Research centre studying pathways to sustainability in a complex and changing world. Based at the Institute of Development Studies and SPRU, University of Sussex.
Delhi, 8 February 2010. A roundtable discussion and dinner with members of the STEPS Centre and Ashok Parthasarthi, former Scientific Advisor to late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.This roundtable was supported by UKIERI.
Film about the STEPS Centre's Sakai project, exploring how maize farmers are living with environmental change and food insecurity in Kenya. For more about our research on crops and maize, visit the STEPS Centre website .
"Brand Aid: Shopping well to save the world". STEPS Centre Seminar by Lisa Ann Richey, University of Roskilde, on 25 November 2010. For details of our seminars and other events, see http://www.steps-centre.org/events/
STEPS Water Seminar hosted at IDS, 1 November 2010. A view of the changing politics of sanitation over the last 15 years in Brazil. Speakers: Alex Shankland (Participation, Power and Social Change team, IDS) and Ken Caplan (Director, Building Partnerships for Development in Water and Sanitation). Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/Stepscentre/ids-presentation-brazil-political-economy-case-study
Full title: Perception, precaution and participation: reconciling science and society in progress of agricultural biotechnology. Presentation given at the 10th EMBO/EMBL Conference on Science & Society, Heidelberg, November 2009 on Food sustainability and plant science.
Yvan Biot from the UK Department for International Development speaks as part of a roundtable focused on sustainability policy in the build-up to the Earth Summit 2012 (Rio+20).
Andy Dobson from Keele University talks about sustainability and the social sciences at the STEPS Centre Annual Conference 2010.
David Demeritt of King's College London responds to the STEPS Centre's pathways approach and the book "Dynamic Sustainabilities" at the STEPS Centre's 2010 Annual Conference.
Camilla Toulmin from International Institute for Environment and Development speaks as part of a roundtable focused on sustainability policy in the build-up to the Earth Summit 2012 (Rio+20).
Arun Agrawal from the University of Michigan gives the keynote speech on the second day of the STEPS Centre's Annual Conference 2010 (Pathways to Sustainability: Agendas for a new politics of environment, development and social justice).
