Journal
ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING A
Volume 48, Issue 2, Pages 407-432Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/0308518X15597908
Keywords
Grassroots innovation; community energy; strategic niche management; critical niches; energy transitions
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- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
- European Centre and Laboratories for Energy Efficiency Research [EP/H051139/1]
- UK Research Councils' Centre for Innovation and Energy Demand [EP/K011790/1]
- Economic and Social Research Council [ES/I021620/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/L024756/1, EP/H050930/1, EP/K011790/1, EP/H051139/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- EPSRC [EP/H050930/1, EP/L024756/1, EP/H051139/1, EP/K011790/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- ESRC [ES/I021620/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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Grassroots innovations for sustainability are attracting increasing policy attention. Drawing upon a wide range of empirical research into community energy in the UK, and taking recent support from national government as a case study, we apply three distinct analytical perspectives: strategic niche management, niche policy advocacy, and critical niches. Whilst the first and second perspectives appear to explain policy influence in grassroots innovation adequately, each also shuts out more transformational possibilities. We therefore argue that, if grassroots innovation is to realise its full potential, then we need to also pursue a third, critical niches perspective, and open up debate about more socially transformative pathways to sustainability.
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