ESRC STEPS Centre: Recent submissions
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Liquid Dynamics: challenges for sustainability in water and sanitation
(STEPS Centre, 2007)Floods, droughts, 6,000 babies dying daily due to waterborne diseases and growing sanitation problems in booming peri-urban and urban centres. No act of terrorism generates devastation on the scale of the crisis in water ... -
Emerging Technologies and Opportunities for International Science and Technology Foresight
(STEPS Centre, 2009)This background paper focuses on the potential role that international science and technology ‘foresight-type’ activities might play in informing decision-making processes about innovation, development and emerging ... -
Low Carbon Development: The Role of Local Innovative Capabilities
(STEPS Centre, 2009)The term “development” is synonymous with economic growth. Theory and empirical evidence suggests decoupling energy use from economic growth is unlikely, implying an urgent need to decarbonise energy use and supply if ... -
Direction, Distribution and Diversity! Pluralising Progress in Innovation, Sustainability and Development
(STEPS Centre, 2009)Notions of ‘progress’ pervade the modern world. Yet, ‘north’ and ‘south’ alike, policymaking for progress in innovation, sustainability and development tends to be ambiguous. Politicians speak of “the way forward”, without ... -
Innovation Capabilities and Directions of Development
(STEPS Centre, 2009)The central challenge in the original Sussex Manifesto centred on massively increasing the developing countries’ scientific and technological capabilities for creating new knowledge and shaping the technologies they used. ... -
Liquid Dynamics: Accessing Water and Sanitation in an Uncertain Age, Symposium Report
(STEPS Centre, 2010)This report summarises the proceedings of the two-day Liquid Dynamics symposium held at the STEPS Centre in Brighton in November 2009. The Water and Sanitation domain of the STEPS Centre uses the notion of Liquid Dynamics ... -
Environmental Change and Maize Innovation in Kenya: Exploring pathways in and out of maize
(STEPS Centre, 2009)This paper summarises findings of the STEPS Environmental Change and Maize Innovation in Kenya project. Maize is an important staple crop in Kenya, socially, politically and economically. This project has taken maize as a ... -
Innovation, Sustainability, Development: A New Manifesto (French version)
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Innovation, Sustainability, Development: A New Manifesto (Arabic version)
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Centres of Excellence? Questions of Capacity for Innovation, Sustainability, Development
(STEPS Centre, 2009)This paper explores what ‘mainstream’ Centres of Excellence might mean for developing countries and poor people. It examines how development is constructed as economic growth with industry and enterprise – complemented by ... -
Manifesting Utopia: History and Philosophy of UN Debates on Science and Technology for Sustainable Development
(STEPS Centre, 2009)This paper revisits a series of key moments in the last 50 years of UN debates on science and technology for sustainable development. It reflects on the genealogy of tropes of development and the ways in which these have ... -
On the Edge of Sustainability: Perspectives on Peri-urban Dynamics
(STEPS Centre, 2009)This paper examines some of the many ways in which the peri-urban has been theorised, considering, in particular, the implications for a normative research agenda towards improved environmental and social justice. The paper ... -
Innovation, Sustainability, Development: A New Manifesto (Brazilian Portuguese version)
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Innovation, Sustainability, Development: A New Manifesto (Mandarin Chinese version)
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Innovación, Sustentabilidad y Desarrollo: Un Nuevo Manifiesto
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Innovation, Sustainability, Development: A New Manifesto
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Going with the Flow? Directions of Innovation in the Water and Sanitation Domain
(STEPS Centre, 2009)Water and sanitation issues are looming large on the international agenda, not least due to the impetus created by the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to halve, by 2015, the proportion of the world’s population who do ... -
Biocharred Pathways to Sustainability? Triple Wins, Livelihoods and the Politics of Technological Promise
(STEPS Centre, 2010)Biochar’ is currently the focus of extraordinary levels of both technological optimism and debate. As a substance, biochar refers quite simply to the carbon-rich product that results when biomass – from wood or leaves to ... -
HIV/AIDS, forests and futures in sub-Saharan Africa
(STEPS Centre, 2011)Throughout sub-Saharan Africa, the human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) pandemic is having devastating and tragic social, economic, and political impacts. HIV/AIDS is both a health ... -
New Models of Technology Assessment for Development
(STEPS Centre, 2011)This report explores the role that ‘new models’ of technology assessment can play in improving the lives of poor and vulnerable populations in the developing world. The ‘new models’ addressed here combine citizen and ...