Andy Stirling, STEPS Director and Alister Scott, visiting fellow at SPRU, have an article up at Project Syndicate (and on the Al Jazeera website) on recent technological disasters (Fukushima, BP…
RISKY ADVICE AND UNCERTAINTY
JAPAN: NEGLECTED NUCLEAR LESSONS
Photo: Screen capture from video of an explosion at the Fukushima Daichi plant in Japan (Reuters) By Andy Stirling, STEPS Centre co-director What lessons can be learned from the tragic…
FINDING PATHWAYS IN AN AGE OF ANXIETY
We’re living in an age of anxiety where politicians, policy makers and the public search for solutions to narrowly-defined problems and risks. At the recent CRASSH conference, “Challenging Models in…
31 OCTOBER: DEBATE ON ENGINEERING, CAUTION AND UTOPIA
Professor Andy Stirling, STEPS Centre Co-Director, will be part of a keynote debate entitled “Engineering the future: cautionary tale or utopia?” on Sunday. The debate is part of the Battle…
SCIENCE AND RISK: PROF ANDY STIRLING ON BBC RADIO 4
To what extent should we be willing to stop innovation in science and technology if we’re not certain that we can cope with the consequences when things go wrong? Andy…
INNOVATION IN INDIA
By JULIA DAY, STEPS Centre member India may have strengths like democracy, diversity, demography, interdependence and role models, but it can’t become a global research giant unless it harnesses the…
RISK IN INDIA: NEW CROP TECHNOLOGIES OR NEW DISEASE?
By ESHA SHAH, STEPS Centre member A deadly strain of disease has been identified as spreading fast across the wheat fields of Asia and Africa and scientists are worried that…
RISK IN INDIA: NEW PHARMACEUTICALS & PATENT LAW
By ESHA SHAH, STEPS Centre member Controversy over the extent to which private pharmaceutical interests can creep into the debates around public good has arisen recently here in India. A…
RISK, UNCERTAINTY AND EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES IN INDIA
By ESHA SHAH, STEPS Centre member Our time is marked by a rapid technological change and associated anxieties about public and private risks, a significant part of which remain uncertain…