ESRC STEPS Centre: Recent submissions
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Pathways to sustainability: an overview of the STEPS Centre approach
(STEPS Centre, 2007)Who benefits from genetically-modified crops? Will there be enough water for people to survive this century? What are the implications of the HIV/AIDS pandemic? These are some of the questions that the STEPS Centre is ... -
Understanding Governance: pathways to sustainability
(STEPS Centre, 2007)The challenges of understanding the governance of dynamic social, technological and environmental systems, and their implications for sustainability and social justice, are addressed by this paper. Defined broadly as ... -
Time to outbreed animal science? A cattle-breeding system exploiting structural unpredictability: the WoDaaBe herders in Niger
(STEPS Centre, 2008)Cutting-edge research on agri-food systems contends that mainstream agricultural science is ill-equipped to address issues of complexity, diversity and uncertainty. The paper tackles this issue looking at animal breeding, ... -
Social-ecological resilience and socio-technical transitions: critical issues for sustainability governance
(STEPS Centre, 2008)Technology contributes both positively and negatively to the resilience of ‘social-ecological systems’, but is not considered in depth in that literature. A technology-focused literature on sociotechnical transitions shares ... -
The International Response to Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza: Science, Policy and Politics
(STEPS Centre, 2008)Over the last decade, the avian influenza virus, H5N1, has spread across most of Asia and Europe and parts of Africa. In some countries – including Indonesia, China, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Nigeria and Egypt – the avian disease ... -
Re-framing Resilience: Trans-disciplinarity, Reflexivity and Progressive Sustainability – a Symposium Report
(STEPS Centre, 2008)The concept of resilience is now capturing high interest across academic, policy and popular debate. In a world where threats – whether linked to climate change, epidemic disease, or fluctuating financial markets – loom ... -
Undying Promise: Agricultural Biotechnology’s Pro-poor Narrative, Ten Years on
(STEPS Centre, 2009)Many people and organisations have sought to promote genetically modified (GM, transgenic) crops as a ‘pro-poor’ technology. However, developing-country farmers’ experiences with GM crops have been mixed. Some farmers have ... -
The Political Economy of Avian Influenza Response and Control in Vietnam
(STEPS Centre, 2009)As a country suffering from large-scale AI outbreaks and receiving considerable international support, Vietnam provides a crucial case not to be missed in any analysis of the global AI crisis. Vietnam is also interesting ... -
The Dynamics and Discourses of Water Allocation Reform in South Africa
(STEPS Centre, 2009)Perceptions of water as an increasingly scarce resource have gained global dominance, and caused many countries to reform their water legislations. South Africa has positioned itself in the vanguard of such reform efforts, ... -
The Global Redistribution of Innovation: Lessons from China and India
(STEPS Centre, 2009)In the 40 years since the original “Sussex Manifesto”, the global landscape of science, technology and innovation has altered radically. The emergence of new centres of innovation in many of what were in 1970 grouped as ... -
Silver Bullets, Grand Challenges and the New Philanthropy
(STEPS Centre, 2009)Whether generic ‘silver bullet’ solutions can address complex development problems has been debated for many years. The ‘grand challenge’ extends the idea of the silver bullet in ways that speak to a goal-driven, global ... -
Reforming the Global Food and Agriculture System: Towards a Questioning Agenda for the New Manifesto
(STEPS Centre, 2009)In the face of the pressing challenges posed by hunger, malnutrition and the vulnerability of our food system, it is imperative that radical reforms to the food system are articulated and implemented. Questions about the ... -
The Original ‘Sussex Manifesto’: Its Past and Future Relevance
(STEPS Centre, 2009)The original “Sussex Manifesto” called for radical change in international debate and action about harnessing science and technology to development. It challenged the commonly accepted global division of labour in innovation ... -
Science and Technology for Health: Towards Universal Access in a Changing World
(STEPS Centre, 2009)Most anti-colonial movements in the second half of the 20th Century promised to provide universal access to health services. The Alma Ata Declaration of 1978 presented a consensus view of how governments could deliver on ... -
Trends in the Global Distribution of R&D since the 1970s: Data, their Interpretation and Limitations
(STEPS Centre, 2009)The 1970 ‘Sussex Manifesto’ was one of the earliest global policy reports to use statistical data about R&D that were starting to become available on an internationally comparable basis, though only in a very sketchy form ... -
The Dynamics and Sustainability of Community-led Total Sanitation (CLTS): Mapping Challenges and Pathways
(STEPS Centre, 2010)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 ... -
Understanding Peri-urban Sustainability: The role of the resilience approach
(STEPS Centre, 2008)Resilience is a term that is widely used by scholars from different disciplines who promote action research between science and policy. This paper is largely concerned with how resilience approaches can be used as a practical ... -
Beyond Scaling Up: Pathways to Universal Access to Health Services
(STEPS Centre, 2010)There is a growing impatience at national and international levels with the persistence of high burdens of ill health for which effective interventions are available. This has led to big political and financial commitments ... -
Innovation, Sustainability, Development and Social Inclusion: Lessons from Latin America
(STEPS Centre, 2011)This paper is one of a series of working papers relating regional experiences to ideas proposed by the New Manifesto, following on round table discussions held in Venezuela, Argentina, and Colombia in 2010. The paper ... -
Energy Pathways in Low-Carbon Development: From Technology Transfer to Socio-Technical Transformation
(STEPS Centre, 2011)The relationships between energy and development are complex, compounded by increasingly differentiated situations amongst developing countries and within them. Moreover, the manner in which energy services are realised ...