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  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,350 Views
21 Pages

26 February 2019

The permaculture community is a grassroots initiative that challenges current mainstream practices. Such grassroots initiatives are seen as promising incubators of learning processes that can guide transformations. However, there is ambivalence betwe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
6,395 Views
13 Pages

30 October 2017

In recent years, new forms of enhancement of public real-estate assets have been developed in Italy. These are based on initiatives promoted by a citizenry eager to pursue their cultural, creative, and entrepreneurial activities in unused assets. The...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
8,349 Views
15 Pages

Bottom-Up Approach to Language Policy and Planning in Kazakhstan

  • Dinara Tlepbergen,
  • Assel Akzhigitova and
  • Anastassia Zabrodskaja

13 February 2023

National and world news is constantly accompanied by inter-group dramas which are permeated by the dynamics of language use and attitudes. Conflicts can arise between the state insisting on an official language and the family and community who may su...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,132 Views
18 Pages

Based on the evaluation model of the gray correlation-TOPSIS method, this paper examines the index system of grass-roots water conservancy services in Hunan Province, China. This paper aims at the present situation of grassroots water conservancy in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
5,909 Views
20 Pages

30 April 2020

There is growing interest in the potential of grassroots innovations for the transition towards more just and sustainable societies. Nevertheless, there is lack of clear normative discussion regarding these processes. The paper strives to propose and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,693 Views
25 Pages

25 February 2022

Family farmers and grassroots innovations can enable transitions to more sustainable food systems. The study explores the roles umbrella farmers’ organizations play in building transformative capacity through grassroots innovations in rural foo...

  • Review
  • Open Access
45 Citations
12,853 Views
21 Pages

This review explores the current evidence on the role and success factors of grassroots initiatives in sustainability transitions, with special attention given to social innovations and the transformation of urban food systems, a field that is still...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,496 Views
17 Pages

27 September 2022

Community-based approaches to natural resource management are being discussed and experienced as promising ways for pursuing ecological conservation and socio-economic development simultaneously. However, the multiplicity of levels, scales, objective...

  • Article
  • Open Access
562 Views
24 Pages

22 December 2025

Grassroots and community-led initiatives are increasingly recognized as important actors of local development, yet their role of “local networkers” capable of co-designing and co-creating solutions remains insufficiently explored, particu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,387 Views
20 Pages

3 July 2018

This paper studies features of grassroots ecopreneurs’ leadership in their attempt to ignite transformations in production-consumption systems from the bottom up. It builds on a comprehensive approach of change agency based on institutional wor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
10,278 Views
14 Pages

11 May 2016

The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) is unique among international human rights instruments for including a “civil society mandate”. Within the convention, disabled persons organizations (DPOs) are identified as having the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,559 Views
14 Pages

The Perception of Grassroots Coaches of Spanish Professional Clubs on the Process of Training Young Players

  • Alberto Martín Barrero,
  • Francisco Javier Giménez Fuentes-Guerra and
  • Manuel Tomás Abad Robles

18 October 2022

(1) The aims of this study were to find out the perception of the coaches of male and female football players in the initiation stage of Spanish professional clubs about different factors of the training process (context, talent development, and meth...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
5,091 Views
19 Pages

How Local Energy Initiatives Develop Technological Innovations: Growing an Actor Network

  • Esther C. Van der Waal,
  • Henny J. Van der Windt and
  • Ellen C. J. Van Oost

4 December 2018

Local energy initiatives are of growing interest to studies of grassroots innovation for sustainability. Some of these initiatives have developed novel technological solutions to fulfil local demand for renewable energy. However, whereas the upscalin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,119 Views
22 Pages

31 July 2019

Self-organization is a term that is increasingly used to describe how engaged citizens come together to create sustainable food systems at the local community level. Yet, there is a lack of understanding of what this self-organizing activity actually...

  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,528 Views
18 Pages

25 February 2022

Climate change and its challenges have long been incorporated into the policy-making process. Advocacy actions urge to strengthen the socio-ecological resilience through engagement with stakeholders, feedback recollection, and testing of solutions. S...

  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
18,963 Views
17 Pages

29 May 2012

This article addresses a question relevant to those interested in the achievement of greater sustainability: What are some of the ways that major societal transformations come about? Firstly, four key mechanisms are identified in the article. Then, I...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,255 Views
28 Pages

5 February 2025

The research aims to explore the key components of an ideal grassroots-based digital urbanisation strategy for Türkiye. This exploration seeks to shed light on the most effective digital urbanisation strategies for Türkiye. Data were collec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
14,482 Views
18 Pages

7 April 2025

The Philippines’ new religious movements (NRMs) emerged in the context of the rise of the religious nationalism movement and gradually flourished during the martial law period in the 1970s. Compared with traditional Catholicism, the theology of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
7,124 Views
20 Pages

15 January 2021

Founded in Birmingham, England in 1984, Islamic Relief is today the world’s largest and most-recognized Western-based Islamically-inspired non-governmental organization. Framed by an analysis of processes of racialization, I argue that Islamic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,699 Views
26 Pages

7 June 2022

This study examines how local agents (non-profit-seeking actors and residents of Pahawang Island) developed empowering methods to address ecological problems during the island’s transformation from a small, secluded island to a tourist destinat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,782 Views
17 Pages

6 April 2021

This research examines the organizational change in Chinese elite sport training at the grassroots level, which is perceived as foundational to and crucial for the development of sustainable competitive advantage at the Olympics. Predicted on an in-d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,150 Views
19 Pages

31 January 2024

Sustainable urban renewal is an important approach to achieving high-quality urban development. The elements of megacities are diverse, and their structures are complex. It is critical to carry out the scientific classification of grassroots governan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,137 Views
25 Pages

31 May 2023

Under the background of the decline of rural society, the brain drain and the lack of endogenous development power are one of the main reasons restricting the development of rural China. Although village committees and village Party committees, as gr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,126 Views
14 Pages

Community Voices on the Experiences of Community-Based Participatory Research in the Environmental Justice Movement

  • P. Qasimah Boston,
  • Bruce Strouble,
  • Aisha Balogun,
  • Beto Lugo-Martinez,
  • Mildred McClain,
  • Mary Miaisha Mitchell,
  • Kim Wasserman,
  • David Rahn,
  • Molly Greenberg and
  • Cecilia Garibay

17 June 2023

Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is increasingly being used by academics to address urban health and inequity. While its foundational literature emphasizes CBPR’s role in eschewing the traditional balance of power between communiti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
7,341 Views
35 Pages

3 February 2023

In this work, the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology is used to examine the implications of CO2 capture from a natural gas combined cycle power plant with post-combustion carbon capture (NGCC-CCS) in Iraq, taking into account two different desig...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
9,146 Views
17 Pages

6 November 2018

To effectively address the sustainability crises our planet faces, decision-makers at different levels of government worldwide will have to get a handle on three key challenges: learning from Global North and South initiatives in tandem, taking stock...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
4,873 Views
5 Pages

Printed Modular Approach on Selected High School Learners in Infanta Pangasinan for Successful Learning Delivery Amidst Disruption

  • Catherine N. Lumanta,
  • Narciso A. Martin,
  • Randy Joy M. Ventayen,
  • Ian D. Evangelista,
  • Eddelaine B. Monte,
  • Dhaly D. Boctuanon and
  • Rofer-Jay S. Ferrer

The coronavirus disease altered human history in terms of the normal course of life, day-to-day business transactions, and education setup. It could be observed that learning institutions across the globe have been affected much by the raging effect...

  • Article
  • Open Access
231 Views
26 Pages

25 February 2026

Farmers’ adoption of green grain production practices is essential for advancing China’s ecological civilization and achieving carbon neutrality. However, adoption remains uneven because farmers’ decisions are embedded in local soci...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
9,355 Views
15 Pages

27 November 2020

Village committees, as grassroots spontaneously formed by rural collective members in China’s hierarchy system, play an irreplaceable role in the management of rural public affairs. Based on the filed survey dataset taken from three pilot count...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,009 Views
23 Pages

24 April 2019

In the context of capitalist crisis, a re-emergence of reciprocal economic relationships has been praised by postcapitalist researchers. Self-organised solidarity food economies have indeed brought promise of democratic change. However, this article...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
8,545 Views
15 Pages

One impediment to expanding the prevalence and quality of community-engaged research is a shortage of instructive resources for collaboratively designing research instruments and analyzing data with community members. This article describes how a con...

  • Review
  • Open Access
122 Citations
8,050 Views
21 Pages

Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: A Challenge from Mechanisms to Therapy

  • Giovanni Tarantino,
  • Vincenzo Citro and
  • Domenico Capone

19 December 2019

Focusing on previously published mechanisms of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), their uncertainty does not always permit a clear elucidation of the grassroot alterations that are at the basis of the wide-spread illness, and thus curing it i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,663 Views
14 Pages

31 May 2023

From the Late Ming to the Republican period, Chinese Catholics living in Jiangnan (present-day Shanghai, Jiangsu, and Anhui) progressively appropriated the sacramental doctrine and practices of the Church. This study examines the implementation and e...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
7,321 Views
18 Pages

20 April 2018

This article examines the role of Palestinian civil society organizations in resistance struggles against Israeli military occupation in the 1970s and 1980s. The research focuses on the civil society transformation and shift from national resistance...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,677 Views
18 Pages

14 October 2019

Conceiving everyone as a potential designer and believing in local peoples’ informed understandings and agentic capabilities in addressing local problems, my design research journey was committed to opening up avenues for sustained transformati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
5,299 Views
34 Pages

Despite pervasiveness of the market forces and supplementary role of the state and in some cases, even civil society organisations, there are unmet social needs which remain unaddressed by the existing institutions. With industrial growth becoming jo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,108 Views
22 Pages

Exploring Stakeholders in Elderly Community Retrofit Projects: A Tripartite Evolutionary Game Analysis

  • Li Guo,
  • Ren-Jye Dzeng,
  • Shuya Hao,
  • Chaojie Zhang,
  • Shuang Zhang and
  • Liyaning Tang

13 September 2024

Renovating aging housing is a critical project at the grassroots of social governance and a significant aspect of public welfare. However, renovation processes often encounter difficulties due to conflicts among muti-level stakeholders, influenced by...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,422 Views
12 Pages

Towards Developing an Epidemic Monitoring and Warning System for Diseases and Pests of Hot Peppers in Guizhou, China

  • Kaige Liu,
  • Yumei Mu,
  • Xiaohui Chen,
  • Zhihuan Ding,
  • Min Song,
  • Dan Xing and
  • Ming Li

26 April 2022

Guizhou province is the largest area of hot pepper cultivation and processing in China. However, diseases and pests are major bottlenecks for the sustainable development of the industry. This study proposes a solution that combines intelligent monito...

  • Essay
  • Open Access
322 Views
19 Pages

26 February 2026

Plastic pollution constitutes a critical planetary health challenge, undermining the integrity of Earth systems while generating cascading harms to human health, livelihoods, and social equity particularly in low- and middle-income countries. Convent...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,066 Views
15 Pages

20 February 2024

To advance actionable knowledge production in the context of water struggles, this article identifies ways to strengthen transformative learning processes within riverine social movements. The complex challenges associated with water struggles point...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
8,952 Views
27 Pages

Strengthening Gender Justice in a Just Transition: A Research Agenda Based on a Systematic Map of Gender in Coal Transitions

  • Paula Walk,
  • Isabell Braunger,
  • Josephine Semb,
  • Carolin Brodtmann,
  • Pao-Yu Oei and
  • Claudia Kemfert

21 September 2021

For climate change mitigation, a rapid phase-out of fossil fuels such as coal is necessary. This has far-reaching gender-specific consequences. This paper presents a systematic map of the literature that examines the impact of historical coal phase-o...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
10,998 Views
20 Pages

The Building as a Home: Housing Cooperatives in Barcelona

  • Raül Avilla-Royo,
  • Sam Jacoby and
  • Ibon Bilbao

The recent growth of cooperative housing in Spain questions existing design standards and regulations as well as cultural norms of ownership, management and current housing typologies. This paper analyzes the design opportunities and challenges emerg...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
6,831 Views
16 Pages

11 September 2020

To address the challenge of achieving social learning in support of transformative change to sustainability, this paper develops an analytical framework that applies a social practice theory (SPT) lens to illuminate the constituent elements and dynam...

  • Article
  • Open Access
52 Citations
14,427 Views
8 Pages

Effective Partnership in Community-Based Health Promotion: Lessons from the Health Literacy Partnership

  • Emee Vida Estacio,
  • Mike Oliver,
  • Beth Downing,
  • Judy Kurth and
  • Joanne Protheroe

This paper aims to explore key elements needed to successfully develop healthy partnerships and collaborative working in community-based health promotion. It draws upon the lessons learned from a case study with the Health Literacy Partnership in Sto...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,555 Views
17 Pages

25 June 2023

Through the case of St Olav Ways, the aim of this article is to shed light on the ways in which the contemporary pilgrimage phenomenon in Norway is developed through a combination of interpretations of local religious history and inspiration from int...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,676 Views
11 Pages

2 February 2024

How can institutions in the social economy adapt to become more effective in dealing with the uncertainty of system transformation? This article focuses on “meso-institutions”, which we define as those that originated neither from a botto...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,178 Views
19 Pages

Against the “Hard Squares”: How La Verneda Reclaimed Green Space and Identity

  • Elisabeth Torras-Gómez,
  • Carla Jarque,
  • Aitor Alzaga,
  • Esther Oliver,
  • Laura Ruiz-Eugenio,
  • Marta Soler-Gallart,
  • Lidia Puigvert,
  • Adriana Aubert,
  • Rosa Valls-Carol and
  • Alba Crespo-López
  • + 3 authors

The scientific literature has explored the relationship between environmental justice and inequalities in the distribution and access to green spaces. This article analyses the neighbourhood of La Verneda (Barcelona) as one of the most successful cas...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,688 Views
20 Pages

Towards Domain-Specific Knowledge Graph Construction for Flight Control Aided Maintenance

  • Chuanyou Li,
  • Xinhang Yang,
  • Shance Luo,
  • Mingzhe Song and
  • Wei Li

12 December 2022

Flight control is a key system of modern aircraft. During each flight, pilots use flight control to control the forces of flight and also the aircraft’s direction and attitude. Whether flight control can work properly is closely related to safe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,715 Views
25 Pages

Urban Food Strategy in the Making: Context, Conventions and Contestations

  • Mattia Andreola,
  • Angelica Pianegonda,
  • Sara Favargiotti and
  • Francesca Forno

21 February 2021

Contemporary food systems face several paradoxes regarding equity and sustainability. Considering food production—an issue that simultaneously affects both the supply (production) and demand (consumption) sides—several cities have begun to implement...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,515 Views
28 Pages

1 November 2024

In China, communities function as grassroots self-governing bodies, and the enhancement of public participation in community governance has remained a central focus of study. This paper applies the Large-Scale Group Decision-Making (LSGDM) method to...

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