This is a collaborative project involving Andy Stirling, co-director of the STEPS Centre and SPRU, Pierre-Benoit Joly at INRA in Paris, Peter Stegmaier at TSG in Dortmund and led by Stefan Kuhlmann…
Governance of Discontinuity in Technological Systems (DiscGo)
Climate Geoengineering Governance
The Climate Geoengineering Governance (CGG) project was a collaboration between the Universities of Oxford and Sussex and University College London, which worked between July 2012 and December 2014. The project…
Multicriteria Mapping
Launch date: 2014 Multicriteria Mapping is a collaborative project with Andy Stirling, co-director of the STEPS Centre; and SPRU, the Sussex Innovation Centre and the UK-based software design company DabApps. The…
Sustainable Lifestyles Research Group
The Sustainable Lifestyles Research Group (SLRG) was a collaborative project across many UK universities, with Andy Stirling, STEPS Centre and SPRU, serving as Deputy Director. Led overall by Tim Jackson at…
Community Innovation for Sustainable Energy
Exploring the extent of networking between small-scale, sustainable energy projects led by local communities in the UK, the project asks whether and how this networking assists in the innovation of…
Opening Up Natural Resource-Based Industries for Innovation: Exploring New Pathways for Development in Latin America
Description: Natural Resource industries, such as agriculture and mining, are generally considered to make little contribution to development objectives due in part to the diffusion within these industries of practices and…
The Politics of Low Carbon Innovation: Towards a theory of Niche Protection
This was a collaborative project between analysing the politics of providing a ‘protective space’ for three innovation pathways towards low carbon energy strategies in the UK and Netherlands: photovoltaic cells,…
Climate Technology and Development Project
This collaborative project’s aim is to refocus national and international policy agendas in order to improve the prospects for enhancing technology development, diffusion and transfer. The overarching question that the project…
From Framings to Pathways: Bats and the Construction of Risk in Ghana
Project dates: 2011 to 2016 This project took a historical perspective on the way bats and disease are understood in Ghana, how framings shift over time and how this has informed…
Flows and Practices: The politics of integrated water resources management (IWRM) in Africa
Project dates: 2012 – 2014 Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) has emerged as a key approach in the water sector in the past decade. However, IWRM has not produced the…