Green Niches in Sustainable Development: The Case of Organic Food in the United Kingdom

By Adrian Smith. 2006

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Plant Science, Sociology and Political Science

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Conceptualising multi-regime interactions: The role of the agriculture sector in renewable energy transitions (2015, background): “…are also addressed utilising socio-technical systems perspectives, but these papers tend to focus on alternative farming methods and marketing strategies, such as organic farming (Belz, 2004; Smith, 2006, 2007) and local food networks (Diaz et al., 2013; Darrot et al., 2015; Lošt’ák et al., 2015).”
Desperately seeking niches: Grassroots innovations and niche development in the community currency field (2013, background): “…which in turn affects possibilities for institutionalisation and consolidating learning, managing organisational change, making effective links and networks with other societal actors, and diffusing oppositional ideas into wider society (Seyfang, 2009; Smith, 2006, 2007; Hielscher et al., 2013).”
Building a green economy? Sustainability transitions in the UK building sector (2015, background): “While niches are important sources of innovation that may offer solutions for tensions in existing sociotechnical regimes, adaptation or translation processes may be constrained by structures within the existing mainstream regime (Smith, 2006; Smith and Raven, 2012; Hargreaves et al., 2013).”
Transition heuristic frameworks in research on agro-food sustainability transitions (2020, background): “Smith (2006) focused on the dialectical relation between niches and socio-technical regimes taking as an example that of organic food in the UK.”
The Multi-Level Perspective in Research on Sustainability Transitions in Agriculture and Food Systems: A Systematic Review (2019, background): “While many scholars suggest that some compatibility between the practices and visions of the niche and the regime is necessary to have a successful niche-regime anchoring/linking [16,49,54,85,109], Bui et al.”
Rethinking the multi-level perspective of technological transitions (2008, background): “…of symbiosis between niche innovations and the incumbent socio-technical regimes (Geels, 2007); the relationship between niches and the mainstream (Smith, 2005; 2006; 2007), differentiation of the concept of niches beyond the merely ‘technical’ (Geels, 2006a; Geels and Schot, 2007); and the…”
Co-producing Transition: Innovation Processes in Farms Adhering to Solidarity-based Purchase Groups (GAS) in Tuscany, Italy (2011, background): “The meeting of AAFNs literature and transition theories (Rip and Kemp, 1998; Smith, 2003, 2006; Geels, 2004; Moors et al., 2004; Wiskerke and Van der Ploeg, 2004; Seyfang, 2006) has opened a new research field by developing analytical tools to better study the contribution of AAFNs to broader…”
Grassroots Localisation? The Scalar Potential of and Limits of the ‘Transition’ Approach to Climate Change and Resource Constraint (2013, background): “the extent to which engagement and integration lead to systemic change or cooption as, some would argue, happened in other cases of ‘alternative’ systems building such as organic agriculture (Guthman, 2004; Smith, 2006).”
When grassroots innovation movements encounter mainstream institutions: implications for models of inclusive innovation (2014, background): “Innovation policy aims are generally expressed as an imperative to catch-up with or keep-up with an apparently universal techno-economic frontier, typically based on information technology, biotechnology and nanotechnology (Freeman 1992;”