全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): Grassroots innovations in community energy: the role of intermediaries in niche development.

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来源类型	Article
规范类型	其他
DOI	10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2013.02.008
ISBN	0959-3780
	Grassroots innovations in community energy: the role of intermediaries in niche development.
	Hargreaves, Tom; Hielscher, Sabine; Seyfang, Gill; Smith, Adrian
发表日期	2013-10
出处	Global Environmental Change
出版者	Elsevier
出版年	2013
页码	868-880
语种	英语
摘要	Community energy projects are attracting increasing attention as potential sources of innovation to support sustainable energy transitions. Research into ‘grassroots innovations’ like community energy often recognises the difficulties they face in simply surviving let alone in growing or seeding wider change. Strategic niche management theory is potentially helpful here as it highlights the important roles played by ‘intermediary actors’ in consolidating, growing and diffusing novel innovations. This paper presents the first in-depth analysis of intermediary work in the UK community energy sector. New empirical evidence was gathered through interviews with 15 community energy intermediaries and a content analysis of 113 intermediary-produced case studies about community energy projects. Analysis finds intermediaries adopting a variety of methods to try and diffuse generic lessons about context-specific projects, but that trying to coordinate support for local projects that exist amidst very different social and political circumstances is challenging. This is exacerbated by the challenges of building a coherent institutional infrastructure for a sector where aims and approaches diverge, and where underlying resources are uncertain and inconsistent. Applications of relatively simple, growth-oriented approaches like strategic niche management to grassroots innovations need to be reformulated to better recognise their diverse and conflicted realities on the ground.
特色分类	A General Works$H Social Sciences
关键词	seg
URL	http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/44105/
来源智库	Science Policy Research Unit (United Kingdom)
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资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/468214
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Hargreaves, Tom,Hielscher, Sabine,Seyfang, Gill,et al. Grassroots innovations in community energy: the role of intermediaries in niche development.. 2013.