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Knowledge, Technology and Society Team
Linking technological change in health, agriculture and environment to poverty reduction and social justice.
Environment and Livelihoods Programme
Work on environment at IDS takes place in a number of teams, including Globalisation, Participation, Power and Social Change, Vulnerability and Poverty Reduction and Climate Change.
Environment work in KNOTS links global views of environmental problems with poor people's own knowledge, perspectives and livelihood realities. Amidst today's rapid environmental change, our research engages critically with dominant views, seeking solutions that work for poor people's wellbeing and social justice. In this we address:
- Sustainable livelihoods in dynamic social and ecological systems
- Science, technology and sustainability
- Environmental governance, resource access and control
- Policy processes and the politics of knowledge.
A major new ESRC-funded research centre, STEPS (Social, Technological and Environmental Pathways to Sustainability at Sussex) links work on the Environment with other work in KNOTS and Sussex-based SPRU (Science and Technology Policy Research).
The KNOTS Environment theme focuses on five main areas:
- Water and scarcity
- Biodiversity, forests and poverty
- Environmental health
- Institutions and sustainable livelihoods
- Environmental policy processes
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