Urban agriculture (UA) can be used as an action to promote sustainability in cities and
inform public health policies for urban populations. Despite this growing recognition, its …

Urban informality characterises contemporary socio-spatial transformations and increasingly
appears as a way of producing, organising, and managing the future city. The pervasiveness …

Disrupted identities of inhabitants in old industrial and other less developed regions are
seldom an issue of regional policies, even though people's attachment to their residential …

Over the past 15 years, social innovation (SI) has gained ground as a promising approach
for tackling today's grand challenges. A “weak” conception of SI focuses on improving how …

In the public sector, digital social innovation (DSI) has emerged as an instance of open
innovation in which citizens and other stakeholders use technology to gain new knowledge …

Food hubs assist the economic development of small local farms growing produce
sustainably and providing healthy nutrition by aggregating and distributing a diversified …

This chapter examines present understanding on social innovation for sustainable
development in order to integrate findings on the spatial characteristics of social innovation …

This chapter introduces the concept of 'social innovation', and outlines what it is, who is
doing it, and why it is significant to sustainable development. The central argument concerns …

This chapter presents a conceptual framework to investigate social innovation dynamics in
the production of spaces for food growing in cities. The framework combines social …

This chapter explains the methods adopted and the theory supporting them in relation to the
aims and research questions of the study. It outlines the process approach to this research …