Desperately seeking niches: Grassroots innovations and niche development in the community currency field

By Gill Seyfang, Noel Longhurst. 2013

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Subfields: Business and International Management, Finance, Global and Planetary Change

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Diversifying and de-growing the circular economy: Radical social transformation in a resource-scarce world (2016, background): “Or a community currency scheme, which signals a range of community-led localized exchange 2015; also Seyfang & Longhurst, 2013). exchange systems, such as the ‘Brixton pound’ (see Community Currencies in Action, Whatever the form, the key issue here is the ac-knowledgment -Graham, 2011: 29).…”
The sharing economy: : A pathway to sustainability or a nightmarish form of neoliberal capitalism? (2016, background): “Niche innovations emerge across the market economy and civil society; for example, electric vehicles (Bakker and Farla, 2015), the sharing economy (Martin et al., 2015), and community currencies (Seyfang and Longhurst, 2013).”
Elucidating the changing roles of civil society in urban sustainability transitions (2016, background): “shared economy, or economy of the common good; [101]), or, for new economic structures (co-management, cooperatives, alternative currencies); [26,34] by responding to a market need in a socially responsible and value-creating way [28].”
Diverse economies and alternative spaces: An overview of approaches and practices (2016, background): “They may include tackling social exclusion and unemployment, improving local resilience, social capital, civic engagement and sustainable consumption, engaging in political struggle or acting as innovative niches (Seyfang and Longhurst, 2013a).”
Transforming Consumption: From Decoupling, to Behavior Change, to System Changes for Sustainable Consumption (2015, methodology): “Initial modeling shows that with planning, and step-wise processes, it may be possible to by reduce consumption without creating the negative spiral mainstream economists and politicians work sharing, to protect against increases in unemployment (6, 133).”
Three is a crowd? Exploring the potential of crowdfunding for renewable energy in the Netherlands (2016, methodology): “Even though these proxies have been used previously (Doci et al., 2015; Seyfang and Haxeltine, 2012; Seyfang and Longhurst, 2013), there is no benchmarking available for any of these.”