Rapid urbanisation is one of the greatest challenges affecting global development efforts toward sustainable development goals. Such goals include agri-food systems that are locally available, healthy, safe, as well as physically and economic accessible to all urban dwellers with the least environmental impact.
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Findings from inspiring bottom-up initiatives
ACCTING has published a report on these inspiring practice cases of bottom-up initiatives, examining their types and characteristics. The mapped initiatives are described according to ACCTING’s eight research lines. For each of the following research lines, an analysis of the bottom-up initiatives highlights common themes of implementation, justice profiles and specific barriers and drivers.
What does bottom-up mean?
Bottom-up usually refers to citizen-led activities where citizens collaborate and themselves keep control of the aims, the means, and the actual implementation of their activities.
Co-creating innovative solutions: ACCTING to hold its first Open Studios
As ACCTING’s first project cycle is coming to an end soon, the team is organising the first set of Open Studios, taking place in March and April 2023.
What does circular economy mean?
Circular economy refers to a system that encourages the reuse, recycling and refurbishment of products and materials such that there is minimum use of primary resources. The aim is to establish environmentally friendly production and consumption behaviour by minimising waste generation.
What does transport poverty mean?
Transport poverty refers to the ways in which socioeconomic conditions affect everyday mobility and people’s access to transport. If someone is transport poor, it means that a person lacks mobility recourses to access work, education, health, and social networks.
What does behavioural change mean?
Behavioural change defines a change in the behaviour of an individual or a group. This change can be temporary, long-term, or permanent. The question of behavioural change and, more generally, changing lifestyles is a key issue in the ecological transition.
Sustainability Transformation: What Does it Mean?
Transformation has become a key word in the sustainability debate. What does sustainability transformation mean? What hinders and what enables transformation?
How values drive sustainable food choices and inclusivity towards a more just European Green Deal
Promoting sustainable food consumption choices is one of the priorities of the European Green Deal. But to understand food choices, we need to increase our understanding of values, priorities, obstacles and challenges faced by different social groups and across cultures and countries in Europe and beyond.
Can energy-efficiency measures support micro and small entrepreneurs to deal with climate change mitigation and spiralling energy costs?
The adoption of energy-efficiency measures in micro/smaller SMEs is not only important to help mitigate the crucial challenge of climate change, but also to enable the survival of the European business fabric and economy.

Findings from inspiring bottom-up initiatives
ACCTING has published a report on these inspiring practice cases of bottom-up initiatives, examining their types and characteristics. ... read more

Co-creating innovative solutions: ACCTING to hold its first Open Studios
As ACCTING’s first project cycle is coming to an end soon, the team is organising the first set of Open Studios, taking place in March ... read more

ACCTING seminar on Feminist Methodologies
ACCTING is organising an online seminar which aims to explore the ways in which feminist methodologies will improve research, as well ... read more

Introducing ACCTING’s research lines
ACCTING aims to understand the impact of Green Deal policy initiatives on individual and collective behaviours with specific attention ... read more

What makes the ACCTING project distinctive?
In this article, we explore the project's goals and challenge, the features that make it distinctive and the difference it aims to make. read more

Launch of ACCTING: AdvanCing behavioural Change Through an INclusive Green deal
The new EU-funded project ACCTING, which aims to tackle inequalities exacerbated by Green Deal policies and advance behavioural change, read more
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