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…
Press release: Rio+20 Must Radically Rethink Innovation (27 March 2012)
STEPS at PLANET UNDER PRESSURE
The STEPS Centre is mounting a variety of exciting activities at the Planet Under Pressure conference in London, this week (March 26-29): convening a key session, taking part in four…
WORLD WATER DAY: VIDEO HOPES FOR RIO+20
Ahead of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, we are asking academics, practitioners, policymakers and other stakeholders to tell us about the one sustainable development issue they would like to see addressed…
WORLD WATER FORUM 2012: ARE SUSTAINABILITY TARGETS THE NEXT GOAL?
By Phemo Kgomotso, IDS Phd Student The editors of the IDS Bulletin titled ‘Some for All? Politics and Pathways in Water and Sanitation’, Volume 43, No. 2, March 2012 launched…
WORLD WATER FORUM 2012: DECISION TIME?
By Jeremy Allouche There was a certain sense of excitement around the Forum and the slogan ‘a time for solutions’, set the tone. It’s time for post MDGs and Rio+20. As…
WORLD WATER FORUM 2012: WHO IS BUYING IN?
by Alan Nicol World Water Forum six is drawing to a close here in Marseille. Booths are emptying and participants are dwindling at the slightly drab Parc Chanot. The monolithic…
WORLD WATER FORUM 2012: DEBATES AND CONTRADICTIONS
By Lyla Mehta and Harriet Dudley This was our third World Water Forum, and compared with the other ones we’ve attended it was pretty tame, far more low-key and lacked…
STEPS AT WORLD WATER FORUM
The STEPS Centre water and sanitation team is at the sixth World Water Forum in Marseille where they are preparing for our event this evening, where the progress – or…
More epidemics resources
Our blogs on swine flu Ian Scoones on Responding to Pandemic Threats (April 2010) The lessons of swine flu: Ian Scoones, The Guardian, 10 May 2009. A longer version is…
JOIN US FOR BOOK SERIES LAUNCH
If you are going to be at the Planet Under Pressure event in London in March, we would be delighted if you joined us for drinks at 5.30pm on the…