The diffusion of grassroots innovations for sustainability in Italy and <scp>G</scp>reat <scp>B</scp>ritain: an exploratory spatial data analysis

Giuseppe Feola, Anisa Butt · 2015 · Geographical Journal

Summary. Grassroots sustainability networks spread unevenly across space and time. Transition Towns and Solidarity Purchasing Groups diffused differently in Great Britain and Italy, with similar patterns only in central Italy. The research reveals that spatial structure matters for grassroots innovation diffusion, challenging assumptions about their universal momentum and highlighting the importance of institutional context, cross-movement collaboration, and geographic proximity.

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  title   = {The diffusion of grassroots innovations for sustainability in Italy and <scp>G</scp>reat <scp>B</scp>ritain: an exploratory spatial data analysis},
  author  = {Giuseppe Feola and Anisa Butt},
  journal = {Geographical Journal},
  year    = {2015},
  doi     = {10.1111/geoj.12153},
  url     = {https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.12153}
}

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DOI

10.1111/geoj.12153

Countries

United Kingdom, Italy

Regions

Europe

Categories

innovation-networks, climate-and-environment, regional-innovation-systems, general-innovation

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2026-04-28