STEPS Working Paper 78 by Andy Stirling Download this paper (PDF) Innovation is about more than technological invention. It involves change of many kinds: cultural, organisational and behavioural as well…
Towards innovation democracy? Participation, responsibility and precaution in innovation governance
Responding to uncertainty: Bats and the construction of disease risk in Ghana
STEPS Working Paper 80 Zoonotic disease has gained international attention since the identification of avian and swine influenza, with academic focus on the modelling of disease emergence, and policy centring…
Special issue: Critical Thinking on the ‘New Security Convergence’ in Energy, Food, Climate and Water: Is the Nexus Secure … and for Whom?
Special issue of the journal Water Alternatives edited by Jeremy Allouche, Carl Middleton and Dipak Gyawali. Articles are open access. Contents: Technical veil, hidden politics: Interrogating the power linkages behind…
Pathways Towards Sustainable Maize Production and Consumption in China: Prospects, Politics and Practices
STEPS Working Paper 72 Adrian Ely, Sam Geall and Yiching Song Download (PDF) China provides a stark and globally significant illustration of how changing patterns of food production and consumption…
Low Carbon Innovation in Chinese Urban Mobility: Prospects, Politics and Practices
STEPS Working Paper 71 David Tyfield, Dennis Zuev, Ping Li and John Urry Download (PDF) China represents a test-case of global significance regarding the challenges of urban mobility transition to…
Pathways Towards Renewable Energy in China: Prospects, Politics and Practices
STEPS Working Paper 70 Frauke Urban and Sam Geall Download (PDF) China is not only the world’s largest energy consumer and greenhouse-gas emitter by volume, but also boasts the largest…
Low-Carbon Innovation in China: Prospects, Politics and Practices
STEPS Working Paper 69 by David Tyfield, Adrian Ely, Frauke Urban, Sam Geall, Dennis Zuev and John Urry Download (PDF) China’s potential transition to a low-carbon, climate resilient or ‘post-carbon’…
Putting the Power in ‘Socio-Technical Regimes’ – E-Mobility Transition in China as Political Process
Mobilities, Volume 9, Issue 4, 2014 (Special Issue: Mobilities & Foucault) View this open-access article online A mobility low-carbon transition is a key issue both socially and for mobilities research….
CRIBs (Climate Relevant Innovation-system Builders): An effective way forward for international climate technology policy
STEPS Working Paper 77 by David Ockwell and Rob Byrne Download this paper National systems of innovation (NSIs) provide the context within which all processes of technology development, transfer and…
CRIBs (Climate Relevant Innovation-system Builders) A powerful new focus for international climate technology policy
STEPS Briefing (to accompany Working Paper 76) by David Ockwell and Rob Byrne Download this briefing One of the most powerful boosts to addressing climate technology transfer and development under…