Using social network analysis to understand and enhance local and regional food systems
Sarah Rockera, Jess Kropczynskib and Clare Hinrichsa aThe Pennsylvania State University bUniversity of Cincinnati
Abstract
Formal and informal social networks play a critical role for the functioning and development of communities and economies in any region and at any scale. Networks are comprised of diverse relationship types ranging from familial, to friendship, to commercial exchange. This chapter describes the use of social network analysis (SNA) as an approach to understand how relational dynamics affect the nature of local and regional food systems. In contrast to other modeling approaches that take a more aggregated view of systems, ...
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