ESRC STEPS Centre: Recent submissions
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Sustainability in Turbulent Times: Lessons from the Nexus Network for Supporting Transdisciplinary Research
(2017-03-01)The report gives a review of what the Nexus Network has achieved over its three year lifetime, and also draws out several recommendations for UK Research and Innovation, as it looks to foster more interdisciplinary research ... -
How To Cultivate Sustainable Developments In Makerspaces
(ESRC STEPS Centre, 2016-06-01)This report provides an overview of a workshop on Makerspaces held in London, which involved around 80 participants from the UK and Europe. The workshop was made possible with support from the Centre for Innovation and ... -
Adapting To Risk And Perpetuating Poverty: Household’s Strategies For Managing Flood Risk And Water Scarcity In Mexico City
(Elsevier Ltd., 2016-12-01)Adaptation is typically conceived uniquely in positive terms, however for some populations, investments in risk management can entail significant tradeoffs. Here we discuss the burden for households of coping with, and ... -
Co-Design With Aligned And Non-Aligned Knowledge Partners: Implications For Research And Coproduction Of Sustainable Food Systems
(Elsevier BV, 2016-06)We discuss two different strategies to initiate a process of identifying a focused sustainability challenge, and co-defining and co-designing alternative pathways to more sustainable food systems. One strategy was based ... -
Double Coupling: Modeling Subjectivity And Asymmetric Organization In Social-Ecological Systems
(The Resilience Alliance, 2015-01-01)Social-ecological organization is a multidimensional phenomenon that combines material and symbolic processes. However, the coupling between social and ecological subsystem is often conceptualized as purely material, thus ... -
Innovation For Sustainability In A Changing China: Exploring Narratives And Pathways
(ESRC STEPS Centre, 2015-10-13)Given the environmental impacts of China’s current development trajectory and the country’s increasing economic and strategic focus on innovation, China’s progress on sustainable and low-carbon innovation is of crucial ... -
Adapting To Climate Uncertainty In African Agriculture. Narratives And Knowledge Politic
(Routledge, 2016-01-13)Future climatic and agro-ecological changes in Africa are uncertain and associated with high degrees of spatial and temporal variability and this change is differently simulated within divergent climate-crop models and in ... -
Technology For Autonomy And Resistance: The Appropriate Technology Movement In South America
(ESRC STEPS Centre, 2015-10-20)Between the 1970s and 1980s appropriate technology (AT) become a worldwide grassroots innovation movement that sought to redefine technology as a tool for development. In South America, AT emerged in a context of political ... -
Africa’s Land Rush
(Boydell & Brewer Limited, 2015-06-13)Africa has been at the centre of a “land grab” in recent years, with investors lured by projections of rising food prices, growing demand for “green” energy, and cheap land and water rights. But such land is often also ... -
3D Printing In Latin America – A New Technological Revolution?
(Inter-American Development Bank, 2015-10-16)This article by Mariano Fressoli (STEPS América Latina) and Adrian Smith (SPRU/STEPS) considers whether 3D printing signals a technological revolution for Latin America. Published in the 50th Anniversary issue of the ... -
Peri-Urbanism in Globalizing India: A Study of Pollution, Health and Community Awareness
(MDPI, 2017-08-30)This paper examines the intersection between environmental pollution and people’s acknowledgements of, and responses to, health issues in Karhera, a former agricultural village situated between the rapidly expanding ... -
Governing Food And Agriculture In A Warming World
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018-01-05)Understanding how, why, and whether the trade-offs and tensions around simultaneous implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals are resolved both sustainably and equitably requires an appreciation of power relations ... -
Improving Technology Transfer Through National Systems Of Innovation: Climate Relevant Innovation-System Builders (CRIBs)
(Taylor and Francis Goup, 2015-06-14)The Technology Executive Committee (TEC) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) recently convened a workshop seeking to understand how strengthening national systems of innovation (NSIs) might ... -
Ecosystem Services and Poverty Alleviation in Urbanising Contexts
(Routledge, 2018)The world’s urban population is expected to rise from 3.9 to 6.4 billion people between 2014 and 2050, with 90% of this increase in Asia and Africa (UN, 2014). While the impacts of urbanisation on ecosystems and the ... -
Transforming Governance In Telecoupled Food Systems
(The Resilience Alliance, 2017)In this paper we analyse how new actors, interests, and resources become salient to food system governance and how the domain of food system governance transforms as a result. Specifically, we focus on how the boundaries ... -
Promoting Agency For Social-Ecological Transformation: A Transformation-Lab In The Xochimilco Social-Ecological System
(The Resilience Alliance, 2018)Experiments to create spaces for social-ecological transformation are multiplying. These experiments aim at transcending traditional spaces for rational deliberation, planning, and participatory decision-making. We present ... -
Political Ecologies of Carbon in Africa
(Routledge, 2015)The last decade has seen a wave of forest carbon projects across the world, many in Africa. These have been a response to the pressing challenges of climate change mitigation. Conserving or enhancing forest carbon stocks ... -
Carbon Conflicts and Forest Landscapes in Africa
(Routledge, 2015-06-11)Amidst the pressing challenges of global climate change, the last decade has seen a wave of forest carbon projects across the world, designed to conserve and enhance forest carbon stocks in order to reduce carbon emissions ... -
Governing Agricultural Sustainability: Global Lessons From GM Crops
(Routledge, 2015-07-17)Although GM crops are seen by their advocates as a key component of the future of world agriculture and as part of the solution for world poverty and hunger, their uptake has not been smooth nor universal: they have been ... -
Power in Practice: Insights from Technography and Actor-Network Theory for Agricultural Sustainability
(ESRC STEPS Centre, 2017-10)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 ...