Social innovation in an unsustainable world

Mehmood, Abid; Parra, Constanza

doi:10.4337/9781849809986.00014

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“…Zooming in to local and small-scale green land acquisition facilitates understanding the interconnections between actors, expectations, and, most importantly, the benefits and beneficiaries of social innovation. Any social innovation seeks the improvement of society, addresses social-ecological needs of communities, and empowers people [23]. Using a social innovation lens to examine APANAJUCA and AFAMAAR, and their green land acquisition mechanisms, revealed aspects of green land acquisition (notably their potential positive benefits) that have not been previously considered.…”

Section: Applying a Social Innovation Lens To Green Land Acquisitionmentioning

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“…In environmental governance scholarship, social innovation is regarded as critical to achieving sustainability and fostering the resilience of social-ecological systems (SES) [20][21][22]. Mehmood & Parra [23] argued that social innovation connects all sustainability pillars and consequently better conceptualizes and fosters sustainable development. Similarly, Biggs et al [24] considered social innovation to be a way of developing more adaptive, integrated ecosystem management practices to improve society's ability to sustainably manage complex social-ecological systems.…”

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Community-Led Green Land Acquisition: Social Innovative Initiatives for Forest Protection and Regional Development

Castro-Arce

Vanclay

2020

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Land acquisition often involves power and displacement and can be carried out on a large scale. There are many forms of land acquisition, including for environmental and conservation purposes as well as for production activities. While green grabbing has joined land grabbing as an environmental justice issue of concern, it is not necessarily the case that all green land acquisition is large scale, done by powerful outsiders, or leads to displacement and exclusion. The outcomes of green land acquisition are dependent on the mechanisms used, the adequacy of resettlement and/or compensation, and the social and environmental context in which it happens. We discuss the outcomes of community-led land acquisition for conservation purposes in Costa Rica. We considered a special case of green land acquisition done by local civil society to defend the forest and water resources of the Juan Castro Blanco National Water Park in Costa Rica. We used the literature on green grabbing, social ecological systems, and social innovation to discuss local environmental governance and regional sustainable development. This paper makes a fresh contribution to environmental planning and environmental governance by bringing in aspects of green land acquisition that have not been previously explored.

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Section: Applying a Social Innovation Lens To Green Land Acquisitionmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Community-Led Green Land Acquisition: Social Innovative Initiatives for Forest Protection and Regional Development

Castro-Arce

Vanclay

2020

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“…invent and establish, new ways of playing the social game of collaboration and conflict, in a word a new social practice, and in the course of which they acquire the necessary... abilities to do this". It has become a prominent theme in organizational studies (Mehmood & Constanza, 2013). Its borders have not yet been completely defined, with untapped opportunities for theoretical and empirical contributions (Cajaiba-Santana, 2014).…”

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Open social innovation in living labs

Silva

Bitencourt

2019

Pensamento Contemporâneo em Administração

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“…Interest in learning is reflected in several calls for experimentation and innovation to deal with the challenges of an uncertain and unknown future (Reed et al, 2010). From this standpoint, learning can be seen as an exploratory search process in which actors collectively experiment and trigger innovation (Pahl‐Wostl, 2009; Mehmood and Parra, 2013).…”

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Learning from the rubble: the case of Christchurch, New Zealand, after the 2010 and 2011 earthquakes

2018

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Learning after a disaster is crucial in creating more resilient places. However, many societies are repeatedly overwhelmed by disasters. This can be because of missed opportunities to learn in post‐disaster settings or because of actions implemented that seem to be highly relevant to recovery in the short term, but potentially constrain aspirations in the longer term. This paper assesses learning processes among state and non‐state actors and the ways in which these are bridged and scaled up to wider improvements in governance. Aiming to enrich understanding of post‐disaster learning, it explores different actors’ response actions after the earthquakes in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 2010 and 2011. On the one hand, ‘learning by doing’ is occurring, yet, on the other hand, systemic learning is hindered by mismatches between top‐down steering and bottom‐up initiatives. The study concludes that better linking and synergising of learning processes among different levels is vital for enhancing resilience in post‐disaster societies.

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Social innovation in an unsustainable world

Cited by 22 publications

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Community-Led Green Land Acquisition: Social Innovative Initiatives for Forest Protection and Regional Development

Community-Led Green Land Acquisition: Social Innovative Initiatives for Forest Protection and Regional Development

Open social innovation in living labs

Learning from the rubble: the case of Christchurch, New Zealand, after the 2010 and 2011 earthquakes

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