ESRC STEPS Centre: Recent submissions
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Making the Most of Peri-Urban Ecosystem Services
(Ecosystems Services for Poverty Alleviation (ESPA), 2018-02)Ecosystem services are vital for peri-urban and urbanising areas, and the people who live within them. In contexts of rapid urbanisation, these services are under threat from redevelopment, pollution and overconsumption, ... -
Why Peri-Urban Ecosystem Services Matter For Urban Policy
(Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation (ESPA).Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation (ESPA)., 2017-01-13)This briefing draws on recent research to show how people benefit from ecoystems in and around cities, and how these benefits can be integrated into urban planning and policy. There is a growing international consensus ... -
Grassroots Innovation Movements
(Routledge, 2016-08-15)Innovation is increasingly invoked by policy elites and business leaders as vital for tackling global challenges like sustainable development. Often overlooked, however, is the fact that networks of community groups, ... -
One Health: Science, Politics And Zoonotic Disease In Africa
(Routledge, 2016-02-11)Zoonotic diseases – pathogens transmitted from animals to people – offer particularly challenging problems for global health institutions and actors given the complex socio-ecological dynamics at play. New forms of risk ... -
Cultivating Sustainable Developments in Makerspaces
(Liinc em Revista, 2017-05-01)In October 2015, we convened a workshop for 80 researchers and practitioners involved in makerspaces in Europe. Our aim was to explore how makerspaces can help cultivate sustainable developments. This paper reports workshop ... -
Regulating Genetic Engineering: The Limits And Politics Of Knowledge
(Issues in Science and Technology, 2015-07-13)Charges against critics of genetic engineering (GE) often take four general forms. But all of them, we argue, are unsupported by facts. First, scientific and policy debates are not, as claimed, polarized in black and ... -
Linking Well-Being with Cultural Revitalization for Greater Cognitive Justice in Conservation: Lessons from Venezuela in Canaima National Park
(The Resilience Alliance, 2017-06-01)Across the globe, conservation policies have often suppressed nonscientific forms of knowledge and ways of knowing nature, along with the social practices of the groups that are informed by such knowledge. Reversing this ... -
Low Carbon China: Emerging Phenomena and Implications for Innovation Governance: Introduction to the Special Section of Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions
(Elsevier B.V., 2018-05)This special section of ‘Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions’ investigates emerging phenomena associated with low carbon transitions in contemporary China. It looks at supply and demand side dynamics, the ... -
Agronomy for Development: The Politics Of Knowledge in Agricultural Research
(Routledge, 2017-06-15)Over the last decade there has been renewed interest in food security and the state of the global food system. Population growth, climate change and food price spikes have combined to focus new attention on the technologies ... -
Free-Book: Pathways To Sustainable Agriculture
(Routledge, 2017-05-05)This is a Free-Book available from the publisher to download. It draws on four books which address three themes central to understanding how pathways emerge in agriculture, and how sustainability, is or indeed is not, ... -
Free-Book: Pathways To Health And Sustainability
(Routledge, 2018-04-01)This is a Free Book available to download from the publisher. This new collection draws on four books in the series, together addressing three themes central to understanding how pathways to sustainability emerge in response ... -
Sustainable Energy for All: Innovation, Technology and Pro-Poor Green Transformations
(Routledge, 2017-02-02)Despite decades of effort and billions of dollars spent, two thirds of people in sub-Saharan Africa still lack access to electricity, a vital pre-cursor to economic development and poverty reduction. Ambitious international ... -
Framing and Reframing Sustainable Bioenergy Pathways: The Case of Emilia Romagna
(ESRC STEPS Centre, 2016-10-01)This paper addresses the case of bioenergy development in Emilia Romagna, using and building on a ‘pathways to sustainability’ approach (Leach et al. 2010). It represents the first attempt to apply the ‘pathways’ approach ... -
New Innovation Approaches to Support the Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals
(UNCTAD, 2017-05-10)The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development puts forward a broad and ambitious agenda for global action on sustainable development. The scale and ambition of the Sustainable Development Goals require innovation in development ... -
Karhera: A Photo Book
(ESRC STEPS Centre, 2016-09-01)This book tells the story of Karhera, a village between Delhi and Ghaziabad in India, through photographs, maps and words. It was produced as part of an ESPA-funded research project on ‘Risks and Responses to Urban Futures’. ... -
Making the SDGs a Reality in LDCs: Action for Transformation
(2016-07-15)In June 2016, the Least Developed Countries Independent Expert Group, IIED, and the ESRC STEPS Centre hosted a dialogue for Least Developed Country (LDC) experts to discuss how the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) could ... -
Solar PV and Solar Water Heaters in China: Different Pathways to Low Carbon Energy
(Elsevier B.V., 2016-10-18)This review paper examines pathways towards solar energy in China by examining two different solar energy technologies, namely solar photovoltaic (PV) and solar water heaters (SWH). The paper investigates these two case ... -
Advancing Metrics: Models For Understanding Adaptive Capacity And Water Security
(Elsevier B.V., 2016-09-01)We explore the relationship between water security (WS) and adaptive capacity (AC); the two concepts are connected because achieving the first may be dependent on building the second. We focus on how metrics of WS and AC ... -
Pathways To Sustainability Book Series
(Routledge, 2018-04-01)Our flagship book series addresses core challenges linking science, technology and sustainability with poverty reduction and social justice. The books cover insights from across the STEPS Centre’s projects and themes. -
Opinion: Urban Resilience Efforts Must Consider Social And Political Forces
(Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 2017-01-10)Environmental disasters, ranging from catastrophic floods to extreme temperatures, have caused more than 30,000 deaths per year and more than US$ 250–300 billion a year in economic losses, globally, between 1995 and 2015. ...
