[HTML][HTML] Governing Europe's forests for multiple ecosystem services: Opportunities, challenges, and policy options

G Winkel, M Lovrić, B Muys, P Katila… - Forest Policy and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Europe's forest provide multiple ecosystem services for societies, ranging from provisioning
(eg wood) and regulating (eg climate mitigation and biodiversity) to cultural (eg recreation) …

The role of actors in social innovation in rural areas

N Vercher - Land, 2022 - mdpi.com
Social innovation is gaining momentum in academia, policy and practice, as a process by
which local communities generate new social relations and become more capable of …

Social innovation in rural areas of the European Union learnings from neo-endogenous development projects in Italy and Spain

F Navarro-Valverde, M Labianca, E Cejudo-García… - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
Within the framework of the LEADER approach to rural development applied in rural areas
of the European Union, a high degree of social innovation (SI) has been achieved with the …

The green side of social innovation: Using sustainable development goals to classify environmental impacts of rural grassroots initiatives

V Marini Govigli, M Rois‐Díaz… - Environmental Policy …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Social innovations are grassroots processes aiming to achieve impacts beyond an
individual level and towards a broader societal good. The environmental dimension of …

Territorial social innovation and alternative food networks: the case of a new farmers' cooperative on the island of Ibiza (Spain)

N Vercher - Agriculture, 2022 - mdpi.com
Social innovation is gaining attention as a perspective that stresses the relevance of
transforming social relations to promote sustainable territorial development. This paper …

Social innovation impacts and their assessment: An exploratory study of a social innovation initiative from a Portuguese rural region

M Novikova - Social Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Over recent decades, various approaches to social innovation (SI) have been developed. At
the same time, the question on how SI can contribute to and can impact the development of …

[HTML][HTML] Transformative Social Innovation as a Guideline to Enhance the Sustainable Development Goals' Framework

L Pamplona, M Estellita Lins, A Xavier, M Almeida - Sustainability, 2024 - mdpi.com
To achieve the objectives of reversing ongoing social and environmental degradation, there
is an urgent need to accelerate efforts towards more sustainable and regenerative socio …

[HTML][HTML] Policy framework as a challenge and opportunity for social innovation initiatives in eco-tourism in Colombia

HJG Higuera, T Rogelja, L Secco - Forest Policy and Economics, 2023 - Elsevier
Colombia confronts a multitude of societal and environmental problems, which severely
manifest in rural areas, leading to loss of biodiversity, reduced legal income opportunities …

How can a cooperative‐based organization of indigenous fisheries foster the resilience to global changes? Lessons learned by coastal communities in eastern …

M Alberio, M Soubirou - Environmental Policy and Governance, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Halieutic resources and small‐scale fisheries are globally under stress due to global
changes. This phenomenon has very strong impacts on the socioeconomic situation of vast …

Social innovation projects link to sustainable development goals: Case of Portugal

J Cunha, C Ferreira, M Araújo, ML Nunes… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Recent literature on social innovation highlights its conceptual ambiguity and fragmentation.
According to this context, this paper explores how social innovation can contribute to the …