ESRC STEPS Centre: Recent submissions

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    • Grassroots innovation and innovation democracy 

      Smith, Adrian; Stirling, Andrew (ESRC STEPS Centre, 2016-12-13)
      In this working paper we introduce an area of activity that has flourished for decades in all corners of the globe, namely grassroots innovation for sustainable development. We also argue why innovation in general is a ...

    • Grassroots innovation and innovation democracy 

      Smith, Adrian; Stirling, Andrew (Friends of the Earth, STEPS Centre, SPRU., 2016-10-18)
      In this thinkpiece we introduce an area of activity that has flourished for decades in all corners of the globe, namely grassroots innovation for sustainable development. We also argue why innovation in general is a matter ...

    • Building Innovation Systems for Climate Change Technology Transfer: Perspectives from East Africa 

      Mbeva, Kennedy Liti; Atela, Joanes; Tigabu, Aschalew (STEPS Africa / African Centre for Technology Studies, 2016-11)
      Innovation systems are critical to technology transfer and implementation of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). Innovation systems provide an important platform for conceiving and incubating climate technologies. ...

    • The Politics of Sustainability and Development 

      Scoones, Ian (Annual Reviews, 2016-07)
      This review examines the relationships between politics, sustainability, and development. Following an overview of sustainability thinking across different traditions, the politics of resources and the influence of scarcity ...

    • Beyond technology and finance: pay-as-you-go sustainable energy access and theories of social change 

      Rolffs, Paula; Ockwell, David; Byrne, Rob (Environment and Planning A, 2015-12)
      Two-thirds of people in sub-Saharan Africa lack access to electricity, a precursor of poverty reduction and development. The international community has ambitious commitments in this regard, e.g. the UN’s Sustainable ...

    • The dynamics and sustainability of Community-led Total Sanitation (CLTS): mapping challenges and pathways 

      Movik, Synne; Mehta, Lyla (ESRC STEPS Centre, 2010-08-18)
      Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) represents a radical alternative to conventional top-down approaches to sanitation and offers hope of achieving the Millennium Development Goals. In contrast to state-led initiatives ...

    • The political economy of avian influenza in Thailand 

      Safman, Rachel M. (ESRC STEPS Centre, 2009-03-10)
      Thailand is centrally located relative to the Avian Influenza epidemic and her response to the disease has important implications for disease control efforts both regionally and globally. A middle-income country with a ...

    • The political economy of avian influenza in Indonesia 

      Forster, Paul (ESRC STEPS Centre, 2009-06-01)
      Why is the response to H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) so challenged in Indonesia? Why did the virus spread so fast, and why has the disease persisted? Are there features of the country and its culture that ...

    • Rethinking regulation: international harmonisation and local realities 

      van Zwanenberg, Patrick; Ely, Adrian; Smith, Adrian (2008-06-01)
      The STEPS Rethinking Regulation project is examining the harmonising regulation of two widely available technologies - transgenic cotton seeds and antibiotics - in China and Argentina. We wish to explore how their regulation ...

    • Rift Valley fever in Kenya: Policies to prepare and respond 

      Millstone, Eric; Odame, Hannington; Okumu, Oscar (STEPS Centre, 2015-03-23)
      Rift Valley fever (RVF) is a zoonotic infection incompletely understood by scientists, pastoralists and policy makers. The irregular intervals at which outbreaks occur make it difficult for governments to develop and ...

    • Lassa fever: The politics of an emerging disease and the scope for One Health 

      Wilkinson, Annie (STEPS Centre, 2015-03-11)
      This paper explores the politics of knowledge and disease control for Lassa fever, a zoonotic viral haemorrhagic fever which is endemic in parts of West Africa. The Lassa virus has been classified as a Category A pathogen, ...

    • Responding to uncertainty: Bats and the construction of disease risk in Ghana 

      Waldman, Linda; Gadzekpo, Audrey; MacGregor, Hayley (STEPS Centre, 2015-02-12)
      Zoonotic disease has gained international attention since the identification of avian and swine influenza, with academic focus on the modelling of disease emergence, and policy centring on disciplinary approaches of analysis. ...

    • Politics of knowledge: Whose knowledge matters in trypanosomiasis policy making in Zambia? 

      Grant, Catherine (STEPS Centre, 2014-11-14)
      This paper explores the framings of trypanosomiasis, a widespread and potentially fatal zoonotic disease transmitted by tsetse flies (Glossina species) affecting both humans and livestock. This is a country case study ...

    • The politics of trypanosomiasis control in Africa 

      Scoones, Ian (STEPS Centre, 2014-01-13)
      African trypanosomiasis is a devastating disease, both for humans and animals. Over the last hundred years huge efforts have been made to control it. This paper explores the scientific and policy debates surrounding the ...

    • Towards One Health? Evolution of international collaboration networks on Nipah virus research from 1999-2011 

      Valeix, Sophie (STEPS Centre, 2014-11)
      The world is now facing the emergence of new pathogens and the return of old ones at an unprecedented speed. Among the wide range of emerging diseases, zoonoses – infections naturally transmitted between vertebrate animals ...

    • The political economy of One Health research and policy 

      Galaz, Victor; Leach, Melissa; Scoones, Ian; Stein, Christian (STEPS Centre, 2015-03)
      ‘One Health’ has emerged over the last decade as a key concept guiding international research and policy in the field of emerging infectious diseases such as zoonoses. This paper explores the emergence of One Health and ...

    • Addressing Resistance to Antibiotics in Pluralist Health Systems 

      Bloom, Gerald; Wilkinson, Annie; Tomson, Goran; Awor, Phyllis; Zhang, Xiulan; Ahmed, Syed Masud; Khan, Wasif Ali; Blessing, Victoria; Wang, Li; Liang, Xiaoyun; Peterson, Stefan (STEPS Centre, 2015)
      There is growing international concern about the threat to public health of the emergence and spread of bacteria resistant to existing antibiotics. An effective response must invest in both the development of new drugs and ...

    • 'Maintaining Planetary Systems' or 'Concentrating Global Power'? High Stakes in Contending Framings of Climate Geoengineering 

      Cairns, Rose; Stirling, Andrew (Elsevier, 2014-06-28)
      ‘Climate geoengineering’ is becoming an increasingly prominent focus for global discussion and action. Yet, in academic, policy and wider political discourse, the frequent shorthand term ‘geoengineering’ is routinely used ...

    • Africa's biotechnology battle: book review 

      Scoones, Ian; Glover, Dominic (Nature, 2009-08-13)

    • Sustainability 

      Scoones, Ian (Taylor and Francis, 2007-11-18)
      As a consummately effective ‘boundary term’, able to link disparate groups on the basis of a broad common agenda, ‘sustainability’ has moved a long way from its technical association with forest management in Germany in ...