Sustainability Research Institute: Working papers
The SRI Working Papers are an opportunity for SRI members to publish ongoing research at an early stage. The series contains a diverse range of material, from literature reviews, case studies and policy debates to analytical and theoretical pieces. All of the topics covered relate to work under the Institute's research groups: business and organisations for sustainable societies, economics and policy for sustainability, environmental change and sustainable development, and social and political dimensions of sustainability. Papers which are developed further and published elsewhere may be withdrawn.
No. 45: Unpacking livelihood challenges and opportunities in energy crop cultivation: perspectives on Jatropha curcas projects in Mali Nicola Favretto, L. C. Stringer and A. J. Dougill
No. 44: An investigation of the evidence of benefits from climate compatible development Emma L. Tompkins, Adelina Mensah, Lesley King, Tran Kim Long, Elaine T. Lawson, Craig Hutton, Viet Anh Hoang, Chris Gordon, Marianne Fish, Jen Dyer, and Nadia Bood
No. 43: The Communication of Scientific Uncertainty in European National Adaptation Strategies Susanne Lorenz, Suraje Dessai, Jouni Paavola and Piers M. Forster
No 42: Farmer participation in the Equitable Payments for Watershed Services in Morogoro, Tanzania Emmanuel J Kwayu, Susannah M Sallu and Jouni Paavola, January 2013
No 41: Contribution of forest provisioning ecosystem services to rural livelihoods in Copperbelt’s Miombo woodlands, Zambia Felix K. Kalaba, Claire H. Quinn and Andrew J. Dougill, December 2012
No 40: Carbon storage, biodiversity and species composition of Miombo woodlands in recovery trajectory after charcoal production and slash and burn agriculture in Zambia’s Copperbelt Felix K. Kalaba, Claire H. Quinn, Andrew J. Dougill, December 2012
No 39: The Challenge of Resource-Led Development in Zambia’s 'New Copperbelt'
See Van Alstine & Afionis (2013). Community Development Journal. DOI: 10.1093/cdj/bst019.
No 38: High tech farming, local food systems, food aid, or strict environmental regulation? How the American Dust Bowl can teach us to deal with drought Evan D.G. Fraser, October 2012
No 37: Characterising the nature of vulnerability to climate variability: empirical evidence from two regions of Ghana Philip Antwi-Agyei, Andrew J. Dougill, Evan D.G. Fraser, Lindsay C. Stringer, September 2012
No 36: Understanding the limits of voluntary carbon reporting and the potential of mandatory reporting Rory Sullivan, Andy Gouldson, September 2012
No. 35: Policy and institutional frameworks for the promotion of sustainable biofuels in Mali. Nicola Favretto, L.C. Stringer and A.J. Dougill, August 2012.
No. 34: The UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20): A sign of the times or 'ecology as spectacle'?
See Van Alstine et al., 2013. Environmental Politics 22 (2), pp. 333-338. DOI: 10.1080/09644016.2013.765162
No. 33: Usable science? The UK Climate Projections 2009 and Decision Support for Adaptation Planning. Samuel Tang and Suraje Dessai, June 2012.
No. 32: Spatial mapping of socio-ecological vulnerability to environmental change in Southern Africa. David J. Abson, Andrew J. Dougill and Linsay C. Stringer, June 2012.
No. 31: Skills Constraints for Low Carbon Transitions. Nicholas Jagger, Timothy J. Foxon and Andrew Gouldson, June 2012.
No. 30: How can 'Theories of the Firm' help make societies more sustainable? Rodrigo Lozano, June 2012.
No. 29: The environment as a strategic priority in the European Union - Brazil partnership: is the EU behaving as a normative power or soft imperialist? Stavros Afionis and Lindsay C. Stringer, January 2012.
No.28: Cultivating clean energy in Mali: policy analysis and livelihood impacts of Jatropha curcas. Nicola Favretto, L. C. Stringer and A. J. Dougill, January 2012.
No. 27: African farmers' perceptions of erratic rainfall. Elisabeth Simelton, Claire H. Quinn, Philip Antwi-Agyei, Nnyaladzi Batisani, Andrew J. Dougill, Jen Dyer, Evan D.G. Fraser, David Mkwambisi, Staffan Rosell, Susannah Sallu and Lindsay C. Stringer, November 2011.
No. 26: EU biofuels policy: Trade protectionism or European sustainability leadership? Stavros Afionis and Lindsay C. Stringer, September 2011.
No.25: Mapping the vulnerability of crop production to drought in Ghana using rainfall, yield and socioeconomic data.
Philip Antwi-Agyei, Evan D.G. Fraser, Andrew J. Dougill, Lindsay C. Stringer and Elisabeth Simelton, March 2011.
No. 24: Climate change: the ultimate 'tragedy of the commons',
Jouni Pavvola, March 2011.
No. 23: Proposing a Corporate Sustainability stakeholder typology.
Rodrigo Lozano, September 2010.
See Rodrigo Lozano. 2011. Addressing stakeholders and better contributing to sustainability through game theory. Journal of Corporate Citizenship. Issue 43, autumn 2011. pp45-62.
No. 22: A coevolutionary framework for analysing a transition to a sustainable low carbon economy.Timothy J Foxon, August 2010.
In Press at Journal of Ecological Economics, September 2011
No. 21: Public-Private Partnerships for Storm Risk Management in the Cayman Islands. Emma L. Tompkins and Lisa-Ann Hurlston, January 2010.
No. 20: Environment and Imperialism: Why Colonialism Still Matters. Joseph Murphy, October, 2009.
No. 19: Food security, Malthus, and the "Perfect Storm": putting current debates about agricultural productivity and climate change into an historic context. Evan Fraser, Klaus Hubacek, Elisabeth Simelton, Claire Quinn and Andrew Challinor, July 2009.
No. 18: Disaster Resilience: Fear, Friends and Foreignness as Determinants of Risk Mitigating Behaviour in Small Islands. Emma L. Tompkins, Lisa-Ann Hurlston and Wouter Poortinga, June 2009.
See Tompkins, E. L, Hurlston, L-A. and Poortinga, W. (2009) Foreignness as a constraint on learning: the impact of migrants on disaster resilience in small islands, Environmental Hazards, Vol. 8, pp. 263-277.
No. 17: Place and Exile: Imperialism, Development and Environment in Gaelic Ireland and Scotland. Joseph Murphy, June 2009.
No. 16: Evolution of Cooperative Behaviour in the Management of Mobile Ecological Resources. Julia Touza, Martin Drechsler, James C.R. Smart and Mette Termansen, April 2009.
See Touza, J. Drechsler, M. Smart, JRC, Termansen, M. (In Press) Emergence of cooperative behaviours in the management of mobile ecological resources. Environmental Modelling & Software, available online. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2012.03.015
No. 15: Economic Crises, Land Use Vulnerabilities, Climate Variability, Food Security and Population Declines: Will History Repeat Itself or Will Our Society Adapt to Climate Change? Evan Fraser, March 2009.
No. 14: Environmental violence and crises of legitimacy in New Caledonia, Leah Horowitz, July 2008.
See Horowitz, L.S. (2009) Environmental violence and crises of legitimacy in New Caledonia, Political Geography, Vol. 28, No. 4, pp. 248-258.
No. 13: Governing long-term social-ecological change: What can the adaptive management and transition management approaches learn from each other? Timothy Foxon, Mark Reed and Lindsay Stringer, June 2008.
See Foxon T., Reed M. and Stringer L. (2009) Governing long-term socio-ecological change: What can resilience and transitions approaches learn from each other? Environmental Policy and Governance, Vol.19, pp. 3-20
No. 12: Explaining Agricultural Collapse: Macro-forces, Micro-crises and the Emergence of Land Use Vulnerability in Southern Romania, Evan Fraser and Lindsay Stringer, May 2008.
See Fraser, E and Stringer, L (2009) Explaining agricultural collapse: Macro-forces, micro-crises and the emergence of land use vulnerability in southern Romania, Global Environmental Change, Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 45-53.
No. 11: Interdisciplinarity, Problem Focused Research and Normativity, Anna Wesselink, May 2008.
See Wesselink, A. (2009) The emergence of interdisciplinary knowledge in problem-focused research, Area, doi: 10.1111/j.1475-4762.2009.00882.x
No. 10: Explaining Multi-Level Environmental Governance, Jouni Paavola, April, 2008.
No. 9: Sustainability-Driven Entrepreneurship: A Literature Review, Bradley Parrish, March, 2008.
No. 8: Stakeholder Participation for Environmental Management: A Literature Review, Mark Reed, February, 2008.
See Reed, M. (2008) Stakeholder participation for environmental management: A literature review, Biological Conservation, Vol. 141, pp. 2417-2431
No. 7 : Sustainable Consumption and Responsibility: Putting Individual Sustainability in Context, Lucie Middlemiss, February, 2008.
No. 6: Stakeholder Analysis and Social Network Analysis in Natural Resource Management, Christina Prell, Klaus Hubacek and Mark Reed, August, 2007.
See Prell, C., Hubacek, K. and Reed, M. (2009) Stakeholder Analysis and Social Network Analysis in Natural Resource Management, Society & Natural Resources, Vol. 22, No. 6, pp. 501-508
No. 5: Future Generations: Economic, Legal and Institutional Aspects, Klaus Hubacek and Volker Mauerhofer, August, 2007.
See Hubacek, K. and Mauerhofer, V. (2007) Future generations: Economic, legal and institutional aspects, Futures, on-line: doi:10.1016/j.futures.2007.10.001
No. 4: Urban agriculture and poverty reduction: Evaluating how food production in cities contributes to livelihood entitlements in Malawi. David Mkwambisi, Evan Fraser and Andrew Dougill, July 2007.
See Mkwambisi, D.D., Fraser, E.D.G. and Dougill, A.J. (2011). Urban agriculture and poverty reduction: evaluating how food production in cities contributes to food security, employment and income in Malawi. Journal of International Development, 23, 181-203, on-line: dx.doi.org/10.1002/JID.1657
No. 3: Ecological Modernization and Policy Learning in Hong Kong, Andrew Gouldson, Peter Hills and Richard Welford, June, 2007
See Gouldson, A.P., Hills P. and Welford R. (2008) Ecological Modernisation and Policy Learning in Hong Kong, Geoforum, Vol 39, pp.319-330, on-line: doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2007.07.002
No. 2: Influencing Individual Sustainability: Exploring the Role of Community-Based Organisations, Lucie Middlemiss, April, 2007.
See Middlemiss, L.K. (2008) Influencing Individual Sustainability: A Review of the Evidence on the Role of Community-Based organisations, International Journal of Environment and Sustainable Development, Vol. 7, No. 2.
No. 1: Building a Sustainable Water Framework with a Human Face, Sam Wong, March 2007
See Wong, S. (2008) Humanising the World Bank’s Sustainable Water Framework with ‘Pro-Poor’ Principles of Governance, Social Alternatives, (Special issue on water governance), Vol. 27, No. 3, pp.15-20.