Universität Oldenburg
Diffusion of Sustainability Innovations around Lynedoch EcoVillage
Abstract
dc:description.abstractIn form of a qualitative single case study this thesis examines what people from industrialized countries such as Germany can learn about sustainability from Lynedoch EcoVillage, South Africa, and the associated 'Sustainability Institute', a non-profit trust based at and operating from Lynedoch EcoVillage which has been working in partnership with the School of Public Management and Planning (SOPMP) at the University of Stellenbosch. Besides a reflection on the terminology of 'Sustainability Innovations', the thesis offers an introduction to Everett M. Rogers' concept of the 'Diffusion of Innovations' (2003) which explains social change based on communication patterns. This concept is applied to the spreading of organic farming in the Lynedoch community and to related activities of the Sustainability Institute.
Degree
thesis:*- Level thesis:degree_level
- master
- Grantor dc:publisher
- Universität Oldenburg
- Year
- 2009
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Stüwe, Claudia
Subjects
dc:subject × 1Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Repository record source_url
- http://oops.uni-oldenburg.de/917
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:oops.uni-oldenburg.de:917