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Framing and reframing sustainable bioenergy pathways: The case of Emilia Romagna

STEPS Working Paper 88 This paper addresses the case of bioenergy development in Emilia Romagna, using and building on a ‘pathways to sustainability’ approach (Leach et al. 2010). It represents…

Karhera: A photo book

This book tells the story of Karhera, a village between Delhi and Ghaziabad in India, through photographs, maps and words. It was produced as part of an ESPA-funded research project…

Indigenous African soil enrichment as a climate-smart sustainable agriculture alternative

by Dawit Solomon, Johannes Lehmann, James A Fraser, Melissa Leach, Kojo Amanor, Victoria Frausin, Søren M Kristiansen, Dominique Millimouno and James Fairhead We describe for the first time a current…

Solar PV and solar water heaters in China: Different pathways to low carbon energy

This review paper examines pathways towards solar energy in China by examining two different solar energy technologies, namely solar photovoltaic (PV) and solar water heaters (SWH). The paper investigates these two case studies to understand how different pathways for low carbon innovation are promoted and challenged by China’s changing financing and policy-making, and how they relate to changing practices among producers and consumers.

Making the SDGs a reality in LDCs: action for transformation

In June 2016, the Least Developed Countries Independent Expert Group, IIED, and the ESRC STEPS Centre hosted a dialogue for Least Developed Country (LDC) experts to discuss how the Sustainable…

Grassroots Innovation Movements

Read the book Buy the book About the book This book, in the STEPS Centre’s Pathways to Sustainability series, looks at how six grassroots innovation movements around the world have…

How to cultivate sustainable developments in makerspaces

This report provides an overview of a workshop on Makerspaces held in London, which involved around 80 participants from the UK and Europe.

Addressing antimicrobial resistance in China: policy implementation in a complex context

by Li Wang, Xiulan Zhang, Xiaoyun Liang and Gerald Bloom The effectiveness of antibiotics in treating bacterial infections is decreasing in China because of the widespread development of resistant organisms….

Co-design with aligned and non-aligned knowledge partners: implications for research and coproduction of sustainable food systems

An article by Anabel Marin, Adrian Ely & Patrick van Zwanenberg about the benefits and challenges involved in co-designing research projects on agriculture & food with partners who are ‘aligned’ or ‘non-aligned’ in their aims and values, published in the journal ‘Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability’.