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Tag Archives: social movements

Now an open access book: Grassroots Innovation Movements

March 5, 2022by Adrian Smith

The book, Grassroots Innovation Movements, is now available open access. The book examines six diverse grassroots movements in India, South America & Europe, and explores for each the spaces where […]

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Academic papers, Events, GIHCP (Historical and Comparative Perspectives), News, Projects, Uncategorized

Grassroots Innovation Movements

August 17, 2016by Adrian Smith

You can get a twenty per cent discount on buying our new book, Grassroots Innovation Movements, published by Routledge and available in Paperback as well as Hardcover. The discount code […]

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Alternative Technology, Digital fabrication, GIHCP (Historical and Comparative Perspectives), Publications, Uncategorized

Delhi workshop on grassroots innovation movements, 8 February 2014

February 3, 2014by Adrian Smith

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 Dinesh […]

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Alternative Technology, Events, Food, GIHCP (Historical and Comparative Perspectives), Theory

Journal article: Grassroots innovation movements: contributions and challenges

July 31, 2013by Adrian Smith

Technologies for social inclusion in Latin America are a recent manifestation of grassroots innovation movements whose global activities go back to appropriate technology in the 1970s and earlier. Common to […]

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Academic papers, Alternative Technology, GIHCP (Historical and Comparative Perspectives), Publications

Book chapter: Civil society in sustainable energy transitions

May 23, 2012by Adrian Smith

How does civil society feature in wide-scale transformation processes to socio-technical systems like energy? In this book chapter, Adrian Smith explors ways of addressing this question by drawing upon concepts […]

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Grassroots Innovations

Grassroots innovations are community-led solutions for sustainability. Here we present news and updates from a series of research projects on grassroots innovations, based at the University of East Anglia and University of Sussex. Our research aims to better understand how these innovations develop and grow, and how they can be harnessed to meet sustainability policy objectives.

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