Essays about: "grassroots innovations"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 12 essays containing the words grassroots innovations.

  1. 1. Connecting with and Supporting Grassroots Innovators - A Comparative Case Study

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Björn Jakobsson; [2023-07-20]
    Keywords : Grassroot innovation; innovation hubs; incubation; acceleration; supporting innovators; developing innovation systems;

    Abstract : This paper examined how innovation hubs are identifying and connecting with grassroots innovators, and how they can support grassroots innovators. Grassroots innovators are typically entrepreneurs from poor communities. READ MORE

  3. 2. Pepita de oro: How AlVelAl is building a regional regenerative agriculture transformation through social innovations

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Stockholm Resilience Centre

    Author : Elissa Dickson; [2023]
    Keywords : regenerative agriculture; Spain; sustainability transformation; social innovation; adaptive capacity; institutions; drylands;

    Abstract : Regenerative Agriculture (RA) is increasingly promoted as a sustainable agri-food solution. Agronomic studies find that RA practices (e.g. cover crops, reduced tillage, crop rotation, and agroforestry) can regulate soil moisture, sequester atmospheric carbon, enhance biodiversity, and reduce the impacts of droughts and floods. READ MORE

  4. 3. Driving the transition: Intermediary actors in the grassroots e-carsharing niche of rural Germany.

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

    Author : Max Jürgen Halbwachs; [2022]
    Keywords : Sustainability Science; Electric car sharing; Socio-technical transitions; Intermediary actors; Sustainable mobility; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Rural Germany is massively dependent on fossil fuel driven cars. But in many villages, socio-technical innovations have emerged to tackle this dependency. Electric carsharing, often organised in grassroots-settings, is one of them. READ MORE

  5. 4. Towards a Societal Transformation - a qualitative study of grassroots innovations within waste management in Zanzibar

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Victoria Rice; Johan Knape; [2019-07-09]
    Keywords : Grassroots innovations; evolution and development of grassroots innovations; social innovation; challenges and constraints of grassroots innovations; sustainability; waste management; scaling;

    Abstract : The issue of waste is an increasing global problem, affecting people, animals and ecosystems. Zanzibar has experienced a dramatic increase of incoming tourists, with a growing waste problem as a result. READ MORE

  6. 5. [Em]powering communities? : explaining the changing role and nature of Costa Rica’s cooperatives from successful community-led rural electrification to failing community-led electricity generation

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

    Author : Lea Ranalder; [2017]
    Keywords : community energy; transition pathway; rural electrification; renewable energy; hydropower; sustainability science; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Concerns about energy-related emissions and energy dependence and security while also achieving the SDGs are fuelling the rising interest in socio-technical transitions towards more sustainable energy systems. Community energy projects have been proposed as a tool for this transition to renewable energy, but little is known about its potential to foster the wider transformation of the energy system. READ MORE