This paper examines some of the many ways in which the peri-urban has been theorised, considering, in particular, the implications for a normative research agenda towards improved environmental and social…
On the Edge of Sustainability: Perspectives on Peri-urban Dynamics
Liquid Dynamics: challenges for sustainability in water and sanitation
Floods, droughts, 6,000 babies dying daily due to waterbounre diseases and growing sanitation problems in booming peri-urban and urban centres. No act of terrorism generates devastation on the scale of the crisis in water and sanitation. This paper demonstrates the big disconnect between global rhetoric and the everyday realities of poor and marginalised people.
Cambodia’s Victim Zero: Global and National Responses to Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza
Cambodia’s experience with Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) since the disease was discovered on a farm outside Phnom Penh in January 2004 reveals important aspects of how a developing country…
Knowledge Accumulation and the Development of Poliomyelitis Vaccines
What does it take to develop a vaccine? This paper explores the technical and institutional conditions that allow reliable knowledge to build up in a series of structured stages from…
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…
Epidemics for all? Governing Health in a Global Age
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…
Haemorrhagic Fevers in Africa: Narratives, Politics and Pathways of Disease and Response
Haemorrhagic fevers have, par excellence, captured popular and media imagination as deadly diseases to come ‘out of Africa’. Associated with wildlife vectors in forested environments, viral haemorrhagic fevers such as…
Made by Monsanto: the Corporate Shaping of GM Crops as a Technology for the Poor
This working paper by Dominic Glover is about the social construction and social shaping of agricultural biotechnology in relation to international development. Genetically modified (GM, transgenic) crops have come to…
French version: Innovation, Sustainability, Development: A New Manifesto
French translation of Innovation, Sustainability, Development: A New Manifesto.
Dynamic systems and the challenge of sustainability
Dynamism, uncertainty and complexity dominate today’s world. Yet many policy interventions ignore this, and so often fail. What is missing is a rigorous and systematic approach to addressing dynamics, one…