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School Food Initiatives as Socio-Spatial Innovative Projects in Swedish Municipalities : Analysis of municipalities role, motivations, and tools in two school food initiatives in Sweden
Purpose – As responsible for providing school food as a public service, municipalities are important actors in driving forward the process of social innovation through school food initiatives that seek to transform the school food system into a sustainable one. The purpose of this paper is to understand the engagement of Swedish municipalities in socio-spatial innovation initiatives taking school food initiatives as a case study. That is by investigating the municipality’s role in those initiatives, their motivations to be involved, as well as how they carry out their role. Design/methodology/approach – Two school food initiatives were taken as case studies, one nationally organized and the other European. The generation of information relied mainly on analyzing documents, especially the initiatives’ guidebooks, the official websites of the initiatives, as well as the websites of the participating municipalities, and some newspapers. In addition, complementary interviews were conducted with individuals directly responsible for implementing the initiative in the studied municipalities. Findings – There are three key messages to be taken away from this study. First off, municipalities that take part in social innovation initiatives have two functions: strategic and operational, each of which has a role to play and complements the other. Their collaboration is crucial to the advancement of social innovation projects. The second message is the need for social innovations to be adopted in place, meaning that strategic spatial planning – a spatial approach – is crucial for social innovations to be applicable in specific contexts such as food planning, which entails planners being more involved in such innovative food initiatives. The third message is that the current role of municipalities in these initiatives as intermediaries that implement the applied strategies makes them less independent, which may lead to a threat to social sustainability, which includes hearing local voices, especially marginalized ones, by ...
School Food Initiatives as Socio-Spatial Innovative Projects in Swedish Municipalities : Analysis of municipalities role, motivations, and tools in two school food initiatives in Sweden
Purpose – As responsible for providing school food as a public service, municipalities are important actors in driving forward the process of social innovation through school food initiatives that seek to transform the school food system into a sustainable one. The purpose of this paper is to understand the engagement of Swedish municipalities in socio-spatial innovation initiatives taking school food initiatives as a case study. That is by investigating the municipality’s role in those initiatives, their motivations to be involved, as well as how they carry out their role. Design/methodology/approach – Two school food initiatives were taken as case studies, one nationally organized and the other European. The generation of information relied mainly on analyzing documents, especially the initiatives’ guidebooks, the official websites of the initiatives, as well as the websites of the participating municipalities, and some newspapers. In addition, complementary interviews were conducted with individuals directly responsible for implementing the initiative in the studied municipalities. Findings – There are three key messages to be taken away from this study. First off, municipalities that take part in social innovation initiatives have two functions: strategic and operational, each of which has a role to play and complements the other. Their collaboration is crucial to the advancement of social innovation projects. The second message is the need for social innovations to be adopted in place, meaning that strategic spatial planning – a spatial approach – is crucial for social innovations to be applicable in specific contexts such as food planning, which entails planners being more involved in such innovative food initiatives. The third message is that the current role of municipalities in these initiatives as intermediaries that implement the applied strategies makes them less independent, which may lead to a threat to social sustainability, which includes hearing local voices, especially marginalized ones, by ...
School Food Initiatives as Socio-Spatial Innovative Projects in Swedish Municipalities : Analysis of municipalities role, motivations, and tools in two school food initiatives in Sweden
Khayat, Carla (Autor:in)
01.01.2024
Hochschulschrift
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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