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Provedor de dados: | 7
País: | Canada
Título: | Africa&amp;#8217;s game changers and the catalysts of social and system innovation
Autores: | Swilling, Mark; Stellenbosch Centre for Complex Systems in Transition; Stellenbosch University; swilling@sun.ac.za.
Data: | 2016-03-24
Ano: | 2016
Palavras-chave: | African development; Social innovation; Structural transformation; Transdisciplinary research.
Resumo: | It is widely recognized that many African economies are being transformed by rapid economic growth driven largely by rising demand for the abundant natural resources scattered across the African continent. I critically review the mainstream game-changing dynamics driving this process, with special reference to a set of influential policy-oriented documents. This is followed by an analysis of less-recognized game-changing dynamics that have, in turn, been affected by the mainstream game-changing dynamics. These less-recognized game-changing dynamics include energy infrastructure challenges in a context of climate change, securing access to water, access to arable soils, slum urbanism, and food security responses. These mainstream and less-recognized game-changing dynamics provide the context for analyzing a range of African actor networks engaged in social and system innovations. I use a transdisciplinary framework to discuss these actor networks and how they construct their understanding of the game changers affecting their programs and actions. Based on a case study of the iShack initiative in Stellenbosch, South Africa, I conclude that social and system innovations will need to be driven by transformation knowledge co-produced by researchers and social actors who can actively link game-changing dynamics that operate at multiple scales with local-level innovations with potential societal impacts.
Tipo: | Peer-Reviewed Insight
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | vol21/iss1/art37/
Editor: | Resilience Alliance
Formato: | text/html application/pdf
Fonte: | Ecology and Society; Vol. 21, No. 1 (2016)