STEPS (Social, Technological and Environmental Pathways to Sustainability) Centre

Lead Research Organisation: Institute of Development Studies
Department Name: Grants Administration Office

Abstract

The ESRC STEPS Centre will link research with action in the exploration of transformative pathways to sustainability. The Centre is part of an emerging STEPS Global Consortium with six hubs across five continents. Work on energy/climate, food/agriculture, health/disease, water/sanitation and urban development will continue through affiliated projects. The STEPS Centre's conceptual and methodological perspective - the 'pathways approach' will continue to be extended, and will provide a focus for debate about what works for sustainability transformations across domains.

The transition funding for the Centre will focus on a series of core platform functions, including convening/debating (through an annual event series on global sustainability challenges, including conceptual, methodological and practical policy questions), networking/partnerships (through the continued development of the Global Consortium), influencing/engaging (through linking research and events to policy and action, especially through building links between researchers and social movements/activists working on sustainability transformations across the world), and capacity building (through the training of early career sustainability professionals at the annual Summer School, as well as mentoring and support across the Global Consortium in a range of research, communications, impact and engagement functions).

The communications capacity of the Centre will continue to be enhanced through web based and social media capacities, as well as new links to arts and design. Over four years, the global standing of the Centre as a hub for knowledge exchange and policy influencing, particularly around the SDGs, will grow, along with its long-term institutional and financial sustainability.

Planned Impact

During the transition phase (2018-21), the STEPS Centre will continue to provide rigorous research evidence to inform policy and practice in responding to global sustainability challenges, notably around the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals. Central to this is the recognition of the normative, political dimensions of sustainability. Building linkages between research and action requires network building among researchers, social movements and activists working on sustainability issues across the world.

This includes creating new fora for knowledge exchange between activists, scholar-activists and researchers (for example, through the ERPI conference on rural politics, and the POLLEN Network), sharing methods which reveal solutions to environmental problems (through the PATHWAYS Transformative Knowledge Network, our methods platform and e-learning site), bringing artists together to create accessible, striking resources that will encourage public debate (through our partnership with Brighton University and Swarm Dynamics, an arts activist group), mobilising active networks working on practical transitions worldwide (proposed Rapid Transition Alliance) and encouraging reflection between scientists, engineers, planners and those who act as brokers between scientific knowledge and grassroots views on transformative environmental change.

In this transition phase we will do this by linking affiliated projects and our wider network through a series of events focused on major sustainability themes, including transformations, uncertainties, natures and methods. These will be a focus for debate between researchers, social movements, activists, practitioners and policymakers, aiming to define new directions and solutions to complex conceptual, methodological and practical sustainability challenges. Strategic links with the Transnational Institute, Oxfam, ActionAid, La Via Campesina and environmental justice networks globally will provide a platform for engagement with a wide range of activist groups and social movements concerned with environmental change and sustainability.

The regional hubs of the STEPS Global Consortium, along with our extensive 300-strong alumni network, will provide a network for engagement and dissemination, linking the research to particular policy communities across five continents. For example, the strong links between the South Asia hub and the People's Science Movement and urban activists across India provides on-going opportunities for linking to urban sustainability agendas. The Africa and China hubs have well-developed networks in the sustainable energy and low carbon field, actively linking into global climate negotiations. And the Latin America hub has long-standing links with policymakers and activists concerned with open knowledge and innovation systems. On-going research in affiliated projects encompasses our existing research domains of energy/climate, agriculture/food, resource politics, urban change and health/disease, each with already defined networks for engagement and influencing in place. Through investment in the Centre's core platform functions, we will enhance this through our web-based communications activity and through ongoing presence on social media.

Longer-term capacity impacts will emerge through continuing our annual Summer School at Sussex, together with development of our e-learning site and methods portal, as well as teaching curricula at postgraduate level at Sussex, and across our Consortium that has STEPS concepts, methods and practical examples at their core. Our aim is to create a Centre, linked to the wider Consortium, which has long-term financial and institutional security in order to address the SDG implementation challenges to 2030. Through this we will demonstrate the importance of integrative social science to global economic and social goals, and so a long-term legacy of ESRC Centre funding, aligned with ESRC/UKRI strategic priorities.
 
Title Hidden Paths 
Description Global climate strikes are calling for 'system change, not climate change', but what does this mean? Extreme weather, automation, political instability, inequality: these crises are connected in deep and often invisible ways. Hidden Paths welcomes us inside the troubled systems that we live in to see how they could be transformed. Through a series of artworks, this exhibition invites us to rethink our relationships with technology, nature and each other. Visitors to Hidden Paths will navigate through 3 layers: Now, Change and Possible. From a sonic waterfall to sculptures, recipes, film and video, and an immersive VR experience, the artworks explore how we imagine the future, transformations in time, money and work, glimpses of new urban spaces, community ownership and the commons, and changed relationships to nature. In a time of crises, the exhibition provides a reflective space to think differently about the present and the future - with cultures of care, collaboration and collective agency at its heart. The Hidden Paths exhibition was been created by artists in the Brighton-based System Change Hive - emerging and established artists working with researchers, communications experts, VR technologists and local community groups, to reveal hidden paths to brighter, fairer and more sustainable futures. It was shown at the ONCA gallery in Brighton from 16-20 October 2019 as part of the Brighton Digital Festival. 
Type Of Art Artistic/Creative Exhibition 
Year Produced 2019 
Impact Further funding was successfully applied for by Swarm Dynamics. The exhibition's Virtual Reality format went on tour to a number of venues in the UK. 
URL https://onca.org.uk/event/hidden-paths/
 
Description The overall objective of our Transition Phase was to connect research and action across five continents in ways that improve political and practical responses to the interconnected challenges of the SDGs. We achieved this through a programme of knowledge exchange activities that promote transdisciplinary learning, networking and collective influence on policy and practice at a number of levels. We drew on the base of evidence generated by the STEPS Centre and partners in new activities around the themes of transformations, uncertainty, natures and methods as part of an annual event series.
- Transformations: In March 2018 we co-hosted the conference Authoritarian Populism and the Rural World. The 2018 conference resulted in the formation of regional working groups in North America, Europe, Latin America, southeast Asia and Africa, resulting in an array of outputs linking research and activism.
- Uncertainty: our international symposium explored uncertainty 12 themes (including banking/finance, insurance, governance, technology, infrastructures, cities, climate change, disease, disasters/emergencies, migration/mobility, conflict/security/terrorism/crime, and culture/religion/perception), and resulted in some important outputs, including a podcast series, a blog series, a working paper and an open access edited book (The Politics of Uncertainty: Challenges of Transformation). (see steps-centre.org/uncertainty)
- Natures: Our Natures year reflected on crisis and the pandemic, recordings of POLLEN conference sessions, 3 essays/comics on crisis, conflicts and culture. (see steps-centre.org/natures)
- Methods: Our work highlighted the importance of transdisciplinary working and scholar-activist engagements, and our series of events in 2021 highlighted issues of power and coloniality in research structures and methodologies. Outputs included a series of videos and discursive blog posts, and a repository of methods (see steps-centre.org/methods)

During the 'transition' phase, we continued to mobilise past STEPS Centre research to focus on contemporary issues. This included work on climate change, the COVID-19 pandemic and energy policy, for example. To support informed debate around the pandemic, for example, we created a one-stop research portal to a collection of research by the STEPS Centre over many years (see steps-centre.org/coronavirus). During this phase, we have additionally worked on new and updated older impact stories, now rebranded as 'Stories of Change', documenting our work across ten themes, including transformations, climate change, uncertainty, SDGs, capacity building, pandemics, grassroots innovation, resource politics, urban transformations and agriculture (see steps-centre.org/stories-of-change).
Exploitation Route Findings have informed further work in a number of arenas - policy, art/culture, governance of science and technology, international development and in local alliance building around sustainability objectives. For example, the work in our 2020 Natures year has provided the basis for a new initiative, Future Natures, which brings commoners and researchers together around issues of enclosures and ecology. Our 2019 Uncertainty year has fed into the PASTRES programme, which is now exploring lessons shared between pastoralism and those working on humanitarian outcomes, migration, disease, insurance and economics. Our Methods work is being taken forward by our partners in Kenya and Mexico, who are actively working on training and dialogues with others in their regions.
Sectors Education

Environment

Other
 
Description Four themes have structured work during the Transitions Phase: 'transformations' (2018), 'uncertainties' (2019), 'natures' (2020) and 'methods' (2021). During the transformations year we developed links with arts and media communities at the University of Brighton, and Swarm Dynamics, an arts advocacy group, with an exhibition including virtual reality exhibits, shown in Brighton and several other UK venues. The co-hosted 2018 event on Authoritarian Populism involved 350 researchers and activists from across the world, and has led to ongoing partnerships between activists and scholars. Our 2019 work on uncertainties included engagement with practitioners from the NGO sector, working on humanitarian issues, and has informed practical work with vulnerable communities in Bangladesh and India as part of the ISC-funded TAPESTRY project. Our Natures (2020) work has led to the formation of a new network of commoners and scholars to share learning.
First Year Of Impact 2020
Sector Communities and Social Services/Policy,Environment,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections
Impact Types Societal
 
Description Arts Council National Lottery Project Grants
Amount £49,800 (GBP)
Funding ID ACPG-00126134 
Organisation Arts Council England 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 08/2018 
End 12/2020
 
Description KR Foundation
Amount 536,991 kr. (DKK)
Funding ID G-1810-02021 
Organisation KR Foundation 
Sector Charity/Non Profit
Country Denmark
Start 01/2019 
End 12/2019
 
Description KR Foundation
Amount 3,947,213 kr. (DKK)
Funding ID G-1709-01955 
Organisation KR Foundation 
Sector Charity/Non Profit
Country Denmark
Start 03/2018 
End 03/2021
 
Description TAPESTRY
Amount £390,787 (GBP)
Funding ID ES/S008292/1 
Organisation Economic and Social Research Council 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 09/2018 
End 09/2021
 
Description The ESRC STEPS Centre's Legacy Initiative: Future Natures
Amount £78,657 (GBP)
Funding ID ES/W009331/1 
Organisation Economic and Social Research Council 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 06/2022 
End 06/2025
 
Description Pathways to Sustainability Global Consortium 
Organisation African Centre for Technology Studies
Country Kenya 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution The STEPS Centre established the Consortium with its partners in 2015-2016, building on longer-term collaborations between STEPS and the institutions listed. We had successful launches of hubs in East Africa (Nairobi), South America (Buenos Aries), India (Delhi) and China (Beijing) during 2015-16. Our Consortium brochure (download via steps-centre.org/global) highlights the activities and partnerships. The STEPS Centre has provided funding to hubs for launches, capacity building, collaborative research projects, and visiting fellowships.
Collaborator Contribution The members of the consortium have together established a platform for collaborative work across 5 continents. The most striking evidence is a collective project funded by ISSC, the 'PATHWAYS Network', working across all hubs on experimental methods to confront socio-ecological challenges in 6 sites. Other partnerships are detailed in separate entries in Researchfish. One example is the training carried out with ACTS in Kenya and other East African countries on innovation systems for climate policy makers. All partners have provided intellectual input and practical suggestions into the running of the Consortium and its future.
Impact During this period the 'Pathways Network' Transformative Knowledge Network was funded by the International Social Science Council (ISSC) (steps-centre.org/project/pathways-network), and this has provided a firm foundation for developing linkages between hub partners around themes of energy (Kenya and China), water/urban change (India and Mexico/US), and food/agriculture (Argentina/UK), with input from partners in Sweden on methodologies. This work has become an important platform for exchange across hubs, but also as a focus for policy engagement on the ground around the practical challenges of implementing the SDGs. Wider methodological development around the idea of 'transformation labs' has been central to this work, as has reflection on linking research with activism and transformational change. To this end, we had some external funding to convene a process of reflection on scholar activism during the 2016 Summer School, resulting in a web based resource (learning.steps-centre.org/mod/book/view.php?id=45). ISSC and STEPS funding has supported a number of junior researchers from across all hubs to come to Summer School in the last few years. This is consolidating the linkages across the Consortium through different individuals, at different career stages, beyond those who initiated the hubs.
Start Year 2015
 
Description Pathways to Sustainability Global Consortium 
Organisation African Technology Policy Studies Network
Country Kenya 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution The STEPS Centre established the Consortium with its partners in 2015-2016, building on longer-term collaborations between STEPS and the institutions listed. We had successful launches of hubs in East Africa (Nairobi), South America (Buenos Aries), India (Delhi) and China (Beijing) during 2015-16. Our Consortium brochure (download via steps-centre.org/global) highlights the activities and partnerships. The STEPS Centre has provided funding to hubs for launches, capacity building, collaborative research projects, and visiting fellowships.
Collaborator Contribution The members of the consortium have together established a platform for collaborative work across 5 continents. The most striking evidence is a collective project funded by ISSC, the 'PATHWAYS Network', working across all hubs on experimental methods to confront socio-ecological challenges in 6 sites. Other partnerships are detailed in separate entries in Researchfish. One example is the training carried out with ACTS in Kenya and other East African countries on innovation systems for climate policy makers. All partners have provided intellectual input and practical suggestions into the running of the Consortium and its future.
Impact During this period the 'Pathways Network' Transformative Knowledge Network was funded by the International Social Science Council (ISSC) (steps-centre.org/project/pathways-network), and this has provided a firm foundation for developing linkages between hub partners around themes of energy (Kenya and China), water/urban change (India and Mexico/US), and food/agriculture (Argentina/UK), with input from partners in Sweden on methodologies. This work has become an important platform for exchange across hubs, but also as a focus for policy engagement on the ground around the practical challenges of implementing the SDGs. Wider methodological development around the idea of 'transformation labs' has been central to this work, as has reflection on linking research with activism and transformational change. To this end, we had some external funding to convene a process of reflection on scholar activism during the 2016 Summer School, resulting in a web based resource (learning.steps-centre.org/mod/book/view.php?id=45). ISSC and STEPS funding has supported a number of junior researchers from across all hubs to come to Summer School in the last few years. This is consolidating the linkages across the Consortium through different individuals, at different career stages, beyond those who initiated the hubs.
Start Year 2015
 
Description Pathways to Sustainability Global Consortium 
Organisation Arizona State University
Department Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability
Country United States 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The STEPS Centre established the Consortium with its partners in 2015-2016, building on longer-term collaborations between STEPS and the institutions listed. We had successful launches of hubs in East Africa (Nairobi), South America (Buenos Aries), India (Delhi) and China (Beijing) during 2015-16. Our Consortium brochure (download via steps-centre.org/global) highlights the activities and partnerships. The STEPS Centre has provided funding to hubs for launches, capacity building, collaborative research projects, and visiting fellowships.
Collaborator Contribution The members of the consortium have together established a platform for collaborative work across 5 continents. The most striking evidence is a collective project funded by ISSC, the 'PATHWAYS Network', working across all hubs on experimental methods to confront socio-ecological challenges in 6 sites. Other partnerships are detailed in separate entries in Researchfish. One example is the training carried out with ACTS in Kenya and other East African countries on innovation systems for climate policy makers. All partners have provided intellectual input and practical suggestions into the running of the Consortium and its future.
Impact During this period the 'Pathways Network' Transformative Knowledge Network was funded by the International Social Science Council (ISSC) (steps-centre.org/project/pathways-network), and this has provided a firm foundation for developing linkages between hub partners around themes of energy (Kenya and China), water/urban change (India and Mexico/US), and food/agriculture (Argentina/UK), with input from partners in Sweden on methodologies. This work has become an important platform for exchange across hubs, but also as a focus for policy engagement on the ground around the practical challenges of implementing the SDGs. Wider methodological development around the idea of 'transformation labs' has been central to this work, as has reflection on linking research with activism and transformational change. To this end, we had some external funding to convene a process of reflection on scholar activism during the 2016 Summer School, resulting in a web based resource (learning.steps-centre.org/mod/book/view.php?id=45). ISSC and STEPS funding has supported a number of junior researchers from across all hubs to come to Summer School in the last few years. This is consolidating the linkages across the Consortium through different individuals, at different career stages, beyond those who initiated the hubs.
Start Year 2015
 
Description Pathways to Sustainability Global Consortium 
Organisation Beijing Normal University
Country China 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The STEPS Centre established the Consortium with its partners in 2015-2016, building on longer-term collaborations between STEPS and the institutions listed. We had successful launches of hubs in East Africa (Nairobi), South America (Buenos Aries), India (Delhi) and China (Beijing) during 2015-16. Our Consortium brochure (download via steps-centre.org/global) highlights the activities and partnerships. The STEPS Centre has provided funding to hubs for launches, capacity building, collaborative research projects, and visiting fellowships.
Collaborator Contribution The members of the consortium have together established a platform for collaborative work across 5 continents. The most striking evidence is a collective project funded by ISSC, the 'PATHWAYS Network', working across all hubs on experimental methods to confront socio-ecological challenges in 6 sites. Other partnerships are detailed in separate entries in Researchfish. One example is the training carried out with ACTS in Kenya and other East African countries on innovation systems for climate policy makers. All partners have provided intellectual input and practical suggestions into the running of the Consortium and its future.
Impact During this period the 'Pathways Network' Transformative Knowledge Network was funded by the International Social Science Council (ISSC) (steps-centre.org/project/pathways-network), and this has provided a firm foundation for developing linkages between hub partners around themes of energy (Kenya and China), water/urban change (India and Mexico/US), and food/agriculture (Argentina/UK), with input from partners in Sweden on methodologies. This work has become an important platform for exchange across hubs, but also as a focus for policy engagement on the ground around the practical challenges of implementing the SDGs. Wider methodological development around the idea of 'transformation labs' has been central to this work, as has reflection on linking research with activism and transformational change. To this end, we had some external funding to convene a process of reflection on scholar activism during the 2016 Summer School, resulting in a web based resource (learning.steps-centre.org/mod/book/view.php?id=45). ISSC and STEPS funding has supported a number of junior researchers from across all hubs to come to Summer School in the last few years. This is consolidating the linkages across the Consortium through different individuals, at different career stages, beyond those who initiated the hubs.
Start Year 2015
 
Description Pathways to Sustainability Global Consortium 
Organisation Fundación CENIT
Country Argentina 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution The STEPS Centre established the Consortium with its partners in 2015-2016, building on longer-term collaborations between STEPS and the institutions listed. We had successful launches of hubs in East Africa (Nairobi), South America (Buenos Aries), India (Delhi) and China (Beijing) during 2015-16. Our Consortium brochure (download via steps-centre.org/global) highlights the activities and partnerships. The STEPS Centre has provided funding to hubs for launches, capacity building, collaborative research projects, and visiting fellowships.
Collaborator Contribution The members of the consortium have together established a platform for collaborative work across 5 continents. The most striking evidence is a collective project funded by ISSC, the 'PATHWAYS Network', working across all hubs on experimental methods to confront socio-ecological challenges in 6 sites. Other partnerships are detailed in separate entries in Researchfish. One example is the training carried out with ACTS in Kenya and other East African countries on innovation systems for climate policy makers. All partners have provided intellectual input and practical suggestions into the running of the Consortium and its future.
Impact During this period the 'Pathways Network' Transformative Knowledge Network was funded by the International Social Science Council (ISSC) (steps-centre.org/project/pathways-network), and this has provided a firm foundation for developing linkages between hub partners around themes of energy (Kenya and China), water/urban change (India and Mexico/US), and food/agriculture (Argentina/UK), with input from partners in Sweden on methodologies. This work has become an important platform for exchange across hubs, but also as a focus for policy engagement on the ground around the practical challenges of implementing the SDGs. Wider methodological development around the idea of 'transformation labs' has been central to this work, as has reflection on linking research with activism and transformational change. To this end, we had some external funding to convene a process of reflection on scholar activism during the 2016 Summer School, resulting in a web based resource (learning.steps-centre.org/mod/book/view.php?id=45). ISSC and STEPS funding has supported a number of junior researchers from across all hubs to come to Summer School in the last few years. This is consolidating the linkages across the Consortium through different individuals, at different career stages, beyond those who initiated the hubs.
Start Year 2015
 
Description Pathways to Sustainability Global Consortium 
Organisation Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
Department Centre for Studies in Science Policy
Country India 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The STEPS Centre established the Consortium with its partners in 2015-2016, building on longer-term collaborations between STEPS and the institutions listed. We had successful launches of hubs in East Africa (Nairobi), South America (Buenos Aries), India (Delhi) and China (Beijing) during 2015-16. Our Consortium brochure (download via steps-centre.org/global) highlights the activities and partnerships. The STEPS Centre has provided funding to hubs for launches, capacity building, collaborative research projects, and visiting fellowships.
Collaborator Contribution The members of the consortium have together established a platform for collaborative work across 5 continents. The most striking evidence is a collective project funded by ISSC, the 'PATHWAYS Network', working across all hubs on experimental methods to confront socio-ecological challenges in 6 sites. Other partnerships are detailed in separate entries in Researchfish. One example is the training carried out with ACTS in Kenya and other East African countries on innovation systems for climate policy makers. All partners have provided intellectual input and practical suggestions into the running of the Consortium and its future.
Impact During this period the 'Pathways Network' Transformative Knowledge Network was funded by the International Social Science Council (ISSC) (steps-centre.org/project/pathways-network), and this has provided a firm foundation for developing linkages between hub partners around themes of energy (Kenya and China), water/urban change (India and Mexico/US), and food/agriculture (Argentina/UK), with input from partners in Sweden on methodologies. This work has become an important platform for exchange across hubs, but also as a focus for policy engagement on the ground around the practical challenges of implementing the SDGs. Wider methodological development around the idea of 'transformation labs' has been central to this work, as has reflection on linking research with activism and transformational change. To this end, we had some external funding to convene a process of reflection on scholar activism during the 2016 Summer School, resulting in a web based resource (learning.steps-centre.org/mod/book/view.php?id=45). ISSC and STEPS funding has supported a number of junior researchers from across all hubs to come to Summer School in the last few years. This is consolidating the linkages across the Consortium through different individuals, at different career stages, beyond those who initiated the hubs.
Start Year 2015
 
Description Pathways to Sustainability Global Consortium 
Organisation National Autonomous University of Mexico
Country Mexico 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The STEPS Centre established the Consortium with its partners in 2015-2016, building on longer-term collaborations between STEPS and the institutions listed. We had successful launches of hubs in East Africa (Nairobi), South America (Buenos Aries), India (Delhi) and China (Beijing) during 2015-16. Our Consortium brochure (download via steps-centre.org/global) highlights the activities and partnerships. The STEPS Centre has provided funding to hubs for launches, capacity building, collaborative research projects, and visiting fellowships.
Collaborator Contribution The members of the consortium have together established a platform for collaborative work across 5 continents. The most striking evidence is a collective project funded by ISSC, the 'PATHWAYS Network', working across all hubs on experimental methods to confront socio-ecological challenges in 6 sites. Other partnerships are detailed in separate entries in Researchfish. One example is the training carried out with ACTS in Kenya and other East African countries on innovation systems for climate policy makers. All partners have provided intellectual input and practical suggestions into the running of the Consortium and its future.
Impact During this period the 'Pathways Network' Transformative Knowledge Network was funded by the International Social Science Council (ISSC) (steps-centre.org/project/pathways-network), and this has provided a firm foundation for developing linkages between hub partners around themes of energy (Kenya and China), water/urban change (India and Mexico/US), and food/agriculture (Argentina/UK), with input from partners in Sweden on methodologies. This work has become an important platform for exchange across hubs, but also as a focus for policy engagement on the ground around the practical challenges of implementing the SDGs. Wider methodological development around the idea of 'transformation labs' has been central to this work, as has reflection on linking research with activism and transformational change. To this end, we had some external funding to convene a process of reflection on scholar activism during the 2016 Summer School, resulting in a web based resource (learning.steps-centre.org/mod/book/view.php?id=45). ISSC and STEPS funding has supported a number of junior researchers from across all hubs to come to Summer School in the last few years. This is consolidating the linkages across the Consortium through different individuals, at different career stages, beyond those who initiated the hubs.
Start Year 2015
 
Description Pathways to Sustainability Global Consortium 
Organisation Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI)
Department SEI Africa Centre
Country Kenya 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution The STEPS Centre established the Consortium with its partners in 2015-2016, building on longer-term collaborations between STEPS and the institutions listed. We had successful launches of hubs in East Africa (Nairobi), South America (Buenos Aries), India (Delhi) and China (Beijing) during 2015-16. Our Consortium brochure (download via steps-centre.org/global) highlights the activities and partnerships. The STEPS Centre has provided funding to hubs for launches, capacity building, collaborative research projects, and visiting fellowships.
Collaborator Contribution The members of the consortium have together established a platform for collaborative work across 5 continents. The most striking evidence is a collective project funded by ISSC, the 'PATHWAYS Network', working across all hubs on experimental methods to confront socio-ecological challenges in 6 sites. Other partnerships are detailed in separate entries in Researchfish. One example is the training carried out with ACTS in Kenya and other East African countries on innovation systems for climate policy makers. All partners have provided intellectual input and practical suggestions into the running of the Consortium and its future.
Impact During this period the 'Pathways Network' Transformative Knowledge Network was funded by the International Social Science Council (ISSC) (steps-centre.org/project/pathways-network), and this has provided a firm foundation for developing linkages between hub partners around themes of energy (Kenya and China), water/urban change (India and Mexico/US), and food/agriculture (Argentina/UK), with input from partners in Sweden on methodologies. This work has become an important platform for exchange across hubs, but also as a focus for policy engagement on the ground around the practical challenges of implementing the SDGs. Wider methodological development around the idea of 'transformation labs' has been central to this work, as has reflection on linking research with activism and transformational change. To this end, we had some external funding to convene a process of reflection on scholar activism during the 2016 Summer School, resulting in a web based resource (learning.steps-centre.org/mod/book/view.php?id=45). ISSC and STEPS funding has supported a number of junior researchers from across all hubs to come to Summer School in the last few years. This is consolidating the linkages across the Consortium through different individuals, at different career stages, beyond those who initiated the hubs.
Start Year 2015
 
Description Pathways to Sustainability Global Consortium 
Organisation Stockholm Resilience Centre
Country Sweden 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The STEPS Centre established the Consortium with its partners in 2015-2016, building on longer-term collaborations between STEPS and the institutions listed. We had successful launches of hubs in East Africa (Nairobi), South America (Buenos Aries), India (Delhi) and China (Beijing) during 2015-16. Our Consortium brochure (download via steps-centre.org/global) highlights the activities and partnerships. The STEPS Centre has provided funding to hubs for launches, capacity building, collaborative research projects, and visiting fellowships.
Collaborator Contribution The members of the consortium have together established a platform for collaborative work across 5 continents. The most striking evidence is a collective project funded by ISSC, the 'PATHWAYS Network', working across all hubs on experimental methods to confront socio-ecological challenges in 6 sites. Other partnerships are detailed in separate entries in Researchfish. One example is the training carried out with ACTS in Kenya and other East African countries on innovation systems for climate policy makers. All partners have provided intellectual input and practical suggestions into the running of the Consortium and its future.
Impact During this period the 'Pathways Network' Transformative Knowledge Network was funded by the International Social Science Council (ISSC) (steps-centre.org/project/pathways-network), and this has provided a firm foundation for developing linkages between hub partners around themes of energy (Kenya and China), water/urban change (India and Mexico/US), and food/agriculture (Argentina/UK), with input from partners in Sweden on methodologies. This work has become an important platform for exchange across hubs, but also as a focus for policy engagement on the ground around the practical challenges of implementing the SDGs. Wider methodological development around the idea of 'transformation labs' has been central to this work, as has reflection on linking research with activism and transformational change. To this end, we had some external funding to convene a process of reflection on scholar activism during the 2016 Summer School, resulting in a web based resource (learning.steps-centre.org/mod/book/view.php?id=45). ISSC and STEPS funding has supported a number of junior researchers from across all hubs to come to Summer School in the last few years. This is consolidating the linkages across the Consortium through different individuals, at different career stages, beyond those who initiated the hubs.
Start Year 2015
 
Description "Bogatepe Charter of Futures": Learnings from the exhibition and speculations from pastures 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The above picture shows one of the walls in the room reserved for the exhibition "Bogatepe Charter of Futures" which was assembled in the course of the 17th Istanbul Biennial, September - November 2022. The leading artist of the project, also a shepherd from the pastoralist community of Northern Spain, Fernando Garcia Dory, installed on the wall the plants brought from pastures of Bogatepe, along with lyrics of a local artistic verbal expression, bayati or mani. Bogatepe Environment and Life Association (BÇYD) have been organizing workshops and training programmes on the traditional uses and scientific methods of identifying, collecting, and protecting edible, aromatic, and medicinal plants. This unique way of combining words and pictorial representations of plants was dedicated to the villagers and depicted their relationship with the plants in their pastures.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://pastres.org/2023/05/26/bogatepe-charter-of-futures-learnings-from-the-exhibition-and-specula...
 
Description "Exploring everyday experiences of pastoral mobility in western India" at the IUAES Inter-Congress 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact "Exploring everyday experiences of pastoral mobility in western India" at the IUAES Inter-Congress 2019
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description "How much is my farm worth. from an environmental point of view?" Reflections from Sardinia 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact "How much is my farm worth. from an environmental point of view?" Reflections from Sardinia
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description "Migration, Agriculture and Rural Development A conversation with Domenica Farinella and Michele Nori" 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact "Migration, Agriculture and Rural Development A conversation with Domenica Farinella and Michele Nori" - webinar
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description "The World has Become Weird": Crisis, Natures and Radical Re-Enchantment 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Essay on questions that have emerged through Natures, the STEPS Centre's theme throughout 2020.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://steps-centre.org/blog/the-world-has-become-weird-crisis-natures-and-radical-re-enchantment/
 
Description #1: Finance & banking / insurance / governance 
Form Of Engagement Activity A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact EPISODE #1 Uncertainty in finance & banking, insurance, and governance - a conversation with: - Leon Wansleben, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne - Leigh Johnson, University of Oregon - Bernardo Rangoni, European University Institute - Chair: Ian Scoones, STEPS Centre For more resources on uncertainty, visit steps-centre.org/uncertainty
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description #3 - Disease outbreaks / climate change / disasters 
Form Of Engagement Activity A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Episode #3: Uncertainty in climate change models & response, disease outbreaks, and disasters & emergencies. A conversation with: - Melissa Leach, Institute of Development Studies - Lyla Mehta, Institute of Development Studies - Mark Pelling, King's College London - Chair: Marina Apgar, STEPS Centre For more resources on uncertainty, visit steps-centre.org/uncertainty
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description #4 - Security & terrorism / migration 
Form Of Engagement Activity A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Episode #4: Uncertainty in security & terrorism and migration. A conversation with: - Gabe Mythen, University of Liverpool - Dorte Thorsen, University of Sussex - Chair: Rose Cairns, STEPS Centre For more resources on uncertainty, visit steps-centre.org/uncertainty
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description #Herdingthroughuncertainties - a PASTRES Instagram series 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact #Herdingthroughuncertainties - a PASTRES Instagram series - blog
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description #herdingthroughuncertainty 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact #herdingthroughuncertainty - Instagram posts/social media
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description 'Charismatic' crisis-leadership by communities reveals a potential for rapid transitions 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Story of Change - 'Charismatic' crisis-leadership by communities reveals a potential for rapid transitions
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.rapidtransition.org/stories/charismatic-crisis-leadership-by-communities-reveals-a-poten...
 
Description 'Moment of truth' to act on climate says UN's Guterres 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Rapid Transition Alliance - Commentary - 'Moment of truth' to act on climate says UN's Guterres, by Peter Newell on 2 December 2020
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.rapidtransition.org/commentaries/moment-of-truth-to-act-on-climate-says-uns-guterres/
 
Description 'The Last Nomads': proposed new law will undermine Gypsy and Traveller communities' nomadic lifestyles in the UK 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact 'The Last Nomads': proposed new law will undermine Gypsy and Traveller communities' nomadic lifestyles in the UK
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://pastres.org/2022/02/25/the-last-nomads-proposed-new-law-undermine-gypsy-traveller-communitie...
 
Description 'Transformations towards Sustainable Development: pathways to equity and economic and environmental sustainability',12-13 December 2017, Helsinki, Finland 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact I presented STEPS Centre's work in the context of the forthcoming UN Sustainable Development Report.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/18077Transformations_workshop_Helsinki_2017_...
 
Description 'Unequal but fair? Moral economy and inequalities in pastoral societies' 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact 'Unequal but fair? Moral economy and inequalities in pastoral societies' - presentation
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description 'What If?' Meeting, Making, Dreaming, Doing 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact In week 5, the session began by splitting up into smaller groups, sharing ideas about how the exhibition might look and feel. Linked to this is a much broader question: if you could shape the world you wanted, what would it look and feel like? I felt inspired by the collective desire expressed by the group to create something responsive; to listen to and learn from each other, and interact with the public. I felt a palpable buzz of excitement and nerves in the room as the group was thinking through ideas for how this might work in practice.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description 2021 STEPS Summer School Method Session; short presentation on Photo voice projects 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact 2021 STEPS Summer School Method Session; short presentation on Photo voice projects - Summer school session
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description ??? ??? ??? ??? ????? ??? ??? ????? ??? ?? ??? ???????? ????? ??? ??? 
Form Of Engagement Activity A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Discussion on Sheger F.M, a local radio station, regarding droughts and how to prevent their impact on domesticated animals.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xgixnvhrl88
 
Description A CRISIS OF EXPERTISE? LEGITIMACY AND THE CHALLENGE OF POLICYMAKING 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Keynote address by Andy Stirling on the final day of The 2018 Melbourne School of Government's conference, talking about expertise and democracy: from adversarial crisis to mutualistic renewal.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description A Crossroads for 'Genome Editing' in Europe - Questions, Options and Dilemmas 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The UK is considering changing its rules on 'genome editing' of crops, which would mean these technologies would be less tightly regulated than in the EU.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://steps-centre.org/blog/a-crossroads-for-genome-editing-in-europe-questions-options-and-dilemm...
 
Description A New Framework for Thinking About Technological Change 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact A New Framework for Thinking About Technological Change, written by Dominic Glover. This post first appeared on the Future Agricultures Consortium website.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description A Participatory Approach to Initiating Transformative Actions from the Bottom-Up 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Jai and Ketaki Bhadgaonkar (Bombay 61) give this report from the Ideation Workshop in Mumbai for the TAPESTRY project.

This blog post draws on a visit undertaken as part of TAPESTRY, a new transdisciplinary project which explores how transformation may arise 'from below' in marginal environments with high levels of uncertainty.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description A STEPS 'pathways approach' to methods - fifteen years on 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact A. Stirling, A STEPS 'pathways approach' to methods - fifteen years on, presentation to STEPS Centre virtual symposium on 'Challenging Research for sustainability: transdisciplinary methods, relationships politics and praxis, STEPS Centre, 17th February 2021
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.dropbox.com/s/9s3dd99afwtqh8b/GMT20210217-140328_Challengin_3200x1800.mp4?dl=0
 
Description A STEPS 'pathways approach' to methods - fifteen years on 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact A. Stirling, A STEPS 'pathways approach' to methods - fifteen years on, presentation to STEPS Centre virtual symposium on 'Challenging Research for sustainability: transdisciplinary methods, relationships politics and praxis, STEPS Centre, 17th February 2021
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.dropbox.com/s/9s3dd99afwtqh8b/GMT20210217-140328_Challengin_3200x1800.mp4?dl=0
 
Description A Tale of Crab Farming in Satkhira: Navigating Uncertainties 'from below' in the Sundarbans 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The TAPESTRY research project is exploring how transformations may occur 'from below' in marginal environments with high levels of uncertainty. In this blog post, Shababa Haque and Mahmuda Mity, part of the research team in Bangladesh, share this story of people living on the 'front line' of drastic environmental changes in the Sundarbans.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description A dialogue on examining datasets in the nuclear vs renewable energy debate 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact B.K. Sovacool, P. Schmid, A. Stirling, G. Walter, G. MacKerron, A dialogue on examining datasets in the nuclear vs renewable energy debate, Sussex Energy Group blogsite, 11th August 2021
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://blogs.sussex.ac.uk/sussexenergygroup/2021/08/11/a-dialogue-on-examining-datasets-in-the-nucl...
 
Description A fast plant for rapid shifts in construction - how the ancient supercrop Hemp can help build low carbon homes 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Story of Change - A fast plant for rapid shifts in construction - how the ancient supercrop Hemp can help build low carbon homes
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.rapidtransition.org/stories/a-fast-plant-for-rapid-shifts-in-construction-how-the-ancien...
 
Description A natural business advantage? The test case of companies helping us into the great outdoors 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Story of Change - A natural business advantage? The test case of companies helping us into the great outdoors
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.rapidtransition.org/stories/a-natural-business-advantage-the-test-case-of-companies-help...
 
Description A new PASTRES linked fellowship: Everday lives across borderlands in Africa, what are the implications for transnational governance? 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact 'A new PASTRES linked fellowship: Everday lives across borderlands in Africa, what are the implications for transnational governance?' PASTRES blog written by Greta Semplici and Michele Nori
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description A new narrative for development policy in pastoral areas 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The blog describes a three-day workshop that PASTRES convened together with the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) between 6 and 9 March. The focus of the workshop concerned the failures of development policies in pastoral areas, the alternatives, and how we can shift the narrative of both the diagnosis of the problems and the definition of the solutions.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://pastres.org/2023/03/17/a-new-narrative-for-development-policy-in-pastoral-areas/
 
Description A talk on nuclear power for workshop of the climate campaign network 'Rising Tide', on COP26 Coalition False Solutions Policy Discussions 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact A. Stirling, talk on nuclear power for workshop of the climate campaign network 'Rising Tide', on COP26 Coalition False Solutions Policy Discussions, London, 15th July 2021
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description A view on the politics of uncertainty in regulation and infrastructures 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact A. Stirling, A view on the politics of uncertainty in regulation and infrastructures, introduction to stream on regulation and infrastructures of the STEPS Centre conference on the Politics of Uncertainty, Institute for Development Studies, University of Sussex, 4th July 2019
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description A. Stirling, Controlling a stable planetary climate - or caring for a complex changing earth? - 3: Betraying the climate? Has environmentalism succumbed to a modernity it hitherto resisted? 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact This is the third in a series of four blog posts on the climate by STEPS co-director Andy Stirling, under the heading: 'Controlling a stable planetary climate - or caring for a complex changing Earth?' Read Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 4
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://steps-centre.org/blog/betraying-the-climate-has-environmentalism-succumbed-to-a-modernity-it...
 
Description AGENCY AND SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEM (SES) PATHWAYS: THE TRANSFORMATION LAB IN THE XOCHIMILCO SES 
Form Of Engagement Activity A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Video recording of STEPS seminar uploaded to STEPS website
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description AGENCY AND SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEM (SES) PATHWAYS: THE TRANSFORMATION LAB IN THE XOCHIMILCO SES 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact STEPS Seminar at IDS
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description ANSWERS ON A POSTCARD: HOW WOULD YOU DO TECHNOLOGY DIFFERENTLY? 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact STEPS website blog post by Adrian Smith
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description ARE ALTERNATIVE VISIONS MISSING FROM THE DEBATES ABOUT SUSTAINABILITY TRANSITIONS? 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Blog post by Kasper Ampe, Michael Kriechbaum and Sofie Sandin
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description ARE ELSEVIER CORRUPTING OPEN SCIENCE IN EUROPE? 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Blog post about Guardian article on Open Science
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description ARGENTINA'S 'BIOLEFT' PROJECT SHARES ITS FIRST OPEN SOURCE SEEDS 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Blog post by by Paddy van Zwanenberg and Anabel Marin, Steps America Latina
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description ARGENTINE CONGRESS OF OPEN AND CITIZEN SCIENCE (CIACIAR) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact CIACIAR (Congreso de Ciencia Abierta y Ciudadana en Argentina) was a one-day congress held at the University of San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

The event was convened by CENIT and Cientópolis, and sponsored by STEPS Latin America.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description ARIN Webinar: Multidimensionality of Methods 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact ARIN Webinar
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://steps-centre.org/event/arin-webinar-multidimensionality-of-methods/
 
Description ARIN/ASH Summer School on Decolonizing Sustainability Research 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Summer school
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://steps-centre.org/event/arin-ash-summer-school-on-decolonizing-sustainability-research/
 
Description ART, UNCERTAINTY AND SYSTEM CHANGE 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact STEPS website blog by BEcky Ayre
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description AUTHORITARIANISM, POPULISM AND POLITICAL ECOLOGY 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact STEPS website blog post by Levi Van Sant
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Absentee Livestock Ownership and Social Differentiation in Pastoral Tunisia 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Absentee Livestock Ownership and Social Differentiation in Pastoral Tunisia
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Access to pastures in Northeastern Turkey: Auctions, bans, and interrupted pathways 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Turkey hosts many mobile pastoral communities, most of which have become sedentary over the last few centuries. Even the most well-known mobile pastoralist groups still operating in the country often face obstacles to their movements, with consequences for livelihoods, animals and environments.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://pastres.org/2023/06/02/access-to-pastures-in-northeastern-turkey-auctions-bans-and-interrupt...
 
Description Adaptation des agro-écosystèmes aux changements globaux : plus de résilience et moins de vulnérabilité ? 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Michele Nori participation for PASTRES
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Addis Webinar 1 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Organised conference webinar with the audience of the Scientific Community.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Addis Webinar 2 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Organised conference with an audience of the Scientific Community.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Addressing Lewes council on fossil fuel divestment 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Peter Newell was asked to address Lewes council at country hall on the question of the divestment of the council's pension fund from fossil fuels. This followed on from his central role in the successful Sussex university fossil fuel divestment campaign.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Addressing complexity, plurality & uncertainty in innovation governance research: an introduction to multicriteria mapping (MCM) and diversity analysis - 1: The neglected depth and breadth of incertitude in innovation governance 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact A. Stirling, Addressing complexity, plurality & uncertainty in innovation governance research: an introduction to multicriteria mapping (MCM) and diversity analysis - 1: The neglected depth and breadth of incertitude in innovation governance, video presentation, Jena, 29th June 2021
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Addressing uncertainty in environmental appraisal 1: practical responses to deep and neglected challenges 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact A. Stirling, J. Coburn, Addressing uncertainty in environmental appraisal 1: practical responses to deep and neglected challenges, presentation to online training workshop organised by Natural Resource Wales, Cardiff, 9th February 2021
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://sussex.app.box.com/s/cat7k7gxc2m6skufmglp48aavtywocdg/file/792846900864
 
Description Advisory Group for Award-Winning Brighton and Hove Food Strategy and Action Plan 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact Since 2017 I have been advising the Brighton and Hove Food Partnership in their efforts to develop the city's food strategy and action plan as part of an expert group. These efforts were recently rewarded when Brighton and Hove became the first city to win a Gold Sustainable Food Places Award from Sustainable Food Places (2020). The award recognises the city's outstanding achievements on a range of key food issues and most recently on tackling food poverty during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018,2019,2020,2021
URL https://www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/news/2020/brighton-hove-wins-first-gold-sustainable-food-places-awa...
 
Description Agency and social-ecological system (SES) pathways: The Transformation Lab in the Xochimilco SES 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact For two years, J. Mario Siqueiros-García, as part of the STEPS North America hub, worked with local farmers, residents from irregular urban settlements, and academics in a Transformation Laboratory (T-Lab). The project aimed to re-frame and identify novel ways for promoting individual agency and understandings of the Xochimilco social-ecological system, and provide a space for exploring the conditions that foster collective agency. Drawing on the learnings from this T-Lab experience, this seminar will explore more deeply the connection between the concept of agency and the Xochimilco landscape as a social-ecological system. Mario will argue in favour of a process ontology that seems to correspond with the pathways approach, in which agency and the social-ecological system as a unit, play a central role.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Agrarian Conversations 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Agrarian Conversations Webinar
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Agroecology beyond cultivated landscapes: Pastoralist experiences from Africa and Central Asia 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Pastoralism is a way of life for millions of people around the world. Though they ensure food security in some of the world's harshest environments, pastoralist groups - many of them made up of Indigenous Peoples - are largely excluded from public discourse and policy-making surrounding land use and tenure. This marginalization is compounded by the degradation of their ancestral lands, the depletion of their natural resources, and the systematic violation of their rights.

Agroecology Fund grantee partners from Africa to Asia to the Americas are defending pastoralist land and cultures while restoring grazelands and Indigenous breeds. In doing so, they strengthen community food security and sovereignty and conserve ancestral practices that are cornerstones of climate-resilient food systems.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPDWyPWm4Q8
 
Description Alternative imaginings of transformation: opening emancipatory spaces for sustainability politics 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact This is the second in a three-part series of blogposts reflecting on discussions at a great workshop in October 2019, convened in Nairobi by the Africa Sustainability Hub of the African Centre for Technology Studies. Drawing on work undertaken in the wider 'Governance of Socio-technical Transformations' (GOST) project, one key idea that helped frame and motivate these discussions was the notion of the 'socio-technical imaginary'.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description American Association of Geographers - "Stratified ecological knowledges of the Laikipia Plateau and Amboseli Basin, Kenya 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact American Association of Geographers - "Stratified ecological knowledges of the Laikipia Plateau and Amboseli Basin, Kenya - Conference
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description An introduction to the STRINGS project, presentation to the STRINGS Sounding Board 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact A. Stirling, An introduction to the STRINGS project, presentation to the STRINGS Sounding Board, University of Sussex (virtual) 25th June 2021
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description An open goal for transition - will global sport follow the lead of a small English football club? 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Story of Change - An open goal for transition - will global sport follow the lead of a small English football club?
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.rapidtransition.org/stories/an-open-goal-for-transition-will-global-sport-follow-the-lea...
 
Description An overview of sustainability methods 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact A. Stirling, An overview of sustainability methods, presentation to Sussex Sustainabiltiy Research Programme (SSRP), Attenborugh Centre for Contemporary Arts, University of Sussex, 5th June 2019
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Andrew talks about the Green New Deal on KTV 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Rapid Transition Alliance - Resource - Andrew talks about the Green New Deal on KTV
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.rapidtransition.org/resources/andrew-talks-about-the-green-new-deal-on-ktv/
 
Description Ann Waters-Bayer explains why uncertainty is a useful lens for looking at pastoralism 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Ann Waters-Bayer, of Coalition of European Lobbies for Eastern African Pastoralism (CELEP), explains why uncertainty is a useful lens for looking at pastoralism, and how the PASTRES project could contribute to the debate about pastoral development.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Anthropologists discuss the fast-changing face of pastoralism 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Anthropologists discuss the fast-changing face of pastoralism
Blog, website
Mathilde Gingembre
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Antimicrobial Resistance and Behaviour: An Interview with Ayako Ebata 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Agricultural economist Dr Ayako Ebata was interviewed in The AMR Studio, a podcast dedicated to interdisciplinary research into antimicrobial resistance (AMR) produced by Uppsala University.

Dr Ebata specialises in value chain analysis and as part of her work for the Myanmar Pig Partnership she is considering value chains in the context of antimicrobial resistance and livestock diseases - in particular exploring where interventions in respect of risky behaviour can make a difference.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Antonello video + IS blog 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Ian S PASTRES blog post
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Applying Technologies of the Self in Transformation Labs to Mobilize Agency 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact This is a presentation from members of the Pathways network as part of the Parallel T-Practice Sessions at the Transformations 2019 conference in Sanitago, Chile.

Presenters:

David Manuel-Navarrete
Lakshmi Charli-Joseph
Hallie Eakin
Mario Siqueiros García
Adrian Ely
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Approaching the capital: Nomadic pastoralist (im)mobilities in Mali 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Blog post on pastoral mobility in Mali.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://pastres.org/2023/01/13/approaching-the-capital-nomadic-pastoralist-immobilities-in-mali/
 
Description Are Livestock always bad for the planet? Online talk to the Pasture of life group (general public/UK farmers) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Ian gave an online talk to the Pasturefor Life group, made up of mainly UK farmers which was titled Are livestock always bad for the planet? No known impact.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Are UK attachments to nuclear power at least partly a military romance? 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact A. Stirling, Are UK attachments to nuclear power at least partly a military romance?, presentation to Oxford Energy Network colloquia series, Oxford University Centre for the Environment, Tuesday, 28th May 2019
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Are livestock always bad for the planet? 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact Blog post on livestock and climate change.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://pastres.org/2022/10/21/are-livestock-really-bad-for-the-planet/
 
Description Are livestock always bad for the planet? Report launch and discussions 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Are livestock always bad for the planet? Report launch and discussions - Webinar/Seminar
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://pastres.org/2021/10/08/pastoralism-climate-change-and-uncertainty-report-launch-and-exhibiti...
 
Description Arts event on Future Scenarios in the Context of Climate Change 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Undergraduate students
Results and Impact Andrew Simms and Peter Newell were in conversation with artist in residence Zoe Svensden at the Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts at Sussex University on the theme of 'Future scenarios in the context of climate change'. The event, which ran over an hour and a half and was attended by around 30 people, provided a chance to raise awareness about the rapid transitions work and the platform being developed.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description As Italy buckles under the Coronavirus Pandemic, Small Food Producers try to carry on' 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact 'As Italy buckles under the Coronavirus Pandemic, Small Food Producers try to carry on', PASTRES blog written by Giulia Simula
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description BIOLEFT PROJECT IN COMUNES MEETING 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Blog post
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description BIOLEFT: EXPERIMENTING WITH OPEN SOURCE SEED INNOVATION IN ARGENTINA 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Blog post by Patrick van Zwanenberg and Anabel Marin (Conicet / Cenit / UNSAM)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Badvertising - is changing the advertising industry the next step in speeding transition? 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Story of Change - Badvertising - is changing the advertising industry the next step in speeding transition?
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.rapidtransition.org/stories/badvertising-is-changing-the-advertising-industry-the-next-s...
 
Description Beef, borders and Brexit: why livestock movement is essential 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Ian S PASTRES blog post
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Betraying the Climate? Has Environmentalism Succumbed to a Modernity it Hitherto Resisted? 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact This is the third in a series of four blog posts on the climate by STEPS co-director Andy Stirling, under the heading: 'Controlling a stable planetary climate - or caring for a complex changing Earth?' Read Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 4
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://steps-centre.org/blog/betraying-the-climate-has-environmentalism-succumbed-to-a-modernity-it...
 
Description Beyond the 'Balance of Nature': Pastoralists' Alternative Perspectives on Sustainability 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Beyond the 'Balance of Nature': Pastoralists' Alternative Perspectives on Sustainability - Blog
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://steps-centre.org/blog/beyond-the-balance-of-nature-pastoralists-alternative-perspectives-on-...
 
Description Beyond the 'Balance of Nature': Pastoralists' Alternative Perspectives on Sustainability 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Beyond the 'Balance of Nature': Pastoralists' Alternative Perspectives on Sustainability - blog
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Blog for ASA conference, Birmingham 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Jeremy Lind PASTRES blog post
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Blog: Care or Control? Four Challenges for Transformations to Sustainability 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact STEPS blog post by Ian Scoones
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://steps-centre.org/blog/care-or-control-four-challenges-for-transformations-to-sustainability/
 
Description Blog: Changing pastoral landscapes in Europe 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Blog post on the PASTRES project.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017,2018
URL https://pastres.wordpress.com/2018/02/23/changing-pastoral-landscapes-in-europe/
 
Description Blog: Debating uncertainty and complexity in pastoral systems 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Blog post discussing the PASTRES project.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://pastres.wordpress.com/2018/01/26/debating-uncertainty-and-complexity-in-pastoral-systems/
 
Description Blog: Forking the SDGs: How Prototypes Could Transform the New Global Goals 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact STEPS Centre blog post by Adrian Smith.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://steps-centre.org/blog/forking-sdgs-prototypes-transform-new-global-goals/
 
Description Blog: GOSH Roadmap: Democratizing Technology, from a Latin American Perspective 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact STEPS blog post by Julieta Arancio
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://steps-centre.org/blog/gosh-roadmap-democratizing-technology-latin-american-perspective/
 
Description Blog: Green Transformations in India and China: Who's in Charge? 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact STEPS blog post by Sam Geall, Wei Shen, Lyla Mehta and Peter Newell
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://steps-centre.org/blog/green-transformations-india-china-whos-charge/
 
Description Blog: How do we 'Co-Produce' Transformative Knowledge? 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact STEPS blog post by Andy Stirling.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://steps-centre.org/blog/how-do-we-co-produce-transformative-knowledge/
 
Description Blog: Introducing PASTRES: Pastoralism, Uncertainty, Resilience 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Blog post introducing the PASTRES project and blog.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://pastres.wordpress.com/2018/01/09/about-pastres/
 
Description Blog: Pastoralism is changing in the Horn of Africa 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Blog post on the PASTRES project. Posted on both the PASTRES blog (URL below) and on the STEPS blog (https://steps-centre.org/more-from-the-blog/)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://pastres.wordpress.com/2018/02/09/pastoralism-is-changing-in-the-horn-of-africa/#more-72
 
Description Blog: Pastoralism, Uncertainty, Resilience: Introducing the PASTRES Project 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact STEPS blog post introducing the PASTRES project (originally posted on the PASTRES blog) by Ian Scoones and Michele Nori.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://steps-centre.org/blog/pastoralism-uncertainty-resilience-introducing-pastres-project/
 
Description Blog: The Transformation Labs (T-Labs) Approach to Change 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact STEPS blog post by Per Olsson
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://steps-centre.org/blog/transformation-labs-t-labs-approach-change/
 
Description Blog: Things Can Change: History and Transformations to Sustainability 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact STEPS blog post by Nathan Oxley, Jonathan Dolley, Shilpi Srivastava and Gordon McGranahan
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://steps-centre.org/blog/things-can-change-history-and-transformations-to-sustainability/
 
Description Blog: Want to Transform Access to Technology? Follow the Invisible Threads 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact STEPS blog post by Adrian Smith, Rob Byrne, David Ockwell and Ian Scoones
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://steps-centre.org/blog/want-to-transform-access-to-technology-follow-the-invisible-threads/
 
Description Blog: Where is the Agency of Farmers in Africa's 'New Green Revolution'? 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact STEPS Centre blog post.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://steps-centre.org/blog/agency-farmers-africas-new-green-revolution/
 
Description Blog: Will 'climate smart agriculture' serve the public interest - or the drive for growing profits for private corporations? 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Blog post in The Ecologist by Peter Newell, Jennifer Clapp and Zoe W. Brent
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://theecologist.org/2018/jan/19/will-climate-smart-agriculture-serve-public-interest-or-drive-g...
 
Description Book: Pastoralism, uncertainty and development 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact A new open access book - Pastoralism, Uncertainty and Development - makes the case that recognising how pastoralists make productive use of variability and embrace uncertainty is central to understanding how pastoral systems in marginal dryland and montane systems work. This offers wider lessons for rethinking development policy and practice for today's uncertain, turbulent world. The book emerges from the work of the PASTRES programme, which is supported by a European Research Council Advanced Grant and is co-hosted by IDS and the European University Institute.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://pastres.org/2023/06/30/pastoralism-uncertainty-and-development-a-new-open-access-book/
 
Description Bord and Stift, What are Pathways to Sustainability? 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact STEPS Centre, Bord and Stift, What are Pathways to Sustainability?, short animated video explainer, STEPS Centre, March 2021
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Bring back the herder conservationists 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Bring back the herder conservationists - blog
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Bringing Moral Economy into the Study of Land Deals: Reflections from Madagascar 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Bringing Moral Economy into the Study of Land Deals: Reflections from Madagascar
Participation to an event other than a conference or workshop
Mathilde Gingembre
Located at IDS
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Bringing moral economy into the study of land deals: reflections from Madagascar 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Bringing moral economy into the study of land deals: reflections from Madagascar
Blog, website
Mathilde Gingembre
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Brits Unknowingly Subsidising Nuclear Submarines Through Energy Bills 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Brits Unknowingly Subsidising Nuclear Submarines Through Energy Bills - Report
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Building resilience from below: the vital role of 'reliability professionals' and their networks 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The numerous external interventions focused on resilience are often disconnected from local realities, as we discussed in the first blog in this series. Certain standard formulations of problem and solution are offered, informed frequently by a negative narrative about pastoralism and the need for its transformation. The result is a predictable set of standardised 'resilience' projects. Ranging from the mundane to the fantastical, they all too often fail or, worse, create forms of dependency on external aid in the face of recurrent crisis.

So, what is the alternative? Can resilience be built from below drawing on local practices and networks?
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://pastres.org/2023/05/19/building-resilience-from-below-the-vital-role-of-reliability-professi...
 
Description CALL FOR PAPERS: INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM ON POST-AUTOMATION 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact STEPS website blog post promoting Postautomation symposium
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description CAN PASTORALISTS HELP US TO RESPOND TO GLOBAL UNCERTAINTIES? 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Presentation at College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering
Peking University
Beijing, China
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description CARE OR CONTROL? FOUR CHALLENGES FOR TRANSFORMATIONS TO SUSTAINABILITY 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Blog post by Ian Scoones
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description CELEP's pastoralism film festival at Tropentag 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Michele Nori was involved in the CELEOP pastoralism film festival at Tropentag 2022. The event saw a number of different films on pastoralism shown to the audiences. No known impact.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.tropentag.de/conference/program.php
 
Description CLIMATE CHANGE AND LOW-CARBON DEVELOPMENT PATHWAYS 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact CLIMATE CHANGE AND LOW-CARBON DEVELOPMENT PATHWAYS - Stories of Change
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://steps-centre.org/stories-of-change/climate-change-and-low-carbon-development-pathways/
 
Description CLIMATE CHANGE AND LOW-CARBON DEVELOPMENT PATHWAYS 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact CLIMATE CHANGE AND LOW-CARBON DEVELOPMENT PATHWAYS - Stories of Change
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://steps-centre.org/stories-of-change/climate-change-and-low-carbon-development-pathways/
 
Description CONTEXTUALISING LIFE HISTORIES IN TAMIL NADU 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Blog post by by Divya Sharma and V. Gajendra, Relational Pathways project
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description COP26 exhibition at Civic House 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact COP26 exhibition at Civic House Exhibition
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://steps-centre.org/event/exhibition-seeing-pastoralism/
 
Description COP26: Two Worlds Talked Past Each Other - Or Never Even Met 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact COP26: Two Worlds Talked Past Each Other - Or Never Even Met - Blog
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://steps-centre.org/blog/cop26-two-worlds-talked-past-each-other-or-never-even-met/
 
Description COP28: What does rapid climate action mean for pastoralists? 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The United Nations' COP28 conference on climate change, currently underway in Dubai, highlights sensitive questions over food and land, including many relevant for pastoral areas.

In agrarian settings around the world, climate change involves disrupted weather patterns, as well as changes to seasons and conditions for animals. These impacts come on top of class inequalities and other social injustices, and the pressures of globalisation and industrialisation of food systems.

Meanwhile, countries around the world are under pressure to reform food and land to mitigate or adapt to climate change. As carbon emissions continue to rise rapidly, high-level political demands increase for more dramatic and radical changes on shorter timescales.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://pastres.org/2023/12/01/cop28-what-does-rapid-climate-action-mean-for-pastoralists/
 
Description COVID-19 - social distancing reminds us to connect 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Rapid Transition Alliance - Commentary - COVID-19 - social distancing reminds us to connect, by Sophie Marsden on 24 March 2020
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.rapidtransition.org/commentaries/covid-19-social-distancing-reminds-us-to-connect/
 
Description COVID-19 Is A Stark Reminder Of The Struggle For Rights To Water And Sanitation 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact On the 10th anniversary of the UN's recognition of the human right to access water and sanitation, Lyla Mehta and Claudia Ringler reflect on the lessons from Covid-19 and the crucial but neglected links between water, food and health. The writers are among the co-authors of the book Water for Food Security, Nutrition and Social Justice.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://steps-centre.org/blog/covid-19-is-a-stark-reminder-of-the-struggle-for-rights-to-water-and-s...
 
Description COVID-19, Science and Governance: Lessons From India 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The pandemic is global, but the response is local. In India, the first case of the 2019-20 coronavirus pandemic was reported on 30 January 2020.

Blog by Dinesh Abrol, Ritu Priya and Pravin Kushwaha, South Asia Sustainability Hub
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://steps-centre.org/blog/covid-19-coronavirus-science-governance-lessons-from-india/
 
Description COVID-19, global challenges and modernity: alternatives to control in transformations to sustainability 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact COVID-19, global challenges and modernity: alternatives to control in transformations to sustainability, presentation to inaugural online international conference of the Institut national de la recherche agronomique et environment, 23rd June 2020
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description CRDD workshop: Resilience from below 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact Centre for Research and Development in Drylands workshop on 'Resilience from Below'.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description CREATING BRIDGES IN XOCHIMILCO THROUGH THE "PATHWAYS TO SUSTAINABILITY GAME" 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact STEPS website blog By Beatriz Ruizpalacios, Lakshmi Charli-Joseph, Hallie Eakin, J. Mario Siqueiros-García, Rebecca Shelton, Pathways Network
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description CaSEs seminars Transdisciplinary approaches to human culture 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Michele Nori presenting on PASTRES
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Camel milk is going global. How can it grow while benefiting pastoralists, animals and the environment? 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Camel milk is going global. How can it grow while benefiting pastoralists, animals and the environment? - blog
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Camilla Toulmin (IIED) explains why uncertainty is a useful lens for looking at pastoralism 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Camilla Toulmin, of the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), explains why uncertainty is a useful lens for looking at pastoralism, and how the PASTRES project could contribute to the debate about pastoral development.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Can Understanding Pastoral Systems Help Us Respond to Global Uncertainties? 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Uncertainties are everywhere: climate change, financial crises, migration flows, infrastructure development, disease outbreaks and more. Yet contemporary institutions and policy processes are poor at responding to and embracing uncertainties, where we don't know about either the likely outcomes or their probabilities. Too often political, procedural and professional pressures force us to ignore uncertainties, constructing problems and solutions in terms of manageable risk. In this presentation, I will argue that this is highly problematic, and that we can learn much from those who live daily with uncertainty and make use of it as a productive resource. Pastoralists - people living largely from livestock in dryland, montane and Mediterranean regions - have long experience of responding to intersecting uncertainties. Perceptions, cultures and practices; markets and economic relations; and institutional arrangements and governance systems have co-evolved with environmental, economic and political uncertainties. Can we learn from these experiences for other contexts, such as financial systems, disease outbreak response, migration policy and critical infrastructure management, where the challenges of responding to uncertainty are real, and growing? Without arguing that lessons are directly transferrable, the presentation will ask what core principles might be relevant for refashioning policies, practices and institutions in order to confront heightened uncertainties in today's world? The presentation relates to a new European Research Council Advanced Grant, involving research on pastoral systems in Chinese Tibet, East Africa and Sardinia, encouraging a conversation with those in other fields grappling with uncertainties. The ERC grant is led by the STEPS Centre at Sussex and involves collaboration with the Global Governance Programme at EUI, Florence, amongst others. (speaker's abstract)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014,2018
URL http://www.eth.mpg.de/de/events?url=6740%2Fevent_details_953044707.html
 
Description Can pastoralists benefit from payments for ecosystem services? 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Linda Pappagallo PASTRES blog post
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Can pastoralists benefit from wildlife conservation in Kenya? A case study from Amboseli 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact This blog discusses overlooked realities of livelihoods, governance, and land rights in Amboseli, Kenya; as well as power relations and unintended consequences of land reforms.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://pastres.org/2023/04/14/can-pastoralists-benefit-from-wildlife-conservation-in-kenya-a-case-s...
 
Description Can pastoralists help us respond to global uncertainties? 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Presentation of PASTRES project
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Can you embrace uncertainty like a herder? 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Can you embrace uncertainty like a herder? - Interview + article + Chinese outputs
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Care vs. control in agri-food system transformations 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Panel session at the event: Pathways to Sustainability: Knowledge, Politics and Power
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://steps-centre.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Care-vs-control-in-agri-food-system-transformati...
 
Description Caring for a small planet: lessons from pastoralists for Stockholm+50 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Caring for a small planet: lessons from pastoralists for Stockholm+50
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://pastres.org/2022/05/27/caring-for-a-small-planet-lessons-from-pastoralists-for-stockholm50/
 
Description Caring for and Nurturing the Soil - UMBELA Conversatorio #4 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Blog
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://steps-centre.org/blog/caring-for-and-nurturing-the-soil-umbela-conversatorio-4/
 
Description Caring for and Nurturing the Soil - UMBELA Conversatorio #4 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Blog
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://steps-centre.org/blog/caring-for-and-nurturing-the-soil-umbela-conversatorio-4/
 
Description Catastrophes of Biblical Proportions: Why the Apocalypse is Back 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact In a parliamentary debate in London about climate change and ecology on 1 May, the debate turned to scripture to describe the scale of the problem. "We face catastrophes of biblical proportions: droughts, pestilence, famine, floods, wildfires, mass migration, political instability, war and terrorism. Global civilisation as we know it will be gone by the end of the century unless we act."

This article was first published on Medium.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Catch Chile's waste reduction bus - how behaviour change, new infrastructure and different business models are cutting waste 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Story of Change - Catch Chile's waste reduction bus - how behaviour change, new infrastructure and different business models are cutting waste
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.rapidtransition.org/stories/catch-chiles-waste-reduction-bus-how-behaviour-change-new-in...
 
Description Catch up with the work of the PASTRES project 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Catch up with the work of the PASTRES project
Blog, Website
Ian Scoones
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Centring livestock-keepers 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Blog post on pastoralists in conservation debates.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://pastres.org/2022/11/11/centring-livestock-keepers/
 
Description Challenging Power Through Methods 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact In every sphere of life, different methods and power relations are at play. The dynamics and dimensionality of power and methods are evident in different disciplines, more so in research and academia. Historically, the seat of power in research is seen to be the global north, while the global south is seen to follow, with any dissenting voices that may challenge the status quo ignored, or not given safe spaces to express their dissent. This has triggered researchers today (especially in the global south) to interrogate the current methods and dynamics of power in the hope to decolonize them.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://steps-centre.org/blog/challenging-power-through-methods/
 
Description Challenging Research 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Blog
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://steps-centre.org/blog/challenging-research/
 
Description Challenging Research 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Blog
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://steps-centre.org/blog/challenging-research/
 
Description Challenging Research for sustainability: transdisciplinary methods, relationships, politics and praxis 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact First in a series of virtual dialogues on methodologies, exploring the theme of 'Challenging Research' for sustainability.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://steps-centre.org/event/challenging-research-for-sustainability-transdisciplinary-methods-rel...
 
Description Challenging desertification myths 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Challenging desertification myths
Blog, Website
Ian Scoones
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Challenging dominant narratives on livestock and climate change 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact This is the second in a series of blog posts that bring together PASTRES work from 2018-2023 around a number of themes. In this post, we challenge mainstream narratives around livestock and climate change.

To read through our archive on this theme, click on the link at the end of this post.

Livestock are an important contributor to greenhouse gases and therefore climate change. But PASTRES has been asking, which livestock and where are to blame? Too often all livestock are lumped together, with industrial livestock systems being talked about in the same breath as extensive, mobile systems like pastoralism.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://pastres.org/2023/12/12/challenging-dominant-narratives-on-livestock-and-climate-change/
 
Description Challenging negative views of pastoralism in Europe: Q&A with Fernando Garcia-Dory 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Challenging negative views of pastoralism in Europe: Q&A with Fernando Garcia-Dory
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Changing pastoral landscapes in Europe 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact PASTRES blog post by Michele Nori
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Chellenging Research for sustainability - Transdisciplinary Methods, Relationships, Politics and Praxis 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Webinar
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://steps-centre.org/event/challenging-research-for-sustainability-transdisciplinary-methods-rel...
 
Description Chinese Public We-Chat Account 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact This blog discusses four different themes that cover new narratives of pastoral development, in contrast to old narratives that see pastoral development as 'backwards'.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/5sIuXjyuUKnQmG1-hW5Hag
 
Description Choreographed Consensus: The Stifling of Dissent at CRISPRcon 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Last week, we attended the annual CRISPRcon hosted by Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands. The conference was marketed as a not-for-profit event offering 'a unique forum in which a broad selection of diverse voices come together to discuss the future of CRISPR and related gene editing technologies'. In practice, however, CRISPRcon 2019 was a cleverly choreographed greenwashing rally, funded by corporations such as Bayer and Editas Medicine, industry associations such as Plantum and United Soybean Board, and research centres such as the Innovative Genomics Institute and the Flemish Institute for Biotechnology.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Cities, Uncertainty and Systems Change 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Depending who and where you are in the world, you will be experiencing the effects of climate change differently. Here in the UK, the recent hot-weather days in February might have felt unsettling, even as your body welcomed the warmth and sunshine. Meanwhile, people in some parts of the United States were caught in freezing winter storms, with businesses closed, and people stuck in homes without power. Elsewhere, in Kutch, in the Indian State of Gujurat, local people currently are struggling to maintain their livelihoods, having seen only 26 per cent of its 30-year annual average rainfall.

Written by Becky Ayre
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Claiming Space: Infrastructure, Uncertainty and Fisherfolks' Livelihoods in Mumbai 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The coastal mega-city of Mumbai is a vibrant bustling hub, home to some 20 million people and a magnet for migrants who flock to the city seeking new opportunities and a better life. The city is a complex conglomerate of contrasts; with modern high-rises and shopping malls jostling for space with slums, wealth and glamour exist cheek by jowl with poverty and deprivation. The city also has a unique ecological identity, encompassing extensive areas of mangroves, wetlands, and salt pans that function as green lungs and buffers against floods, to which this low-lying coastal city increasingly is prone.

Blog post by Synne Movik and Hans Nicolai Adam (from the TAPESTRY project team)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://steps-centre.org/blog/claiming-space-infrastructure-uncertainty-and-fisherfolks-livelihoods-...
 
Description Class dynamics, social difference and agrarian change: Pastoralism & Uncertainty course, Lecture 10 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Video recording of Lecture 10 in the Pastoralism and Uncertainty online course from PASTRES. This lecture explores how processes of social differentiation and patterns of accumulation, linked to the emergence of different 'classes' can be understood, drawing on critical agrarian studies. How does this apply to pastoral settings, sometimes assumed to be egalitarian, governed by 'custom' and 'tradition'?
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3NB7jTPX2I
 
Description Climate Change and Agrarian Justice Conference 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Ian Scoones was part of the opening plenary for the three day conference on critical agrarian studies and the politicis of climate change responses. The event featured presentations from a variety of academics from all over the world. No impact known.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.ids.ac.uk/events/climate-change-and-agrarian-justice-conference/
 
Description Climate Change and Livestock in the UK: The Politics of Policy Processes 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Climate Change and Livestock in the UK: The Politics of Policy Processes
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Climate Change: How Do We Move Beyond 'The Great Derangement'? 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Climate Change: How Do We Move Beyond 'The Great Derangement'? by Andrea Nightingale and Lars Otto Naess
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Climate and Livestock: COP27 round-up 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact Blog post on debates at the COP27 climate conference.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://pastres.org/2022/11/18/climate-and-livestock-cop27-round-up/
 
Description Climate and biodiversity 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Michele Nori gave a keynote speech at the International Congress extensive livestock farming and climate change conference in Cordoba. Michele's presentation looked at the work PASTRES had done on climate change and biodiversity. No known impact.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://internationalcongressliveadapt.eu/?page_id=15&lang=en
 
Description Climate change policy processes and pastoralism in the Horn of Africa: Old wine in new bottles? 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Climate change policy processes and pastoralism in the Horn of Africa: Old wine in new bottles?
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://pastres.org/2022/03/11/climate-change-policy-processes-and-pastoralism-in-the-horn-of-africa...
 
Description Climate change: we need to talk about methane 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Climate change: we need to talk about methane blog on the PASTRES site
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://pastres.org/2021/10/29/climate-change-we-need-to-talk-about-methane/
 
Description Climate uncertainty and the arts 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Climate change is drawing us into a complex and uncertain future. Climate Uncertainty and the Arts is a working paper which explores how the arts might contribute.

One thing is certain: the risk management techniques we currently use to control companies, projects, and financial portfolios are dangerously overrated. Within carefully defined limits, they are perfectly okay at what they do. But climate change demands big societal changes, and for those changes we shouldn't rely solely on such techniques - everything from enterprise-level risk matrices, to Climate VaR or portfolio temperature alignment - any more than we should try to cross the Pacific Ocean in a toy boat.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://pastres.org/2023/09/01/climate-uncertainty-and-the-arts/
 
Description Climate, biodiversity and livestock: big debates for 2021 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Climate, biodiversity and livestock: big debates for 2021
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Coloniality in Transformation: decolonising methods for activist scholarship in struggles for sustainability 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact A. Stirling, Coloniality in Transformation: decolonising methods for activist scholarship in struggles for sustainability, presentation to the Transformations 2021 conference, Stockholm Resilience Institute (virtual), 18th June 2021
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Comic: 'These Days' COVID, Crisis and Beyond 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact In our Natures theme for 2020, we are collaborating with the artist Tim Zocco. In the comic 'These Days', a glimpse of a future age shaped by traumatic events, Zocco reflects on crisis, the difficulties of predicting radical change and thinking about what is to come. It's the first in a series of creative responses to Natures, which will follow over the next few months.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://steps-centre.org/blog/comic-these-days-covid-crisis-and-beyond/
 
Description Communities, Technologies and Democratic Innovation 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Fusebox director Phil Jones interviewed Prof Andy Stirling and Prof Adrian Smith in a roundtable discussion. They talked about the importance and challenges around democratising innovation, and how people around the world are already practicing new forms of innovation and demanding better from existing innovation institutions.

They explored why technology and the kinds of digital futures explored at Fusebox and elsewhere, are deeply social matters, and how the politics of such innovation demands democratic approaches in technology. Andy and Adrian drew on their ESRC social science research and particularly the work done in the STEPS Centre.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://steps-centre.org/event/communities-technologies-and-democratic-innovation/
 
Description Community Led Initiatives and Incumbent Policy Institutions: opening up transformative political spaces 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact A. Stirling, Community Led Initiatives and Incumbent Policy Institutions: opening up transformative political spaces, presentation to webinar of the Social Solidarity Economy & the Commons Network on 'Opportunities and Barriers for Community-led Initiatives in Interacting with International Policy Institutions in the European Context', 13th December 2021
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Community level screenings and discussions of participatory films in southern Madagascar (multiple) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact A series of community level workshops took place in seven villages in Madagascar. They involved screening of participatory films, followed by deep group discussion around the local issues the films portrayed. Locally based filmmaking teams interacted and discussed the films and the stories they told with both members of the research team and members of the broader community.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018,2019
URL https://seeingconflict.org/
 
Description Community, belonging, identity 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Yesterday, Andrea Nightingale visited IDS and we had a discussion about 'boundary-making'. Her research in Nepal looks critically at what boundaries mean, how they are made, and how they are constantly being remade and renegotiated. From purity codes, caste, class and gender boundaries, to disagreements about access to water, boundaries shape people's lives, but they're also strangely elusive things.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Complicating narratives of changing livelihoods and shared lands in Southern Kenya 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact This blog covers narratives about Amboseli National Park in southern Kenya, which is often framed it as an "ecological island" in the centre of the wider Amboseli landscape that is threatened by fragmentation. It discusses barriers to livelihoods and complex new systems of benefits, as well as challenging binary framings of collective vs private land.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://pastres.org/2023/04/07/complicating-narratives-of-changing-livelihoods-and-shared-lands-in-s...
 
Description Conservancies in Laikipia and Zimbabwe: PR, communities and controversies 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Conservancies in Laikipia and Zimbabwe: PR, communities and controversies
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://pastres.org/2022/05/13/conservancies-in-laikipia-and-zimbabwe-pr-communities-and-controversi...
 
Description Conservation Futures 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Video recording of Keynote panel at the POLLEN20 conference 'Contested Natures: Power, Politics, Prefiguration' co-organised by the STEPS Centre and the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qX1QzehTp20
 
Description Conservation in northern Kenya: conflicts over community land in the pastoral margins 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Conservation in northern Kenya: conflicts over community land in the pastoral margins
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Conservation, biodiversity and pastoralism in the Llanos Orientales of Colombia 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact This blog written by Greta Semplici , describes their journey to the Reserva Esperanza and their time there, where they spend some days with a family to learn about their livestock management and their environment.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://pastres.org/2023/02/20/conservation-biodiversity-and-pastoralism-in-the-llanos-orientales-of...
 
Description Consolidation workshops and national level exchanges in Madagascar 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact A week-long 'Seeing conflict' project consolidation event was convened in the national capital of Madagascar, Antananarivo, that brought together members of research teams from across southern Madagascar and teams of village-level participants. The highlight of the week was to bring together project members from villages in different parts of the country in 'horizontal exchanges', facilitated video screenings and discussions about their experiences of development programs and extractive developments in particular.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Consultation launched over gene edited food in England 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact I was quoted in a BBC article, based on my work (over almost 20 years) on agricultural biotechnology regulation.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-55576187
 
Description Consultation launched over gene edited food in England 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact BBC News website - Science and Environment.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-55576187
 
Description Contested Natures: POLLEN 2020 Conference 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Contested Natures: Power, Possibility, Prefiguration
Third Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN)
22-25 September 2020
Brighton, UK
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://steps-centre.org/event/contested-natures-pollen-2020-conference/
 
Description Contested conservancies: livestock, wildlife and people in Laikipia, Kenya 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Contested conservancies: livestock, wildlife and people in Laikipia, Kenya
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://pastres.org/2022/05/06/contested-conservancies-livestock-wildlife-and-people-in-laikipia-ken...
 
Description Contribution to the 'Rebuilding a Resilient Britain' Areas of Research Interest systems work for UK Government Office for Science 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact This programme, launched in July, and running through the summer, aimed to synthesise evidence against research questions that departments should consider in the medium to long term recovery from the COVID-19 emergency. Building on the publication of Areas of Research Interest (ARIs) and the ESRC funded ARI Fellowships and thanks to contributions like mine, the UK GOS tested and took to fruition a ground-breaking new process of collaboration between policy makers, academics, and funders.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Controlling a Stable Planetary Climate - Or Caring for a Complex Changing Earth? - 4: Thriving in an Ever-Changing World: From Technocratic Control to Emancipatory Care? 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact This is the fourth and last in a series of blog posts on the climate by STEPS co-director Andy Stirling, under the heading: 'Controlling a stable planetary climate - or caring for a complex changing Earth?'
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://steps-centre.org/blog/thriving-in-an-ever-changing-world-from-technocratic-control-to-emanci...
 
Description Controlling a stable planetary climate - or caring for a complex changing earth? - 1: Is the naming of 'climate change' a dangerous self-defeat? 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact This is the first in a series of four blog posts on the climate by STEPS co-director Andy Stirling, under the heading: 'Controlling a stable planetary climate - or caring for a complex changing Earth?'
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://steps-centre.org/blog/is-the-naming-of-climate-change-a-dangerous-self-defeat/
 
Description Controlling a stable planetary climate - or caring for a complex changing earth? - 2: Does the delusion of climate control do more harm than good to climate disruption? 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact This is the second in a series of four blog posts on the climate by STEPS co-director Andy Stirling, under the heading: 'Controlling a stable planetary climate - or caring for a complex changing Earth?'
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://steps-centre.org/blog/does-the-delusion-of-climate-control-do-more-harm-than-good-to-climate...
 
Description Converting industry - how rapid transition happens in crises and upheavals 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Story of Change - Converting industry - how rapid transition happens in crises and upheavals
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.rapidtransition.org/stories/converting-industry-how-rapid-transition-happens-in-crises-a...
 
Description Conviere con l'incertezza 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact 'Conviere con l'incertezza', PASTRES blog written by Guilia Simula
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Coronavirus, Crisis and the Real Argentine Economy: Post-Pandemic Challenges 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact A window of opportunity is opening to reshape the organization of society, to take better advantage of new technologies and to make it more sustainable and more humane. Argentina, through its successive crises, has developed a unique capacity for resilience and civil society organization, which is one of its greatest assets in this situation.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://steps-centre.org/blog/covid19-crisis-and-the-real-argentine-economy-post-pandemic-challenges...
 
Description Coronavirus: we're in a real-time laboratory of a more sustainable urban future 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Rapid Transition Alliance - Commentary - Coronavirus: we're in a real-time laboratory of a more sustainable urban future, by Paul Chatterton on 30 April 2020
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.rapidtransition.org/commentaries/coronavirus-were-in-a-real-time-laboratory-of-a-more-su...
 
Description Could Kenya's Local Flour Mills Be an Early Warning System For Famine? 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact By Fred Ajwang, Relational Pathways project

In the Relational Pathways project, we have been exploring how rural people relate to technology in their everyday lives. This has included fieldwork in a part of Kenya called Machakos.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Country Life Today: The RAF weathermen who saved D-Day and the bees who have learned to read 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The story of the aircrew who gave their lives to prevent D-Day becoming a disaster, how bees are learning to read, how nuclear submarines are being subsidised by your electricity bills and why we won't be living on Mars in 2050 after all (it'll be another planet instead).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Covid-19 and Development: The Politics of Uncertainty 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Why is uncertainty so important to politics today? From finance and technology to climate change, pandemics, migration and security, what the future holds feels increasingly uncertain and demands alternative approaches. If hopes of much-needed progressive transformations are to be realised, then current blinkered understandings of uncertainty need to be met with renewed democratic struggle.

Exploring how uncertainties are experienced in the context of marginalisation and precarity, Andy Stirling in conversation with Sobia Ahmad Kaker, will look at how we can advance a more collective politics of responsibility and care.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://steps-centre.org/event/covid-19-and-development-the-politics-of-uncertainty/
 
Description Covid-19 and the entelechy of rapid transition 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Rapid Transition Alliance - Commentary - Covid-19 and the entelechy of rapid transition, by David Powell on 3 April 2020
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.rapidtransition.org/commentaries/covid-19-and-the-entelechy-of-rapid-transition/
 
Description Critical infrastructure / technology 
Form Of Engagement Activity A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Episode #2: Uncertainty in critical infrastructures / reliability / technology & innovation. A conversation with: - Patrick van Zwanenberg, CENIT, Argentina - Emery Roe, University of California, Berkeley - Chair: Andy Stirling, STEPS Centre For more resources on uncertainty, visit steps-centre.org/uncertainty
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Cross-pollinating pastoral studies with wider agrarian questions 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Cross-pollinating pastoral studies with wider agrarian questions - Blog
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Cross-regional workshop: Conflits des ressources aux marges: Consolidation des résultats des recherches sur les expériences au sein communautaire, Madagascar 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact This workshop in June 2019 brought together members of research teams and NGO and academic partner organizations involved in the 'Seeing conflicts' project from across southern Madagascar for cross-regional analysis of research findings and and development of project impact plans. Training components of this workshop focused on communications, including blogging and converting results of participatory mapping exercises into outputs for the public.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL http://www.seeingconflict.org
 
Description Crossbreading or not crossbreading? That is not the question 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Crossbreading or not crossbreading? That is not the question - blog
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description DALIT WOMEN'S NARRATIVES OF THE GREEN REVOLUTION IN RURAL SOUTH INDIA 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Presenting latest research activities from Relational Pathways: Mapping Agency and Poverty Dynamics through Green Revolutions that aims to understand the pathways in and out of poverty for farmers and workers in Kenya and India constituted by changing technologies, natural resources and social worlds.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description DEMOCRATIZING PUBLIC HEALTH AND URBAN SUSTAINABILITY: HOW CAN NEXUS FRAMINGS BE USEFUL? 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Blog post by Saurabh Arora (SPRU, University of Sussex, UK) and Leandro Giatti (SPH, USP, Brazil)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description DIALOGUES ALONG PLURAL PATHWAYS: STEPS RESEARCHERS AND SUMMER SCHOOL PARTICIPANTS IN CONVERSATION 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact This blog post is a conversation convened by three participants, Nimisha Agarwal, Ankita Rastogi and Jessica Cockburn. It includes introductions to the STEPS Centre's ideas on six topics by STEPS researchers, and responses to each by different participants at the Summer School, drawing on their own knowledge and expertise.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description DIETS NOT RIOTS: WHAT WOULD MASSIVE PUBLIC DIALOGUE ON CLIMATE CHANGE LOOK LIKE? 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact STEPS website blog post by Nathan Oxley
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Debating Pastoral Development: Pastoralism & Uncertainty course, lecture 1 
Form Of Engagement Activity A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Video recording of Lecture 1 in the Pastoralism and Uncertainty online course from PASTRES. This lecture offers a broad, introductory overview of debates about pastoralism (livelihood systems primarily reliant on livestock), and the links to big questions in development. This talk is given by Prof Ian Scoones (IDS).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otpXqZV8wi0
 
Description Debating Stability in North Africa, the Sahel and Horn of Africa: How Transnational Dynamics and Geopolitics Impact on Governance and Development Agendas 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact 'Debating Stability in North Africa, the Sahel and Horn of Africa: How Transnational Dynamics and Geopolitics Impact on Governance and Development Agendas' - Michele Nori workshop participation
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Debating uncertainty and complexity in pastoral systems 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact PASTRES blog post by Ian Scoones
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Degrowth and the Pluriverse: Continued Coloniality or Intercultural Revolution? 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Degrowth and the Pluriverse: Continued Coloniality or Intercultural Revolution? - Blog
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://steps-centre.org/blog/degrowth-and-the-pluriverse-continued-coloniality-or-intercultural-rev...
 
Description Degrowth and the pluriverse: continued coloniality or intercultural revolution? 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact S. Arora, A. Stirling, Degrowth and the pluriverse: continued coloniality or intercultural revolution?, STEPS Centre Blogpost, 5th May 2021
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL http://strings.org.uk/to-meet-the-sustainable-development-goals-we-must-transform-innovation/
 
Description Destruction-Prone Conservation Policies: One Pathway To Sustainability? 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact By Niak Sian Koh (Stockholm Resilience Centre, Sweden) and Amos Ochieng (Department of Forestry, Biodiversity and Tourism, Makerere University, Uganda).

In an attempt to address the crucial problem of biodiversity loss, governments, conservation NGOs and the private sector are experimenting with different approaches to increase sources of funding for conservation. On a global level, the Convention on Biological Diversity (an international treaty for conserving biodiversity, signed by a majority of the world's governments) has recommended certain 'innovative financing mechanisms' to mobilize resources for conservation from the private sector. However, concerns exist over potential social and environmental problems that may arise from the use of these mechanisms. On a governmental level, the Uganda Wildlife Authority (a government agency mandated to manage all conservation areas in Uganda) grants concessions to private sport-hunting companies to conduct sport hunting in and around some protected areas. The benefits that accrue are supposed to be shared with the local communities, based on the agreed terms and conditions, as stipulated in the concession agreements.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Development Interventions: The agenda behind their persistent inconsistency 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact 'Development Interventions: The agenda behind their persistent inconsistency' PASTRES blog written by Sergio Magnani
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Disciplinary Diversification in Karamoja: The Case of Charcoal 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Disciplinary Diversification in Karamoja: The Case of Charcoal - seminar
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Disciplinary Identities and Other Barriers to Advancing Interdisciplinary Working 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact The following blog was first published on the PLoS ONE blog 'EveryONE'.

This work was funded by the UK's Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, the Department for International Development, the Economic & Social Research Council, the Medical Research Council, the Natural Environment Research Council and the Defence Science & Technology Laboratory, under the Zoonoses and Emerging Livestock Systems (ZELS) programme.

The STEPS Centre is a social science partner in Livestock, Livelihoods and Health, and the Myanmar Pig Project, both funded through the ZELS programme.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Discussion event: Transformations to Sustainability 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Exchange among academics on Sussex campus on Transformations to Sustainability work at Sussex
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Does European agricultural policy work for pastoralists? 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Does European agricultural policy work for pastoralists?
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://pastres.org/2022/03/25/does-european-agricultural-policy-work-pastoralists-eu-cap/
 
Description Does the African Green Revolution Include Smallholder Farmers? 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact This year's African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF) took place online, hosted out of Kigali, Rwanda. Chaired by the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), the AGRF is a high-profile global summit that brings together international donor agencies, governments, African leaders and agribusinesses. The summit is an annual opportunity for them to plan, mobilise and coordinate investments, policies and business cases to promote the continent's agricultural intensification agenda.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://steps-centre.org/blog/does-the-african-green-revolution-include-smallholder-farmers/
 
Description Does the Delusion of 'Climate Control' Do More Harm Than Good to Climate Disruption? 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact This is the second in a series of four blog posts on the climate by STEPS co-director Andy Stirling, under the heading: 'Controlling a stable planetary climate - or caring for a complex changing Earth?' Read Part 1 / Part 3 / Part 4
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://steps-centre.org/blog/does-the-delusion-of-climate-control-do-more-harm-than-good-to-climate...
 
Description Doing digital differently: four innovation lessons from the grassroots 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact 'Doing digital differently: four innovation lessons from the grassroots' by Adrian Smith, Adrian Ely and Phil Jones
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Doing research with pastoralists in India: What, why and how? 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Doing research with pastoralists in India: What, why and how? - workshop
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Don't Save 'The World' - Embrace a Pluriverse! 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Blog written by Saurabh Arora and Andy Stirling
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://steps-centre.org/blog/dont-save-the-world-embrace-a-pluriverse/
 
Description Don't save 'the world' - embrace a pluriverse! 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact S. Arora, A. Stirling, Don't save 'the world' - embrace a pluriverse!, STEPS Centre blogpost, October 2020
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://steps-centre.org/blog/dont-save-the-world-embrace-a-pluriverse/
 
Description Drought Management in ASAL Areas: Enhancing Resilience or Fostering Vulnerability? 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Drought Management in ASAL Areas: Enhancing Resilience or Fostering Vulnerability? - Tahira Shariff Mohamed
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://pastres.org/2022/03/04/drought-management-in-asal-areas-enhancing-resilience-or-fostering-vu...
 
Description Drylands Policy Narratives 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Undergraduate students
Results and Impact Class by Michele Nori which looked at governig African drylands. The participants came from a variety of African countries. No impact known.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description ECOSYSTEM SERVICES FOR POVERTY ALLEVIATION IN URBANISING INDIA 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact This event in Delhi explores how urban authorities and other parts of civil society can improve their approaches to ecosystems and the services they provide in urbanising contexts. This event includes the launch of a new ESPA briefing 'Making the most of ecosystem services' which draws on research from the Risks and Responses to Urban Futures project affiliated to the STEPS Centre. It will feature contributions from researchers connected to the South Asia Sustainability Hub.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description EMANCIPATORY RURAL POLITICS I: CONTEXTUALIZING AUTHORITARIAN POPULISM AND EMANCIPATORY RURAL POLITICS 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact As part of the Politics of Nature reading group, Dr Alexander Dunlap, co-hosted by the CGPE and STEPS centre, presents a seminar on the merits of an anarchist political ecology in assessing extractive projects and charting new directions in (re)imagining ecological, unruly and dignified futures.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description EMANCIPATORY RURAL POLITICS II: RESISTING, MOBILIZING AND CREATING ALTERNATIVES 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact In this session, we ask what alternative politics - and political-economic practices - also emerge at this conjuncture. What are 'emancipatory' possibilities or 'alternative' rural politics in practice in settings that may simultaneously seem to have been left behind by globalized capitalism, yet represent the new (last?) frontiers of enclosure, extraction and financialization? Informed by insights from political ecology, alongside other approaches and methods from critical social science and radical practice, presentations in this session explore relationships between historical and contemporary rural struggles, forms of resistance and mobilization, and practices of imagining and creating alternatives, encouraging a comparative conversation. part of the Emancipatory Rural Politics Initiative (ERPI).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description EMBRACING UNCERTAINTY: WHAT ARE THE IMPLICATIONS FOR SUSTAINABILITY AND DEVELOPMENT 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact STEPS website blog by Ian Scoones
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description ENABLING INNOVATIONS 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact STEPS website blog post about ennabling innovations in Latin America hub
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description ENDINGS AND BEGINNINGS: PROJECT-BASED WORK WITHIN WIDER TRANSFORMATIONS 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact BLog post by Adrian Ely
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description ERPI Europe - Facebook community 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The group is active and serves as a platform, where different members share articles and news, inform each other about forthcoming grassroots activities and academic seminars, post their opinions on related topics.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description ERPI South Asia workshop, Jaffna, Sri Lanka 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact A two-day workshop organised by the Emancipatory Rural Politics Initiative (ERPI) on 12 and 13 January 2019 at the University of Jaffna in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, with a group of scholars and activists from Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Topics included themes, outreach, collaborative projects and a potential regional conference.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description ERPI South East Asia - exploratory meeting: 'Authoritarian Populism/Emancipatory Rural Politics' 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Exploring common themes and challenges with 14 key activists/scholars/scholar-activists working in/on Southeast Asia.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description ESRC Festival of Social Science exhibition of seeing pastoralism 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact ESRC Festival of Social Science 2022 hosted two photographic exhibitions exploring pastoralism, the exhibition was curated by Roopa Gogineni. No known impact.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://onca.org.uk/event/an-uncertain-world-healing-maasai-land/
 
Description EU COST Action group on Global Drylands meeting 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact PASTRES participation at University of Oxford
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description EU Elections: What Does Populism Mean for Rural People? 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact In the new collection of articles, researchers with the Emancipatory Rural Politics Initiative (ERPI) explore how rural people have been targeted by authoritarian populism, and how they have embraced or resisted it in different ways. Often ignored, stereotyped or patronised, there are many examples of rural people building forms of solidarity and support.

The articles (open access until December 2019) are featured in a Forum on Authoritarian Populism and the Rural World in the Journal of Peasant Studies, part of the ERPI's series of events and research on the topic.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description EUI STG Young African Leadership Program 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact EUI STG Young African Leadership Program Class
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021,2022
URL https://www.eui.eu/apply?id=africanleaders
 
Description EXPLORING PATHWAYS TO SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SYSTEMS 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact EXPLORING PATHWAYS TO SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SYSTEMS - Stories of Change
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://steps-centre.org/stories-of-change/exploring-pathways-to-sustainable-agriculture-and-food-sy...
 
Description Echi Gabbert explains why uncertainty is a useful lens for looking at pastoralism 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Echi Gabbert, of the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Göttingen , explains why uncertainty is a useful lens for looking at pastoralism, and how the PASTRES project could contribute to the debate about pastoral development.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Economic prospects for 2021: the FT survey 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Rapid Transition Alliance - Commentary - Economic prospects for 2021: the FT survey, by Andrew Simms
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.rapidtransition.org/commentaries/economic-prospects-for-2021-the-ft-survey/
 
Description Effect of Fracking on Climate Change 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact P. Strachan, et al, Effect of fracking on climate change, Times, 27th February 2018
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Embracing Uncertainty: Lessons from Journeys and Struggles 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Embracing uncertainty, by choice or by necessity, is something migrants, victims of political violence, and people holding a religious belief have in common. What could we learn from their experiences about a broader understanding of living with uncertainty, and how can this inform other domains and contexts?

This was the heart of the debate in one of the interdisciplinary clusters of the STEPS symposium on the Politics of Uncertainty in July 2019.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Embracing uncertainties: what is the role of moral economies? 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact This blog provides a brief overview of the sixth chapter of the newly published book Pastoralism, Uncertainty and Development edited by Ian Scoones.

Many standard development interventions in the drylands of northern Kenya aim to manage and control risk. Early warning systems, social protection support and humanitarian aid delivery are all premised on such assumptions. In presenting fixed, management responses, they do not engage with uncertainty, where the future is not known and nor do they articulate with pastoralists' own practices that must embrace uncertainties on a day-to-day basis.

The chapter asks: how do pastoralists in Northern Kenya, Isiolo, confront uncertainties through collective solidarities and redistribution in the form of moral economy practices? And how does this articulate with the standard development aid/humanitarian response?
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://pastres.org/2023/08/04/embracing-uncertainties-what-is-the-role-of-moral-economies/
 
Description En dehors de la viande, quels aliments ont la plus lourde empreinte carbone? 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Quoted in an article about climate and livestock emissions in the Swiss online magazine Heidi.news
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.heidi.news/articles/en-dehors-de-la-viande-quels-aliments-ont-la-plus-lourde-empreinte-c...
 
Description Enchanting Nature: Tentacular Storytelling in the Great African Kelp Forest 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact There is a forest beneath the waves off the western coast of South Africa that is as biologically rich as a tropical rainforest. Few people have experienced the Great African Kelp Forest like the members of the Sea Change Project, a small group of journalists, scientists, photographers and filmmakers who have developed a unique methodology for exploring and learning about, from and with nature called 'underwater tracking'.

The Sea Change Project has spent thousands of hours exploring these wild 'algal gardens' and the creatures that live in them, skin- and breath-hold diving in the frigid waters of South Africa's Cape Peninsula. The group has identified new species and learned to read subtle signs and that give insight into lives, deaths and relationships of the kelp forest's creatures, a process one member describes as delving deep into 'the biological mind of the forest'.

The acclaimed Netflix documentary My Octopus Teacher is one example of the project's approach to 'multispecies storytelling' (Haraway, 2016). This is an affective, aesthetic and sensorial approach that focuses on connections, embodied experience and interspecies learning to help people see, experience and value the Great African Kelp Forest in new ways.

In this Q&A Roundtable with the film's director, Pippa Ehrlich, and Sea Change project members Swati Foster, Carina Frankal and Faine Loubser, we explored questions about Sea Change's approach to exploring, researching and communicating about the 'forest beneath the waves'. The conversation was moderated by Amber Huff (STEPS Centre) and Adrian Nel (University of KwaZulu-Natal).

How does the project's approach diverge from dominant approaches in ecology and marine conservation in terms of underlying assumptions, practices, values and objectives? Can embracing ecological alterity and developing meaningful intimacies with the hidden, 'alien' and 'weird' aspects of nature nourish new 'kinships' and new ways of 'commoning' of our relations with others? What are the impacts of such an approach on public awareness and attitudes towards this marine ecology on one level, and on discourses and practice of conservation? Can learning from these approaches help to inform and transform conservation more broadly?
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://steps-centre.org/event/enchanting-nature-tentacular-storytelling-in-the-great-african-kelp-f...
 
Description Enchanting Nature: tentacular storytelling in the Great African Kelp Forest 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Video recording of Roundtable with 'My Octopus Teacher' director Pippa Ehrlich and others from the Sea Change project. Part of the STEPS Centre's event series on 'Natures'.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6kXRS0YKJ8
 
Description Energy transition, minerals, conflicts and civil society participation in Latin America and the Caribbean 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Panel session at the event: Pathways to Sustainability: Knowledge, Politics and Power
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://steps-centre.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Energy-transition-minerals-conflicts-and-civil-s...
 
Description Engaging with uncertainties in the now: mobility amongst pastoralists in western India 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact This blog provides a brief overview of the third chapter of our newly published book Pastoralism, Uncertainty and Development. The third chapter of the book focuses on the experiences of the Rabari of western India. Pastoralists of the region engage with uncertain futures by making real-time adjustments to their mobility in the here-and-now. Applying a temporal lens, the chapter emphasises the nomadic 'present' as the arena in and through which pastoralists manage change and uncertainty through different forms of mobility.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://pastres.org/2023/07/14/engaging-with-uncertainties-in-the-now-mobility-amongst-pastoralists-...
 
Description Enhancing Red Meat Safety Through 'Street-Level Diplomacy' in Tanzania 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Enhancing Red Meat Safety Through 'Street-Level Diplomacy' in Tanzania, written by Tabitha Hrynick. Read our open access paper at BMC Public Health and check out additional blogs and resources from us and from our wider research team at the Livestock, Livelihoods and Health website.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Enhancing biodiversity through livestock keeping 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact Blog post on pastoralism and biodiversity.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://pastres.org/2022/11/25/enhancing-biodiversity-through-livestock-keeping/
 
Description Ensuring equitable biodiversity conservation 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Opinion piece on the COP15 biodiversity conference.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://pastres.org/2022/12/16/ensuring-equitable-biodiversity-conservation/
 
Description Envisioning the Future in the Present: Making Sense of Uncertainty 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact The STEPS symposium on 'the politics of uncertainty' made me think about a couple of questions that I have been concerned with in my research work, but that I have so far mostly approached from a perspective of risk, and how risk is translated into space ('riskscapes'). The symposium addressed the issue of uncertainty and 'unknown unknowns' primarily as a political challenge and a problem for decision-making. I suppose this problematisation has a lot to do with our awareness of a global condition that seems to get out of control, because the future is overshadowed by uncertainties about climate change and anticipated disasters.

This is one of a series of blog posts by participants following the STEPS symposium The Politics of Uncertainty: Practical Challenges for Transformative Action.

This is one of a series of blog posts by participants following the STEPS symposium The Politics of Uncertainty: Practical Challenges for Transformative Action.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Ester Boserup Prize Lecture 'why embracing uncertainty means rethinking development' 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Ester Boserup Prize Lecture 'why embracing uncertainty means rethinking development'
Participation to an event other than a conference or workshop
Located in Copenhagen
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Ethiopian pastoralists: Entangled between development initiatives, conservation and state/society conflicts 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Blog that covers issues related to Ethiopian Pastoralists including: Irrigation projects, conservation and an expanding lake; Invasive plants, villagization and social conflict; and Dominant narratives and appropriate solutions.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://pastres.org/2023/03/31/ethiopian-pastoralists-entangled-between-development-initiatives-cons...
 
Description Eu-SPRI Forum 2019 keynote 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Keynote presentation, Roma, Italy, 'Science Technology and Innovation Policies for Sustainable Development Goals. Actors, Instruments and Evaluation'
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Event - Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation in Urbanising India 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact This is a stakeholder engagement event to disseminate the insights on urbanisation in South Asia generated through the ESPA programme, which was funded by the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), Department for International Development (DFID), and Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). This interactive event has been structured with presentations from ESPA and partners to summarise findings, and panel discussions to get reflections from national, state and city governments in India on these issues.

This event will bring together scientists and academics, researchers, development professionals, planners, elected representatives, government departments and peri-urban community members.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL http://southasia.iclei.org/newsdetails/article/ecosystem-services-and-poverty-alleviation-in-urbanis...
 
Description Exhibition hosted at the Living Lightly Festival 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Seeing pastoralism exhibition was hosted at the Living Lightly Festival for a few days in Bhuj. No known impact.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Exhibition: 'Hidden Paths' 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact ONCA Gallery
14 St George's Place, Brighton, BN1 4GB, UK
12.00 - 18.00 daily
16-20 October 2019
Free entry, donations to gallery welcome

Global climate strikes are calling for 'system change, not climate change', but what does this mean? Extreme weather, automation, political instability, inequality: these crises are connected in deep and often invisible ways.
Hidden Paths welcomes us inside the troubled systems that we live in to see how they could be transformed. Through a series of artworks, this exhibition invites us to rethink our relationships with technology, nature and each other.

Visitors to Hidden Paths will navigate through 3 layers: Now, Change and Possible. From a sonic waterfall to sculptures, recipes, film and video, and an immersive VR experience, the artworks explore how we imagine the future, transformations in time, money and work, glimpses of new urban spaces, community ownership and the commons, and changed relationships to nature.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Exhibition: Seeing Pastoralism - Livestock and Climate Change 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Photo Exhibition
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://pastres.org/2021/12/10/photo-exhibition-pastoralism-in-an-uncertain-world/
 
Description Experimentation to Action: How Bioleft is Helping to Grow an Open Source Seed Culture 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact The seed breeding initiative Bioleft has received funding to work with more varieties of seeds in Argentina, and to develop a 'sister' initiative in Mexico.

Bioleft is an 'open source', distributed seed breeding initiative that Cenit researchers, in close collaboration with public sector plant breeders, lawyers, and farmers' organizations, have been developing in Argentina over the past two years.

The initiative emerged through our work within the STEPS Consortium's Pathways Network project, which has been experimenting with co-producing inclusive, practical solutions to key sustainability challenges.

The idea behind Bioleft is to enable a network of plant breeders and farmers to exchange, test and collaboratively improve seeds at multiple sites, and in doing so create the kernel of an alternative seed innovation system that addresses some of the many challenges posed by an oligopolistic seed sector.

We have developed three important things.

legal contracts for releasing and exchanging seeds, based an open-source principles, much like the Creative Commons licenses used by writers and artists, but which in this case enforces the continued sharing of knowledge and seed material.
a web based platform for recording transfers of seed material and, and for supporting a process of collaborative seed improvement, between plant breeders and farmers
and most importantly a community of public sector plant breeders and farming organizations who now co-own Bioleft and are keen to experiment with it.
Two new recent sources of funding mean that we can continue to develop and extend Bioleft.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description FROM DIGITAL COMMONS TO NURTURING SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS: HOW TO PRACTICE OPEN SOURCE IDEAS WITH SEEDS? 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact STEPS website blog by By Mariano Fressoli, Patrick Van Zwanenberg and Anabel Marin
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description FROM LAND GRABS TO THE ANTHROPOCENE: EXPLORING THE POLITICS OF RESOURCES 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact FROM LAND GRABS TO THE ANTHROPOCENE: EXPLORING THE POLITICS OF RESOURCES - Stories of Change
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://steps-centre.org/stories-of-change/from-land-grabs-to-the-anthropocene-exploring-the-politic...
 
Description Faced with Devastating Cyclones, How are Women in Coastal Bangladesh Building Resilience? 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Faced with Devastating Cyclones, How are Women in Coastal Bangladesh Building Resilience? - Blog
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://steps-centre.org/blog/faced-with-devastating-cyclones-how-are-women-in-coastal-bangladesh-bu...
 
Description Fears and wonders 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Fears and wonders - interview
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Film and gallery: Sharing views of pastoralism and development policy 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The blog shares a video from a meeting of the PASTRES team in Addis Ababa, together with other researchers, policymakers, NGO workers and social movement representatives, to discuss the results of the PASTRES research programme.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://pastres.org/2023/03/24/film-and-gallery-sharing-views-of-pastoralism-and-development-policy/
 
Description Fiona Flintan explains why uncertainty is a useful lens for looking at pastoralism 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Fiona Flintan, of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), explains why uncertainty is a useful lens for looking at pastoralism, and how the PASTRES project could contribute to the debate about pastoral development.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Five Lessons from Past Global Influenza Outbreaks for COVID-19 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The COVID-19 pandemic is a rare event in its scale and spread. But in responding to it, people have been looking at lessons from other outbreaks of infectious disease. What are the patterns in the ways that governments and people respond, and why have some widely-known lessons been ignored again and again?
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://steps-centre.org/blog/five-lessons-from-past-global-influenza-outbreaks-for-covid-19/
 
Description Five Problems With 'Integrated Assesment' Models, And What To Do About Them 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact This is the fourth of a short series of blogs profiling recent papers on Zimbabwe.

This post was written by Ian Scoones and first appeared on Zimbabweland. Photo credit: Ian Scoones
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Flexible accumulation in the drylands: the role of informal institutions in southern Tunisia 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact This blog provides a brief overview of the eighth chapter of our newly published book Pastoralism, Uncertainty and Development edited by Ian Scoones. This chapter reflects on the experience of young entrepreneurial pastoralists in Douiret in the drylands of Southern Tunisia, and how they are able to accumulate livestock flexibly, despite numerous uncertainties. What do dynamics of wealth accumulation through livestock look like in drylands? How do pastoralists organize relationships and resources to accumulate livestock, while living with various forms of economic and environmental uncertainties? How can pastoralism be combined with labour migration assuring livestock accumulation in an uncertain setting?
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://pastres.org/2023/08/18/flexible-accumulation-in-the-drylands-the-role-of-informal-institutio...
 
Description Flexible, hybrid land use and tenure in pastoral areas 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact This is the fifth in a series of blog posts that bring together PASTRES work from 2018-2023 around a number of themes. In this post, we explore the theme of land and resources.

To read through our archive on this theme, click on the link at the end of this post.

A core theme of PASTRES work has been exploring what forms of land use and tenure make sense given highly variable rangeland systems and the need for mobility.

Much debate about land governance focuses on whether ideal type systems of private, state, or communal tenure are the most effective. Instead, we find that hybrid land governance, with overlapping institutions operating across complex land mosaics, is the most appropriate for sustaining (at least partially) mobile forms of pastoralism.

This means the assembling of hybrid institutions, often with complex characteristics of both private, state, and communal forms, as well as maintaining 'fuzzy' and flexible boundaries between tenure types.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://pastres.org/2023/12/22/flexible-hybrid-land-use-and-tenure-in-pastoral-areas/
 
Description Food in the Time of Covid-19: How Can Local Action and National Coordination Work Together? 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact As we approach the end of week 7 of the UK government's Covid-19 social distancing measures, we have been witnessing a combination of remarkable efforts to sustain the country through this challenging time. Workers from the National Health Service (supplemented by volunteer responders) and other 'key workers' are applauded across the country on a weekly basis. Local authorities and neighbourhoods have been mobilising to look after their most vulnerable.

Blog post by Adrian Ely
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://steps-centre.org/blog/food-in-the-time-of-covid-19-how-can-local-action-and-national-coordin...
 
Description Fossil fuel disarmament 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Rapid Transition Alliance - Commentary - Fossil fuel disarmament, by Peter Newell and Andrew Simms on 7 July 2020
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.rapidtransition.org/commentaries/fossil-fuel-disarmament/
 
Description Framing uncertainty in different pastoral regions: Pastoralism & Uncertainty course, Lecture 2 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Video recording of Lecture 2 in the PASTRES online course. Uncertainty is a pervasive part of pastoral life. By looking at responses to uncertainty across pastoral regions, what principles of pastoralist practice emerge? This talk is given by Michele Nori
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yClg6WE57w
 
Description From Politics of Uncertainty to Convulsing Modernity 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact A. Stirling, From Politics of Uncertainty to Convulsing Modernity, presentation to research colloquium of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies of Science (I2SOS) at the University of Bielefeld (virtual), 22nd June 2021
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description From Qualitative vs Quantitative to 'Opening up' and 'Closing down' 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Presentation to the SPRU Methods worklshop
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description From Risk to Uncertainty: tricky issues, misleading blinkers, practical solutions 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Keynote conference presentations
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description From Transitions to Transformations, opening talk for public meeting on the Governance of Sustainable Transformations 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Keynote conference presentation
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description From ethics of quantities to politics of qualities: mitigating power-driven closures 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact A. Stirling, From ethics of quantities to politics of qualities: mitigating power-driven closures, presentation to virtual workshop on 'Ethics of Quantification, CWTS, Leiden University, 5th February 2021
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.cwts.nl/media/events/20210205/recording.mp4
 
Description From ethics of quantities to politics of qualities: mitigating power-driven closures 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact A. Stirling, From ethics of quantities to politics of qualities: mitigating power-driven closures, presentation to virtual workshop on 'Ethics of Quantification, CWTS, Leiden University, 5th February 2021
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.cwts.nl/media/events/20210205/recording.mp4
 
Description From ethics of quantities to politics of qualities: mitigating power-driven closures 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact A. Stirling, From ethics of quantities to politics of qualities: mitigating power-driven closures, presentation to virtual workshop on 'Ethics of Quantification, CWTS, Leiden University, 5th February 2021
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.cwts.nl/media/events/20210205/recording.mp4
 
Description From passive consumers to active producers - how crisis restrictions open opportunities for creative culture shifts 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Story of Change - From passive consumers to active producers - how crisis restrictions open opportunities for creative culture shifts
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.rapidtransition.org/stories/from-passive-consumers-to-active-producers-how-crisis-restri...
 
Description Future Pastoralisms - Research Priorities 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Ian Scoones gave a presentation at a formal roundtable meeting at ICIMOD for 10 people which looked at the future research pariorities for pastlraisms. Plans made for future related activity.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Future Scenarios in the context of climate change 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Conversation on the Rapid Transition Alliance in a public event with artist in residence Zoe Svensden at the Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts at Sussex University.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description GOSH ROADMAP: DEMOCRATIZING TECHNOLOGY, FROM A LATIN AMERICAN PERSPECTIVE 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Blog post by Julieta Arancio
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description GOVERNING THE LAND-WATER-ENVIRONMENT NEXUS: GRANT AWARDEES 2017-2018 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Annoucing researchers that have received grants for 2017-2018 for research under the project Governing the Land-Water-Environment Nexus in Southern Africa.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description GREEN TRANSFORMATIONS IN INDIA AND CHINA: WHO'S IN CHARGE? 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Blog post by Sam Geall, Wei Shen, Lyla Mehta and Peter Newell
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Gathering Knowledges - UMBELA Conversatorio #3 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Gathering Knowledges - UMBELA Conversatorio #3 - Blog
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://steps-centre.org/blog/gathering-knowledges-umbela-conversatorio-3/
 
Description Genome Editing in Post-Brexit Agriculture: Which Way for the UK? 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact In less than a month's time, the UK's relationship with the European Union will change dramatically. Agriculture and food will be among the biggest areas affected - from production methods and supply routes to labelling and product standards. A lot will depend on the outcomes of trade negotiations. One important issue concerns the future regulation of genetic engineering in food and agriculture.

Blog written by Angela Noland, Dominic Glover and Adrian Ely
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://steps-centre.org/blog/genome-editing-in-post-brexit-agriculture-which-way-for-the-uk/
 
Description Genome Editing, Politics and Policy: Divergence, alignment and the implications for agriculture and food 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact An online discussion as part of policy dialogue on the governance of genome-edited organisms in the European Union, the United Kingdom, and beyond to be held on Wednesday, October 21st 2020.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Genome Editing, Politics and Policy: online debate 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Video recording of Online discussion as part of policy dialogue on the governance of genome-edited organisms in the European Union, the United Kingdom, and beyond
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xM-MgBR3_u0
 
Description Getting to Grips with Uncertainty in science, technology and society 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact A. Stirling, Getting to Grips with Uncertainty in science, technology and society, presentation to the 2019 SPRU residential training course, Science, Technology and Innovation Policy for Turbulent Times, University of Sussex, 17th June 2019
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Global Consortium 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The Pathways to Sustainability Global Consortium unites five continents with one vision: to tackle the most pressing sustainability challenges facing the world now and in decades to come.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://steps-centre.org/global/
 
Description Global Picture of Industrial Interdependencies Between Civil and Military Nuclear Infrastructures 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact A. Stirling, P. Johnstone, A Global Picture of Industrial Interdependencies Between Civil and Military Nuclear Infrastructures, presentation to seminar of the Program on Science and Global Security, Princeton University (virtual), Wednesday, 31st March 2021
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Global Poverty and Rural Vitalization: Challenges and Experiences 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Zoom Event
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Going deeper with value chain analysis: understanding power relations for animal disease control in Myanmar 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Going deeper with value chain analysis: understanding power relations for animal disease control in Myanmar
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Gongbu video + IS blog 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Ian S PASTRES blog post
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Grassroots Innovation Movements - ESRC Festival of Social Science 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact Adrian Smith, Phil Jones (Wired Sussex) and I helped to organise an event that pulled together start-ups, local entrepreneurs and third sector organisations to discuss how innovation could adopt different approaches to the traditional, financialised 'Silicon Valley' model.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://steps-centre.org/blog/doing-digital-differently-four-innovation-lessons-from-the-grassroots/
 
Description Greening cities: the role of urban pastoralism in Romania 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Greening cities: the role of urban pastoralism in Romania - blog
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Grounding nexus governance: de-nexused developments in Nepal 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Water Energy NExus Conference, presentation as part of session on Nexus framework and governance
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Guest-edited blog series: Authoritarianism, populism and political ecology, hosted on ENTITLE Blog 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact This series of four blogs by different contributors built on lessons from the 2018 Emancipatory Rural Politics Initiative and explored linkages with theory and practice in political ecology.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://entitleblog.org/2018/11/29/authoritarianism-populism-and-political-ecology/
 
Description HARDWARE Y SOFTWARE DE CÓDIGO ABIERTO PARA CAMBIAR EL MUNDO 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Blog post in Spanish by By Julieta Arancio
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description HEADLESS POPULISM AND THE POLITICAL ECOLOGY OF ALIENATION 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact STEPS website blog post on populism
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description HLPF 2019: Why Inclusion and Power Matter for Sustainability 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact On 9-18 July the UN's High-Level Political Forum meets to discuss progress on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This meeting takes the theme of "Empowering people and ensuring inclusiveness and equality". The theme particularly addresses goals around education, growth and employment, inequality, climate change, peace, justice and inclusion, and partnerships.

The theme is a crucial one for the SDGs. Empowerment and inclusion are more than just buzzwords. People cannot be excluded or disempowered from decision-making and action, if sustainability is to be achieved. This means paying attention to who is left out and which perspectives are marginalised. It also means a thoughtful approach to 'empowerment' which recognises the many subtle ways that power and control can be exercised - even when people appear to be 'empowered' or 'included' in decisions.

Addressing the climate, economic growth, education and justice is not straightforward. Decisions and goals will come up against powerful actors and agendas, but also complex livelihoods and environments, where many choices are possible, the ways forward are not obvious, and negotiation is required. To achieve inclusion and equality, the SDGs will need to provide a space for these political questions and for power to be challenged.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description HOW ARE THE PATHWAYS TO RESILIENCE IN PASTORALIST AREAS OF EASTERN AFRICA EVOLVING? 
Form Of Engagement Activity A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Ian Scoones on Webinar panel discussion organised by the Feinstein International Centre at Tufts University
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description HOW CAN KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS IN EAST AFRICA CONTRIBUTE TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT? 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Blog post by STEPS Africa hub
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description HOW CAN THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS BE TRANSFORMATIVE? 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Blog post by Nathan Oxley
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description HOW DO WE 'CO-PRODUCE' TRANSFORMATIVE KNOWLEDGE? 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Blog post by Andy Stirling, Adrian Ely and Fiona Marshall
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description HOW TRANSFORMATIVE ARE MOBILE PAYMENTS FOR SOLAR HOME SYSTEMS IN KENYA? 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Blog post by STEPS Africa hub
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Heating households not the planet: from China to Denmark rapid transition in heating brings warmer homes with less climate cost 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Story of Change - Heating households not the planet: from China to Denmark rapid transition in heating brings warmer homes with less climate cost
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.rapidtransition.org/stories/heating-households-not-the-planet-from-china-to-denmark-rapi...
 
Description Herders for hire 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Herders for hire
Blog, website
Michele N
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Herding in a confined Spring: Pastoralists in Jordan during the COVID-19 Pandemic 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Herding in a confined Spring: Pastoralists in Jordan during the COVID-19 Pandemic, PASTRES Blog written by Mathilde Gingembre and Anas Amarneh
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Herding through uncertainties: principles and practices 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Herding through uncertainties: principles and practices
Blog, website
Michele Nori
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Homeowners forced to pay higher energy bills to subsidise Britain's nuclear submarines, MPs told 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Government should be more transparent about cross-dependency between civilian nuclear energy and military nuclear defence, researchers say
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Household energy bills 'subsidising' Scotland's nuclear submarines 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Household energy bills 'subsidising' Scotland's nuclear submarines - news article
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description How 'sedentist' approaches to land and conservation threaten pastoralists 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact How 'sedentist' approaches to land and conservation threaten pastoralists - Ariell Ahearn, Dawn Chatty, Stefania Pondrandolfo, Matthew Porges, Cory Rodgers, Marco Solimene and Greta Semplici
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://pastres.org/2022/03/18/how-sedentist-approaches-to-land-and-conservation-threaten-pastoralis...
 
Description How Are The Pathways To Resilience In Pastoralist Areas Of Eastern Africa Evolving? 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact How Are The Pathways To Resilience In Pastoralist Areas Of Eastern Africa Evolving? - webinar
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description How Could Camel Milk Change the Fortunes of Gujarat's Pastoralists? 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact How Could Camel Milk Change the Fortunes of Gujarat's Pastoralists? - Blog
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://steps-centre.org/blog/how-could-camel-milk-change-the-fortunes-of-gujarats-pastoralists/
 
Description How Do Researchers' Roles Relate to The Methods They Work With? 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact How Do Researchers' Roles Relate to The Methods They Work With? - Duncan Edwards
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://steps-centre.org/blog/how-do-researchers-roles-relate-to-the-methods-they-work-with/
 
Description How Do We 'Decolonise' Research Methdologies? 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact This blog post is part of the STEPS Centre's 2021 theme on Methods. Researchers and the research community are increasingly asked to reflect on various research methods that can have positive outcomes and impacts on society, and challenge
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://steps-centre.org/blog/how-do-we-decolonise-research-methodologies/
 
Description How Do We Study Mangrove Ecology with Pastoralists in Kachchh? 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Blog written by Ranit Chaterjee, Pankaj Joshi, Mahendra Bhanani, Mahesh Garva and Nobuhito Ohte
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://steps-centre.org/blog/how-do-we-study-mangrove-ecology-with-pastoralists-in-kachchh/
 
Description How Have Large Investment Projects Affected People in Africa's Drylands? 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact In recent years, the gaze of global investment has been directed to Africa's land and resources. Over the past decade, global capital from Europe, the Near East, China and elsewhere poured into land-based investments in industrialised agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa alongside green energy projects, oil exploration and other large-scale infrastructural developments.

Blog written by Jeremy Lind, Doris Okenwa and Ian Scoones
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://steps-centre.org/blog/how-have-large-investment-projects-affected-people-in-africas-drylands...
 
Description How Kenya's pastoralists find resilience on the move 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact How Kenya's pastoralists find resilience on the move - blog
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description How Pastoralists in Kutch Respond to Social and Environmental Uncertainty 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The TAPESTRY project is working in three different 'patches' across India and Bangladesh, creating opportunities for interactions with communities in marginalised environments to co-produce transformative change in sustainable development. In this blog post, Lyla Mehta (IDS), Mihir Bhatt (AIDMI) and Pankaj Joshi (Sahjeevan) introduce the research that TAPESTRY is undertaking together with the Kutch camel breeder association Kutch Unt Ucherak Maldhari Sangathan (KUUMS).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://steps-centre.org/blog/how-do-pastoralists-in-kutch-respond-to-social-and-environmental-uncer...
 
Description How Politics Closes Down Uncertainty 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact This is the second in a series of blog posts on uncertainty by Andy Stirling. The first one is here and the third in the series is here.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description How Politics Closes Down Uncertainty 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact This is the second in a series of blog posts on uncertainty by Andy Stirling.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description How are Kenyan Pastoralists coping in the time of COVID-19? 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact 'How are Kenyan Pastoralists coping in the time of COVID-19?' PASTRES blog written by Rahma Hassan
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description How biodiversity conservation schemes can harm the environment 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact Blog post on conservation and ecology.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://pastres.org/2022/12/02/how-biodiversity-conservation-schemes-can-harm-the-environment/
 
Description How can NGOs feel at home with uncertainty? 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact 'How can NGOs feel at home with uncertainty?' by Irene Guijt, Head of Research and Publishing at Oxfam Great Britain
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description How can we rethink progressive transformations to sustainability? 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact In a series of three recent blog posts, Andy Stirling reflects on the governance of transformations to sustainability, and what it means for opening up spaces for politics and democracy.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description How contrasting pastoral institutions influence reliance on credit loads in Tibet, China 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact 'How contrasting pastoral institutions influence reliance on credit loads in Tibet, China', PASTRES blog written by Gongbuzeren
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description How deep is incumbency? A 'configuring fields' approach to redistributing and reorienting power in socio-material change 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact This paper examines a variety of theories bearing on 'socio-material incumbency' and explores methodological implications. The aim is to develop a systematic general approach, which builds on strengths and mitigates weaknesses in prevailing analytical frameworks. A particular priority lies in avoidance of self-acknowledged tendencies in existing theory to 'reify' central notions like 'the regime'. Such pictures may overstate the tractability of incumbency to conventional policy instruments and so inadvertently help reinforce it.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description How do changing policies affect pastoralists in Sub-Saharan Africa? 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact How do changing policies affect pastoralists in Sub-Saharan Africa?
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://pastres.org/2022/04/08/how-do-changing-policies-affect-pastoralists-in-sub-saharan-africa/
 
Description How do government policies affect pastoralists in Asia? 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact How do government policies affect pastoralists in Asia?
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://pastres.org/2022/04/15/how-do-government-policies-affect-pastoralists-in-asia/
 
Description How do land and food policies in West Asia and North Africa affect pastoralists? 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact How do land and food policies in West Asia and North Africa affect pastoralists? Michele Nori
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://pastres.org/2022/04/01/how-do-land-and-food-policies-in-west-asia-and-north-africa-affect-pa...
 
Description How do we put Pastoralists at the Centre of Food and Climate Debates? 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact How do we put Pastoralists at the Centre of Food and Climate Debates? - Blog
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://steps-centre.org/blog/how-do-we-put-pastoralists-at-the-centre-of-food-and-climate-debates/
 
Description How do we put pastoralists at the centre of food and climate debates? 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact How do we put pastoralists at the centre of food and climate debates? - blog
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description How does your city grow? Lockdown illuminates urban farming and gardening's potential 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Story of Change - How does your city grow? Lockdown illuminates urban farming and gardening's potential
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.rapidtransition.org/stories/how-does-your-city-grow-lockdown-illuminates-urban-farming-a...
 
Description How pastoralists can help us deal with the unexpected 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact How pastoralists can help us deal with the unexpected
Ian Scoones
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description How pastoralists can help us deal with the unexpected 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Blog post for PASTRES
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description How should public policy, STI actors & wider civil society interact to address the SDGs? 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact A. Stirling, How should public policy, STI actors & wider civil society interact to address the SDGs?, presentation for the project on Steering Technology, Research and Innovation for the Global Goals, London, 6th November 2019
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Human capabilities for innovation in UK makerspaces 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact By Cian O'Donovan and Adrian Smith

Makerspaces can be a source of human capabilities that benefit people and society. But these capabilities will only lead to flourishing communities if they are accompanied by structural changes to our economies, cities and environment.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Hussein video + IS blog 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Ian S PASTRES blog post
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description I exist because you exist': The moral economy of pastoralists' in response to COVID-19 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact 'I exist because you exist': The moral economy of pastoralists' in response to COVID-19' PASTRES Blog written by Tahira Shariff
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description I feel like I am in-between': Coronavirus and Tunisia's Pastoralists 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact 'I feel like I am in-between': Coronavirus and Tunisia's Pastoralists', PASTRES blog written by Linda Pappagallo
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description IAN SCOONES - CAN PASTORALISTS HELP US RESPOND TO GLOBAL UNCERTAINTIES? 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Uncertainties are everywhere: climate change, financial crises, migration flows, infrastructure development, disease outbreaks and more. Yet contemporary institutions and policy processes are poor at responding to and embracing uncertainties, where we don't know about either the likely outcomes or their probabilities. Too often political, procedural and professional pressures force us to ignore uncertainties, constructing problems and solutions in terms of manageable risk.

In this presentation, I will argue that this is highly problematic, and that we can learn much from those who live daily with uncertainty and make use of it as a productive resource.

Pastoralists - people living largely from livestock in dryland, montane and Mediterranean regions - have long experience of responding to intersecting uncertainties. Perceptions, cultures and practices; markets and economic relations; and institutional arrangements and governance systems have co-evolved with environmental, economic and political uncertainties. Can we learn from these experiences for other contexts, such as financial systems, disease outbreak response, migration policy and critical infrastructure management, where the challenges of responding to uncertainty are real, and growing? Without arguing that lessons are directly transferrable, the presentation will ask what core principles might be relevant for refashioning policies, practices and institutions in order to confront heightened uncertainties in today's world?

The presentation launches a new European Research Council Advanced Grant, involving research on pastoral systems in Chinese Tibet, East Africa and Sardinia, encouraging a conversation with those in other fields grappling with uncertainties. The ERC grant is led by the STEPS Centre at Sussex and involves collaboration with the Global Governance Programme at EUI, Florence, amongst others.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://steps-centre.org/event/can-pastoralists-help-us-respond-global-uncertainties/
 
Description IDS Bulletin: Fifty Years of Research on Pastorlaism and development 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact 'IDS Bulletin: Fifty Years of Research on Pastorlaism and development'
PASTRES blog written by Ian Scoones and Nathan Oxley
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description IDS podcast: The Politics of Green Transformations 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact In this month's edition of the Institute of Development Studies podcast, Between the Lines, IDS Director Melissa Leach, STEPS co-director Ian Scoones and Sussex professor Peter Newell discuss their co-edited book, The Politics of Green Transformations.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description IFAD and FAO commit to pastoral development 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Michele Nori PASTRES blog post
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description IN SOUTH AFRICA'S LAND REFORM, CLASS MATTERS 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Blog post by Brittany Bunce
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description IS THE NEW EUROPEAN RULING ON GM TECHNIQUES 'ANTI-SCIENCE'? 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Blog post by Andy Stirling
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description IUAES 2021 Conference; Coming of age on earth: legacies and next generation anthropology 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact IUAES 2021 Conference; Coming of age on earth: legacies and next generation anthropology - Conference
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description IUAES Presentation The Alter-Temporalities of Pastoral Mobility: The Case of the Rabari Pastoralists of Western India 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact IUAES Presentation The Alter-Temporalities of Pastoral Mobility: The Case of the Rabari Pastoralists of Western India - presentation
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Ian Scoones: 'The SDGs: A new politics of transformation?' (Sussex Development Lectures) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) potentially offer an inclusive, integrated approach to development, centred on social justice, for all of humanity. But how are they being implemented in practice? Too often a piece-meal, sectoral approach is adopted, rooted in modernist assumptions of linear transition and control. Drawing on the work of the ESRC STEPS Centre, this talk will offer a more radical vision of transformatory change, putting power and politics centre-stage. The talk will link the STEPS pathways approach with sustainable livelihoods perspectives to suggest a framework for thinking about and acting on transformations to sustainability for the SDGs. Drawing on examples from Argentina, Kenya, the UK and Zimbabwe, and differentiating structural, systemic and enabling perspectives on transformation, the talk will emphasise the need to foster a new politics for sustainability.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Imaginations of control 
Form Of Engagement Activity A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact I. Rieser, A. Stirling, Imaginations of control, podcast for Forest of Thought Podcast, 23rd April 2021
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://forestofthought.com/e11-imaginations-of-control-andy-stirling/
 
Description Imagining Transformations to Sustainability in Energy, Agriculture and Cities 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Keynote conference presentations
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Imagining urban transformation in Kenya 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact R. Cairns, J. Onyango, A. Stirling, P. Johnstone, Imagining urban transformation in Kenya, presentation to virtual workshop of the GOST Project on 'Governance of socio-technical transformation towards smart cities', Leipzig, 5th November 2021
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Implementing the Pathways Approach in Practice, symposium of Kuwaiti, research and innovation scholars 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact A. Stirling, Implementing the Pathways Approach in Practice, symposium of Kuwaiti, research and innovation scholars, Jury's Inn Hotel, Brighton, 6th December 2019
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Implicit Sedentarisation: A conceptual framework for identifying 'sedentist biases' in contemporary development policies affecting mobile peoples 
Form Of Engagement Activity A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Implicit Sedentarisation: A conceptual framework for identifying 'sedentist biases' in contemporary development policies affecting mobile peoples
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/rai2021/paper/62445
 
Description Improving Africa's Knowledge Systems: Six Lessons from COVID-19 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The Covid-19 situation is unprecedented and is reshaping various aspects of society, including the way we produce knowledge, share it and use it. In this blog post, Joanes Atela and Nora Ndege of the Africa Sustainability Hub reflect on lessons from diverse experiences across the African continent.

Blog written by Joanes Atela
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Incertitude and Power: in understanding and enacting pathways 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact A. Stirling, Knowledge, Incertitude and Power: in understanding and enacting pathways, workshop presentation for STEPS Centre Summer School, 11th May 2021
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description India's new citizenship act threatens the country's constitution 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Rural support for authoritarian populism is strong - but another way is possible

A version of this post first appeared on the Institute of Development Studies website.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Individual behaviour and system change: how are they connected? 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Rapid Transition Alliance - Resource - Individual behaviour and system change: how are they connected?
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.rapidtransition.org/resources/individual-behaviour-and-system-change-how-they-are-connec...
 
Description Infrastructures of the Imagination: Uncertainty and the Politics of Prefiguration 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact This is one of a series of blog posts by participants following the STEPS symposium The Politics of Uncertainty: Practical Challenges for Transformative Action.

Martin Mahony is Lecturer in Human Geography, School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia.

Silke Beck is Deputy Head of the Department of Environmental Politics at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Insight into the "non-nuclear" myth (2): Nuclear-military structural link, allowing some countries to "keep nuclear power" 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Insight into the "non-nuclear" myth (2): Nuclear-military structural link, allowing some countries to "keep nuclear power" - news article
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Insight into the "non-nuclear" myth (3): Face up to the political nature of nuclear energy technology and make the energy debate "adult" 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Insight into the "non-nuclear" myth (3): Face up to the political nature of nuclear energy technology and make the energy debate "adult" - news article
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Institutional Flexibility: A Pastoral resource for living with socio-ecological uncertainty 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact 'Institutional Flexibility: A Pastoral resource for living with socio-ecological uncertainty', PASTRES blog written by Francesco Staro
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Institutional Hybridity in Pastoral Land Governance in Amdo Tibet 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Institutional Hybridity in Pastoral Land Governance in Amdo Tibet
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Institutional innovation for resource management on the Tibetan plateau 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Ian S PASTRES blog post
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Interdisciplinary workshop, 'The Micropolitics of green extraction in southern Madagascar' Liege, Belgium 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Amber Huff and Yvonne Orengo presented a talk entitled 'The Micropolitics of green extraction in southern Madagascar' at the international workshop, 'The Micropolitics of Mining Capitalism' convened my members of the ERC supported WorkInMining project in Liege, Belgium. The talk generated lively debate among audience members, who included interdisciplinary scholars and professional development practitioners.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Int