The Yukon is a vast territory in northwest Canada with a small population and a rich complement of natural resources, from minerals to fossil fuels, wildlife to water. It is also a fascinating case study for Indigenous self-government and sustainable resource management. In 2014, I undertook research to learn about Indigenous self-government in the Yukon….
Yukon: Sustainability Lessons from self-governing First Nations
Opening up science and development in Latin America
STEPS América Latina is the latest regional hub of the Pathways to Sustainability global consortium to be launched. The launch event, which took place on 5-6 November in Buenos Aires, brought together diverse perspectives on how pathways to sustainability can be identified, analysed and nurtured. The first day brought together two highly connected topics: ‘inclusive…
Telling stories about scarcity
‘Scarcity’ is a key term in debates about the global rush for land and other resources. A new Future Agricultures working paper, co-authored by STEPS director Ian Scoones, looks at different narratives of scarcity related to the future of food and farming in Africa and globally, and finds that political questions – about distribution, needs,…
STEPS-JNU SYMPOSIUM: Nexus narratives – water politics in Asia
By Ian Scoones, Co-Director, STEPS Centre The fourth panel at the STEPS-JNU Symposium focused on the highly contested narratives around how water is stored and accessed in Asia, with cases from Nepal, Laos, and Thailand. As Uttam Sinha from The Institute for Defense Studies and Analyses (IDSA), New Delhi, commented, Asia is facing a “hydrological moment”…
Call for papers: Is the Nexus Secure … and for Whom?
Water Alternatives will publish a special issue on Critical Thinking On the ‘New Security Convergence’ in Energy, Food, Climate and Water, with financial support from the STEPS Centre. The editors invite abstracts by 15 December 2013 on the points set out below. For full details, please visit the Water Alternatives website Guest Editors: Jeremy Allouche (STEPS Centre, IDS) j.allouche@ids.ac.uk…
WORLD WATER WEEK: THE SAME OLD STUFF?
by Jeremy Allouche, STEPS Centre Research Fellow Here’s our first blog from World Water Week – some call it ‘the pilgrimage of water’. Well… the price of the pilgrimage (about £650) makes it difficult to attend and it remains very much an elitist club. In this regard, one always wonders how useful these high-level international…
ELEMENTARY, MY DEAR WATSON…
The Water Symposium’s all over now – photos from the symposium are on our flickr – but we’re still digesting some of the debates and discussions. For now, some highlights from Day One, which was mostly taken up by a healthy discussion on climate change: Kirsten Hastrup from Copenhagen University said that water is an…