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The Rapid Transition Alliance
The climate is changing faster than we are. The danger of triggering irreversible environmental damage that spirals, feeding off itself,...
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Transformation as Praxis: Exploring Socially Just and Transdisciplinary Pathways to Sustainability in Marginal Environments – TAPESTRY
TAPESTRY explores how transformation may arise ‘from below’ in marginal environments with high levels of uncertainty.
Book
14 March 2017
Pathways to Sustainable Agriculture
Published by: Routledge
This free book highlights some of the major findings that have emerged over the last decade of the STEPS Centre’s research on sustainable agriculture.
News
23 November 2016
The Politics of Sustainability and Development
Details of an academic review of the relationship between politics, sustainability and development by Prof Ian Scoones, drawing on the work of the ESRC STEPS Centre.
Opinion
7 October 2016
Past Event
Towards a Class-Based Approach to Global Energy Transition
STEPS Seminar by Kolya Abramsky on the class relations behind the energy sector, in an era of slogans around 'energy justice' and 'energy democracy'. Abramsky will also explore why the question of 'energy transition' is a central axis of class struggle, and the uncertainty around the possible outcomes of this struggle.
Past Event
What is politics?
STEPS Centre Seminar with Tania Murray Li, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto, on changes in how critical politics are studied and perceived. She will show that capacity for engaging in a critical politics is permanent and broadly distributed, but its expression is often interrupted.
News
10 June 2016
Meeting to harness innovation as the Global Goals move into action
A high-level event on 13 June organised by the Least Developed Countries Independent Expert Group, International Institute for Environment and Development and the ESRC STEPS Centre will explore how the LDCs can seize opportunities presented by the Sustainable Development Goals to forge alternative development pathways.
Past Event
Can we govern the climate?
Public lecture by Harriet Bulkeley, Professor of Geography at Durham University.
Past Event
Rapid Energy Transition
One-day conference on the transitions needed to achieve a low-carbon future.