TY - JOUR AU - Martellozzo, Federico AU - Reusser, Dominik AU - Groß, Helge PY - 2017/01/31 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Evaluating Community Based Initiatives’ Sustainability in Europe: Balancing Data Needs and Resulting Uncertainties. JF - European Journal of Sustainable Development JA - EJSD VL - 6 IS - 1 SE - DO - 10.14207/ejsd.2017.v6n1p181 UR - https://www.ecsdev.org/ojs/index.php/ejsd/article/view/447 SP - 181 AB - <p class="03ABSTRACT">Global environmental-change is evident, and undeniably it is mostly induced by anthropogenic activities. Several programs fuelling climate-change mitigation were lately implemented; all fostering specific and ambitious targets. Although some improvements were regionally observed, regrettably the expected results are in many cases still out of reach. Contemporaneously, societies experienced a proliferation of grass-roots initiatives calling for individual participation in fostering societal sustainable transition. Scholars advocate that bottom-up activities may outperform top-down policies in reaching sustainability; however, a methodological framework to intelligibly assess CBIs’ impact on socio-ecological systems is still unexplored. This paper aims at: illustrating main caveats in assessing CBIs’ environmental impacts, proposing a general methodological framework, presenting results from a pan-European research.</p><p class="04KEYWORD"><strong> </strong></p><p class="04KEYWORD"><em><strong> </strong>Keywords:<strong>  </strong>Environmental assessment; greenhouse gas emissions; community based intiatives; sustainable transition, sustainability, carbon footprint.</em></p> ER -