Book chapter in African Futures (pp. 101-110). Africa continues to face multiple uncertainties – climate chaos, food insecurity, migration flows, economic volatility, conflict, epidemic disease outbreaks, fragile governance and more. Indeed,…

Published by Routledge Edited by Ian Scoones, Marc Edelman, Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Lyda Fernando Forero, Ruth Hall, Wendy Wolford and Ben White The rise of authoritarian, nationalist forms of…

edited by Ian Scoones This book is a compilation of 20 articles emerging from researching Zimbabwe’s land reform since 2000. The book is organised into six themes: ‘experiences of land…

Edited By Lyla Mehta, Hans Nicolai Adam, Shilpi Srivastava Routledge – Pathways to Sustainability Series, Open Access order this book Read Open Access This book brings together diverse perspectives concerning…

Edited by Rasmus Lema, Margrethe Holm Andersen, Rebecca Hanlin, Charles Nzila Published by Routledge in the Pathways to Sustainability book series 16 November 2021 Read this book (Open Access) Buy…

Edited By David Ludwig, Birgit Boogaard, Phil Macnaghten, Cees Leeuwis Published by Routledge in the Pathways to Sustainability book series 15 October 2021 Read this book (Open Access) Buy a…

Edited by Adrian Ely Routledge, Pathways to Sustainability Series (2021) Open Access Read/Download this book About this book Transformations to sustainability are increasingly the focus of research and policy discussions…

T-Labs: A Practical Guide Using Transformation Labs (T-Labs) for innovation in social-ecological systems Pathways Network, September 2018 Between 2016 and 2018, the Pathways Network aimed to investigate new approaches for…

Edited by Ian Scoones and Andy Stirling Routledge, 2020 Open access This book is available as an Open Access e-book. Individual chapters can also be downloaded free of charge. Read…

The introduction is available as Open Access Chapter 14 is available as Open Access Buy a copy Examines the new challenges facing Africa’s pastoral drylands from large-scale investments and how…

by Lyla Mehta, Theib Oweis, Claudia Ringler, Barbara Schreiner and Shiney Varghese Pathways to Sustainability series £29.99 (paperback) Routledge, 2019 Buy this book About the book This book is the…

By Hubert Schmitz and Ian Scoones Chapter in Global Challenges, Governance, and Complexity: Applications and Frontiers, edited by Victor Galaz Read this chapter Making the world more sustainable is the…

Edited by Patrick Schröder, Manisha Anantharaman, Kartika Anggraeni, Timothy J. Foxon Published by Routledge, April 2019 Paperback: £23.99 Pathways to Sustainability book series Order this book Download a chapter Download…

by Jeremy Allouche, Carl Middleton and Dipak Gyawali Earthscan/Routledge, April 2019 Buy this book Download a chapter Download the Accepted Manuscript (AM) of a chapter of the book. This document…

This Routledge FreeBook highlights some of the major findings that have emerged over the last decade of the STEPS Centre’s research on health and disease. This new collection draws on…

Our flagship book series addresses core challenges linking science, technology and sustainability with poverty reduction and social justice – with insights from across the STEPS Centre’s projects and themes. The…

edited by James Sumberg Published by Earthscan/Routledge, 2017 Buy this book Over the last decade there has been renewed interest in food security and the state of the global food…

This Routledge FreeBook highlights some of the major findings that have emerged over the last decade of the STEPS Centre’s research on sustainable agriculture. Download this book It draws on…

Is rapid transition possible? Sometimes events or new knowledge throw up reasons why we must make change happen quickly. At the present moment, climate change and chronic social inequality seem…

David Ockwell and Rob Byrne Routledge/Earthscan 2017 Buy this book Open Access content The following Open Access chapters from the book are available to read under a Creative Commons licence…

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…

Read the book Buy the book About the book This book, in the STEPS Centre’s Pathways to Sustainability series, looks at how six grassroots innovation movements around the world have…

Routledge/Earthscan, 2016 Edited by Kevin Bardosh Buy from the publishers Zoonotic diseases – pathogens transmitted from animals to people – offer particularly challenging problems for global health institutions and actors…

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…

By Stephen Whitfield  Routledge, 2016 Buy this book Future climatic and agro-ecological changes in Africa are uncertain and associated with high degrees of spatial and temporal variability and this change is…

By Ian Scoones Practical Action Publishing August 2015 An Open Access e-book is available. View/download Buy the book from Practical Action Publishing (price discount for limited period) Medios de vida…

Edited by Melissa Leach Earthscan/Routledge, 2015 Buy this book For pathways to be truly sustainable and advance gender equality and the rights and capabilities of women and girls, those whose…

edited by Phil Macnaghten and Susana Carro Ripalda Routledge/Earthscan, 2015 Buy this book Although GM crops are seen by their advocates as a key component of the future of world…

You can download the Accepted Manuscript of Chapter 1 of this book, open access. Download Chapter 1 Buy this book Amidst the pressing challenges of global climate change, the last…

Edited by Ian Scoones, Melissa Leach and Peter Newell Routledge/Earthscan, 2015 This book is available to read Open Access. Read this book Buy the book About this book Multiple ‘green…

A prospective superpower, India is still grappling with a host of risks that threaten to hamper its progress. These range from environmental threats caused by GM crops and pollution; dangers…

Routledge/Earthscan 2012 Published in the Pathways to Sustainability book series buy a copy There has been a dramatic spread of health markets in much of Asia and Africa over the…

This book is available to read Open Access from the publisher’s website. Pastoralism and Development in Africa: Dynamic Change at the Margins Earthscan / Routledge, July 2012 Read this book…

Edited by James Sumberg and John Thompson Routledge, 2012 Buy this book This book in our Pathways to Sustainability series looks at the how debates in crop and land science…

Adrian Ely, Adrian Smith and Patrick van Zwanenberg Earthscan/Routledge, 2011 Buy this book About this book Examining the regulation of technologies, this book explores how the drive to harmonize regulatory…

Linda Waldman Earthscan/Routledge, 2011 Buy this book About this book Around the world, asbestos-related diseases are on the increase. Meanwhile, in many newly-industrialising and developing countries, asbestos use continues unabated….

You can download the Accepted Manuscript of Chapter 4 of this book – An Alliance Around an Idea: The Shifting Boundaries of HarvestPlus Download Chapter 4 Buy this book About…

You can download the Accepted Manuscript of Chapter 1 of this book, Open Access. Download Chapter 1 Buy this book Recent disease events such as SARS, H1N1 and avian influenza,…

Open access chapter You can download an Open Access chapter of the book for free. This is the Accepted Manuscript of Chapter 1: The International Response to Avian Influenza: Science,…

This book is available to download Open Access. Read the book Linking environmental sustainability with poverty reduction and social justice, and making science and technology work for the poor, have…

Through a selection of posters from around the globe, this book tells the story of how public health campaigns have evolved in the last 60 years. It includes an introduction…

This book chapter offers preliminary evidence concerning the existence of dark earth analogues in one part of West Africa and uses this to probe the historical and ecological arguments that…

NGOs today, as part of civil society, have come to play a prominent role in South Asia in the context of community-based natural resource management (CBNRM). This book examines the…

Vaccine Anxieties explores how parents understand and engage with childhood vaccination in contrasting global contexts. This rapidly advancing and universal technology has sparked dramatic controversy, whether over MMR in the…

Edited by Frans Berkhout, Melissa Leach and Ian Scoones This book by leading researchers presents a critical review of debates in environmental social science over the past decade. Three broad…