As invited by the ESRC to inform their Training and Skills Committee and doctoral training programme, the central aim of the Nexus Network is to inform development of enhanced methodologies…
Developing ‘Nexus Capabilities’: towards transdisciplinary methodologies
Addressing Resistance to Antibiotics in Pluralistic Health Systems
STEPS Working Paper 84 Download the paper (PDF 898kb) There is growing international concern about the threat to public health of the emergence and spread of bacteria resistant to existing…
India’s Megacities and Climate Change: Explorations from Delhi and Mumbai
STEPS Working Paper 79 Download (PDF) This paper is a study of climate change discourse in urban India. It suggests that the policies being articulated to deal with climate issues…
The politics of zoonoses understanding and response
What drives differing responses to zoonotic diseases? Seven new working papers from the STEPS-led Dynamic Drivers of Disease in Africa Consortium consider understandings around ecosystems and health as they relate…
Rift Valley fever in Kenya: Policies to prepare and respond
STEPS Working Paper 82 Rift Valley fever (RVF) is a zoonotic infection incompletely understood by scientists, pastoralists and policy makers. The irregular intervals at which outbreaks occur make it difficult…
Lassa fever: The politics of an emerging disease and the scope for One Health
STEPS Working Paper 83 This paper explores the politics of knowledge and disease control for Lassa fever, a zoonotic viral haemorrhagic fever which is endemic in parts of West Africa….
The political economy of One Health research and policy
STEPS Working Paper 81 ‘One Health’ has emerged over the last decade as a key concept guiding international research and policy in the field of emerging infectious diseases such as…
Towards innovation democracy? Participation, responsibility and precaution in innovation governance
STEPS Working Paper 78 by Andy Stirling Download this paper (PDF) Innovation is about more than technological invention. It involves change of many kinds: cultural, organisational and behavioural as well…
Responding to uncertainty: Bats and the construction of disease risk in Ghana
STEPS Working Paper 80 Zoonotic disease has gained international attention since the identification of avian and swine influenza, with academic focus on the modelling of disease emergence, and policy centring…
Pathways Towards Sustainable Maize Production and Consumption in China: Prospects, Politics and Practices
STEPS Working Paper 72 Adrian Ely, Sam Geall and Yiching Song Download (PDF) China provides a stark and globally significant illustration of how changing patterns of food production and consumption…