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Conclusion: Environmental Change, Development Challenges – Revisited

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posted on 2025-01-29, 11:42 authored by Robin Mearns

I moved from the Institute of Development Studies to the World Bank in 1997, just after the Bank’s social development network was formally created. The social development agenda had been gradually evolving in the Bank over the preceding two decades, initially within the agriculture and rural development department, and later intertwined with the emergence of environmental concerns within the Bank. But it would take considerably longer for social scientists to gain critical mass in the Bank and achieve significant operational influence and impact. In this brief addendum I shed light on how the contributions to knowledge encapsulated in this IDS Bulletin archive issue have also influenced development in practice, viewed through the lens of my own experience at the World Bank.

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Institute of Development Studies

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Mearns, R. (2025) 'Conclusion: Environmental Change, Development Challenges – Revisited', IDS Bulletin 56.1A: 153–6, DOI: 10.19088/1968-2025.116

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Melissa Leach Ian Scoones

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IDS Bulletin

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56

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1A

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  • VoR (Version of Record)

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Institute of Development Studies

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en

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Rural Futures

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153–156

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