This paper outlines the STEPS Centre approach to understanding dynamic systems and addressing their goverance so as to promote pathways to Sustainabilty that meet the perspectives and priorities of poor and marginalised groups. It lays out the ingredients of the STEPS Centre’s work, including linking diverse social and natural science perspectives, connecting theory, policy and practice and an engaged, interactive approach to communications.
Pathways to Sustainability: an overview of the STEPS Centre approach
Spanish version: Innovation, Sustainability, Development: A New Manifesto
Spanish (Latin American) translation of Innovation, Sustainability, Development: A New Manifesto.
New Models of Technology Assessment for Development
This report explores the role that ‘new models’ of technology assessment can play in improving the lives of poor and vulnerable populations in the developing world. The ‘new models’ addressed…
Pathways to Sustainability: Perspectives and Provocations
Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space vol 43, pp 1226-1237 by David Demeritt, Andrew Dobson, Tania Murray Li, Melissa Leach, Ian Scoones, Andy Stirling Read this article
Building institutions for an effective health system: Lessons from China’s experience with rural health reform
This paper is concerned with the management of health system changes aimed at substantially increasing the access to safe and effective health services. It argues that an effective health sector…
Environmental Change and Maize Innovation Pathways in Kenya: Seeking Resilience through Diversity (maize briefing 1)
In Kenya, STEPS Centre research partners from the African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS), the Centre for African Bio-entrepreneurship (CABE), Tegemeo Institute at Egerton University, in association with the Institute…
Biosafety Regulation: Lessons from Kenya and the Philippines
Both Kenya and the Philippines have been regarded as ‘test cases’ for biotechnology and biosafety regulatory development in their respective regions. Biosafety and its regulation has become the lightning rod…
Contesting sustainabilities in the peri-urban interface
This research report is intended to inform and encourage debate on the management of resources in the peri-urban fringe. In particular it demonstrates how the dominant, mainstream, strategies for water…
Grassroots innovations for sustainable development: Towards a new research and policy agenda
Innovation and community action are two important strands for sustainable development. Yet they have not hitherto been linked. Community action is a neglected, but potentially important, site of innovative activity….