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Books on sustainability: New Open Access titles

Five titles from the STEPS Centre’s Pathways to Sustainability book series have been made Open Access for the first time, making them freely available to download, read and share. The…

Free online course with new lectures: Pathways to Sustainability

We have made our free online course on Pathways to Sustainability available with new video lectures and reading lists. The course introduces a set of ideas, approaches, cases and methods…

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Seeing Pastoralism – new online exhibition launched

A new online exhibition, Seeing Pastoralism, has been launched by the PASTRES project (Pastoralism, Uncertainty and Resilience: Global Lessons from the Margins). The website uses stories and images to explore…

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STEPS members featured in global list of highly cited researchers

Two STEPS Centre members have been included for the second year running in the Highly Cited Researchers List produced by the analytics company Clarivate. Ian Scoones, Professorial Fellow at the…

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Climate change and agrarian studies: new essay and call for abstracts

As world leaders gather for the COP26 summit in Glasgow, a new, open access essay in the Journal of Peasant Studies (JPS) – ‘Climate change and agrarian struggles’ – offers…

TAPESTRY events at the COP26 conference

The TAPESTRY project is hosting three side events at the COP26 conference in Glasgow, November 2021. Transforming Deserts, Deltas and Deconstructing Cities 7 November at 8:30-9:30 am South Asian Regional…

Transformations Conference 2021: STEPS Methods Sessions

The upcoming annual Transformations Conference will feature a talks by STEPS colleagues reflecting on questions of methods and methodology. These talks will form part of the Centre’s theme for 2021:…

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In memoriam: Dr Pravin Kushwaha

We are deeply saddened to share the news of the death of Dr Pravin Kushwaha, of the South Asia Sustainability Hub. A notice by his colleagues in India is posted…

Transformation Conference 2021: Tapestry project sessions

The Tapestry project will be participating in a series of sessions at the upcoming 2021 Transformations Conference. The events will narrow in on marginal environments and climate uncertainty in South…