrading infrastructure, and enforcing local content regulations.

全球南方的许多国家尽管投资开发丰富的资源，但仍在努力实现包容性增长道路。以资源为基础的工业化文献强调，通过发展与当地企业的生产联系，有可能取得更广泛的发展效果。重点在于促进联动发展的市场驱动的外包动态，如效率、特定地点的知识、技术和规模复杂性。然而，人们对政策制定和当地企业建立这些联系的机会空间知之甚少。为了解决这一问题，我们将源于路径发展文献的变革代理概念纳入到生产联系的讨论中，以展示（地方）企业代理和系统级代理如何实现包容性路径移植的联系创建。我们通过仔细研究将太阳能公司纳入纳米比亚新兴绿色氢经济的可能性来说明该框架。研究发现，虽然纳米比亚可再生能源公司参与价值链的潜力有限，但依靠公司和系统级机构的综合措施可以解决外围环境因素，克服进入壁垒，并进一步利用太阳能行业建立联系的潜力：动员当地劳动力，促进企业间合作，发挥地方优势，建立知识机构，完善监管框架，升级基础设施，实施地方内容监管。

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Targeted impacts of salary subsidies: A developing country perspective 薪金补贴的目标影响：发展中国家的观点

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Regional Science Policy and Practice

Pub Date : 2025-08-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.rspp.2025.100245

Aomar Ibourk , Karim El Aynaoui

Among the employability support programs, there are those that promote employability through training and those that offer wage subsidies to reduce costs. This study evaluates the impact of the Moroccan 'IDMAJ' program, which falls into the latter category. The results reveal a positive impact of 10.3 % on the employment of beneficiaries compared to non-beneficiaries. From a qualitative perspective, the program also influences job quality and the alignment between training and employment, with effects moderated by three key variables: gender, region, and age, which are crucial for targeting. For men, the program improved employment probability by 12.27 % and reduced unemployment by 9.49 %, while for women, these figures were 10.66 % and 7.23 %, respectively. The program's effects varied by age, positively impacting employment and job quality for those under 25 and those over 30. Regionally, beneficiaries from the Grand Casablanca area saw a 7.93 % increase in employment probability and a 16.3 % increase in access to social security compared to non-beneficiaries. From the employers' perspective, the program led 23.8 % of employers to recruit more candidates, 10.2 % to hire different profiles than they would have otherwise, and 31.4 % to recruit earlier than planned. The contribution of this article is that it evaluates the impact of this program on downgrading and employment quality from a subnational perspective and across different strata, with an additional focus on employer perceptions.

在就业能力支持项目中，有通过培训提高就业能力的项目，也有提供工资补贴以降低成本的项目。本研究评估了摩洛哥“IDMAJ”项目的影响，该项目属于后一类。结果显示，与非受益人相比，受益人对就业的积极影响为10.3% %。从定性的角度来看，该计划还影响工作质量和培训与就业之间的一致性，其影响受到三个关键变量的调节：性别、地区和年龄，这对目标至关重要。对男性而言，该计划将就业概率提高了12.27 %，将失业率降低了9.49 %，而对女性而言，这两个数字分别为10.66 %和7.23 %。该计划的效果因年龄而异，对25岁以下和30岁以上的人的就业和工作质量都有积极影响。从地区来看，与非受益人相比，大卡萨布兰卡地区的受益人就业概率增加了7.93 %，获得社会保障的机会增加了16.3 %。从雇主的角度来看，23.8% %的雇主招聘了更多的候选人，10.2% %的雇主雇佣了不同的人，31.4% %的雇主比计划提前招聘。本文的贡献在于，它从次国家和不同阶层的角度评估了该计划对降级和就业质量的影响，并额外关注了雇主的看法。

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Measuring local poverty and food insecurity: Developing an affordability index for healthy diets 衡量当地贫困和粮食不安全：制定健康饮食的负担能力指数

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Regional Science Policy and Practice

Pub Date : 2025-08-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.rspp.2025.100244

Davide Marino , Daniela Bernaschi , Francesca B. Felici , Federica Scannavacca , Bianca Minotti

The article examines inequalities in access to a healthy diet through the development of a Food Affordability Index (FAI). The analysis integrates both national and local perspectives, with a particular focus on the city of Rome. At the national level, rising food prices and stagnant wages have exacerbated disparities, with more pronounced effects in peripheral areas and Southern Italy. At the local level, the characteristics of the food environment, shaped by differences in costs and food procurement opportunities, further intensify the food insecurity premium, placing a disproportionate burden on low-income households. The study highlights how variations in food prices significantly influence the economic accessibility of a healthy diet, with notable differences across distribution channels. The findings indicate that access to healthy food is determined by economic and territorial factors that create disparities in consumption patterns across different population groups and geographic areas. The proposed index serves as a valuable analytical tool for assessing such imbalances and evaluating the impact of structural factors on food costs and affordability. This analysis contributes to the ongoing debate on the economic sustainability of healthy diets in urban contexts, providing insights for the development of strategies aimed at reducing disparities in food access.

本文通过制定食品负担能力指数（FAI）来审查获得健康饮食方面的不平等现象。该分析综合了国家和地方的视角，特别关注罗马城。在国家层面，不断上涨的食品价格和停滞不前的工资加剧了差距，在外围地区和意大利南部的影响更为明显。在地方一级，由于成本和粮食采购机会的差异，粮食环境的特点进一步加剧了粮食不安全溢价，给低收入家庭带来了不成比例的负担。该研究强调了食品价格的变化如何显著影响健康饮食的经济可及性，在不同的分销渠道之间存在显著差异。研究结果表明，获得健康食品的机会是由经济和地域因素决定的，这些因素造成了不同人口群体和地理区域之间消费模式的差异。拟议的指数是评估这种不平衡和评价结构性因素对粮食成本和负担能力的影响的宝贵分析工具。这一分析有助于正在进行的关于城市环境中健康饮食的经济可持续性的辩论，为制定旨在减少粮食获取差距的战略提供见解。

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Governance models and the socio-ecological role of community gardens in post-socialist Krakow 后社会主义克拉科夫社区花园的治理模式和社会生态作用

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Regional Science Policy and Practice

Pub Date : 2025-08-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.rspp.2025.100243

Fanny Téoule

Community gardens are increasingly recognized as critical nodes for socio-ecological learning and innovation, particularly in post-socialist cities navigating historical legacies and contemporary urban challenges. This study investigates how governance models -bottom-up, top-down, and hybrid - influence the inclusivity, ecological adaptability, and long-term sustainability of community gardens in Krakow, Poland. Drawing on qualitative research conducted across three distinct sites - a grassroots initiative (Salwator), a municipally-led project (Pychogród), and a hybrid model (Jagiellonian University Campus) - this paper explores the interplay between governance arrangements and socio-ecological outcomes. Ethnographic observations, semi-structured interviews, co-design workshops, and action research were employed to capture governance dynamics and the evolving role of gardens as transformative infrastructures. Findings reveal that grassroots initiatives foster strong community ownership and flexible ecological practices, yet face challenges related to resource instability and volunteer fatigue. Conversely, top-down models provide structural security and institutional support but risk alienating participants by limiting local agency. Hybrid approaches, exemplified by the Jagiellonian University Campus garden, blend institutional legitimacy with participatory processes, fostering inclusive decision-making and ecological experimentation, although they grapple with sustaining engagement amidst transient populations. The results underscore the necessity of adaptive governance frameworks that balance institutional support with community agency, particularly in post-socialist urban contexts characterized by fragmented social trust and uneven civic engagement. By conceptualizing community gardens as socio-ecological infrastructures, this study contributes to understanding how urban food systems can integrate sustainability goals with local cultural and environmental specificities. The findings offer actionable insights for policymakers, urban planners, and practitioners aiming to harness the transformative potential of community gardens to address broader sustainability challenges.

社区花园越来越被认为是社会生态学习和创新的关键节点，特别是在后社会主义城市中，应对历史遗产和当代城市挑战。本研究探讨了自下而上、自上而下和混合治理模式如何影响波兰克拉科夫社区花园的包容性、生态适应性和长期可持续性。通过在三个不同地点进行的定性研究——一个基层倡议（Salwator），一个市政主导的项目（Pychogród）和一个混合模式（雅盖隆大学校园）——本文探讨了治理安排与社会生态结果之间的相互作用。采用民族志观察、半结构化访谈、共同设计研讨会和行动研究来捕捉治理动态和花园作为变革性基础设施的演变作用。研究结果表明，基层倡议促进了强大的社区所有权和灵活的生态实践，但面临着与资源不稳定和志愿者疲劳相关的挑战。相反，自上而下的模式提供了结构上的安全和制度上的支持，但由于限制了地方机构，有疏远参与者的风险。以雅盖隆大学校园花园为例的混合方法，将制度合法性与参与性过程相结合，促进包容性决策和生态实验，尽管它们努力维持流动人口的参与。研究结果强调了适应性治理框架的必要性，以平衡机构支持与社区代理之间的关系，特别是在后社会主义城市背景下，社会信任支离破碎，公民参与不均衡。通过将社区花园概念化为社会生态基础设施，本研究有助于理解城市食物系统如何将可持续性目标与当地文化和环境特征相结合。研究结果为决策者、城市规划者和实践者提供了可行的见解，旨在利用社区花园的变革潜力来应对更广泛的可持续性挑战。

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Spatial bootstrapping using deep clustering methods: Spatial machine learning applied to Lombardy high-tech businesses 使用深度聚类方法的空间引导：空间机器学习在伦巴第高科技企业中的应用

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Regional Science Policy and Practice

Pub Date : 2025-08-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.rspp.2025.100242

Bumbea Alessio , Mazzitelli Andrea , Giuffrida Annamaria , Espa Giuseppe

Bootstrap and clustering techniques are foundational tools across scientific disciplines, playing a particularly important role in spatial analysis. However, traditional bootstrap methods often fall short in preserving spatial dependencies and complex attribute relationships during resampling. In this work, we introduce a novel framework in the Spatial Machine Learning domain that leverages deep learning techniques to enhance stratified bootstrap procedures for spatial data. Deep learning has already revolutionized prediction and classification tasks in data with temporal and spatial dependencies. In this work we want to extend the scope of application to bootstrap analysis by using tools like entity embeddings and autoencoders. By encoding high-cardinality categorical variables into continuous representations, entity embeddings facilitate the discovery of meaningful spatial and attribute-based cluster. These embeddings are then passed to a Deep Embedded Clustering (DEC) algorithm that can use them to create clusters. This algorithm is able to handle high-dimensional big data using an autoencoder based architecture that performs dimensionality reduction and clustering simultaneously to avoid loss of information. These clusters can be finally used as strata that guide a stratified bootstrap approach which preserves spatial autocorrelation and heterogeneity. We demonstrate the utility of our framework by performing a bootstrap analysis of high-tech firm productivity in the Lombardy region. Our approach is able to analyze efficiently large amounts of high dimensional data with complex attributes.

Bootstrap和聚类技术是跨科学学科的基础工具，在空间分析中起着特别重要的作用。然而，传统的自举方法在重采样过程中往往无法保持空间依赖关系和复杂的属性关系。在这项工作中，我们在空间机器学习领域引入了一个新的框架，该框架利用深度学习技术来增强空间数据的分层自举过程。深度学习已经彻底改变了具有时间和空间依赖性的数据的预测和分类任务。在这项工作中，我们希望通过使用实体嵌入和自动编码器等工具，将应用范围扩展到自举分析。通过将高基数分类变量编码为连续表示，实体嵌入有助于发现有意义的空间和基于属性的聚类。然后将这些嵌入传递给深度嵌入聚类（DEC）算法，该算法可以使用它们来创建聚类。该算法使用基于自编码器的架构来处理高维大数据，该架构同时进行降维和聚类，以避免信息丢失。这些聚类最终可以用作地层，指导分层自举方法，从而保持空间自相关和异质性。我们通过对伦巴第地区的高科技企业生产率进行自举分析来证明我们的框架的实用性。我们的方法能够有效地分析具有复杂属性的大量高维数据。

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Mapping local government priorities: a web-mining approach for regional research 绘制地方政府的优先事项：区域研究的网络挖掘方法

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Regional Science Policy and Practice

Pub Date : 2025-08-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.rspp.2025.100240

Moritz Schütz , Lukas Kriesch , Sebastian Losacker

The relevance of institutions for regional development has been well established in economic geography. In this context, local and regional governments play a central role, particularly through place-based and place-sensitive strategies. However, systematic and scalable insights into their priorities and strategies remain limited due to data availability. This paper develops a methodological approach for the comprehensive measurement and analysis of local governance activities using web mining, natural language processing (NLP), and machine learning techniques. We construct a novel dataset by web scraping and extracting cleaned text data from German county and municipality websites, which provides detailed information on local government functions, services, and regulations. Our county-level topic modelling approach identifies 205 topics, from which we select 30 prominent topics to demonstrate the variety of topics found on county websites. An in-depth analysis of the three exemplary topics, Urban Development and Planning, Climate Protection Initiatives, and Business Development and Support, reveals how strategic priorities vary across space and how counties differ in their framing of similar topics. This study offers an explanatory framework for analysing the discursive dimensions of local governance and mapping regional differences in policy focus. In doing so, it expands the methodological toolkit of regional research and opens new avenues in understanding local governance through web data. We make an aggregated version of the data set freely available online.

经济地理学已经很好地确立了区域发展机构的相关性。在这方面，地方和区域政府发挥核心作用，特别是通过基于地方和对地方敏感的战略。然而，由于数据的可用性，对他们的优先事项和战略的系统和可扩展的见解仍然有限。本文开发了一种方法学方法，使用网络挖掘、自然语言处理（NLP）和机器学习技术对地方治理活动进行全面测量和分析。我们构建了一个新的数据集，通过网络抓取和提取德国县和市政网站的清理文本数据，它提供了当地政府职能，服务和法规的详细信息。我们的县级主题建模方法确定了205个主题，从中我们选择了30个突出的主题来展示在县级网站上发现的各种主题。对城市发展与规划、气候保护倡议和商业发展与支持这三个示范性主题的深入分析揭示了战略重点在不同空间的差异，以及各国在类似主题框架方面的差异。本研究为分析地方治理的话语维度和绘制政策重点的区域差异提供了一个解释性框架。在此过程中，它扩展了区域研究的方法论工具包，并通过网络数据开辟了理解地方治理的新途径。我们在网上免费提供数据集的汇总版本。

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