Download PDF (227kb) This document outlines initial thoughts regarding a possible associated research project on transformations to sustainable food systems in Brighton and Hove, based on discussions at a co-design…
ISSC concept note: Transformations to sustainable food systems in Brighton and Hove
Towards innovation democracy? Participation, responsibility and precaution in innovation governance
STEPS Working Paper 78 by Andy Stirling Download this paper (PDF) Innovation is about more than technological invention. It involves change of many kinds: cultural, organisational and behavioural as well…
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…
Beyond Divides: Prospects for synergy between resilience and pathways approaches to sustainability
In the context of rapid social, ecological and technological change,there is rising global demand from private, public and civic interests for trans-disciplinary sustainability research. This demand is fuelled by an…
Emancipating Transformations: From controlling ‘the transition’ to culturing plural radical progress
Current global environmental policy reverberates with talk of a new “Anthropocene epoch” defined by “human domination”, in which a “perfect storm” of catastrophic threats is forcing “the great transition” towards…
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…
Socially Useful Production
STEPS Working Paper 58 A history and analysis is provided of the movement for socially useful production, which flourished for a brief period in the UK in the 1970s and…
Constructing grassroots innovations for sustainability
This article is included in a special issue of Global Environmental Change about grassroots innovations, guest edited by Adrian Smith and Gill Seyfang.
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…
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…