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标题：The Zero Waste University Program in Mexico: A Model for Grassroots Innovations in Sustainability
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作者：Nancy Merary Jiménez-Martínez ; Raúl García-Barrios
期刊名称：Sustainability
印刷版ISSN：2071-1050
出版年度：2020
卷号：12
期号：22
页码：9444
DOI：10.3390/su12229444
语种：English
出版社：MDPI, Open Access Journal
摘要：Grassroots innovations for sustainability can take various forms, including novel models for comprehensive waste management. This article examines the contributions of the University Solid Waste Management Program with a Zero Waste approach, a grassroots innovation established by the community of a university campus associated with a non-governmental organization. The program was developed in Cuernavaca, Mexico, in a political and economic context marked by unsustainable and inequitable practices, but with a long history of social struggle for the construction of alternatives. In analytical terms, we study the formation and mutual influence of the sustainability niches of both organizations from the perspective of strategic niche management theory, as well as the benefits resulting from such development.