Enterprising communities grassroots sustainability innovations
This book provides an internationally grounded and critical review of grassroots sustainability enterprises, specifically focusing on the processes that lead to their formation, the governing context that shapes their evolution, the benefits they create and the challenges that they face in different...
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| Other Authors | |
|---|---|
| Format | Electronic eBook |
| Language | English |
| Published |
Bingley, U.K. :
Emerald,
2012.
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| Series | Advances in ecopolitics ;
v. 9. |
| Subjects | |
| Online Access | Full text |
| ISBN | 9781780524856 |
| ISSN | 2041-806X ; |
| DOI | 10.1108/S2041-806X(2012)9 |
| Physical Description | 1 online resource (199 p.) : ill. |
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Table of Contents:
- ch. 1. Introduction : sustainability, innovation, enterprise and the grassroots / Anna Davies
- ch. 2. Sustainability impacts and grassroots enterprises / Anna Davies, Sue Mullin
- ch. 3. Waste and community enterprises in Ireland : co-operation, collaboration and the formation of the community resource network / Anna Davies, Sue Mullin
- ch. 4. Low impact development : radical housing solutions from the grassroots / Jenny Pickerill, Larch Maxey
- ch. 5. Sustainable housing : a case study of the Cloughjordan eco-village, Ireland / Nessa Winston
- ch. 6. Making power differently : exploring the motives and meanings of community renewable energy development in cases from the UK and South Korea / Yonjoo Jeong, Neil Simcock, Gordon Walker
- ch. 7. Grassroots gardening initiatives : community gardens in Berlin / Marit Rosol
- ch. 8. Community-based conservation as grassroots sustainability enterprise? : sea turtle egg harvesting in Ostional, Costa Rica / Lisa M. Campbell, Bethany J. Haalboom, Jennie Trow
- ch. 9. The Totnes Pound : a grassroots technological niche / Noel Longhurst
- ch. 10. Conclusion : sustaining grassroots sustainability enterprise : challenges and opportunities / Anna Davies.