Search examples, events, commentary and publications on methods that help explore pathways to sustainability. This archive draws from 15 years of the ESRC STEPS Centre’s research with collaborators around the world.
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Professor Sir Hans Singer considered it one of the three most important reports he had been involved in writing. Given Prof. Singer’s illustrious career spanning seven decades from 1936, that is quite an endorsement. The report in question is The Sussex Manifesto: Science and Technology to Developing Countries during the Second Development Decade (1970). Professor…
The PATHWAYS Network carries out comparative research in six countries to explore how to work with local people on social transformations in the context of environmental change. We are conducting ‘Transformation Labs’ (T-Labs) with diverse groups in each country to address a specific socio-ecological problem. We aim to provoke change, test methods, learn from each…
Case study of methods used in a STEPS Centre project that explored climate change, uncertainty, expertise and knowledge in South Asia.
Case study about historical methods used in a STEPS Centre research project about grassroots innovation.
Case study on methods used in a STEPS project on the possible role of bats in spreading disease in Ghana.
Case study of methods used in a STEPS project exploring the social practices and dynamics involved in low-carbon innovation to benefit poor people.
This is one of a series of case studies showing how STEPS Centre projects have used methods and methodologies in particular settings. Methodological approach and lessons from the STEPS Centre Environmental Change and Maize Innovation Pathways in Kenya project. The presentation (above) can be viewed in conjunction with the explanatory text below. Opening Up and Broadening Out Maize…
Case study of methods used in a STEPS project on carbon forestry in Africa, exploring policies, how projects are designed and their impacts on local people.
Case study on a STEPS project that used different methods to analyse a number of international assessments and policy documents on agriculture and food, which have been produced over recent years to diagnose problems and explore potential responses.