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dr. S.R. McGreevy (Steven)

Assistant Professor

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Steven R. McGreevy is an assistant professor of institutional rurban sustainability studies in the Department of Governance and Technology for Sustainability (CSTM). He is trained as an environmental sociologist, but has a broad interdisciplinary background in sustainable development, food systems, and environmental education. His research interests include novel approaches to sustainable bioregional revitalization, sustainable agrifood transitions and post-growth food systems, relinking of patterns of food consumption and production through policy and practice, and simulation and serious gaming as a tool for sustainability education and governance.

Before coming to UT, he spent 18 years in Japan. After receiving his D.Ag from Kyoto University (2012) he worked at the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature where he proposed and led the FEAST Project. FEAST analyzed patterns of food consumption, food-related social practices and their socio-cultural meanings, and conducted food system mapping specific to national, regional, and local production, distribution, and consumption contexts. FEAST partnered with diverse stakeholders to vision plausible futures and to initiate food citizenship-oriented experiments and actions. At its conclusion, FEAST was inaugurated as a non-profit organization in 2021 and continues to conduct research to solve environmental and social problems and support transdisciplinary efforts in local sustainable food policy and education.

He is also a founding member and co-chair of the Future Earth Knowledge-Action Network on Systems of Sustainable Consumption and Production.

Expertise

Earth & Environmental Sciences
# Agrarian Change
# Food
# Food Policy
# Sustainability
Social Sciences
# Food
# Governance
# Japan
Business & Economics
# Local Food

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Research

As part of the cross-cutting TPS RUrban Innovation Platform my research interests are focused on...

  • Commons/commoning as institutional rurban forms
  • Integrated policy and governance structures that cross rurban space, resource flows, economic interaction
  • Sustainable regional economy, bioregionalism in practice and policy
  • Diverse economy and lifestyles of sustainable rurban practices
  • Visions of rurban futures

Publications

Recent
Ota, K. , McGreevy, S., Taniguchi, Y., Akitsu, M., & Kumagai, H. (2024). Through Forks to Fields: Backcasting Workshops in Japan for Designing Sustainable Local Food Systems. In S. Noll, & Z. Piso (Eds.), Paul B. Thompson's Philosophy of Agriculture: Fields, Farmers, Forks, and Food (pp. 33-51). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37484-5_3
Rupprecht, C., Gaertner, N., Cui, L., Sardesphande, M. , McGreevy, S., & Spiegelberg, M. (2023). Defining edible landscapes: a multilingual systematic review. SocArxiv . https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/64uvj
Bustamante, M., Roy, J., Ospina, D., Achakulwisut, P., Aggarwal, A., Bastos, A., Broadgate, W., Canadell, J. G., Carr, E. R., Chen, D., Cleugh, H. A., Ebi, K. L., Edwards, C., Farbotko, C., Fernández-Martínez, M., Frölicher, T. L., Fuss, S., Geden, O., Gruber, N., ... Raymond, C. (2023). Ten New Insights in Climate Science 2023/2024. Global Sustainability, 1-58. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1017/sus.2023.25
Zollet, S., Siedle, J., Bodenheimer, M. , McGreevy, S., Boules, C., Brauer, C., Rahman, M. H., Rupprecht, C. D. D., & Schuler, J. (2022). From locked-down to locked-in? COVID-induced social practice change across four consumption domains. Sustainability: Science, Practice, and Policy, 18(1), 796-821. https://doi.org/10.1080/15487733.2022.2127294
McGreevy, S., Rupprecht, C. D. D., Tamura, N., Ota, K., Kobayashi, M., & Spiegelberg, M. (2022). Learning, playing, and experimenting with critical food futures. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 6, Article 909259. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2022.909259
Hebinck, A., Vervoort, J., Mangnus, A. , & McGreevy, S. (2022). Embedding Futures in Urban Food Governance: Participatory Foresight in Eindhoven and Kyoto. In Routledge Handbook of Urban Food Governance https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003055907-34
McGreevy, S. R., Rupprecht, C. D. D., Niles, D., Wiek, A., Carolan, M., Kallis, G., Kantamaturapoj, K., Mangnus, A., Jehlička, P., Taherzadeh, O., Sahakian, M., Chabay, I., Colby, A., Vivero-Pol, J.-L., Chaudhuri, R., Spiegelberg, M., Kobayashi, M., Balázs, B., Tsuchiya, K., ... Tachikawa, M. (2022). Sustainable agrifood systems for a post-growth world. Nature Sustainability, 5, 1011-1017. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-022-00933-5

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Projects

I am currently part of two research projects funded through the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Sciences- KAKEN system.

I am also involved in two WSV Innovation Projects (BMS Teaching Academy)

  • Towards an Interactive Sustainability Minor; with a spin-off to the M-EEM
  • Crossing to Communities Minor (X2C)

Finished Projects

In the press

Sustainable food systems for a post-growth world (link)

 

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University of Twente
Faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences
Ravelijn (building no. 10), room 1129
Hallenweg 17
7522NH  Enschede
The Netherlands

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P.O. Box 217
7500 AE Enschede
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