Posts with the green transformations tag

Cement factory sending fumes up into the sky.

Exploring the social impacts of green transformations in China

Chulin Jiang

pA transformation lab (T-Lab) focused on China’s green transformation policy and its impacts was held in Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province on October 22, 2016. The T-lab intended to identify  problems…

Beyond two-dimensional perspectives: Sustainable energy access as adaptation and mitigation?

David Ockwell

Earlier this year, the Institute of Development Studies convened a one day meeting of scholars to discuss the emerging field of the politics of climate change adaptation. I study sustainable…

How do we reform fossil fuel subsidies?

Nathan Oxley

The idea of reforming fossil fuel subsidies is attracting attention in both academic and policy circles. The environmental and economic aspects of subsidies and their reform have been much debated,…

How the Sustainable Development Goals create a political space to reimagine development

Ian Scoones

When the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were agreed last September, there was much expectation about how they could help get sustainability back on the development agenda, and push the international…

Earth Day: are we astronauts or toads?

Nathan Oxley

It’s 50 years since the first image of the Earth from space was beamed back home from Lunar Orbiter 1. It’s hard for us now to imagine, or remember, what…

Credit: STEPS Centre

A year of STEPS: 2015 highlights

As it’s nearing the end of 2015, here are some highlights you may have missed from the STEPS Centre’s last 12 months. We’ll see you next year! Our coverage of…

STEPS at the IST2015 Sustainability Transformations conference

Nathan Oxley

This week the International Sustainability Transitions Conference takes place at Sussex University, hosted by the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU). The event kicks off on the afternoon of 25 August…

Are Common Wealth Trusts the way forward for a sustainable and equitable future?

Andy Stirling

STEPS co-director Andy Stirling responds to a recent article on the Great Transition Initiative website by Peter Barnes, which makes the case for Common Wealth Trusts as a way of…

Does the Anthropocene mean we have to ‘put democracy on hold’?

Nathan Oxley

Our co-director Andy Stirling is at the 2015 conference of the International Society for the Systems Sciences in Berlin today, and sent us this abstract of his keynote, ‘Emancipating Transformations:…