Transformative innovations start with the social and political, not technology hardware and finance: lessons from Lighting Africa and MECS MECS Briefing paper, September 2019 The international community has signed up…
Transformative innovations start with the social and political, not technology hardware and finance
Transforming Access to Clean Technology: Learning From Lighting Africa
The working paper analyses the case of Lighting Africa, which successfully transformed access to solar lighting in Kenya and, as far as we are aware, conceptualises and illustrates for the first time Lighting Africa’s approach. This builds on past STEPS research that focusses on building sociotechnical innovation systems.
Beyond Technical Fixes: climate solutions and the great derangement
Nightingale, A.J., Eriksen, S., Taylor, M., Forsyth, T., Pelling, M., Newsham, A., Boyd, E., Brown, K., Harvey, B., Jones, L., Kerr, R.B., Mehta, L., Naess, L.O., Ockwell, D., Scoones, I.,…
The Pathway toward a Net-Zero-Emissions Future
One Earth Volume 1, ISSUE 1, P18-20 The UK government recently committed to achieving net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. Ian Scoones comments alongside other UK-based experts to reflect upon this…
Destabilisation of Sustainable Energy Transformations: Analysing Natural Gas Lock-in in the case of Germany
STEPS Working Paper 106 by Louise Fitzgerald, Isabell Braunger and Hanna Brauers Download this paper In recent years, natural gas has seen increased support in the context of climate change…
The Circular Economy and the Global South
Edited by Patrick Schröder, Manisha Anantharaman, Kartika Anggraeni, Timothy J. Foxon Published by Routledge, April 2019 Paperback: £23.99 Pathways to Sustainability book series Order this book Download a chapter Download…
The Water-Food-Energy Nexus: Power, Politics and Justice
by Jeremy Allouche, Carl Middleton and Dipak Gyawali Earthscan/Routledge, April 2019 Buy this book Download a chapter Download the Accepted Manuscript (AM) of a chapter of the book. This document…
Engineering and Sustainability: Control and Care in Unfoldings of Modernity
SPRU Working Paper series SWPS 2019-06 (February) Forthcoming as a chapter in Diane P. Michelfelder and Neelke Doorn (eds), Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Engineering, London: Routledge, 2019 This chapter…
Bridging the gaps in understandings of uncertainty and climate change
Often there is a wide gap between how uncertainty is understood and experienced from ‘below’ by the lived experiences of local people, how it is conceptualised and represented from ‘above’…
Uncertainty in Climate Science: Extreme Weather Events in India
In May 2018, multiple extreme weather events claimed scores of lives, damaged property and brought public life to a standstill in parts of India. In the aftermath of these events,…