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* A unique account of a high-profile transdisciplinary research
project, bringing together the STEPS consortium and building on
earlier work in the 'Pathways to Sustainability' series * Distinct
contributions from research teams working across six diverse
international contexts * A novel comparative analysis of the role
of social science and transdisciplinary research in sustainability
transformations * Mapping out prospects for future research and
impact agendas associated with global sustainability challenges and
the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Innovation is increasingly invoked by policy elites and business
leaders as vital for tackling global challenges like sustainable
development. Often overlooked, however, is the fact that networks
of community groups, activists, and researchers have been
innovating grassroots solutions for social justice and
environmental sustainability for decades. Unencumbered by
disciplinary boundaries, policy silos, or institutional logics,
these 'grassroots innovation movements' identify issues and
questions neglected by formal science, technology and innovation
organizations. Grassroots solutions arise in unconventional
settings through unusual combinations of people, ideas and tools.
This book examines six diverse grassroots innovation movements in
India, South America and Europe, situating them in their particular
dynamic historical contexts. Analysis explains why each movement
frames innovation and development differently, resulting in a
variety of strategies. The book explores the spaces where each of
these movements have grown, or attempted to do so. It critically
examines the pathways they have developed for grassroots innovation
and the challenges and limitations confronting their approaches.
With mounting pressure for social justice in an increasingly
unequal world, policy makers are exploring how to foster more
inclusive innovation. In this context grassroots experiences take
on added significance. This book provides timely and relevant
ideas, analysis and recommendations for activists, policy-makers,
students and scholars interested in encounters between innovation,
development and social movements.
Examining the regulation of technologies, this book explores how
the drive to harmonize regulatory policies across the world is at
odds with the increasingly diverse local settings in which they are
implemented. The authors use a 'framings' approach that starts with
the concerns and experiences of technology users and works
'upwards' in order to examine how best to improve regulation. The
book centres around two in-depth case study topics: regulation of
transgenic cotton seed and regulation of antibiotics, compared
across situations in China and Argentina. The authors examine how
high-level initiatives in regulatory harmonization and regulatory
capacity building compare with national policies, day-to-day
enforcement realities on the ground, and with the way poorer users
experience these technologies. Through these studies the authors
offer ways to rethink regulation in order to realign the power and
politics at play and create more effective regulation for
technology users around the world. Published in association with
the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).
* A unique account of a high-profile transdisciplinary research
project, bringing together the STEPS consortium and building on
earlier work in the 'Pathways to Sustainability' series * Distinct
contributions from research teams working across six diverse
international contexts * A novel comparative analysis of the role
of social science and transdisciplinary research in sustainability
transformations * Mapping out prospects for future research and
impact agendas associated with global sustainability challenges and
the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Innovation is increasingly invoked by policy elites and business
leaders as vital for tackling global challenges like sustainable
development. Often overlooked, however, is the fact that networks
of community groups, activists, and researchers have been
innovating grassroots solutions for social justice and
environmental sustainability for decades. Unencumbered by
disciplinary boundaries, policy silos, or institutional logics,
these 'grassroots innovation movements' identify issues and
questions neglected by formal science, technology and innovation
organizations. Grassroots solutions arise in unconventional
settings through unusual combinations of people, ideas and tools.
This book examines six diverse grassroots innovation movements in
India, South America and Europe, situating them in their particular
dynamic historical contexts. Analysis explains why each movement
frames innovation and development differently, resulting in a
variety of strategies. The book explores the spaces where each of
these movements have grown, or attempted to do so. It critically
examines the pathways they have developed for grassroots innovation
and the challenges and limitations confronting their approaches.
With mounting pressure for social justice in an increasingly
unequal world, policy makers are exploring how to foster more
inclusive innovation. In this context grassroots experiences take
on added significance. This book provides timely and relevant
ideas, analysis and recommendations for activists, policy-makers,
students and scholars interested in encounters between innovation,
development and social movements.
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