Social innovation and sustainability; how to disentangle the buzzword and its application in the field of agriculture and rural development

BB Bock - Studies in agricultural economics, 2012 - repo.aki.gov.hu
Social innovation is often appointed as an essential part of agricultural and rural innovation.
Everybody seems to agree that social innovation is important but what exactly is meant by …

Microeconomic degrowth: The case of community supported agriculture

M Bloemmen, R Bobulescu, NT Le, C Vitari - Ecological Economics, 2015 - Elsevier
In this paper, we attempt to build a new microeconomic approach that could be considered
as a basis of the degrowth macroeconomic view. As degrowth is a critique of the dominant …

[图书][B] Social entrepreneurship: New models of sustainable social change

A Nicholls - 2008 - books.google.com
'Social Entrepreneurship'is a term that has come to be applied to the activities of grass-roots
activists, NGOs, policy makers, international institutions, and corporations, amongst others …

Understanding social innovation for the well-being of forest-dependent communities: A preliminary theoretical framework

T Kluvánková, S Brnkaľáková, M Špaček, B Slee… - Forest Policy and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Over the last decade, the concept of social innovation (SI) has been increasingly discussed
in the research and policy communities. An early understanding of the term considers SI as …

Social development will not deliver social licence to operate for the extractive sector

B Harvey - The Extractive Industries and Society, 2014 - Elsevier
In the past decade the extractive sector has embraced social responsibility, and more
recently extractive companies have extended this to include contributions to social …

A green new deal without growth?

R Mastini, G Kallis, J Hickel - Ecological economics, 2021 - Elsevier
The IPCC warns that in order to keep global warming under 1.5°, global emissions must be
cut to zero by 2050. Policymakers and scholars debate how best to decarbonise the energy …

Can social innovation make a difference to forest-dependent communities?

M Nijnik, L Secco, D Miller, M Melnykovych - Forest Policy and Economics, 2019 - Elsevier
Attention to social innovation and its role in sustainable development have been rising.
However, the knowledge of social innovation pertaining to rural areas, including the forestry …