Local sustainability initiatives: innovation and civic engagement in societal experiments
Autor: | Udo Pesch, Wouter Spekkink, Jaco Quist |
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Přispěvatelé: | Public Administration |
Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Sociotechnical system
Sustainable Consumption Institute civic engagement Geography Planning and Development 0211 other engineering and technologies 0507 social and economic geography Context (language use) ResearchInstitutes_Networks_Beacons/sustainable_consumption_institute 02 engineering and technology sustainability transitions societal experiments Order (exchange) Political science 11. Sustainability Civic engagement Democratization Social movement business.industry 05 social sciences 021107 urban & regional planning Public relations Sustainable innovation Sustainability business local sustainability initiatives 050703 geography Social capital |
Zdroj: | European Planning Studies, 27(2), 300-317. Routledge European Planning Studies Pesch, U, Spekkink, W & Quist, J 2018, ' Local sustainability initiatives : innovation and civic engagement in societal experiments ', European Planning Studies, pp. 1-18 . https://doi.org/10.1080/09654313.2018.1464549 |
ISSN: | 1469-5944 0965-4313 |
Popis: | Local sustainability initiatives are studied from two scholarly perspectives: the perspective of sociotechnical innovation, which relates to the capacity of bottom-up initiatives to contribute to the development of sociotechnical alternatives; and the perspective of civic engagement which relates to the capacity of citizens to organize themselves in order to pursue community goals. This paper argues that taking both these perspectives into account overcomes the problem of being too instrumental or the problem of neglecting the role of technology and innovation in local initiatives. The perspective of sociotechnical innovation presents different types of innovation pursued by local initiatives: the creation of new technology, the application of existing technology and the development of social innovation. Furthermore, innovations might diffuse over wider society by: replication, scaling up, and translation. In turn, civic engagement may take the shape of: the strengthening of social capital, the formation of social movements, and the substitution of functions and services. The insights from literature are illustrated and qualified by applying them in the context of concrete local initiatives. Finally, local initiatives will be portrayed as social contexts that are successful in gathering actors with different motivations and world views and that may contribute to the democratization of innovation. |
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