There are high political and policy expectations of local and voluntary initiatives of citizens
collaborating to provide public services themselves. Despite rising attention, existing …

The concepts co-creation and co-production increasingly find their way into research on
renewable energy development. As an innovation paradigm 'co-creation'is believed to …

Sense of place and values are concepts that have been defined in a multiplicity of ways by a
variety of disciplines and seldom approached in combination within studies of place-based …

The current COVID-19 pandemic confines people to their homes, disrupting the fragile social
fabric of deprived neighbourhoods and citizen's participation options. In deprived …

This conceptual paper applies a mobilization model to Collective Action Initiatives (CAIs) in
the energy sector. The goal is to synthesize aspects of sustainable transition theories with …

Co-creation is viewed as a promising way to realize public values. Reviewing 88 items
following the PRISMA-protocol we confirm that public service co-creation realizes public …

The phrase “local collective action” is increasingly being used to describe how civil society
engages with, and acts upon, sustainability transformations. While existing research has …

This article investigates the practical form of citizen engagement that occurs in collective
problem-solving efforts such as civic enterprises, grassroots initiatives and self-help groups …

The eight papers in this Special Feature result from the EU funded SUSPLACE collaborative
programme that aimed to explore the transformative capacity of sustainable place-shaping …

Energy communities (ECs) are considered significant instruments in the energy transition
toward a low-carbon world. Important elements for the creation of ECs are the individual …