ESRC STEPS Centre: Recent submissions
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Pluralising progress: From integrative transitions to transformative diversity
(Elsevier, 2011-06-01)This paper examines key issues raised by consideration of diversity in the study of environmental innovation and societal transitions. In different ways and degrees, these implicate many contrasting perspectives, including ... -
Building institutions for an effective health system: lessons from China's experience with rural health reform
(Elsevier, 2011-04-27)This paper is concerned with the management of health system changes aimed at substantially increasing the access to safe and effective health services. It argues that an effective health sector relies on trust-based ... -
Balancing Efficiency and Legitimacy: Institutional Changes and Rural Health Organization in China
(Wiley, 2011-12-01)The aim of this article is to contribute to the understanding of the institutional arrangements within which China's rural health facilities are embedded and of the contribution of policy to the creation of these arrangements. ... -
Contested paradigms of ‘viability’ in redistributive land reform: perspectives from southern Africa
(Taylor and Francis, 2010-01-22)‘Viability’ is a key term in debates about land redistribution in southern African and beyond. It is often used to connote ‘successful’ and ‘sustainable’– but what is meant by viability in relation to land reform, and how ... -
The politics of global assessments: the case of the International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD)
(Taylor and Francis, 2009-10-30)The IAASTD – the International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development – which ran between 2003 and 2008, involving over 400 scientists worldwide, was an ambitious attempt to encourage ... -
Green grabs and biochar: Revaluing African soils and farming in the new carbon economy
(Taylor and Francis, 2012-04-19)Biochar currently attracts technological and market optimism, promising multiple wins – for climate change, food security, bioenergy and health – not least for African farmers. This paper examines the political-economic ... -
No Plot of One's Own - How Large Dams Reinforce Gender Inequalities
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Water and Human Development
(Elsevier, 2014-07)The article argues for a human development approach to the water ‘crisis.’ It explores the application of the entitlements approach (EA) and capabilities approach (CA) to water. EA goes beyond volumetric or per capita ... -
From Risk Assessment to Knowledge Mapping: Science, Precaution, and Participation in Disease Ecology
(Ecology and Society, 2009-01-01)Governance of infectious disease risks requires understanding of often indeterminate interactions between diverse, complex, open, and dynamic human and natural systems. In the face of these challenges, worldwide policy ... -
Governing epidemics in an age of complexity: Narratives, politics and pathways to sustainability
(Elsevier, 2010-08-01)This paper elaborates a ‘pathways approach’ to addressing the governance challenges posed by the dynamics of complex, coupled, multi-scale systems, while incorporating explicit concern for equity, social justice and the ... -
Green Grabbing: a new appropriation of nature?
(Taylor and Francis, 2012-04-19)Across the world, ‘green grabbing’ – the appropriation of land and resources for environmental ends – is an emerging process of deep and growing significance. The vigorous debate on ‘land grabbing’ already highlights ... -
Making Health Markets Work Better for Poor People: the Case of Informal Providers
(Oxford, 2011-02-19)There has been a dramatic spread of market relationships in many low- and middle-income countries. This spread has been much faster than the development of the institutional arrangements to influence the performance of ... -
Mobilizing Against GM Crops in India, South Africa and Brazil
(Wiley Blackwell, 2008-04-01)This paper explores the national and transnational character of mobilization against GM crops in India, South Africa and Brazil in the ten-year period to 2005. By examining the contexts and practices of mobilization across ... -
Transforming Innovation for Sustainability
(Ecology and Society, 2012-08-01)The urgency of charting pathways to sustainability that keep human societies within a "safe operating space" has now been clarified. Crises in climate, food, biodiversity, and energy are already playing out across local ... -
Livelihoods after land reform in Zimbabwe: Understanding processes of rural differentiation
(Wiley, 2012-10-01)This paper explores the consequences of Zimbabwe's land reform for the dynamics of differentiation in Zimbabwe's countryside, reporting on the results from a 10-year study from Masvingo province. Based on a detailed analysis ... -
Livelihood change in rural Zimbabwe over 20 years: insights from wealth ranking
(Taylor and Francis, 2012-07-05)This paper explores the changing livelihood strategies among a group of households in southern Zimbabwe across 20 years. The study uses a ‘wealth ranking’ method to examine livelihood change, combined with survey approaches ... -
A framework for the study of zoonotic disease emergence and its drivers: spillover of bat pathogens as a case study
(Royal Society Publishing, 2012-09-10)Many serious emerging zoonotic infections have recently arisen from bats, including Ebola, Marburg,SARS-coronavirus, Hendra, Nipah, and a number of rabies and rabies-related viruses, consistent with the overall observation ... -
The new enclosures: critical perspectives on corporate land deals
(Taylor and Francis, 2012-05-28)The contributions to this collection use the tools of agrarian political economy to explore the rapid growth and complex dynamics of large-scale land deals in recent years, with a special focus on the implications of big ... -
Zimbabwe’s land reform: challenging the myths
(Taylor and Francis, 2011-12-16)Most commentary on Zimbabwe’s land reform insists that agricultural production has almost totally collapsed, that food insecurity is rife, that rural economies are in precipitous decline, that political ‘cronies’ have taken ... -
Whiteness in Zimbabwe: Race, Landscape and the Problem of Belonging–By David Hughes
(Wiley, 2011-10-01)