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Pathways to Sustainability (online)
Explore critical approaches to sustainability, with theories and methods that can help you to discover and support alternative and diverse pathways and perspectives.
1 August 2020
Resource Warfare, Pacification and the Spectacle of ‘Green’ Development: Logics of Violence in Engineering Extraction in Southern Madagascar
Published by: Elsevier
Bringing political ecology's concern with the critical politics of nature and resource violence into dialogue with key debates in...
17 March 2020
Global investment, local struggles
Following the global commodities boom, investment has poured into large-scale extractive, green energy and other resource development...
1 May 2019
The New Politics and Geographies of Scarcity
Published by: Elsevier
Scarcity is a dangerous idea and has long been a totalising discourse in resource politics and mainstream economics. A large body of...
System Change Hive
The System Change HIVE will explore and communicate visions of better lives to inform public thinking and work towards fairer systems that safeguard life-support systems and prioritise well-being and justice.
Social, Technological and Environmental Pathways to Sustainability (STEPS) Centre
The ESRC STEPS Centre (Social, Technological and Environmental Pathways to Sustainability) is an interdisciplinary global research and policy engagement centre.
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Stories of change from the STEPS CentreResource Politics and Environmental Change
Climate disruption, environmental change and resource scarcity have become the subject of growing policy attention, academic debate and...
22 March 2017
‘Seeing’ Conflict at the Margins in Kenya and Madagascar
In a context of unprecedented investment in natural resource developments, this project bridges the social sciences, the humanities and community-based participatory research to ask how different ‘communities’ of actors ‘see’ and experience resource conflicts in Kenya and Madagascar. We use social science alongside a variety of participatory multimedia methods to open up conflict research to more diverse framings and voices, which can offer new insights on the drivers of resource conflict and pathways to peace.