ESRC STEPS Centre: Recent submissions
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The politics of biofuels, land and agrarian change: editors' introduction
(Taylor and Francis, 2010-09-23)This introduction frames key questions on biofuels, land and agrarian change within agrarian political economy, political sociology and political ecology. It identifies and explains big questions that provide the starting ... -
Towards a better understanding of global land grabbing: an editorial introduction
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The politics of seed in Africa's green revolution: Alternative narratives and competing pathways
(Wiley, 2011-07-01)As calls for a ‘Uniquely African Green Revolution’ gain momentum, a focus on seeds and seed systems is rising up the agricultural policy agenda. Much of the debate stresses the technological or market dimensions, with ... -
Opening Up the Politics of Knowledge and Power in Bioscience
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How journal rankings can suppress interdisciplinarity. The case of innovation studies in business and management
(Elsevier, 2012-09-01)This study provides quantitative evidence on how the use of journal rankings can disadvantage interdisciplinary research in research evaluations. Using publication and citation data, it compares the degree of interdisciplinarity ... -
A Collaboratively-Derived Science-Policy Research Agenda
(PLOS, 2012-03-09)The need for policy makers to understand science and for scientists to understand policy processes is widely recognised. However, the science-policy relationship is sometimes difficult and occasionally dysfunctional; it ... -
Introduction: ‘Some for All Rather than More for Some’? Contested Pathways and Politics since the 1990 New Delhi Statement
(Wiley, 2012-03-01)This introduction reviews the experience of the water and sanitation sector since the 1990 New Delhi Statement – Some for All Rather than More for Some. It explores the policy pathways and contested politics that took place ... -
Introduction to the Special Issue: Water Grabbing? Focus on the (Re)appropriation of Finite Water Resources
(Water Alternatives, 2012-06-01)Recent large-scale land acquisitions for agricultural production (including biofuels), popularly known as 'land grabbing', have attracted headline attention. Water as both a target and driver of this phenomenon has been ... -
Epidemics and the Politics of Knowledge: Contested Narratives in Egypt's H1N1 Response
(Routledge, 2013-09-01)This article explores the politics of knowledge involved in understanding and responding to epidemics in an era of global health governance and biosecurity. It develops and applies an approach focused on how multiple, ... -
Policy Transformations and Translations: Lessons for Sustainable Water Management in Peri-Urban Delhi, India
(Pion (Environment and Planning C), 2014-01-01)This paper explores the complex interactions that occur as formal policies are interpreted and utilised to develop water management plans in peri-urban Delhi. With an emphasis on people’s participation in decision-making, ... -
Broadening out and opening up technology assessment: Approaches to enhance international development, co-ordination and democratisation
(Elsevier, 2014-04-01)Technology assessment (TA) has a strong history of helping to identify priorities and improve environmental sustainability, cost-effectiveness and wider benefits in the technology policies and innovation strategies of ... -
Constructing grassroots innovations for sustainability
(Elsevier, 2013-10-01)Community energy projects are attracting increasing attention as potential sources of innovation to support sustainable energy transitions. Research into ‘grassroots innovations’ like community energy often recognises the ... -
Transforming power: Social science and the politics of energy choices
(Elsevier, 2014-03-02)This paper addresses key implications in momentous current global energy choices – both for social science and for society. Energy can be over-used as a lens for viewing social processes. But it is nonetheless of profound ... -
Building institutions for health and health systems in contexts of rapid change
(Elsevier, 2013-12-12)Many Asian countries are in the midst of multiple interconnected social, economic, demographic, technological, institutional and environmental transitions. These changes are having important impacts on health and well-being ... -
The politics of evidence: A response to Rulli and D'Odorico
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Carbon forestry in West Africa: The politics of models, measures and verification processes
(Elsevier, 2013-10-01)In a context of neo-liberal environmental governance, imperatives for global climate change mitigation are motivating a new round of policy initiatives and projects aimed at carbon forestry: conserving and enhancing forest ... -
Socioeconomic development as an intervention against malaria: a systematic review and meta-analysis
(Elsevier, 2013-06-19)Background Future progress in tacking malaria mortality will probably be hampered by the development of resistance to drugs and insecticides and by the contraction of aid budgets. Historically, control was often achieved ... -
Governing global land deals: the role of the state in the rush for land
(Wiley, 2013-04-01)Over the past decade, there has been a dramatic increase in large-scale land deals, often from public lands to the hands of foreign or domestic investors. Popularly referred to as a ‘global land grab’, new land acquisitions ... -
The politics of evidence: methodologies for understanding the global land rush
(Taylor and Francis, 2013-05-01)Since the most recent ‘land rush’ precipitated by the convergent ‘crises’ of fuel, feed and food in 2007-08, the debate on the consequences of land investments has been massively heightened, with widespread media coverage, ... -
Sustaining trajectories towards Sustainability: Dynamics and diversity in UK communal growing activities
(Elsevier, 2013-10-01)Civil society is a critical arena both for exploring Sustainability itself and for sustaining trajectories towards it through innovation, experimentation and debate. Innovations can be mould breaking and can challenge local ...