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Community action for sustainable housing: Building a low-carbon future by Seyfang, Gill

“…This paper presents a new analytical framework of ‘grassroots innovations’ which views community-led initiatives for sustainable development as strategic green…”
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A thousand flowers blooming? An examination of community energy in the UK by Seyfang, Gill, Park, Jung Jin, Smith, Adrian

“…Community energy has been proposed as a new policy tool to help achieve the transition to a low-carbon energy system, but the evidence base for this strategy…”
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Growing Grassroots Innovations: Exploring the Role of Community-Based Initiatives in Governing Sustainable Energy Transitions by Seyfang, Gill, Haxeltine, Alex

“…The challenges of sustainable development (and climate change and peak oil, in particular) demand system-wide transformations in sociotechnical systems of…”
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Governance for Sustainability: Towards a ‘Thick’ Analysis of Environmental Decisionmaking by Adger, W Neil, Brown, Katrina, Fairbrass, Jenny, Jordan, Andrew, Paavola, Jouni, Rosendo, Sergio, Seyfang, Gill

“…Environmental decisions made by individuals, civil society, and the state involve questions of economic efficiency, environmental effectiveness, equity, and…”
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Theoretical Theatre: harnessing the power of comedy to teach social science theory by Gravey, Viviane, Lorenzoni, Irene, Seyfang, Gill, Hargreaves, Tom

“…Role playing is increasingly used in European Studies and political science more generally to foster students understanding of social science theories. Yet in…”
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Corporate Responsibility and Labour Rights: Codes of Conduct in the Global Economy by Pearson, Ruth, Seyfang, Gill, Jenkins, Rhys

“…The emergence of voluntary corporate codes of conduct since the early 1990s is both a manifestation of and a response to the process of globalization. They…”
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Desperately seeking niches: Grassroots innovations and niche development in the community currency field by Seyfang, Gill, Longhurst, Noel

“…► Niche theories of innovation diffusion are applied in a civil society context. ► International growth of community currencies movement is described. ► Niche…”
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Growing green money? Mapping community currencies for sustainable development by Seyfang, Gill, Longhurst, Noel

“…Parallel sustainable monetary systems are being developed by civil society groups and non-governmental organisations (NGOs), informed by ecological economics…”
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Working for the Fenland Dollar: An Evaluation of Local Exchange Trading Schemes as an Informal Employment Strategy to Tackle Social Exclusion by Seyfang, Gill

“…This article argues that in the current context of rising unemployment and growing exclusion from the traditional locus of social cohesion and income…”
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What influences the diffusion of grassroots innovations for sustainability? Investigating community currency niches by Seyfang, Gill, Longhurst, Noel

“…Community action for sustainability is a promising site of socio-technical innovation. Here we test the applicability of co-evolutionary niche theories of…”
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A sustainable consumption teaching review: From building competencies to transformative learning by Sahakian, Marlyne, Seyfang, Gill

“…Sustainable consumption (SC) is a growing area of research, practice and policy-making that has been gaining momentum in teaching programs among higher…”
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Constructing grassroots innovations for sustainability by Smith, Adrian, Seyfang, Gill

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Move your money? Sustainability Transitions in Regimes and Practices in the UK Retail Banking Sector by Seyfang, Gill, Gilbert-Squires, Amber

“…We present and test a new conceptual framework for understanding sustainable transitions in co-evolutionary sociotechnical systems. We apply this in the first…”
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Ecological citizenship and sustainable consumption: Examining local organic food networks by Seyfang, Gill

“…Sustainable consumption is gaining in currency as a new environmental policy objective. This paper presents new research findings from a mixed-method empirical…”
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Growing sustainable consumption communities by Seyfang, Gill

“…Purpose - Sustainable consumption is increasingly on the policy menu, and local organic food has been widely advocated as a practical tool to make changes to…”
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Grassroots innovations in community energy: The role of intermediaries in niche development by Hargreaves, Tom, Hielscher, Sabine, Seyfang, Gill, Smith, Adrian

“…► Grassroots innovations often struggle to survive and grow. ► Intermediary actors have been identified as crucial in innovation processes. ► Examines…”
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Making the most of community energies: Three perspectives on grassroots innovation by Smith, Adrian, Hargreaves, Tom, Hielscher, Sabine, Martiskainen, Mari, Seyfang, Gill

“…Grassroots innovations for sustainability are attracting increasing policy attention. Drawing upon a wide range of empirical research into community energy in…”
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A grassroots sustainable energy niche? Reflections on community energy in the UK by Seyfang, Gill, Hielscher, Sabine, Hargreaves, Tom, Martiskainen, Mari, Smith, Adrian

“…•Strategic Niche Management (SNM) analysis is applied and tested with a civil society-led grassroots innovation (GI).•Community energy projects exhibit diverse…”
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The Euro, the Pound and the Shell in our Pockets: Rationales for Complementary Currencies in a Global Economy by Seyfang, Gill

“…This article examines various rationales for the development of complementary, subnational currencies in tandem with the upward adoption of supranational money…”
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Grassroots innovations for sustainable development: Towards a new research and policy agenda by Seyfang, Gill, Smith, Adrian

“…Innovation and community action are two important strands for sustainable development. Yet they have not hitherto been linked. Community action is a neglected,…”
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