This is the second in a series of four blog posts on the climate by STEPS co-director Andy Stirling, under the heading: ‘Controlling a stable planetary climate – or caring…
Does the delusion of ‘climate control’ do more harm than good to climate disruption?
4. Resource Politics
Resource politics – political contestations over access, use and control of resources – are central to policy debates on global development. Questions around ‘planetary boundaries’, climate change, the Sustainable Development…
Opening up democratic politics for sustainable development: reflections from STEPS America Latina
The event that launched STEPS América Latina earlier this month, ‘Opening up the development agenda’, was a great workshop. It’s rare for a meeting of this kind to be so…
Degrowth and the pluriverse: continued coloniality or intercultural revolution?
by Saurabh Arora and Andy Stirling UPDATE – 12 May 2021: Timothée Parrique, researcher and author on degrowth, has posted a response to this essay on his website. “And then…
The Politics of Green Transformations
It’s a crunch year for science, environment and development agreements – COP21, the Sustainable Development Goals – but will 2015 be the transformative moment it is being hyped as? (Michael…
Weird ecologies
In this short post, Amber Huff (STEPS/IDS) and Adrian Nel (University of KwaZulu Natal) introduce the idea of ‘weird ecologies’ and explains why ‘the Weird’ has such an enduring appeal…
Modernity Without its Clothes: the pandemic crisis shines a light on futilities of control
With so many self-appointed pundits (like me!) currently locked down with their laptops, the present rush of commentary on how to pivot the coronavirus crisis is hardly surprising. Beyond the…
Natures
Our theme for 2020 is ‘Natures’. Nature is all around us, but there are many ways of seeing different kinds of ‘natures’, and many efforts to involve it in forms…
Seeding ideas: knowledge brokering and recombination for agricultural transformations
by Adrian Ely, Paddy Van Zwanenberg, Elise Wach, Martin Obaya and Almendra Cremaschi Straight after the ‘Transformations 2017’ conference, the ‘Pathways’ network gathered at the mid-point in our three year…
Press & Media coverage
Browse through the latest media coverage of the STEPS Centre’s work. Are you a journalist? Get in touch. October 2018 Africa’s sustainability challenges and research needs An event organised by…