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DOI	10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2013.02.008
	Grassroots innovations in community energy: The role of intermediaries in niche development
	Hargreaves T.; Hielscher S.; Seyfang G.; Smith A.
发表日期	2013
ISSN	0959-3780
卷号	23 期号:5
英文摘要	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. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd.
英文关键词	Community energy; Grassroots innovation; Intermediary actors; Strategic niche management
学科领域	community resource management; energy; grassroots level; infrastructure; innovation; research; sustainable development
语种	英语
scopus关键词	community resource management; energy; grassroots level; infrastructure; innovation; research; sustainable development
来源期刊	Global Environmental Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/117905
作者单位	Science, Society and Sustainability Research Group (3S), School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, United Kingdom; Science and Technology Policy Research Unit (SPRU), University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QE, United Kingdom
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Hargreaves T.,Hielscher S.,Seyfang G.,et al. Grassroots innovations in community energy: The role of intermediaries in niche development[J],2013,23(5).
APA	Hargreaves T.,Hielscher S.,Seyfang G.,&Smith A..(2013).Grassroots innovations in community energy: The role of intermediaries in niche development.Global Environmental Change,23(5).
MLA	Hargreaves T.,et al."Grassroots innovations in community energy: The role of intermediaries in niche development".Global Environmental Change 23.5(2013).