The Politics of Knowledge in Inclusive Development and Innovation

Edited By David Ludwig, Birgit Boogaard, Phil Macnaghten, Cees Leeuwis Published by Routledge in the Pathways to Sustainability book series 15 October 2021 Read this book (Open Access) Buy a…

The governance of sociotechnical transformations to sustainability

This article was produced as part of the Governance of Sociotechnical Transformations (GoST) project. The contribution makes use of a sociotechnical imaginaries (STI) framework to expose crucial but neglected governance…

Transformation as praxis: responding to climate change uncertainties in marginal environments in South Asia

This paper provides some of the conceptual and methodological underpinnings being developed in the ongoing TAPESTRY project which is part of the Transformations to Sustainability (T2S) Programme. We debate how the notion…

Three ways of understanding social transformations to sustainability

This knowledge brief was published by the International Science Council’s Transformations to Sustainability programme. Download this briefing The enormity, complexity and urgency of the global targets enshrined in the 2030…

The Politics of Uncertainty: Challenges of Transformation

Edited by Ian Scoones and Andy Stirling Routledge, 2020 Open access This book is available as an Open Access e-book. Individual chapters can also be downloaded free of charge. Read…

COVID-19 and the Futility of Control in the Modern World

Issues in Science and Technology 36, no. 4 (Summer 2020): 25–27 Amid the very real devastations of already-vulnerable lives and livelihoods caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a…

Structured Collaboration Across a Transformative Knowledge Network — Learning Across Disciplines, Cultures and Contexts?

Realising the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will require transformative changes at micro, meso and macro levels and across diverse geographies. Collaborative, transdisciplinary research has a role to play in documenting,…

Transformations to sustainability: combining structural, systemic and enabling approaches

The imperatives of environmental sustainability, poverty alleviation and social justice (partially codified in the Sustainable Development Goals or SDGs) call for ambitious societal transformations. As such, few aspects of actionable…

Sustainability transformations in complex systems: a political economy perspective

By Hubert Schmitz and Ian Scoones Chapter in Global Challenges, Governance, and Complexity: Applications and Frontiers, edited by Victor Galaz Read this chapter Making the world more sustainable is the…