Social Innovation for Sustainability Transformation and its Diverging Development Paths in Marginalised Rural Areas
Summary. Social innovation—collaborative responses from civic society to societal challenges—drives sustainable development in marginalised rural areas facing biophysical limits and funding shortages. Analysis of 211 social innovation examples and 11 in-depth cases identified four distinct development paths for social innovation. The research shows that social innovation requires both local and external actors, but depends critically on internal local activity and knowledge to succeed in transforming marginalised rural communities.
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Kluvánková, T., Nijnik, M., Špaček, M., Sarkki, S., Perlik, M., Lukesch, R., Melnykovych, M., López, D. E. V., & Brnkaľáková, S.. (2021). Social Innovation for Sustainability Transformation and its Diverging Development Paths in Marginalised Rural Areas. Sociologia Ruralis. https://doi.org/10.1111/soru.12337
Kluvánková, Tatiana, et al. “Social Innovation for Sustainability Transformation and its Diverging Development Paths in Marginalised Rural Areas.” Sociologia Ruralis, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1111/soru.12337.
Kluvánková, Tatiana, Maria Nijnik, Martin Špaček, Simo Sarkki, Manfred Perlik, Robert Lukesch, Mariana Melnykovych, Diana Esmeralda Valero López, and Stanislava Brnkaľáková. 2021. “Social Innovation for Sustainability Transformation and its Diverging Development Paths in Marginalised Rural Areas.” Sociologia Ruralis. https://doi.org/10.1111/soru.12337.
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- DOI
- 10.1111/soru.12337
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- United Kingdom, Czech Republic, Finland, Switzerland, Spain
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- Europe
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- innovation-theory, regional-innovation-systems, climate-and-environment
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- 2026-04-28