Science and security policy are increasingly overlapping because of concerns that legitimate research might be misapplied to develop biological weapons. This has led to an expansion of security policy to…
Biosecurity, bioterrorism and the governance of science: The increasing convergence of science and security policy
Vaccine Anxieties: Global Science, Child Health and Society
Vaccine Anxieties explores how parents understand and engage with childhood vaccination in contrasting global contexts. This rapidly advancing and universal technology has sparked dramatic controversy, whether over MMR in the…
French version: Innovation, Sustainability, Development: A New Manifesto
French translation of Innovation, Sustainability, Development: A New Manifesto.
Governing epidemics in an age of complexity: Narratives, politics and pathways to sustainability
This paper elaborates a ‘pathways approach’ to addressing the governance challenges posed by the dynamics of complex, coupled, multi-scale systems, while incorporating explicit concern for equity, social justice and the…
Liquid Dynamics: accessing water and sanitation in an uncertain age
The Liquid Dynamics Symposium in November 2009, hosted by the STEPS Centre, brought together people from disciplines including water resources, sanitation, health, and climate change, to address issues of sustainability…
Liquid Dynamics: Challenges for Sustainability in water and sanitation
The effects of recurring floods and droughts, the deaths of 6,000 babies daily from waterborne diseases and growing sanitation problems in booming peri-urban and urban centres. No act of terrorism…
Health in a Dynamic World
Health has risen up the agenda in rich and poor countries with governments and charitable foundations increasingly willing to support initiatives for addressing health-related needs. This political concern is creating…
Agri-food System Dynamics for Sustainability
In an era of rapid change, growing risk and uncertainty, there are many challenges to the sustainability of agricultural policy and practice in the developing world. Concerns about chronic hunger,…
Governance and pathways to Sustainability
In today’s highly dynamic world, development challenges involve addressing complex interactions between people and their social processes, and rapidly changing technologies and ecologies. Which directions or pathways such systems move…
Dynamic systems and the challenge of sustainability
Dynamism, uncertainty and complexity dominate today’s world. Yet many policy interventions ignore this, and so often fail. What is missing is a rigorous and systematic approach to addressing dynamics, one…