Publications in the Understanding Sustainability category:

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…

Re-framing Resilience: Trans-disciplinarity, Reflexivity and Progressive Sustainability – a Symposium Report

The concept of resilience is now capturing high interest across academic, policy and popular debate. In a world where threats – whether linked to climate change, epidemic disease, or fluctuating…

Social-ecological resilience and socio-technical transitions: critical issues for sustainability governance

Technology contributes both positively and negatively to the resilience of ‘social-ecological systems’, but is not considered in depth in that literature. A technology-focused literature on sociotechnical transitions shares some of…

Understanding Governance: pathways to sustainability

The challenges of understanding the governance of dynamic social, technological and environmental systems, and thier implications for sustainability and social justice, are addressed.

Pathways to Sustainability: an overview of the STEPS Centre approach

This paper outlines the STEPS Centre approach to understanding dynamic systems and addressing their goverance so as to promote pathways to Sustainabilty that meet the perspectives and priorities of poor and marginalised groups. It lays out the ingredients of the STEPS Centre’s work, including linking diverse social and natural science perspectives, connecting theory, policy and practice and an engaged, interactive approach to communications.

Spanish version: Innovation, Sustainability, Development: A New Manifesto

Spanish (Latin American) translation of Innovation, Sustainability, Development: A New Manifesto.

Pathways to Sustainability: Perspectives and Provocations

Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space vol 43, pp 1226-1237 by David Demeritt, Andrew Dobson, Tania Murray Li, Melissa Leach, Ian Scoones, Andy Stirling Read this article

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…

Biocharred Pathways to Sustainability? Triple Wins, Livelihoods and the Politics of Technological Promise

‘Biochar’ is currently the focus of extraordinary levels of both technological optimism and debate. As a substance, biochar refers quite simply to the carbon-rich product that results when biomass –…