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The ESRC STEPS Centre focuses on connecting environmental sustainability with poverty reduction and social justice. It challenges traditional sectoral and disciplinary approaches by exploring interactions across health, agriculture, and water domains. The Centre emphasizes building pathways involving marginalized communities in sustainable responses aligned with their goals. Topics include governance, science, and policy related to health epidemics and the dynamics of disease emergence, particularly in Africa and Asia. For more insights, visit www.steps-centre.org.
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The ESRC STEPS Centre Social Technologicaland Environmental Pathways to Sustainability
STEPS challenges • Linking environmental sustainability with poverty reduction and social justice • Making science and technology work for the poor • Across 3 domains: Health, Agriculture and Water Challenging Conventional approaches of separate sectors and disciplinary silos www.steps-centre.org
From singular solutions towards multiple pathways • Understanding dynamic patterns & pathways of change • Addressing governance - politics and institutions • Building Pathways to Sustainability - involving poorer and marginalised people in responses that contribute to their goals www.steps-centre.org
Epidemics and policy • Epidemics: Science, Governance and Social Justice • Avian Influenza: Science, Policy and Politics
Projects: environment / health Dynamic drivers of disease in Africa: interactions of livestock/wildlife, poverty and environmental change From bats to humans: The social, ecological & biological dynamics of pathogen spillover The intensification of livestock production and its impact on zoonotic disease risk in Asia
Asbestos Disease • The Politics of Asbestos: Understandings of Risk, Disease and Protest
Research on access, affordability and quality of health services for poor people • Health systems and the knowledge economy • Changes in Information & Communications Technology (ICT) and health • Public / private provision of drugs and services • Chronic illness www.futurehealthsystems.org
Talk to us! www.steps-centre.org @ stepscentre H.MacGregor@ids.ac.uk