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

  • Social Sciences

    • Food
    • Governance
    • Transformation
    • Sustainability
    • Learning
    • Process
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

    • Japan
    • Ecodevelopment

Organisations

As part of the cross-cutting TPS Rurban Futures Collective 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

2024

Charting the course for the next decade of sustainability research and innovation (2024)Global Sustainability, 7. Article e46. Sioen, G. B., McGreevy, S., Ungvari, J., Attig-Bahar, F. & Juhola, S.https://doi.org/10.1017/sus.2024.41Through Forks to Fields: Backcasting Workshops in Japan for Designing Sustainable Local Food Systems (2024)In Paul B. Thompson's Philosophy of Agriculture: Fields, Farmers, Forks, and Food (pp. 33-51). Springer Nature. Ota, K., McGreevy, S., Taniguchi, Y., Akitsu, M. & Kumagai, H.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37484-5_3

2023

Ten new insights in climate science 2023 (2023)Global Sustainability, 7, 1-58. Article e19. 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.https://doi.org/10.1017/sus.2023.25Transforming a Problem-based learning course into a Challenge-based learning course: UT M-EEM “Challenge-based Sustainability Case projects” (2023)[Book/Report › Report]. University of Twente. Aukes, E. J., Franco-Garcia, L., Lulofs, K. R. D., McGreevy, S., Özerol, G. & Sanderink, L.Book Review: HARVESTING STATE SUPPORT: Institutional Change and Local Agency in Japanese Agriculture | By Hanno Jentzsch (2023)Pacific Affairs, 95(4). McGreevy, S.https://pacificaffairs.ubc.ca/book-reviews/harvesting-state-support-institutional-change-and-local-agency-in-japanese-agriculture-by-hanno-jentzsch/Defining edible landscapes: a multilingual systematic review (2023)[Working paper › Preprint]. SocArxiv . Rupprecht, C., Gaertner, N., Cui, L., Sardesphande, M., McGreevy, S. & Spiegelberg, M.https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/64uvj

2022

Benefits of local food system survey experience for participants and stakeholders: A case study of Akita, Japan (2022)Frontiers in Sustainability, 3. Article 1060139. Ota, K., Taniguchi, Y. & McGreevy, S.https://doi.org/10.3389/frsus.2022.1060139From locked-down to locked-in? COVID-induced social practice change across four consumption domains (2022)Sustainability: Science, Practice, and Policy, 18(1), 796-821. Zollet, S., Siedle, J., Bodenheimer, M., McGreevy, S., Boules, C., Brauer, C., Rahman, M. H., Rupprecht, C. D. D. & Schuler, J.https://doi.org/10.1080/15487733.2022.2127294Not just playing: The politics of designing games for impact on anticipatory climate governance (2022)Geoforum, 137, 213-221. 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.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2022.03.009Sustainable agrifood systems for a post-growth world (2022)Nature Sustainability, 5, 1011-1017. 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.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-022-00933-5

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Affiliated study programs

Courses academic year 2024/2025

Courses in the current academic year are added at the moment they are finalised in the Osiris system. Therefore it is possible that the list is not yet complete for the whole academic year.

Courses academic year 2023/2024

Projects I am a part of:

  • Rurban Ateliers: Co-imagining alternative futures, socio-spatial relationships, and policy actions for just sustainability transformations; co-lead with Corelia Baibarac-Duignan (BMS Starter grant) (2024-2030)
  • COMBINED: Combatting biodiversity loss and improving climate change resilience through evidence-based, integrated, and adaptive landscape governance in the Netherlands; sub-WP lead (NWA Climate and Nature) (2024-2030)

Projects funded through the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Sciences- KAKEN system.

Finished projects

In the press

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

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University of Twente

Ravelijn (building no. 10), room 1129
Hallenweg 17
7522 NH Enschede
Netherlands

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