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Locally led adaptation: drivers for appropriate grassroots initiatives
Local Environment : the International Journal of Justice and Sustainability, 2021Adapting to the impacts of climate change is one of the most urgent priorities of our time. Given that the impacts of climate change are experienced at local scales, it makes sense that adaptation should occur locally, and yet, despite this, locals often
R. Westoby +6 more
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Proceedings of the 2nd ACM workshop on Online social networks, 2009
Large, socially-driven Web 2.0 sites such as Facebook and Youtube have seen significant growth in popularity [5, 10]. However, strong demand also exists for socially-driven web sites specialized to companies and knowledge domains. Unfortunately, existing tools for building such sites only provide low-level functionality to address recurring search and ...
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Large, socially-driven Web 2.0 sites such as Facebook and Youtube have seen significant growth in popularity [5, 10]. However, strong demand also exists for socially-driven web sites specialized to companies and knowledge domains. Unfortunately, existing tools for building such sites only provide low-level functionality to address recurring search and ...
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Grassroots retrofit: Community governance and residential energy transitions in the United Kingdom
, 2021Residential energy demand accounts for a significant proportion of the UK’s carbon emissions. As ~80% of the existing housing stock is expected to be in use by 2050, low carbon retrofit is essential in meeting climate and fuel poverty targets.
Tobias Putnam, Donal Brown
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Community organizing: Studying the development and exercise of grassroots power.
Journal of Community Psychology, 2021There is now wide recognition that grassroots community organizing is a uniquely necessary approach for contending with the persistent and escalating socioeconomic inequities that manifest as disparities across many societal domains, including housing ...
Brian D. Christens +2 more
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Toward a Grassroots Culture of Technology Practice
Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact., 2020Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) can support grassroots social movements toward greateroutreach and better day-to-day communication. In this paper, we present the results of action research with alarge-scale grassroots social movement ...
Sucheta Ghoshal +2 more
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, 2020
In the context of globalizing transboundary environmental challenges, strategies to protect and secure the local commons such as water resources have been increasingly scaled up.
Emilie Dupuits +4 more
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In the context of globalizing transboundary environmental challenges, strategies to protect and secure the local commons such as water resources have been increasingly scaled up.
Emilie Dupuits +4 more
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Promise of inclusive innovation: A Re-look into the opportunities at the grassroots
Journal of Cleaner Production, 2020A tectonic shift in the paradigm of innovation is being witnessed lately at the Bottom of the Pyramid. Although previous studies have been empirical; the approach, processes, practices of innovation have received limited attention at the grassroots. Thus,
Jayshree Patnaik, B. Bhowmick
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