Gill Seyfang

CSERGE,School of Environmental Science,University of East Anglia,Norwich, United Kingdom

Dr Gill Seyfang holds a prestigious RCUK Academic Fellowship in the School of Environmental Sciences, and is developing a programme of research around Low-Carbon Lifestyles.

Website of Dr Gill Seyfang - www.uea.ac.uk/~e175/Seyfang/Home/Home.html

One publication

• The new economics of sustainable consumption : Seeds of change

  Gill Seyfang, Palgrave Macmillan, UK, 2009

One case study

• Time Banks in the UK: Building Sustainable Communities

  The challenge to create sustainable communities is identified as a core priority in ‘Securing The Future’, the UK government’s strategy for sustainable development. Tackling social exclusion and building neighbourhood engagement are seen as principal elements of that objective, and there is an urgent need for tools and initiatives to achieve these aims. Community currencies are a grassroots innovation which claim to meet those goals. They are initiatives which develop and utilise an alternative medium of exchange, to enable people to trade goods and services without using cash.

  Gill Seyfang, September 2006

  University of East Anglia, UK

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8 Analyses/working papers/articles

• What influences the diffusion of grassroots innovations for sustainability? Investigating community currency niches

  Journal Technology Analysis & Strategic Management Volume 28, 2016 - Issue

  Gill Seyfang, Noel Longhurst, 2016

• Growing Green Money? Mapping Community Currencies for Sustainable Development

  Paper for SCORAI conference, June 2013

  Gill Seyfang, Noel Longhurst, Mai 2012

• Growing grassroots innovations: exploring the role of community-based initiatives in governing sustainable energy transitions

  Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 30(3) 381 – 400

  Gill Seyfang, Alex Haxeltine, 2012

• Harnessing Grassroots Innovations: Complementary Currencies and Sustainability

  International Conference on Community and Complementary Currencies 2011: “Thirty years of community and complementary currencies – what next?”,February 16 – February 17, 2011, Lyon, France

  Gill Seyfang, Noel Longhurst, Februar 2011

• Grassroots Innovations for Sustainable Development: Towards a New Research and Policy Agenda

  Environmental Politics, Vol. 16, No. 4, 584 – 603, August 2007

  Gill Seyfang, Adrian Smith, August 2007

• Sustainable Consumption and the New Economics: Exploring an Alternative Approach.

  CSERGE Working Paper ECM 07-05

  Gill Seyfang, Mai 2007

• Personal Carbon Trading: Lessons from Complementary Currencies

  Efforts to mitigate climate change through managing carbon emissions are prompting new and imaginative policy proposals. One untested proposal to issue tradable carbon emission allowances (carbon currency) to all UK citizens, with the aim of limiting and reducing carbon emissions, is known as Personal Carbon Trading (PCT). The lack of empirical experience with PCT hinders its development, and so this paper makes a conceptual link with the field of complementary currencies (CCs) to explore similarities and derive lessons for success to aid the development and implementation of PCT.

  Gill Seyfang, April 2007

  University of East Anglia, UK

• Bartering for a Better Future? Community Currencies and Sustainable Consumption

  Gill Seyfang, 2004