The Water Cookbook presents ideas from our project on peri-urban sustainability in Ghaziabad, India. It is a short graphic novel combining pictures with some brief stories from daily life in…
The Water Cookbook
Climate change and uncertainty from below and above
In India, as part of the Uncertainty from Below and Above project, the STEPS Centre is working with leading research institutes – the Institute of Health Management Research, Kolkata; Sarai…
Bangalore: Living in a Global City
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: 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…
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…
Water and Justice: Peri-urban pathways in Delhi
This short film from the STEPS Centre tells the story of three people and their relationship with water in the towns and villages on the edge of Delhi, India. The…
Is international agricultural research a global public good? The case of rice biofortification
The status of international agricultural research as a global public good (GPG) has been widely accepted since the Green Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s. While the term was not…
Peri-urban sustainability
Over the last five years, the ESRC STEPS Centre has explored the management of resources in peri-urban areas, and how sustainability can be defined and sought in this context. We…
Understanding Peri-urban Sustainability: The role of the resilience approach
Resilience is a term that is widely used by scholars from different disciplines who promote action research between science and policy. This paper is largely concerned with how resilience approaches…
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…