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Enterprising Communities: Grassroots Sustainability Innovations
Author(s): Anna Davies (Author, Editor)
- Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
- Publication Date: January 12, 2012
- Language: English
- Print length: 213 pages
- ISBN-10: 1780524846
- ISBN-13: 9781780524849
Book Description
This book provides an internationally grounded and critical review of grassroots sustainability enterprises, specifically focusing on the processes that lead to their formation, the governing context that shapes their evolution, the benefits they create and the challenges that they face in different contexts. This is the first internationally focused study of grassroots sustainability enterprises that covers such a range of environmental sectors. For the first time grassroots sustainability enterprises and their actions and impact receive comprehensive academic analysis from the perspective of their contribution towards more resilient development. The book begins by defining the term and placing it in context, looking at contemporary agendas in sustainability innovation and enterprise, and sustainability impacts and grassroots enterprises. It then examines a variety of grassroots sustainability enterprises such as low impact housing in the UK, eco-villages in Ireland, community gardening in Germany and turtle conservation in Costa Rica. It concludes by looking ahead to the future at governing frameworks for grassroots sustainability enterprises and smart green clean-tech economy.
Editorial Reviews
Review
This book provides an internationally-based critical study of community level sustainability initiatives and concentrates primarily on how they are developed, the governing environment that guides that development, benefits, and challenges. Overall, it is an academic analysis evaluating the contributions of those grassroots efforts to more resilient development. It provides reviews of a variety of initiatives, including waste and community enterprises in Ireland, low impact housing projects in the UK, community level renewable energy development in the UK and South Korea, gardening initiatives in Berlin, and community-based conservation and sustainability efforts such as sea turtle egg harvesting in Costa Rica. Editor Davies (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) and 12 co-authors contributed to the book. Distributed in North America by Turpin Distribution. --Book News Inc. Portland, OR
About the Author
Anna Davies - Trinity College Dublin, Republic of Ireland
