in different places and from different disciplinary angles on broad questions of the
politics of green transformations. In many ways this project builds on and is shaped
by long-standing work at the intersection of the natural and social sciences taking
place at the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU), the Institute of Development
Studies (IDS), and more recently through the ESRC STEPS Centre and the Centre
for Global Political Economy (CGPE) at Sussex.
We hope the eclecticism afforded by this collaboration across disciplines,
theoretical perspectives, regional and sectoral foci, linking macro and micro across
different contexts North and South, that characterizes Sussex research on develop -
ment and environment, enriches the insights the book provides.
Finally, we would like to acknowledge the support of the ESRC STEPS Centre
in supporting the process of production and publication of this book, three
anonymous reviewers, and Naomi Vernon at IDS for her help with editing the
book.
Ian Scoones, Peter Newell and Melissa Leach
Falmer, Brighton
July 2014
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