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Les Levidow is affiliated with The Open University in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the field of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with specific focus areas including Plant Science, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Sociology and Political Science, Business and International Management, and Global and Planetary Change.

Their scholarly output covers a range of interdisciplinary topics related to agriculture, sustainability, and socio-environmental innovation. Key topics addressed in their work include Organic Food and Agriculture, Agriculture, Land Use, and Rural Development, Innovation and Socioeconomic Development, Bioeconomy and Sustainability Development, Sustainability and Climate Change Governance, Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy, and Municipal Solid Waste Management.

Les Levidow has contributed to several journals and publication venues. Frequent venues for their work include Science as Culture, Faculty of 1000 Research Ltd, Social Studies of Science, Capitalism Nature Socialism, and Tapuya Latin American Science Technology and Society.

Notable recent papers authored by Les Levidow include:

  • Sociotechnical imaginaries of low-carbon waste-energy futures: UK techno-market fixes displacing public accountability, 2020, Social Studies of Science
  • Agroecological innovation constructing socionatural order for social transformation: two case studies in Brazil, 2021, Tapuya Latin American Science Technology and Society
  • Green New Deals: What Shapes Green and Deal?, 2022, Capitalism Nature Socialism
  • EcoSol-agroecology networks respond to the Covid-19 crisis: building an economy of proximity in Brazil's Baixada Santista region, 2022, The Journal of Peasant Studies
  • Territorialising Local Food Systems for an Agroecological Transition in Latin America, 2023, Land

Their collaborative work frequently involves co-authors including Davis Gruber Sansolo, Mônica Schiavinatto, Sujatha Raman, Andrea Berardi, and Julia Jung.

In addition to articles, Les Levidow has published books, notably "Beyond Climate Fixes" in 2023 through Bristol University Press eBooks and Policy Press, with multiple editions distributed by these publishers.

Best Publications

  • Improving water-efficient irrigation: Prospects and difficulties of innovative practices

    Les Levidow;Daniele Zaccaria;Rodrigo Maia;Eduardo Vivas

  • The rise of flex crops and commodities: implications for research

    Saturnino M. Borras;Jennifer C. Franco;S. Ryan Isakson;Les Levidow

  • Agroecological Research: Conforming—or Transforming the Dominant Agro-Food Regime?

    Les Levidow;Michel Pimbert;Gaëtan Vanloqueren

  • The bio-economy concept and knowledge base in a public goods and farmer perspective

    Otto Schmidt;Susanne Padel;Les Levidow

  • Assumptions in the European Union biofuels policy: frictions with experiences in Germany, Brazil and Mozambique

    Jennifer Franco;Les Levidow;David Fig;Lucia Goldfarb

  • Sustainable Capital? The Neoliberalization of Nature and Knowledge in the European “Knowledge-based Bio-economy”

    Kean Birch;Les Levidow;Theo Papaioannou

  • Science and governance in Europe: Lessons from the case of agricultural biotechnology

    Les Levidow;Claire Marris

  • Divergent paradigms of European agro-food innovation: the Knowledge-Based Bio-Economy (KBBE) as an R&D agenda

    Les Levidow;Kean Birch;Theo Papaioannou

  • EU agri-innovation policy: two contending visions of the bio-economy

    Les Levidow;Kean Birch;Theo Papaioannou

  • Precautionary Uncertainty Regulating GM Crops in Europe

    Les Levidow

  • Marketizing higher education: neoliberal strategies and counter-strategies

    Les Levidow

  • Genetically modified crops in the European Union: regulatory conflicts as precautionary opportunities

    Les Levidow;Susan Carr;David Wield

  • Recasting “Substantial Equivalence”:Transatlantic Governance of GM Food:

    Les Levidow;Joseph Murphy;Susan Carr

  • European transitions towards a corporate-environmental food regime: Agroecological incorporation or contestation?

    Les Levidow

  • State imaginaries of the public good: shaping UK innovation priorities for bioenergy.

    Les Levidow;Theo Papaioannou

  • Process eco-innovation: assessing meso-level eco-efficiency in industrial water-service systems

    Les Levidow;Palle Lindgaard-Jørgensen;Åsa Nilsson;Sara Alongi Skenhall

  • EU criteria for sustainable biofuels: accounting for carbon, depoliticising plunder

    Les Levidow

  • European Union regulation of agri-biotechnology: precautionary links between science, expertise and policy

    Les Levidow;Susan Carr;David Wield

  • Coexistence or contradiction? GM crops versus alternative agricultures in Europe

    Les Levidow;Karin Boschert

  • Regulating agricultural biotechnology in Europe: harmonisation difficulties, opportunities, dilemmas

    Les Levidow;Susan Carr;David Wield;René von Schomberg

  • Democratizing technology—or technologizing democracy? Regulating agricultural biotechnology in Europe

    Les Levidow

Frequent Co-Authors

Saturnino M. Borras
Saturnino M. Borras Erasmus University Rotterdam
Tim Forsyth
Tim Forsyth London School of Economics and Political Science
Maarten Hajer
Maarten Hajer Utrecht University

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