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Beyond Divides: Prospects for synergy between resilience and pathways approaches to sustainability

In the context of rapid social, ecological and technological change,there is rising global demand from private, public and civic interests for trans-disciplinary sustainability research. This demand is fuelled by an…

Nexus Nirvana or Nexus Nullity? A dynamic approach to security and sustainability in the water-energy-food nexus

Over the last several years, the water-energy-food (WEF) nexus has emerged as an increasingly prominent global policy, governance and research agenda. Water, energy, and food security are often framed to…

Emancipating Transformations: From controlling ‘the transition’ to culturing plural radical progress

Current global environmental policy reverberates with talk of a new “Anthropocene epoch” defined by “human domination”, in which a “perfect storm” of catastrophic threats is forcing “the great transition” towards…

Sustainable energy for whom? Governing pro-poor, low-carbon pathways to development: Lessons from solar PV in Kenya

Using a combination of insights from innovation studies, socio-technical transitions theory and the STEPS pathways approach, this paper analyses the evolution of the Kenyan photovoltaics (PV) market. Considered by many…

Gender and the construction of identity within climate technology innovation in Kenya

This paper undertakes an analysis of the discursive construction of the entrepreneurial identity within media on climate technology (CT) innovation in Kenya. Using the STEPS Centre Pathways Approach along side a post-structuralist…

Financing Sustainable Energy for All: Pay-as-you-go vs. traditional solar finance approaches in Kenya

This paper focuses on finance for Solar Home Systems (SHSs) in Kenya and asks to what extent emerging new finance approaches are likely to address the shortcomings of past approaches. …

STEPS Centre Research: Our Approach to Impact

STEPS Centre Working Paper 60 Download this paper (PDF) The ‘impact’ of research has seen a dramatic rise up the UK’s policy agenda in recent years. But what does ‘impact’…

Socially Useful Production

STEPS Working Paper 58 A history and analysis is provided of the movement for socially useful production, which flourished for a brief period in the UK in the 1970s and…

Reimagining Development 3.0 for a Changing Planet

by Jon Moris STEPS Centre / IDS Working Paper (IDS WP435) This working paper (pdf) argues we need to reimagine development tactics to fashion Development 3.0, to match what business…