This paper revisits a series of key moments in the last 50 years of UN debates on science and technology for sustainable development. It reflects on the genealogy of tropes…
Manifesting Utopia: History and Philosophy of UN Debates on Science and Technology for Sustainable Development
Epidemics for all? Governing health in a global age (Briefing)
Alongside climate change and terrorism, epidemics capture the contemporary imagination of a vulnerable, interconnected earth. Bursting from a confined area onto the world stage, epidemics demonstrate precisely the kind of…
Epidemics for all? Governing Health in a Global Age (Working Paper)
Current global health policy is dominated by a preoccupation with infectious diseases and in particular with emerging or re-emerging infectious diseases that threaten to ‘break out’ of established patterns of…
Market access policy options for FMD-challenged Zimbabwe
The beef industry in southern Africa has been a stalwart of economic development, but new conditions of trade, market access and disease dynamics, particularly of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), mean a…
Biosecurity, bioterrorism and the governance of science: The increasing convergence of science and security policy
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…
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…
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…
Negotiating Environmental Change: New Perspectives from Social Science
Edited by Frans Berkhout, Melissa Leach and Ian Scoones This book by leading researchers presents a critical review of debates in environmental social science over the past decade. Three broad…