Impact of Social Innovation on Sustainable Development of Rural Areas
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2020) | Viewed by 41841
Special Issue Editors
Interests: social innovation in rural areas; multilevel governance and environmental network governance; forest policy and economics; evaluation methods, tools and indicators; participatory approaches in tourism development
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Interests: social innovation in rural areas; socio-spatial transformations in rural society; sustainable territorial development in rural and mountain areas; spatial analysis and GIS
Interests: forest policy and economics; social innovation in rural areas; governance and social capital; management of natural resources; innovation in agriculture and forestry
Interests: social innovation in rural areas; social capital; evaluation methods, tools and indicators; environmental network governance
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, international organizations have increasingly embraced social innovation as a means for addressing several social, economic, and environmental challenges which neither the market nor public policies can solve. Examples of these challenges in rural areas are population ageing and migration, loss of economic activities, increasing poverty and social exclusion, growing economic inequality, loss of biodiversity, and the reduction of services and welfare.
Numerous studies have provided evidence demonstrating how social innovation might be considered as an alternative way of responding to specific social needs or broader societal challenges by mobilizing people’s creativity, promoting an innovative and learning society as well as supporting social dynamics in order to foster technological innovations.
Despite these positive premises, very little is known regarding what works best nor how social innovations impact and determine the sustainable development of rural areas across the world.
This Special Issue invites contributions from different disciplines to address questions related to the environmental, social, economic, and institutional outcomes and impacts on the sustainable development of rural and marginal areas that are determined by social innovation initiatives. We welcome papers that analytically, theoretically, conceptually, empirically, and methodologically explore these issues by providing direct and/or indirect evidence for producing the observed positive or negative effects. Potential contributors are welcome to contact the Guest Editors to discuss the proposed submissions. The submission deadline is 31 December 2020.
Prof. Laura Secco
Dr. Elisa Ravazzoli
Dr. Elena Górriz Mifsud
Dr. Elena Pisani
Guest Editors
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