Leach, Melissa, Scoones, Ian and Stirling, Andy (2007) Pathways
to Sustainability: an overview of the STEPS Centre approach.
Centre for Social, Technological and Environmental Pathways to
Sustainability (STEPS).Full text not available from this
repository. Who benefits from genetically-modified crops? Will
there be enough water for people to survive this century? What
are the implications of the HIV/AIDS pandemic? These are some of
the questions that the STEPS Centre is asking. This booklet
gives a quick insight in to the STEPS approach as the Centre
seeks to grapple with two of the most pressing challenges of our
times: linking environmental sustainability with poverty
reduction and social justice, and making science and technology
work for the poor. Today’s world is highly complex and dynamic,
involving interacting social, technological and ecological
processes across multiple scales, many uncertainties, and often
conflicting understandings and priorities amongst different
people. This booklet outlines an a