TY  - JOUR
U1  - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed)
A1  - Paunovic, Ivan
A1  - Müller, Cathleen
A1  - Deimel, Klaus
T1  - Citizen Participation for Sustainability and Resilience: A Generational Cohort Perspective on Community Brand Identity Perceptions and Development Priorities in a Rural Community
JF  - Sustainability
N2  - Citizen participation is deemed to be crucial for sustainability and resilience planning. However, generational equity has been missing from recent academic discussions regarding sustainability and resilience. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to reintroduce the topic of the existence or absence of an intergenerational consensus on the example of a rural community and its perceived brand image attributes and development priorities. The research is based on primary data collected through an online survey, with a sample size of N = 808 respondents in Neunkirchen-Seelscheid, Germany. The data were analyzed using the Kruskal–Wallis test for the presence and/or absence of consensus among the five generations regarding brand image attributes and development priorities. The findings point to divergence between what the median values indicate as the most relevant brand image attributes and development priorities among the citizens and the areas where the Kruskal–Wallis test shows that an intergenerational consensus either does or does not exist. The results imply the need for new concepts and applied approaches to citizen participation for sustainability and resilience, where intergenerational dialogue and equity-building take center stage. In addition to the importance of the theory of citizen participation for sustainability and resilience, our results provide ample evidence for how sustainability and resilience planning documents could potentially benefit from deploying the concept of intergenerational equity. The present research provides sustainability and political science with new conceptual and methodological approaches for taking intergenerational equity into account in regional planning processes in rural and other areas.
KW  - co-creation for sustainability
KW  - Gen X
KW  - Gen Y
KW  - Gen Z
KW  - sustainability planning
KW  - rural development
KW  - regional development
KW  - resilience planning
KW  - Gen BB
KW  - Gen S
KW  - intergenerational equity
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:1044-opus-68045
SN  - 2071-1050
SS  - 2071-1050
U6  - https://doi.org/10.3390/su15097307
DO  - https://doi.org/10.3390/su15097307
N1  - The dataset in .sav (IBM SPSS) format can be accessed online under: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7683922
VL  - 15
IS  - 9
SP  - 18
S1  - 18
PB  - MDPI
CY  - Basel
ER  -