Local sustainability initiatives: innovation and civic engagement in societal experiments

U Pesch, W Spekkink, J Quist - European planning studies, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Local sustainability initiatives are studied from two scholarly perspectives: the perspective of
sociotechnical innovation, which relates to the capacity of bottom-up initiatives to contribute …

Innovative tools for tourism and cultural tourism impact assessment

T Kalvet, M Olesk, M Tiits, J Raun - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
The importance of data and evidence has increased considerably in policy planning,
implementation, and evaluation. There is unprecedented availability of open and big data …

Playing with the rules of the game: Social innovation for urban transformation

M Thompson - International Journal of Urban and Regional …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Innovation is perhaps the buzzword in local economic development policy. Associated
narrowly with neoliberal ideas, conventional notions of innovation—like its capitalocentric …

[HTML][HTML] Countervailing effects of urbanization and vegetation extent on fire frequency on the Wildland Urban Interface: Disentangling fuel and ignition effects

O Price, R Bradstock - Landscape and urban planning, 2014 - Elsevier
Fire activity has been found to follow a humped relationship with population density, but the
countervailing drivers and scale effects in this relationship have not previously been teased …

Finding convergence: Economic perspectives and the economic practices of an Australian ecovillage

OM Price, S Ville, E Heffernan, B Gibbons… - … Innovation and Societal …, 2020 - Elsevier
The practices of ecologically-minded alternative communities illuminate differing
perspectives on what might constitute an economy. This paper explores the extant literature …

Ecovillages in Spain: Searching an emancipatory social transformation?

LDR Renau - Cogent Social Sciences, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Today the second most important country after the United States, in the number of
ecovillages, and by far, the most prominent in Europe, is Spain. The question to be …

The (In) Visibility of Diversity in Alternative Organizations

R Bendl, A Fleischmann, A Schmidt - Journal of Business Ethics, 2024 - Springer
Reflecting current debates on 'organizational virtues' as going beyond the capitalocentrist
bias of contemporary economies and to see diversity as 'ethical responsibility,'this article …

Were Social Labs immune to COVID-19? Impacts and benefits

A Urmanaviciene, J Kostalova, D Baturina… - Management & …, 2022 - sciendo.com
The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted higher education worldwide. Higher education
institutions needed to adapt very rapidly to the crisis and a new environment, and also …

Authentic education for meaningful work: Beyond “career management skills”

RG Sultana - The Oxford handbook of career development, 2021 - books.google.com
This chapter focuses on work education in education settings and explores how it can be
conceptualized so that it contributes to flourishing and well-being. The chapter first provides …

Sharing economy and the social-economic context: Mercenarism or common good?

ADR Lazzari, M Petrini, AC Souza - RAM. Revista de Administração …, 2021 - SciELO Brasil
Purpose: The aim of this research is to understand how the social-economic context
influences the transformative potential of the sharing economy (SE). Originality/value: The …