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dc.contributor.author | Seyfang, Gill | en |
dc.contributor.author | Haxeltine, Alex | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2011-06-16 | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2011-08-17T11:36:15Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2011-08-17T11:36:15Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2010 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/48802 | - |
dc.description.abstract | 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 of such socio-technical transformations and social change, which are termed 'sustainability transitions'. This literature has previously focused on market-based technological innovations. Here we apply it to a new context of social movements and social innovation, and examine the role of civil society-based social movements in a transition to a low-carbon sustainable economy in the UK. We present new empirical research from a study of the UK´s Transition Movement (a 'grassroots innovation') and assess its attempts to grow and diffuse beyond the niche. Applying strategic niche management theory to this civil society context delivers theoretically-informed practical recommendations for this social movement to diffuse beyond its niche: to foster deeper engagement with resourceful regime actors; to manage expectations more realistically by delivering tangible opportunities for action and participation; and to embrace a community-based, action-oriented model of social learning (in preference to a cognitive theory of behaviour change). Furthermore, our study indicates areas where theory can be refined to better explain the experience of grassroots innovations and social movements, namely through a fuller appreciation of internal niche processes, and integration with theories of social movements and social practices. | en |
dc.language.iso | eng | en |
dc.publisher | |aUniversity of East Anglia, The Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment (CSERGE) |cNorwich | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | |aCSERGE Working Paper EDM |x10-08 | en |
dc.subject.ddc | 330 | en |
dc.subject.keyword | sustainable consumption | en |
dc.subject.keyword | energy | en |
dc.subject.keyword | social movements | en |
dc.subject.keyword | sustainability transitions | en |
dc.subject.keyword | social innovation | en |
dc.subject.keyword | socio-technical systems | en |
dc.subject.stw | Umweltbelastung | en |
dc.subject.stw | Energieversorgung | en |
dc.subject.stw | Nachhaltigkeit | en |
dc.subject.stw | Lernen | en |
dc.subject.stw | Gesellschaft | en |
dc.subject.stw | Soziale Bewegung | en |
dc.subject.stw | Großbritannien | en |
dc.subject.stw | Norwegen | en |
dc.title | Growing grassroots innovations: Exploring the role of community-based social movements for sustainable energy transitions | - |
dc.type | Working Paper | en |
dc.identifier.ppn | 626009804 | en |
dc.rights | http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen | en |
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