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Journal paper: The Governance Of Sustainable Socio-Technical Transitions
Smith, A., Stirling, A. and Berkhout, F. (2005) ‘The Governance Of Sustainable Socio-Technical Transitions’ Research Policy 34 pp.1491-1510 A quasi-evolutionary model of socio-technical transitions is...
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Journal paper: The Alternative Technology Movement
Smith, A. (2005) ‘The Alternative Technology Movement: An analysis of its framing and negotiation of technology development’ Research in Human Ecology 12(2) pp.106-119 Technology mediates our relations...
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Journal paper: Innovation and Sustainability Transitions
Smith, A., Vos, J-P. and Grin, J. (2010) ‘Innovation and Sustainability Transitions: The allure of the multi-level perspective and its challenges’ Research Policy 39 pp.435-448 Sustainable development...
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Book chapter: Niche-based Approaches to Sustainable Development
Smith, A. (2006) ‘Niche-Based Approaches To Sustainable Development: Radical activists versus strategic managers’ Chapter in the book Sustainability and Reflexive Governance edited by Dierk Bauknecht,...
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Journal paper: Translating Sustainabilities Between Green Niches and...
Smith, A. (2007) ‘Translating Sustainabilities Between Green Niches and Socio-Technical Regimes’ Technology Analysis and Strategic Management 19(4) pp.427-450 A role for green niches has risen to...
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Book: New Economics of Sustainable Consumption
Seyfang, G. (2009) The New Economics of Sustainable Consumption: Seeds of Change (Palgrave MacMillan, Basingstoke) ISBN 978-0-230-52533-7 [paperback published 2011] Climate change is forcing us to...
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Journal paper: Grassroots Innovations for Sustainable Development
Seyfang, G. and Smith, A. (2007) ‘Grassroots Innovations for Sustainable Development: Towards a new research and policy agenda’ in Environmental Politics 16(4) pp.584-683 Innovation and community...
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Journal article: Connecting regimes and practices in innovation for...
The multilevel perspective and social practice theory have emerged as competing approaches for understanding the complexity of sociotechnical change. The relationship between these two different camps...
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Special ‘grassroots innovation’ issue of Global Environmental Change
The latest issue of the leading research journal Global Environmental Change is dedicated to the topic of grassroots innovation for sustainability. The special issue contains six original research...
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GI briefing 21: Constructing grassroots innovations for sustainability
Constructing grassroots innovations for sustainability: New research in the field Adrian Smith and Gill Seyfang introduce a new collection of academic papers on grassroots innovations, and discuss...
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Delhi workshop on grassroots innovation movements, 8 February 2014
A workshop held in Delhi on 8th February will bring together researchers, activists and policy-makers to learn from one another about grassroots innovation movements. The workshop is organised by...
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Lessons from the grassroots for inclusive innovation
Last week (20-21 March) Adrian Smith was invited to speak at the OECD Symposium on Innovation and Inclusive Growth. The organiser wanted to learn what lessons our research into grassroots innovation […]
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Journal article: A grassroots sustainable energy niche?
System-changing innovations for sustainability transitions are pro- posed to emerge in radical innovative niches. ‘Strategic Niche Management’ theory predicts that niche-level actors and networks will...
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New paper: The Social Technology Network: a hybrid experiment in grassroots...
We have a new working paper from our project Grassroots innovations in historical and comparative perspective. Mariano Fressoli from Fundación Cenit and Rafael Dias from UNICAMP have just published a […]
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Green transformations from below? The politics of grassroots innovation
“Throughout the history of both modern environmentalism and development there has existed an insistent undercurrent of practical, grassroots initiatives seeking socially just and environmentally...
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New article: Making the most of community energies – three perspectives on...
The final, synthesis article from the CISE research project is published in the journal Environment & Planning A. The Open Access article (pdf) argues for a refocusing around the critical edges...
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Journal article: What influences the diffusion of grassroots innovations for...
Community action for sustainability is a promising site of socio- technical innovation. Here we test the applicability of co- evolutionary niche theories of innovation diffusion (strategic niche...
View ArticlePost-automation: grassroots innovation democratizing the Fourth Industrial...
A new open access article in the journal Futures by Adrian Smith and Mariano Fressoli contrasts grassroots subversion of some of the technologies of automation with the way automation is […]
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