ESRC STEPS Centre: Recent submissions

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    • Land Grabbing in Environmental Studies 

      Scoones, Ian (Routledge, 2018)
      Land grabbing emerged as a global phenomenon in the period following the global financial crisis of 2007-08. Investors in search of financial returns looked to land across the world, but particularly in parts of Africa and ...

    • Uncertainty in Environmental Studies 

      Andy, Stirling (Routledge, 2018)
      Threats to climate, biodiversity, soils, air and water join long-standing issues of poverty and vulnerability in demanding urgent action. Radical transformations are required in global institutions and infrastructures for ...

    • Understanding The Diffusion Modes Of Grassroots Innovations In India: A Study Of Honey Bee Network Supported Innovators 

      Abrol, Dinesh; Gupta, Ankush (Taylor and Francis Online, 2015-01-30)
      In this paper we examine the outcomes and connections of preferences of the non-formal innovators identified by the Honey Bee Network (HBN) in India. The chosen mode of diffusion of each innovation has been correlated to ...

    • Gender Equality And Sustainable Development 

      Leach, Melissa (Routledge, 2015)
      For pathways to be truly sustainable and advance gender equality and the rights and capabilities of women and girls, those whose lives and well-being are at stake must be involved in leading the way. Gender Equality and ...

    • Logics Of Government Innovation And Reform Management In China 

      Husain, Lewis (ESRC STEPS Centre, 2015-07-06)
      Since the beginning of reforms in the late 1970s, China has developed rapidly, transforming itself into a middle-income country, raising hundreds of millions out of poverty and, latterly, developing broad-based social ...

    • Sustainable Livelihoods And Rural Development 

      Scoones, Ian (Practical Action Publishing, 2015-08-01)
      The message of Sustainable Livelihoods and Rural Development is clear: livelihoods approaches are an essential lens on questions of rural development, but these need to be situated in a better understanding of political ...

    • Farmers’ Agency and Experiences of Agricultural Change in Rural Kenya: Insights from Exploratory Fieldwork 

      Atela, Joanes; Tonui, Charles; Glover, Dominic (ESRC STEPS Centre and Africa Sustainability Hub, 2018-03-14)
      Using novel agricultural technologies to boost farm productivity in the face of climatic and demographic disruption remains a priority for African policy and research. This paper uses an innovative, participatory and ...

    • Living on the Edge: Climate Change and Uncertainty in the Indian Sundarbans 

      Ghosh, Upasona; Bose, Shibaji; Bramhachari, Rittika (ESRC STEPS Centre, 2018-01)
      The Sundarbans is a coastal delta and major climate hotspot located at the southern end of Bangladesh and in the state of West Bengal in India. The delta faces significant climatic and other ecological challenges (e.g. ...

    • The Many Circuits of a Circular Economy 

      Chaturvedi, Ashish; Gaurav, Jai Kumar; Gupta, Pragya (ESRC STEPS Centre, 2017-11-16)
      Rapid urbanisation in India has led to the development of large urban agglomerations. These urban agglomerations, with dense concentration of population and economic activity, cause significant environmental stresses. ...

    • Power in Practice: Insights from Technography and Actor-Network Theory for Agricultural Sustainability 

      Arora, Saurabh; Glover, Dominic (ESRC STEPS Centre, 2017-10-19)
      In this paper, we use conceptual insights from two distinct traditions within the social studies of science and technology, namely actor-network theory (ANT) and technography, to explore the relationship between power and ...

    • Open and Collaborative Developments 

      van Zwanenberg, Patrick; Fressoli, Mariano; Arza, Valeria; Smith, Adrian; Marin, Anabel (ESRC STEPS Centre, 2017-07-27)
      Experimentation with radically open and collaborative ways of producing knowledge and material artefacts can be found everywhere, from the free/libre and open-source software movement to citizen science initiatives, and ...

    • Heirloom rice in Ifugao: an ‘anti-commodity’ in the process of commodification 

      Glover, Dominic; Stone, Glenn Davis (Journal of Peasant Studies, 2017-04-19)
      We analyse the marketing of ‘heirloom rices’ produced in the Cordillera mountains of northern Luzon, the Philippines, as the commodification of a historical ‘anti-commodity’. We contend that, historically, rice was produced ...

    • Configurations of agency and power in the academic discourse on the Green Revolution in East Africa 

      Arora, Saurabh (ESRC STEPS Centre, 2017-07-06)
      In this paper I perform a discourse analysis of the academic literature on the Green Revolution (GR) in East Africa, governed by two questions: what form or shape is given to agency in each GR study? And, which agencies ...

    • Local Environmentalism in Peri-Urban Spaces in India: Emergent Ecological Democracy? 

      Priya, Ritu; Bisht, Ramila; Randhawa, Pritpal; Arora, Meghana; Dolley, Jonathan; McGranahan, Gordon; Marshall, Fiona (ESRC STEPS Centre, 2017-07-04)
      This paper explores the potential of a range of peri-urban environmentalisms to come together in support of sustainable urbanisation. The present-day ‘urban,’ along with the dominant planning visions of urbanisation, lack ...

    • How Did We Do That? The Possibility of Rapid Transition 

      Simms, Andrew; Newell, Peter (New Weather Institute and ESRC STEPS Centre, 2017-04-24)
      Is rapid transition possible? Sometimes events or new knowledge throw up reasons why we must make change happen quickly. At the present moment, climate change and chronic social inequality seem to demand radical change – ...

    • Making ‘Mangroves Together’: Carbon, conservation and co-management in Gazi Bay, Kenya 

      Huff, Amber; Tonui, Charles (ESRC STEPS Centre, 2017-05-03)
      Market-based strategies are increasingly being framed by highlevel stakeholders as ideal means of responding to environmental problems on various scales. As a result, concepts and mechanisms that link markets to local ...

    • Solar PV and poverty alleviation in China: Rhetoric and reality 

      Geall, Sam; Shen, Wei; Gongbuzeren (ESRC STEPS Centre, 2017-05-02)
      In 2014, China announced an ambitious plan to help alleviate rural poverty through deploying distributed solar photovoltaic (PV) systems in poor areas. The solar energy for poverty alleviation programme (SEPAP) initiative ...

    • The political economy of state-led transformations in pro-poor low carbon energy: A case study of solar PV in Kenya 

      Byrne, Rob; Mbeva, Kennedy (ESRC STEPS Centre, 2017-05-02)
      International efforts to achieve goals such as universal energy access and climate change mitigation are expected to stimulate billions of dollars of private financial flows to developing countries for clean (energy) ...

    • The Political Economy of State-led Energy Transformations: Lessons from Solar PV in Kenya and China 

      Ockwell, David; Newell, Peter; Geall, Sam; Mbeva, Kennedy; Shen, Wei; Ely, Adrian (ESRC STEPS Centre, 2017-05-02)
      Amid talk of the need for a low carbon ‘clean energy revolution’ to address the challenges of energy poverty and climate change, there is growing academic and policy interest in understanding the role of key actors that ...

    • Defying Control: Aspects of caring engagement between divergent knowledge practices 

      Arora, Saurabh (ESRC STEPS Centre, 2017-03-20)
      In recent years, the notion Anthropocene has been celebrated for its potential to bridge modern divides between nature and culture as well as critiqued for embedding the fallacy of human control in its nub. Building on ...