Follow the Washington debate which launched our new book on the spread of health markets in developing countries via the event Storify. New book: Transforming health markets Our new book in the STEPS…
Tackling unregulated health markets
Video: Adrian Ely on steps to sustainability (TEDx)
Adrian Ely talked about technology, innovation and the STEPS Centre’s ideas on pathways to sustainability earlier this year at TEDx Sussex University. The video’s just been made available, so here…
Agriculture as Assembly (or, what is the nature of the factory in ‘factory farming’?)
By Jim Sumberg and John Thompson When considering the nature and spatial distribution of economic activity, two fundamental contrasts take centre stage: ‘urban vs. rural’ and ‘industry vs. agriculture’. While…
Health markets: Gerry Bloom and David Peters in Nature
Gerry Bloom, STEPS health convenor and David Peters (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health) have a comment piece in Nature today, on the challenge of unregulated health markets in…
Pastoralism: the hidden story of development in the Horn of Africa
Our new book Pastoralism and Development in Africa: Dynamic Change at the Margins explores the hidden story of pastoralism in the Horn of Africa. The latest volume in our Pathways…
EVENTS NEXT WEEK: TIM JACKSON LECTURE AND BRIGHTON DEBATE
Next week is the start of our first ever Summer School on Pathways to Sustainability in Brighton. Although most of the session are only open to the 42 invited participants,…
VIDEO: TECHNOLOGY & THE GREEN ECONOMY
Our session at Planet Under Pressure in March looked at how to open up diverse pathways to sustainability, looking at different technologies from around the world. Adrian Ely (STEPS) spoke…
STEPS SUMMER SCHOOL: MAY 2012
An event at the STEPS Centre We’re delighted to announce that we’ll be holding a two-week Summer School on Pathways to Sustainability next May. An international group of leading researchers…
VIDEO: MELISSA LEACH AT NESS 2011
Melissa Leach, STEPS Centre Director, spoke at NESS 2011 (The 10th Nordic Environmental Social Science Conference) in Stockholm last week. Her talk (56 minutes), “Pathways to sustainability? Environmental social science…