Category Archives: Grassroots innovations

Growing Grassroots Innovations: Exploring the Role of Community-based Social Movements

Posted on November 10, 2015 by

The challenges of sustainable development (and climate change and peak oil in particular) demand system-wide transformations in socio-technical systems of provision. An academic literature around co-evolutionary innovation for sustainability has recently emerged to attempt to understand the dynamics and directions … Continue reading →

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Grassroots Innovations for Sustainable Development – A New Research Agenda

Posted on November 10, 2015 by

Community action for sustainable development is an important  element of most countries’ policies for sustainable development. We welcome this growing recognition of the role of civil society in achieving sustainability objectives, but tempered with a few words of caution: First, … Continue reading →

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