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What Are the Impacts of Social Innovation? A Synthetic Review and Case Study of Community Forestry in the Scottish Highlands
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International audience. : In a context of political and economic austerity, social innovation has been presented as asolution to many social challenges, old and new. It aims to support the introduction of new ideasin response to the current urgent needs and challenges of vulnerable groups and seems to offerpromising solutions to the challenges faced by rural areas. Yet the evidence base of the impacts onthe sustainable development of rural communities remains scarce. In this paper, we explore socialinnovation in the context of community forestry and provide a brief synthetic review of key themeslinking the two concepts. We examine a case of social innovation in the context of community forestryand analyse its type, extent, and scale of impact in a marginalized rural area of Scotland. Using anin-depth case study approach, we apply a mixed research methodology using quantitative indicatorsof impact as well as qualitative data. Our results show that social innovation reinforces the socialdimension of community forestry. Impacts are highlighted across domains (environmental, social,economic, and institutional/governance) but are mainly limited to local territory. We discuss thesignificance of those results in the context of community forestry as well as for local development.We formulate policy recommendations to foster and sustain social innovation in rural areas.
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