Environmental Science and Policy, vol. 138 (2022) Reliance on groundwater in Sub-Saharan Africa is growing and expected to rise as surface water resource variability increases under climate change. Major questions…
A multicriteria analysis of groundwater development pathways in three river basins in Sub-Saharan Africa
Livestock and Climate Justice: Challenging Mainstream Policy Narratives
by Fernando García-Dory, Ella Houzer and Ian Scoones IDS Bulletin article In discussions around food systems and the climate, livestock is often painted as the villain. While some livestock production…
Climate change and agrarian struggles
by Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Ian Scoones, Amita Baviskar, Marc Edelman, Nancy Lee Peluso and Wendy Wolford The Journal of Peasant Studies Volume 49, 2022 – Issue 1 This essay…
The governance of sociotechnical transformations to sustainability
This article was produced as part of the Governance of Sociotechnical Transformations (GoST) project. The contribution makes use of a sociotechnical imaginaries (STI) framework to expose crucial but neglected governance…
Transformation as praxis: responding to climate change uncertainties in marginal environments in South Asia
This paper provides some of the conceptual and methodological underpinnings being developed in the ongoing TAPESTRY project which is part of the Transformations to Sustainability (T2S) Programme. We debate how the notion…
Frictitious commodities: Virtuality, virtue and value in the carbon economy of repair
What ‘nature’ is being commodified in carbon markets, and why does it matter? How are carbon commodities and ecologies of repair co-produced through carbon forestry? Are the Polanyian notions of…
Rethinking disease preparedness: incertitude and the politics of knowledge
This paper argues for a rethinking of disease preparedness that puts incertitude and the politics of knowledge at the centre. Through examining the experiences of Ebola, Nipah, cholera and COVID-19…
Post-pandemic transformations: How and why Covid-19 requires us to rethink development
World Development Volume 138, February 2021 (published Open Access online) Read this paper COVID-19 is proving to be the long awaited ‘big one’: a pandemic capable of bringing societies and…
Pastoralists and peasants: perspectives on agrarian change
Journal of Peasant Studies 48:1 For many years, studies of peasants and pastoralists have run in parallel, creating mutual blind-spots. This article argues that, despite contrasting research traditions and conceptual…
Pathways for Sustainable Urban Waste Management and Reduced Environmental Health Risks in India: Winners, Losers, and Alternatives to Waste to Energy in Delhi
Article in the journal Frontiers in Sustainable Cities that explores how centralized waste-to-energy (WTE) became the dominant ‘singular’ solution to Delhi’s solid waste crisis.