By ADRIAN SMITH, STEPS Centre member Complexity pervaded debate at the Resilience Alliance conference last month. In one way or another, participants tried to get to grips with the sheer…
COMPLEXITY, SIMPLIFICATION AND RESILIENCE
BIOFUELLED PATHWAYS TO SUSTAINABILITY?
By ADRIAN SMITH, STEPS Centre member Last week, Achim Steiner, head of UNEP, and one of the sponsors of the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change, joined an increasingly audible group…
INNOVATION AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN SOUTH CHINA
By ADRIAN ELY, STEPS Centre member Guangzhou, in South China, is one of the cities at the forefront of the country’s “ economic miracle”. The skyline is characterised as much…