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dc.contributor.authorMeyerricks, Svenja
dc.contributor.authorWhite, Rehema
dc.date.accessioned2021-06-30T19:30:03Z
dc.date.available2021-06-30T19:30:03Z
dc.date.issued2021-06-30
dc.identifier.citationMeyerricks , S & White , R 2021 , ' Communities on a threshold : climate action and wellbeing potentialities in Scotland ' , Sustainability , vol. 13 , no. 13 , 7357 . https://doi.org/10.3390/su13137357en
dc.identifier.issn2071-1050
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 274801507
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: 6ff92450-f327-46e2-94a8-ab58c83d63f1
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0002-9669-0012/work/96489357
dc.identifier.otherWOS: 000670911200001
dc.identifier.otherScopus: 85109800141
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/23457
dc.descriptionThis research was funded through a collaborative PhD studentship by the Scottish Government and the Economic and Social Research Council, grant number ES/H029354/1.en
dc.description.abstractCommunity projects provide opportunities for their participants to collectively undertake climate action and simultaneously experience alternative concepts of wellbeing. However, we argue that community projects do so in ‘liminal’ ways—on the threshold of (unactualised) social change. We employed an ethnographic approach involving participant observation and qualitative interviews to investigate two community climate action projects in Scotland supported by the Climate Challenge Fund (CCF). We identify some of the outcomes and barriers of these projects in relation to promoting wellbeing through work, transport, participation and green spaces for food production, biodiversity and recreation. Projects’ achievements are contextualised in light of the urgent imperative to tackle climate change and against a background of social inequality. Liminal community projects are structurally constrained in their potential to create wider systemic changes. However, the projects’ potential to promote wellbeing among their participants can intersect with climate change mitigation when systemic and wide-ranging changes are adopted. These changes must involve a meaningful shift towards an economy that centres wellbeing, framed through principles of environmental justice and promoting social equity.
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofSustainabilityen
dc.rightsCopyright: © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzer‐ land. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecom‐ mons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).en
dc.subjectCommunity projectsen
dc.subjectLiminalityen
dc.subjectWelleing economicsen
dc.subjectScottish climate policyen
dc.subjectEnvironmental justiceen
dc.subjectGE Environmental Sciencesen
dc.subjectNDASen
dc.subjectSDG 2 - Zero Hungeren
dc.subjectSDG 13 - Climate Actionen
dc.subject.lccGEen
dc.titleCommunities on a threshold : climate action and wellbeing potentialities in Scotlanden
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.description.versionPublisher PDFen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Geographies of Sustainability, Society, Inequalities and Possibilitiesen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Geography & Sustainable Developmenten
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Scottish Oceans Instituteen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. St Andrews Sustainability Instituteen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.3390/su13137357
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.identifier.urlhttps://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/13/13/7357en


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