Publications
All our publications are listed here, from books and Working Papers to shorter briefings and journal articles.
Because we want to make our work as accessible as possible, our publications are published under a Creative Commons licence and many can be downloaded for free in pdf format.
You can also order publications via the IDS bookshop, by email or by phone (+ 44 (0)1273 678269). If you can’t find what you want, please email steps-centre@ids.ac.uk.
Latest resources
Latest Working Paper: CLTS
The Dynamics and Sustainability of Community-led Total Sanitation (CLTS):
Mapping Challenges and Pathways (pdf 572kb)
Published August 2010
Book series: available to order
The first four titles in our Pathways to Sustainability series are available to order on the Earthscan website:
- Dynamic Sustainabilities – Technology, Environment, Social Justice by Melissa Leach, Ian Scoones and Andy Stirling (April 2010)
- Avian Influenza – Science, Policy and Politics edited by Ian Scoones (April 2010)
- Rice Biofortification – Lessons for Global Science and Development by Sally Brooks (July 2010)
- Epidemics – Science, Governance and Social Justice edited by Sarah Dry and Melissa Leach (July 2010)
STEPS Centre briefings
Each Working Paper is accompanied by a short and easy-to-read companion, in the briefing section below.
Policy briefings
Our first set of policy briefings, on the southern African livestock market, are in the policy briefing section below.
STEPS Centre Working Papers
STEPS Centre Approach Paper
Pathways to Sustainability: an overview of the STEPS Centre approach (pdf 694kb)
By Melissa Leach, Ian Scoones and Andy Stirling
This paper outlines the STEPS Centre approach to understanding dynamic systems and addressing their goverance so as to promote pathways to Sustainabilty that meet the perspectives and priorities of poor and marginalised groups. It lays out the ingredients of the STEPS Centre's work, including linking diverse social and natural science perspectives, connecting theory, policy and practice and an engaged, interactive approach to communications.
- Order a copy from the IDS bookshop, cost £5.00 per paper or order set of the first seven STEPS titles for £20.00
- Read a summary of this paper
- Read the briefing of this paper (pdf 218kb)
STEPS Working Paper 1: Dynamics
Dynamic Systems and the Challenge of Sustainability (pdf 861kb)
Ian Scoones, Melissa Leach, Adrian Smith, Sigrid Stagl, Andy Stirling, John Thompson
Dynamism, uncertainty and complexity dominate today’s world. Yet many policy interventions ignore this, and so often fail. What is missing is a rigorous and systematic approach to addressing dynamics, one that encompasses an understanding of complex system dynamics and provides a useable guide to action.
- Order paper from the IDS bookshop, cost £5.00
- Read a summary of this paper
- Read the briefing for this paper (pdf 320kb)
STEPS Working Paper 2: Governance
Understanding Governance: pathways to sustainability (pdf 519kb)
Melisa Leach, Gerald Bloom, Adrian Ely, Paul Nightingale, Ian Scoones, Esha Shah,
Adrian Smith
The challenges of understanding the governance of dynamic social, technological and environmental systems, and thier implications for sustainability and social justice, are addressed.
- Order a copy from the IDS bookshop, cost £5.00 per paper or order set of the first seven STEPS titles for £20.00
- Read a summary of this paper
- Read the briefing of this paper (pdf245kb)
STEPS Working Paper 3: Designs
Empowering Designs: steps towards more progressive social appraisal of sustainability
(pdf 2,311kb)
Andy Stirling, Melissa Leach, Lyla Mehta, Ian Scoones, Adrian Smith, Sigrid Stagl,
John Thompson
The challenges of designing new frameworks for social appraisal aimed at sustainability and social justice are reviewed by this paper.
- Order a copy from the IDS bookshop, cost £5.00 per paper or order set of the first seven STEPS titles for £20.00
- Read a short summary of this paper
STEPS Working Paper 4: Agriculture & Food
Agri-Food System Dynamics: pathways to sustainability in an era of uncertainty (pdf 759kb)
By John Thompson, Erik Millstone, Ian Scoones, Adrian Ely, Fiona Marshall, Esha Shah, Sigrid Stagl
The 'modernist' project that has come to dominate food and agricultural policy has failed to provide sustainable outcomes for many poor people in developing countries. Countering orthodox notions, this paper makes a case for a deeper understanding of diverse 'rural worlds' in an era of short-terms shocks and long-terms stresses like climate change.
- Read the briefing of this paper (pdf 273kb)
- Appendix to Working Paper 4 (pdf 51kb)
- Order a copy from the IDS bookshop, cost £5.00 per paper or order set of the first seven STEPS titles for £20.00
- Read a summary of this paper
STEPS Working Paper 5: Health
Health in a Dynamic World (pdf 334kb)
By Gerald Bloom, Jerker Edstrom, Melissa Leach, Henry Lucas, Hayley MacGregor, Hilary Standing, Linda Waldman
The world has faced a number of health major health challenges over the past few decades - HIV, pollution, chronic illness, SARS. We need national and global health systems that take into account complex interactions between ecology, technology and social organisation.
- Order a copy from the IDS bookshop, cost £5.00 per paper or order set of the first seven STEPS titles for £20.00
- Read a summary of this paper
- Read the briefing for this paper (pdf 210kb)
STEPS Working Paper 6: Water
Liquid Dynamics: challenges for sustainability in water and sanitation (pdf 566kb)
Lyla Mehta, Fiona Marshall, Synne Movik, Andy Stirling, Esha Shah, Adrian Smith,
John Thompson
Floods, droughts, 6,000 babies dying daily due to waterbounre diseases and growing sanitation problems in booming peri-urban and urban centres. No act of terrorism generates devastation on the scale of the crisis in water and sanitation. This paper demonstrates the big disconnect between global rhetoric and the everyday realities of poor and marginalised people.
- Order a copy of paper from the IDS bookshop, cost £5.00 per paper or order set of the first seven STEPS titles for £20.00
- Read a summary of this paper
- Read the briefing for this paper (pdf 243kb)
Set of seven STEPS Working Papers
Setting out the STEPS approach to our three domains and three themes, the series has an accompanying overview booklet by Melissa Leach, Ian Scoones and Andy Stirling. The set of the first seven STEPS Working Papers can be ordered from the bookshop for the special price of £20.
STEPS Working Paper 7: Herders
Time to outbreed animal science? A cattle-breeding system exploiting structural unpredictability: the WoDaaBe herders in Niger (pdf 244kb)
Saverio Krätli
- Order from the IDS bookshop, cost £5.00
STEPS Working Paper 8: Transitions
Social-ecological resilience and socio-technical transitions: critical issues for sustainability governance (pdf 763kb)
Adrian Smith and Andy Stirling
- Only available online
- Need help with downloading? See our help page
STEPS Working Paper 9: Epidemics
Epidemics for all? Governing Health in a Global Age (pdf 513kb)
By Sarah Dry
- Only available online
- Need help with downloading? See our help page
- Read the briefing of this paper (pdf)
STEPS Working Paper 10: Avian Flu
The International Response to Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza: Science, Policy and Politics (pdf 2MB)
By Ian Scoones and Paul Forster
- Order a copy from the IDS bookshop, cost £5.00
- Read a briefing on this paper (pdf)
STEPS Working Paper 11: GM Crops
Made by Monsanto: the Corporate Shaping of GM Crops as a Technology for the Poor (pdf 447kb)
By Dominic Glover
- Order a copy from the IDS bookshop cost £5.00
- Read the briefing for this paper (pdf)
STEPS Working Paper 12: Regulation
Rethinking regulation: International Harmonisation and Local Realities (pdf 607kb)
By Patrick van Zwanenberg, Adrian Ely and Adrian Smith
- Order a copy of paper from the IDS bookshop cost £5.00
STEPS Working Paper 13: Resilience
Re-framing Resilience: Trans-disciplinarity, Reflexivity and Progressive Sustainability – a Symposium Report (pdf 496kb)
Edited by Melissa Leach
- Only available online
- Need help with downloading? See our help page
- Read the briefing for this paper
STEPS Working Paper 14: Ebola
Haemorrhagic Fevers in Africa: Narratives, Politics and Pathways of Disease and
Response (pdf 480kb)
By Melissa Leach
- Only available online
- Need help with downloading? See our help page
STEPS Working Paper 15 - Bt Cotton
Undying Promise: Agricultural Biotechnology's Pro-poor Narrative, Ten Years On (pdf 904kb)
by Dominic Glover
- Read the briefing for this paper
STEPS Working Paper 16 - Cambodia
Cambodia’s Victim Zero: Global and National Responses to Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (pdf 2MB)
By
Sophal Ear
STEPS Working Paper 17 - Indonesia
The Political Economy of Avian Influenza in Indonesia by Paul Forster (pdf 1MB)
by Paul Forster
STEPS Working Paper 18 - Thailand
The Political Economy of Avian Influenza in Thailand (pdf 834kb)
by Rachel M. Safman
STEPS Working Paper 19 - Vietnam
The Political Economy of Avian Influenza Response and Control in Vietnam (pdf 775kb)
by Tuong Vu
STEPS Working Paper 20 - Vaccines
Knowledge Accumulation and the Development of Poliomyelitis Vaccines (pdf 515kb)
by Ohid Yaqub
ISBN: 978 1 85864 766 5
- Read the briefing for this paper
STEPS Working Paper 21 - Reform
The Dynamics and Discourses of Water Allocation Reform in South Africa (pdf 1,867kb)
by Synne Movik
ISBN: 978 15684 775 5
- Read the briefing of this paper
Working Papers 22-34 and 37 (below) were written as background papers for Innovation, Sustainability, Development: A New Manifesto. This set of papers are available online only and are free to download
Need help with downloading? See our help page
STEPS Working Paper 22 - Redistribution
The Global Redistribution of Innovation: Lessons from China and India
by Adrian Ely and Ian Scoones
ISBN: 978 1 85864 779 7
STEPS Working Paper 23 - Capacity
Centres of Excellence? Questions of Capacity for Innovation, Sustainability, Development
By Melissa Leach and Linda Waldman
ISBN: 978 1 85864 780 0
STEPS Working Paper 24 - Philanthropy
Silver Bullets, Grand Challenges and the New Philanthropy
Sally Brooks, Melissa Leach, Henry Lucas and Erik Millstone
ISBN: 978 1 85864 781 9
STEPS Working Paper 25 - UN debates
Manifesting Utopia: History and Philosophy of UN Debates on Science and Technology for Sustainable Development
by Esha Shah
ISBN: 978 1 85864 782 7
STEPS Working Paper 26 - Agriculture
Reforming the Global Food and Agriculture System: Towards a Questioning Agenda for the New Manifesto
by Erik MIllstone, John Thompson and Sally Brooks
ISBN: 978 1 85864 783 5
STEPS Working Paper 27 - Retrospective
The Original ‘Sussex Manifesto’: Its Past and Future Relevance
by Adrian Ely and Martin Bell
ISBN: 978 1 85864 786 X
STEPS Working Paper 28 - Health
Science and Technology for Health: Towards Universal Access in a Changing World
by Gerald Bloom
ISBN: 978 1 85864 787 8
STEPS Working Paper 29 - Water
Going with the Flow? Directions of Innovation in the Water and Sanitation Domain
by Synne Movik and Lyla Mehta
ISBN: 978 1 85864 788 6
STEPS Working Paper 30 - Foresight
Emerging Technologies and Opportunities for International Science and Technology Foresight
by Patirck Van Zwanenberg, Adrian Ely, and Andy Stirling
ISBN: 978 1 85864 789 4
STEPS Working Paper 31- Energy
Low Carbon Development: The Role of Local Innovative Capabilitiesby David Ockwell, Adrian Ely, Alexandra Mallett, Oliver Johnson and Jim Watson
ISBN: 978 1 85864 790 8
STEPS Working Paper 32 - 3Ds
Direction, Distribution and Diversity! Pluralising Progress in Innovation, Sustainability and Development
by Andy Stirling
ISBN: 978 1 85864 791 6
STEPS Working Paper 33 - Capabilities
Innovation Capabilities and Directions of Development
by Martin Bell
ISBN: 978 1 85864 792 4
STEPS Working Paper 34 - Policy tools (not yet published)
Innovation Statistics and Innovation System Models: Policy Tools and Policy-making in Developing Countries
by Martin Bell
978 1 85864 793 2
STEPS Working Paper 37 - R&D Data
Trends in the Global Distribution of R&D since the 1970s: Data, their Interpretation and Limitations (pdf 835kb)
by Elisa Arond and Martin Bell
ISBN: 978 1 85864 928 5
STEPS Working Paper 35 - Peri-Urban
On the Edge of Sustainability: Perspectives on Peri-urban
Dynamics (pdf 640kb)
by Fiona Marshall, Linda Waldman, Hayley MacGregor, Lyla Mehta and Pritpal Randhawa
ISBN: 978 1 85864 794 0
- Printed copies of this paper can be ordered from the IDS bookshop cost £5.00
STEPS Working Paper 36 - Maize
Environmental Change and Maize Innovation in Kenya:
Exploring Pathways In and Out of Maize (pdf 817kb)
by Sally Brooks, John Thompson, Hannington Odame, Betty Kibaara, Serah Nderitu, Francis Karin and Erik Millstone
ISBN: 978 1 85864 903 X
- Briefings on the second phase of this project are also available
STEPS Working Paper 37 - CLTS
The Dynamics and Sustainability of Community-led Total Sanitation (CLTS):
Mapping Challenges and Pathways (pdf 572kb)
by Synne Movik and Lyla Mehta
ISBN: 978 1 85864 905 6
STEPS Centre briefings
These short briefings (around 800 words) explain the key points of each working paper, illustrated with real-life examples. The number of each one corresponds to the Working Paper number in the list above.
1: Dynamic systems and development challenges (pdf 320kb)
2: Governance and pathways to Sustainability (pdf 345kb)
4: Agri-food System Dynamics for Sustainability (pdf 273kb)
5: Health in a Dynamic World (pdf 210kb)
6: Liquid Dynamics: Challenges for Sustainability in water and sanitation (pdf 243kb)
7: Pathways to Sustainability: the STEPS Centre approach (pdf 218kb)
9: Epidemics for all? Governing health in a global age (pdf 222kb)
10: One World, One Health? Learning from the International Response to Avian Influenza (pdf 214kb)
11: GM Crops - a 'pro-poor' technology? (pdf 230kb)
13: Reframing Resilience (pdf 206kb)
15: Transgenic cotton: a 'pro-poor' success (pdf 246kb)
20: Test, test and test again: accumulating knowledge for vaccine development (pdf 220kb)
21: Reforming water rights: dynamics, discourses and risks (pdf 240kb)
STEPS briefings on maize: Environmental Change and Maize Innovation Pathways in Kenya
A series of briefings to accompany the paper Environmental Change and Maize Innovation in Kenya:
Exploring Pathways In and Out of Maize (pdf 817kb).
By John Thompson, Sally Brooks, Molly Morgan, Erik Millstone, Hannington Odame, Francis Karin and Andrew Adwera.
- 1: Environmental Change and Maize Innovation Pathways in Kenya: Seeking Resilience through Diversity (pdf 100kb)
- 2: The STEPS Pathways Approach (pdf 70kb)
- 3: MCM Maize Project Method (150kb)
- 4: Maize Security does not equal Food Security? Breaking the ‘Lock in’ to the Dominant Maize Pathway (340kb)
- 5: Orphans or Siblings? Opportunities and Constraints in Alternative Dryland Staple Crops (pdf 460kb)
- 6: Living in Parallel Worlds? Bridging Formal and Informal Seed Systems (230kb)
- 7: Getting the Value Without the High Risk? The Rise of Horticulture in Sakai (336kb)
Policy briefings / Briefings Politique
SADC region
Challenges for the beef industry in southern Africa (pdf 786kb)
BRIEFING POLITIQUE: Les défis de l’industrie bovine en Afrique australe (pdf 803kb)
The full set of policy briefings from this project, Veterinary Science, Transboundary Animal Disease and Market Access
Books
Pathways to Sustainability book series
The first four titles in our 13-strong Pathways to Sustainability series are available to order on the Earthscan website.
> Dynamic Sustainabilities – Technology, Environment, Social Justice by Melissa Leach, Ian Scoones and Andy Stirling
> Avian Influenza – Science, Policy and Politics edited by Ian Scoones
> Epidemics – Science, Governance and Social Justice edited by Sarah Dry and Melissa Leach
> Rice Biofortification – Lessons for Global Science and Development by Sally Brooks
Available to order, 20% off List Price, from the Earthscan website
Vaccine Anxieties: Global Science, Child Health and Society
By Melissa Leach and James Fairhead (2007)
Vaccine Anxieties explores how parents understand and engage with childhood vaccination in contrasting global contexts. This rapidly advancing and universal technology has sparked dramatic controversy, whether over MMR in the UK or oral polio vaccines in Nigeria.
Buy online at the special 10% off price of £17.99
Community-based Natural Resource Management in South Asia
NGOs today, as part of civil society, have come to play a prominent role in South Asia in the context of community-based natural resource management (CBNRM). This book examines the theory and practice of NGO-driven CBNRM within the framework of emerging critiques of dominant discourses of development, the micro-politics of decentralisation and the projection of community development.Co-authored by STEPS member Esha Shah. Buy online £18.99
Journal articles by STEPS members
Foot and Mouth Disease and Market Access: Challenges for the Beef Industry in Southern Africa (pdf 128kb) by Ian Scoones, Alec Bishi, Neo Mapitse, Rebone Moerane, Mary Louise Penrith, Ronny Sibanda, Gavin Thomson and William Wolmer, in Pastoralism Vol. 1 No.2, July 2010
Addressing the Dynamics of Agri-Food Systems (pdf 377kb) by John Thompson and Ian Scoones, in Environmental Science and Policy, June 2009
Biosecurity, bioterrorism and the governance of science:
The increasing convergence of science and security policy (pdf 344kb) by Caitrıona McLeish and Paul Nightingale. October 2007
Sustainability, by Ian Scoones in Development In Practice. August 2007
Grassroots innovations for sustainable development: Towards a new research and policy agenda, by Adrian Smith and Gill Seyfang
in Environmental Politics. 01 August 2007
Translating Sustainabilities between Green Niches and
Socio-Technical Regimes by Adrian Smith in
Technology Analysis & Strategic Management. 01 July 2007
Managing complex adaptive systems - A co-evolutionary
perspective on natural resource management by Christian Rammel, Sigrid Stagl, Harald Wilfing in
Ecological Economics, 63 (2007) 9-2, April 2007
Theoretical foundations of learning processes for sustainable development by Sigrid Stagl in International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ecology 14 (2007) 1–11, February 2007
The governance of sustainable socio-technical transitions.(pdf 318kb) by Adrian Smith, Andy Stirling and Frans Berkhout in Research Policy Volume 34, Issue 10, December 2005
The Alternative Technology Movement: An Analysis of its
Framing and Negotiation of Technology Development (pdf 164kb)
by Adrian Smith in Human Ecology Review, Vol. 12, No. 2, 2005
Publications by topic
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