Mobilities, Volume 9, Issue 4, 2014 (Special Issue: Mobilities & Foucault) View this open-access article online A mobility low-carbon transition is a key issue both socially and for mobilities research….
Putting the Power in ‘Socio-Technical Regimes’ – E-Mobility Transition in China as Political Process
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…
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…
Policy transformations and translations: lessons for sustainable water management in peri-urban Delhi, India
This paper explores the complex interactions that occur as formal policies are interpreted and utilised to develop water management plans in peri-urban Delhi. With an emphasis on people’s participation in…
Innovation politics post-Rio+20: hybrid pathways to sustainability?
The ability of innovation—both technical and social—to stretch and redefine ‘limits to growth’ was recognised at Stockholm in 1972, and has been a key feature in debates through to Rio+20…
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.
Enabling adaptation? Lessons from the new ‘Green Revolution’ in Malawi and Kenya
Abstract This article explores the extent to which efforts to improve productivity of smallholder agriculture through a new ‘Green Revolution’ in Sub Saharan Africa are likely to enhance the capacity…
Biofortification: lessons from the Golden Rice project
Biofortification is an umbrella term for a diverse range of projects and possibilities. It is best understood on three levels: as a range of technologies for developing micronutrient – dense…
Broadening out and opening up technology assessment: Approaches to enhance international development, co-ordination and democratisation
Technology assessment (TA) has a strong history of helping to identify priorities and improve environmental sustainability, cost-effectiveness and wider benefits in the technology policies and innovation strategies of nation-states. At…
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…