by Patricia Pérez Belmont, Umbela Transformaciones Sostenibles How can research methods inform and catalyse change towards more sustainable worlds? Last month, the STEPS Centre held an online event to launch…
Waves of challenging research for sustainability
PASTRES Team
Read about the people involved in the PASTRES project. Jump to: Core researchers / Country leads / Other project members / Students / Affiliates Core researchers Ian Scoones Ian Scoones…
UN Conference on Environment and Development
UN Conference on Environment and Development, also known as the Rio Summit or Earth Summit
Terms
This website is provided as a public service by the ESRC STEPS Centre (STEPS) subject to the following terms and conditions. Your use of the site is subject to these…
UNCTAD, ‘Women, Technology and Sexual Divisions’
UN Conference on Trade and Development, Secretariat. Women, technology and sexual divisions. Study prepared by Amartya K. Sen at the request of the UNCTAD secretariat and INSTRAW. New York: UN, 1985. UNCTAD/TT/79
Pastoralism and Development in Africa: Dynamic change at the margins
This book takes a fresh look at the livestock sector in the Horn of Africa. The region is often in the headlines for all the wrong reasons: drought, famine, conflict…
Workshop: Climate Change and Uncertainty from Above and Below
27-28 January 2016 New Delhi, India Uncertainty is often considered to be a “super wicked problem” or “monster” by scientists and policy makers. The integration of uncertainty in climate change…
GOSH Roadmap: democratizing technology, from a Latin American perspective
As the year begins, also begin the efforts of low-budget university labs to make ends meet. The scene is unfortunately quite familiar to many of us in Latin America. How…
Responding to uncertainty: who are the experts?
Uncertainties are everywhere, part of life. But how to respond? Who are the experts? These are questions that we are debating this week at a symposium entitled ‘The Politics of Uncertainty:…
To meet the Sustainable Development Goals, we must transform innovation
By Saurabh Arora and Andy Stirling This blogpost is republished from STRINGS (Steering Research and Innovation for Global Goals). In 1925, Mahatma Gandhi famously included ‘science without humanity’ and ‘knowledge…