Publications Archives

The Water Cookbook

The Water Cookbook presents ideas from our project on peri-urban sustainability in Ghaziabad, India. It is a short graphic novel combining pictures with some brief stories from daily life in…

Broadening out and opening up technology assessment: Approaches to enhance international development, co-ordination and democratisation

Technology assessment (TA) has a strong history of helping to identify priorities and improve environmental sustainability, cost-effectiveness and wider benefits in the technology policies and innovation strategies of nation-states. At…

Climate change and uncertainty from below and above

In India, as part of the Uncertainty from Below and Above project, the STEPS Centre is working with leading research institutes – the Institute of Health Management Research, Kolkata; Sarai…

Innovation Histories Workshop on the Solar Home System Market in Kenya

This report presents proceedings of an innovation histories workshop on the Solar Home System (SHS) Market in Kenya. The workshop was held on 3 June 2013 at Silver Springs Hotel…

The social and political lives of zoonotic disease models: Narratives, science and policy

Social Science & Medicine Volume 88, July 2013, Pages 10-17 Zoonotic diseases currently pose both major health threats and complex scientific and policy challenges, to which modelling is increasingly called…

Socioeconomic development as an intervention against malaria: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Lucy S Tusting, Barbara Willey, Henry Lucas, John Thompson, Hmooda T Kafy, Richard Smith, Steve W Lindsay The Lancet, June 2013 (online) Background: Future progress in tackling malaria mortality will…

Re-significando el fuego: gobernabilidad reflexiva y transformación de conflictos en territorios indígenas culturalmente frágiles

English Version can be found here: https://steps-centre.org/publication/fire-conflic/ STEPS Working Paper June 2013 A pesar del hecho de que hoy día existe una mayor aceptación del uso del fuego en ecosistemas de…

Governing REDD+: global framings versus practical evidence from the Kasigau Corridor REDD+ Project, Kenya

This paper explores the governance and feasibility of globally-linked REDD+ projects in local African settings, focusing on the Kasigau project in Kenya, Africa’s first REDD+ project accredited under internationally accepted…

Pro-poor, low carbon development: Improving low carbon energy access and development benefits in Least Developed Countries (LDCs)

Available in English and Kiswahili, this short, non-technical briefing outlines the aims, rationale and approach of the Low Carbon Development project. The project is a partnership between the University of Sussex (including the…