STEPS Centre

An @ESRC Centre studying pathways to sustainability, 2007-2022. For newer activities, visit @future_natures.

Banner illustration: Bhagwati Prasad

[REPAiR Project @Repair_News]

"Carbon matters in climate change, not as a substance in isolation..."

Saverio Krätli on two 'realities' of carbon, from our recent event on #RangelandMyths.

For more audio and other events, visit our website: https://t.co/rk5BUrrgU4

[REPAiR Project @Repair_News]

What happens to 'carbon' and climate markets when they encounter a real place?

Lawyer & researcher @meenal_tatpati describes how climate finance and carbon projects always 'land' in real places with existing dynamics, conflicts and histories.

More info: https://t.co/PrNQCor9F2

[REPAiR Project @Repair_News]

For this month of May, we're exploring myths about people, livestock and biodiversity in rangelands.

Join our event on the 28th with @PabloPastos, @KhanyariMunib, John Harold, @rashmi89singh and Francis Masse, and visit our blog to read about the myths.

https://t.co/6vEhqnrfKv

[REPAiR Project @Repair_News]

Travelling south from Antananarivo, the REPAiR project team are observing & documenting the species of grasses we find by the roadside.

Certain grasses are important for maintaining healthy livestock, and using fire and grazing patterns can help to promote new fresh growth.

[REPAiR Project @Repair_News]

Blog: Comics in Research

Tim Zocco explains how comics can open new pathways to thinking about complex questions

https://t.co/FY4aytRNBa

[Nathan Oxley @nathan_oxley]

“this is an extraordinary way to talk about people’s myriad relationships with the natures around them. Humanity, first depicted as a series of crowds, then as a single species, and then as a *weight*.”

#EarthDay https://t.co/30T4uQ9LEr

[REPAiR Project @Repair_News]

'Carbon' is ever more treated as an abstract commodity that can be traded and swapped across settings, shaping markets, offsets and programmes in rangelands.
Join us next week to discuss the myth that 'carbon is carbon' - a few places are still available!
https://t.co/sMN0vlqunp

[REPAiR Project @Repair_News]

'Myth: Carbon is carbon' https://t.co/U6eeVe9QUm

Myths and abstractions of carbon are shaping climate policy and markets in new ways: what does this mean for rangelands?

Read @Anthropogo's think piece, and join our online discussion on 23 April: https://t.co/YBAdKZmRlw

[Pastoralism & Uncertainty @PASTRES_erc]

Our latest blog looked at how social and economic services in pastoral areas can be reimagined, with evidence from the PASTRES research sites ⬇️

https://t.co/IQQhv5SYIz

[REPAiR Project @Repair_News]

The irony: conservation involving fenced-off 'hard boundaries' can lead to shrinking space for wildlife.

@TeklehaymanotG explored findings from Kenya and Tanzania at our February event on #rangelandmyths about mobility and conflict.

#IYRP2026 #pastoralism #conservation

[Future Natures @future_natures]

Happy International Women’s Day!

[REPAiR Project @Repair_News]

Do pastoralists simply need 'more markets' to thrive?
https://t.co/SOUfOZA7Uz

Read Linda Pappagallo's think-piece on our blog, and join our online discussion on 26 March as part of our engagement with @IYRP2026.

[REPAiR Project @Repair_News]

South Africa's meat industry is far from simply 'informal' or 'formal'. Policy makers should face the tangled reality to respond better to #FMD and other problems.

BLOG: Getting beyond the formal/informal divide
by Timothy Gibbs @UParisNanterre

https://t.co/QMYgM6WZ4L

[REPAiR Project @Repair_News]

Our 26 Feb discussion event on 'myths' about pastoralism & rangelands, mobility and conflict is nearly sold* out**!
https://t.co/sraFzR9gny

*tickets are free
**there will be a waiting list, and we will probably release more tickets if there is demand

#IYRP2026

[REPAiR Project @Repair_News]

This month, in our #RangelandMyths series, we examine the myth that 'Mobility drives conflict and insecurity'.

Read the think piece by Linda Pappagallo
https://t.co/wAnpGQKmVu

Join our online discussion on 26 February with @TeklehaymanotG

https://t.co/sraFzR8Iy0

[REPAiR Project @Repair_News]

How do we challenge the narrow view of 'nature' as a set of stocks and resources to be traded?

Frank Matose offers a challenge at our event on the myth of the 'Tragedy of the Commons'.

#rangelandmyths #IYRP2026 @IYRP2026

[REPAiR Project @Repair_News]

What is property? How does a narrow view of ownership & property lie behind the so-called ‘Tragedy of the Commons’? Frank Matose explains at our event on #RangelandMyths

#IYRP2026

[REPAiR Project @Repair_News]

“Most would agree that the ‘Tragedy of the Commons’ thesis is flawed, logically inconsistent, and downright dangerous…

Yet it has taken on a life of its own as an enduring master myth.” - @Anthropogo

https://t.co/lFjsGv9vER

#tragedyofthecommons #rangelandmyths #IYRP2026

[REPAiR Project @Repair_News]

Dust in heat haze. Hooves on dry ground. Red scars slice the hills.

It's a familiar scene. But the photo is an AI-generated image.

@Anthropogo and Linda Pappagallo discuss how 'rangeland myths’ shape our view of landscapes & livelihoods:
https://t.co/9Cz5nrX1Wx

#IYRP2026

[REPAiR Project @Repair_News]

Rangelands are the most common land cover on the planet, yet are often misunderstood.

Powerful stories and ‘myths’ have long shaped how rangelands & pastoralists are seen & often misjudged.

In 2026, we explore ways of seeing differently.
https://t.co/aX0hjlgoE9

#IYRP2026