dr. S.R. McGreevy (Steven)

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.

Earth & Environmental Sciences

# Agrarian Change
# Food
# Food Policy
# Sustainability

Social Sciences

# Food
# Governance
# Japan

Business & Economics

# Local Food

Faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences (BMS), Department of Governance and Technology for Sustainability (CSTM)

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

Aukes, E. J. , Franco-Garcia, L. , Lulofs, K. R. D. , McGreevy, S. , Özerol, G. , & Sanderink, L. (2023). Transforming a Problem-based learning course into a Challenge-based learning course: UT M-EEM “Challenge-based Sustainability Case projects”. University of Twente.

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, [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

Kantamaturapoj, K. , McGreevy, S., Thongplew, N., Akitsu, M., Vervoort, J., Mangnus, A., Ota, K., Rupprecht, C., Tamura, N., Spiegelberg, M., Kobayashi, M., Pongkijvorasin, S., & Wibulpolprasert, S. (2022). Constructing practice-oriented futures for sustainable urban food policy in Bangkok. Futures, 139, [102949]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2022.102949

Vervoort, J. M., Milkoreit, M., van Beek, L., Mangnus, A. C., Farrell, D. , McGreevy, S., Ota, K., Rupprecht, C. D. D., Reed, J. B., & Huber, M. (2022). Not just playing: The politics of designing games for impact on anticipatory climate governance. Geoforum, 137, 213-221. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2022.03.009

Vervoort, J., Mangnus, A. , McGreevy, S., Ota, K., Thompson, K., Rupprecht, C., Tamura, N., Moossdorff, C., Spiegelberg, M., & Kobayashi, M. (2022). Unlocking the potential of gaming for anticipatory governance. Earth System Governance, 11, [100130]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esg.2021.100130

McGreevy, S., Tamura, N., Ruprecht, C. D. D., Ota, K., Kobayashi, M., & Spiegelberg, M. (2021). 未来を知り，遊び，実験する—ソフトシナリオ手法を通じたフードポリシーの共創—. Environmental science, 34(2), 46-65. https://doi.org/10.11353/sesj.34.46

Calo, A., McKee, A., Perrin, C., Gasselin, P. , McGreevy, S., Sippel, S. R., Desmarais, A. A., Shields, K., Baysse-Laine, A., Magnan, A., Beingessner, N., & Kobayashi, M. (2021). Achieving Food System Resilience Requires Challenging Dominant Land Property Regimes. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 5, [683544]. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2021.683544

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