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Health at IDS Resource Guides & Research Programmes. Eldis Resource Guides. The ESRC STEPS Centre. S ocial T echnological and E nvironmental P athways to S ustainability. STEPS challenges. Linking environmental sustainability with poverty reduction and social justice
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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