Community-led sustainable energy projects are not taken seriously enough by the government, according to a new paper from the University of East Anglia (UEA) and University of Sussex. Published today, the […]
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 aggregate learning from local projects, […]
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 the origins and […]
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 articles Guest […]
A new working paper presents new evidence from our 12 in-depth case studies of community energy projects in the UK and explores how useful ‘niche management’ theory is in helping […]
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 has, on occasions, been […]
Sabine Hielscher, Gill Seyfang and Adrian Smith from the CISE project have a chapter in a new book on Innovations in Sustainable Consumption. Hielscher, S., Seyfang, G. and Smith, A. […]
A Global Community Currency Movement? Unity and Diversity in Practice We present key findings of the GICC (Grassroots Innovations: Community Currencies) project’s analysis of the activities and characteristics of the […]
Community Currencies and Sustainability: New economics objectives and orientations Community currencies have long been associated with the environmental movement, and in this briefing we identify various sustainability rationales for developing […]
A new working paper presents a niche analysis of community currencies for sustainability. Over the last decade, the nascent field of Sustainability Transitions has sought to explain the conditions […]
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 action are two important strands […]
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 prominence in the environment and innovation literature. […]
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 is prompting a re-assessment of innovation […]
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 described in which regimes face selection pressures […]
Sabine Hielscher, Gill Seyfang and Adrian Smith (2011) Community Innovation for Sustainable Energy CSERGE Working Paper 2011-03, (CSERGE, Norwich) As in other countries, there is a growing public, policy and business interest in […]
Introducing Grassroots Innovations for Sustainable Development. Here we explain what Grassroots Innovations are and why they’re important, and present the key arguments of our Environmental Politics article (Summer 2010) Grassroots […]
Grassroots Innovations 