Building capacity for low-carbon communities: The role of grassroots initiatives
Building capacity for low-carbon communities: The role of grassroots initiatives
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DOI：
10.1016/j.enpol.2009.07.003
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发表时间：
2010-12
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9
通讯作者：
L. Middlemiss;Bradley D. Parrish
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作者：
L. Middlemiss;Bradley D. Parrish
基层的变革举措依赖于权力有限、资源有限和影响他人能力有限的人。从这一立场出发，人们自下而上地行动，可以改变自己的行为，寻求影响周围的人，并寻求改变他们所居住的社会结构。这些行为都是在社区内构思、发起和颁布的，从业者、政策制定者和学术界对社区作为实现有利于环境的变革的空间的重要性越来越感兴趣。在本文中，我们问基层倡议在创建低碳社区中可以发挥什么作用。使用的理论框架，从工作的社区为基础的实践变化的倡议，我们讨论了基层行动和社区能力之间的相互作用。然后，我们提出了两个基层低碳社区倡议的情况下，根据这一理论工作。最后，我们讨论了案例中出现的关键主题，包括基层倡议建设社区低碳实践能力的潜力，以及根据当地具体结构制定解决方案的重要性。
Grassroots initiatives for change rely on people with limited power, limited resources and limited ability to influence others. From this position, people acting from the bottom up can change their own actions, seek to influence others around them and seek to change the social structures that they inhabit. These acts are invariably conceived, initiated and enacted within communities, and there is an emerging interest from practitioner, policy and academic circles in the importance of community as a space for realising pro-environmental change. In this paper, we ask what role grassroots initiatives can have in creating low-carbon communities. Using a theoretical framework from work on community-based practice change initiatives, we discuss the interplay between grassroots action and community capacity. We then present two cases of grassroots low-carbon community initiatives in light of this theoretical work. We conclude by discussing key themes emerging from the cases, including the potential for grassroots initiatives to build community capacity for low-carbon practices, and the importance of locally crafted solutions according to the structures specific to place.