Academics from the University of East Anglia’s research group 3S (Science, Society and Sustainability) have won a prize for their paper on the role of the Transition Towns network in the shift to more sustainable energy systems. The British Sociological Association’s Climate Change Study Group awarded the paper joint-second prize in its 2012 competition for … Continue reading »
In a recently published chapter I have argued that complementary currencies can be conceptualised as forms of grassroots technology. One advantage of this particular, and hitherto rare, framing, is that it opens up the possibility of exploring their evolution using theoretical tools from the innovation literature. Thus the chapter applies insights from Strategic Niche Management … Continue reading »
A new working paper on civil society and sustainability transitions has been published – you can download this working paper in PDF format (175.12K). Energy and communities in transition – towards a new research agenda on agency and civil society in sustainability transitions by Gill Seyfang, Alex Haxeltine, Tom Hargreaves and Noel Longhurst The UK’s … Continue reading »
A new working paper sets out to analyse the Transition Town social movement as a Grassroots Innovation, bringing theories of sustainable innovations to bear on community activism for sustainable energy. This aims to glean new insights into the processes of movement growth diffusion of radical ideas and practices, and so inform the movement of potential … Continue reading »
