Schäfer, MartinaMartinaSchäfer2021-06-222021-06-222005-091613-4907https://media.suub.uni-bremen.de/handle/elib/498910.26092/elib/786The present paper presents a method developed within the project ‘Regional Wealth Reconsidered’ for estimating the contributions toward quality of life and sustainable devel-opment made by a regional industrial sector consisting of SMEs. It is organized as follows: In Section 2, we describe the overall analytical framework of the method, the development process for the indicator set, and the empirical design. Section 3 provides insight on prelimi-nary empirical results of a study investigating the organic agriculture and food sector in the Brandenburg-Berlin region, Germany. In particular, we present data about four fields of activ-ity that are assumed to: (1) contribute toward ‘human potential’ through formal and informal education, (2) contribute toward the stabilization of social resources, (3) improve non-material quality of life aspects, and (4) contribute toward environmental protection and aes-thetic attractiveness of the region’s landscape. In Section 4, we summarize our findings and draw conclusions about the method itself and the kind of information it generated.enKleine und mittlere UnternehmenNachhaltigkeit330Bericht, Reporturn:nbn:de:gbv:46-elib49896