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Press Release: Pandemic Controversies: the global response to pandemic influenza must change
New research sets out alternative approach to preparing for pandemics ‘Evil’ scientists, deadly viruses and terrorist plots are usually the preserve of Hollywood blockbusters. But when it comes to pandemic influenza, it is the stuff of real life. As controversy about research into the H5N1 bird flu virus continues, a new paper argues for a [...]
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STEPS Centre wins award for contribution to public understanding of the social dimensions of science
The European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) has awarded the ESRC STEPS Centre its prestigious new Ziman award for “the most innovative cooperation in a venture to promote the public understanding of the social dimensions of science”. The STEPS Centre was given the award for its Innovation, Sustainability, Development: A New [...]
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Press notice: Animal-to-human disease transmission: The science and poverty implications
As a new strain of SARS-like virus1 is reported to have been identified by UK officials and a major new popular science book Spillover – Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by acclaimed US journalist David Quammen is published in the UK and US, zoonoses – diseases that pass from animals to humans – [...]
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Press release: Single-track sustainability ‘solutions’ threaten people and planet
Fostering grassroots innovations and empowering the creativity of marginalized groups can boost sustainability The targets, indicators and approaches being used to pursue progress towards sustainable development at Rio+20 are counter-productive, say scientists in a new paper. Goals focussing on one-track scientific solutions to the most urgent sustainability problems fail to respond to the uncertainty and [...]
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Press release: Green grabs: the dark side of the green economy
Green’ market initiatives are increasing poverty. Local ecosystem stewardship must be nurtured instead. ‘Green grabbing’ – the rapidly-growing appropriation of land and resources in the name of ‘green ’ biofuels, carbon offsetting schemes, conservation efforts and eco-tourism initiatives – is forcing people from their homelands and increasing poverty, new research has found. Ecosystems being ‘asset-stripped’ [...]
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Press release: Rio+20 Must Radically Rethink Innovation (27 March 2012)
A radical new approach to innovation is urgently needed to ensure a fair and green economy and avoid reversing progress made on global poverty reduction, according to leading scientists at the Planet Under Pressure conference in London. Ahead of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, or Rio+20, the ESRC STEPS Centre calls on negotiators [...]
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Media coverage archive 2006-2011
STEPS Centre media coverage 2006-2011 Gates Tells G20 Innovation is the Key to Development, SciDev.net, 4 Nov 2011, STEPS member Adrian Ely comments A new colonial carve up? Ian Scoones quoted in Geographcial Magazine, 1 August 2011 When knowledge is uncertain, experts should avoid pressures to simplify their advice, according to an article in Nature [...]
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Newsletter archive
View archive from Summer 2011 onwards Spring 2011 newsletter (pdf 482kb) Winter 2010 (pdf 482kb) Summer 2010 (pdf 382kb) April 2010 – Pathways to Sustainability book series (pdf 364kb) Autumn 2009 (pdf 382kb) Summer 2009 (pdf 385kb) Winter 2008 (pdf 385kb) Autumn 2008 (pdf 383kb) Spring 2008 (pdf 443kb) Autumn 2007(pdf (214kb)
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Press release archive
2010 Press pack: Innovation, Sustainability, Development: A New Manifesto Press release: A Manifesto to make innovation deliver for development 15 June 2010 Opening presentation from launch event by STEPS director Melissa Leach and project convenor Adrian Ely (Slideshare) Launch event programme (pdf 351kb) 2008 New PhD places for 2008 30 Jan 2008 Avian Flu Threat: [...]
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