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Environment browse by subject imageEnvironmental change continues to pose major challenges for development policy. IDS research seeks to expose these new challenges and explore ways of meeting them. Our approach enables a distinctive contribution to the sustainable livelihoods and environmental governance debates, as well as to broader discussions of changing relationships between science, society and participation.

Our major areas of work include: water and scarcity, biodiversity conservation, environmental health, institutions and sustainable livelihoods, and the completion of a decade's work on environmental policy processes.

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New research asks energy companies: are you ready for rise in natural disasters?

Published: 2 Jun 2011 The cooling towers of the Guru Nanak Dev Thermal Power Plant. Credit: Chris Stowers / Panos

As the UN concludes that Japan ‘underestimated the risk’ to its nuclear power plants, new research urges energy companies to consider the impacts of climate change.


Natural hazards, unnatural disasters: Understanding disasters in the context of development

Published: 23 Feb 2011

IDS Research Fellow Terry Cannon examined the concept that earthquakes don’t kill people, poorly constructed buildings do.


Finding Pathways in a Complex World

Published: 28 Apr 2010 STEPS Conference, Lance Bellers

In advance of its biggest ever conference this September, the ESRC STEPS Centre has issued a call for papers and other forms of participation, with a deadline of 31 May 2010.


Taking Dynamics Seriously: Towards a New Politics of Sustainability

Published: 26 Apr 2010 Resilience, Skip O'Donnell, iStockphoto.

Dynamic Sustainabilities - Technology, Environment, Social Justice, a new book published by the STEPS Centre, sets out a novel guide to thinking and action on sustainability – a ‘pathways approach.’


IDS takes on the 10:10 Challenge

Published: 19 Apr 2010 10:10 Launch

IDS has signed up to 10:10 – the national campaign to reduce carbon emissions by 10 per cent in 2010.




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Environment projects at IDS

  • Agricultural Biotechnology & Policy Processes in Developing Countries - (Ongoing)
  • ALINe - There is a new and widespread commitment within the development community to invest in agriculture as a way of reducing poverty and hunger. Three quarters of the one billion people surviving on less than $1 a day live and work in rural areas, and most rely on agriculture for their food and income. Investing in agriculture is key to lifting the world's poor out of hunger and poverty. (Ongoing)
  • Environment and PRSPs - (2004 - 2004)
  • Global Food and Farming Futures – Lead Expert Group - The Foresight Project on Global Food and Farming Futures addresses the question: ‘How can a future global population of 9 billion people all be fed healthily and sustainably?' (Ongoing)
  • Going to Scale? The Potential of Community-Led Total Sanitation - Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) is a participatory approach that started in Bangladesh and has been spread to varying degrees in India, Cambodia, Indonesia, China, Nepal. To a limited degree, it has also been trialled in some African countries. (Ongoing)


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