Diseases that affect people and have their origins in animals (zoonoses) have the potential to cause social, political and economic upheaval, often with little warning. Witness 2014’s Ebola outbreak in…
The Politics of Delivering One Health
Technology Networks for Socially Useful Production
Journal of Peer Production, Issue 5: Shared Machine Shops Read the full article online (public domain) With unemployment reaching one in eight workers, and manufacturing in steep decline in the…
India’s Risks: Democratizing the Management of Threats to Environment, Health, and Values
A prospective superpower, India is still grappling with a host of risks that threaten to hamper its progress. These range from environmental threats caused by GM crops and pollution; dangers…
When grassroots innovation movements encounter mainstream institutions: implications for models of inclusive innovation (Submitted version)
by Mariano Fressoli, Elisa Arond, Dinesh Abrol, Adrian Smith, Adrian Ely and Rafael Dias Submitted to Innovation & Development in 2014 Grassroots Innovation Movements (GIMs) can be regarded as initiators…
Innovation politics post-Rio+20: hybrid pathways to sustainability?
The ability of innovation—both technical and social—to stretch and redefine ‘limits to growth’ was recognised at Stockholm in 1972, and has been a key feature in debates through to Rio+20…
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…
Future directions for scientific advice in Whitehall
A collection of essays, edited by Robert Doubleday and James Wilsdon A collection of essays based on a recent series of seminars to stimulate fresh thinking and practical recommendations on…
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…
A new innovation politics for global pathways to sustainability?
Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy The ability of innovation – both technical and social – to stretch and redefine ‘limits to growth’ was recognised at Stockholm in 1972,…