Policy and community-led action on sustainability and climate change: paradox and possibility in the interstices

  • Articles in non-SCI journals - international
  • May, 2018

Henfrey, T.Penha-Lopes, G. (2018) Policy and community-led action on sustainability and climate change: paradox and possibility in the interstices.

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 29, 52-54. DOI:10.1016/j.eist.2018.05.002 (IF2018 7,514; Q1 Environmental sciences)
Summary:

This commentary relates findings reported in this collection to personal and collective experiences within ECOLISE, a unique experiment in creating a common platform for networking, collaboration, learning and policy influence representing multiple national and international networks of CBIs. The establishment of ECOLISE has raised numerous challenges identical or parallel to those faced by CBIs and reported elsewhere in this collection: risks of co-optation by established policy actors, the need to develop new operational processes in multiple areas simultaneously and without direct precedents on which to build, and the paradoxical position of operating within the very same structures it seeks to change. These issues have a common source in tensions between conventional forms of social process and collaborative cultures and those emerging from community-led action and prefiguring the social goals of CBIs. Lessons from experiences within ECOLISE can thus complement and further illuminate findings from research on and with CBIs.


https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2210422417302125

Team

  • Policy and community-led action on sustainability and climate change: paradox and possibility in the interstices Gil Penha-Lopes Plant-Soil Ecology - PSE
  • Policy and community-led action on sustainability and climate change: paradox and possibility in the interstices Tom William Henfrey Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Modelling - CCIAM