Interdisciplinarity in social innovation in the face of rural depopulation

Diana E. Valero

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7565-770X

United Kingdom

University of the Highlands and Islands

Centre for Mountain Studies, Perth College

Lucía López Marco

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9084-743X

Spain

Instituto Agronómico Mediterráneo de Zaragoza

Submitted: 2019-04-03

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Accepted: 2019-06-11

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Published: 2019-06-28

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7201/earn.2019.01.02
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Keywords:

Rural development, Depopulation, Social innovation, Interdisciplinarity, Knowledge

Supporting agencies:

Programa Horizonte 2020 de la Unión Europea

subvención 677622

Abstract:

This article explores interdisciplinarity in social innovation facing rural depopulation. For this purpose, we analyse the diversity of disciplines involved in the social innovation initiatives registered in the database of the SIMRA research project that are addressing demographic challenges. The results of this analysis show a significant level of integration of scientific knowledge in the social innovation facing depopulation, which evidences the need for interdisciplinarity in fighting depopulation and also its analysis, as well as the existing margin for more scientific fields to participate in this type of social innovation.
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