Series: Pathways to Sustainability

Linking environmental sustainability with poverty reduction and social justice, and making science and technology work for the poor, have become central practical, political, and moral challenges of our times. These must be met in a world of rapid, interconnected change in environments, societies, and economies, and globalised, fragmented governance arrangements. Yet despite growing international attention and investment, policy attempts often...

Zoonotic diseases – pathogens transmitted from animals to people – present particularly challenging problems for global health institutions and actors, given the complex social-ecological dynamics at play. New forms of risk caused by unprecedented global connectivity and rapid social and environmental change demand new approaches. One Health highlights the need for collaboration across sectors and disciplines to tackle zoonotic diseases....

Despite decades of effort and billions of dollars spent, two thirds of people in sub-Saharan Africa still lack access to electricity, a vital precursor to economic development and poverty reduction. Ambitious international policy commitments seek to address this, but scholarship has failed to keep pace with policy ambitions, lacking both the empirical basis and the theoretical perspective to inform such...