A film exploring the positive and negative effects of rapid urbanisation in Banglalore, once a ‘pensioner’s paradise’, now a global information technology hotspot, home to Infosys and Wipro, and one…
Bangalore: Living in a Global City
Bangalore: From Garden City to Garbage City
Bangalore is one of the fastest-growing cities in the world. With a population approaching 9 million, it produces around 4000 tonnes of solid waste each day. Most of this is dumped…
‘Opening up’ fire conflicts: Reflexive governance and transformative knowledge networks in culturally fragile indigenous landscapes
Original Spanish version can be accessed here: https://steps-centre.org/publication/re-significando-el-fuego-gobernabilidad-reflexiva-y-transformacion-de-conflictos-en-territorios-indigenas-culturalmente-fragiles/ Despite the fact that there is much more acceptance today to the use of fire by indigenous people in forests and savannas ecosystems…
Biotechnology and its configurations: GM cotton production on large and small farms in Argentina
Drawing on a socio-technical systems perspective we compare the ways in which novel genetically modified (GM) crop artefacts, related devices and techniques, actors, practices, and institutions have been linked together,…
Revolution Reconsidered: Evolving Perspectives on Livestock Production and Consumption
The term Livestock Revolution was coined by Delgado et al. (1999c) to highlight accelerated growth in demand for livestock products in parts of the developing world, tied to human population…
Grassroots innovation movements: challenges and contributions
Technologies for social inclusion in Latin America are a recent manifestation of grassroots innovation movements whose global activities go back to appropriate technology in the 1970s and earlier. Common to…
Zoonoses: from Panic to Planning
This Rapid Response briefing from the Dynamic Drivers of Disease in Africa Consortium sets out recommendations for a new, integrated ‘One Health’ approach to zoonoses that moves away from top-down disease-focused…
Pandemic Flu Controversies: What have we learned? Reflections from a workshop to discuss lessons, policy implications and future challenges
This report details discussions at the Pandemic Flu Controversies workshop held on 10-11 January 2013, organised by the STEPS Centre and University of Sussex Centre for Global Health Policy. There…
Forest Carbon Projects in Africa: A Mapping Study
A background report for the Political Ecologies of Carbon in Africa research project. This report provides a mapping of the status and characteristics of forest carbon projects in Africa in late…
Swine flu: what went wrong?
Although the H1N1 ‘swine flu’ pandemic of 2009-10 was less severe than anticipated, the event revealed weaknesses in the world’s current configuration of planning for and responding to pandemic influenza,…