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Levidow, Les (2023). Beyond Climate Fixes: From Public Controversy to System Change. Bristol: Bristol University Press.

Borras, Saturnino M.; Franco, Jennifer C.; Isakson, Ryan; Levidow, Les and Vervest, Pietje (2014). Towards Understanding the Politics of Flex Crops and Commodities: Implications for Research and Policy Advocacy. Think Piece Series on Flex Crops & Commodities (1). Amsterdam: Transnational Institute.

Levidow, Les and Carr, Susan (2009). GM food on trial: Testing European democracy. Genomics & Society. New York/London: Routledge.

Murphy, Joseph and Levidow, Les (2006). Governing the Transatlantic conflict over agricultural biotechnology: contending coalitions, trade liberalisation and standard-setting. Genetics and Society. London, UK: Routledge.

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Levidow, Les (2023). “Let's move on" : Bob Young's contribution to radical science concepts and practices. In: Jacobsen, Kurt and Hinshelwood, R.D. eds. Psychoanalysis, Science and Power: Essays in Honour of Robert Maxwell Young. London: Routledge, pp. 134–141.

Levidow, Les (2020). Turning Nature into an Asset: Corporate Rent-seeking Strategies. In: Birch, Kean and Muniesa, Fabian eds. Turning Things into Assets. Cambridge, MA, USA: MIT, pp. 225–257.

Levidow, Les; Nieddu, Martino; Vivian, Franck-Dominque and Béfort, Nicolas (2019). Transitions towards a European Bioeconomy: Life Sciences versus agroecology trajectories. In: Allaire, Gilles and Daviron, Benoit eds. Ecology, Capitalism and the New Agricultural Economy: The Second Great Transformation. London: Routledge, pp. 181–203.

Levidow, Les (2018). Sustainable Intensification: Agroecological Appropriation or Contestation? In: Constance, Douglas H.; Konefal, Jason T. and Hatanaka, Maki eds. Contested Sustainability Discourses in the Agrifood System. Earthscan Food and Agriculture. London: Routledge/Earthscan, pp. 19–41.

Levidow, L. (2017). Substituting a fictional ‘science’ for public accountability: legitimacy problems of the EU’s regulatory framework for GM products. In: Escajedo San-Epifanio, L. ed. Towards a new regulatory framework for GM crops in the European Union: Scientific, ethical, social and legal issues and the challenges ahead. Wageningen Academic Publishers, pp. 155–166.

Oreszczyn, Sue; Levidow, Les and Wield, Dave (2017). Researching agro-environmental problems with others. In: Oreszczyn, Sue and Lane, Andy eds. Mapping environmental sustainability: reflecting on systemic practices for participatory research. Bristol: Policy Press, pp. 45–74.

Levidow, Les; Nieddu, Martino; Vivien, F. D and Befort, Nicolas (2017). Transition du régime agro-industriel européen vers la bioéconomie : Life Sciences versus Agroécologie. In: Allaire, Gilles and Daviron, Benoit eds. Transformations agricoles et agroalimentaires: Entre écologie et capitalisme. Synthèses. Paris: Éditions Quæ.

Levidow, Les (2015). Neoliberal origins of anti-GM protest in Europe. In: Macnaghten, Phil and Carro-Ripalda, Susana eds. Governing Agricultural Sustainability: Global Lessons from GM Crops. Pathways to Sustainability. London: Routledge, pp. 179–185.

Levidow, Les (2014). European Union policy conflicts over agbiotech: ecological modernisation perspectives and critiques. In: Smyth, Stuart J.; Phillips, Peter W. B. and Castle, David eds. Handbook on Agriculture, Biotechnology and Development. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, pp. 153–165.

Levidow, Les (2014). EU regulatory conflicts over GM food: lessons for the future. In: Thompson, Paul B. and Kaplan, David M. eds. Encyclopedia of Agricultural and Food Ethics. Dordrecht: Springer Science+Business Media.

Levidow, Les and Bonneuil, Christophe (2013). The 2003-06 WTO GMO dispute: Implications for the SPS Agreement. In: Thompson, Paul B. and Kaplan, David M. eds. Encyclopedia of Agricultural and Food Ethics. Heidelberg: Springer Reference.

Levidow, Les (2012). Contending European agendas for agricultural innovation. In: Barbier, Marc and Elzen, Boelie eds. System Innovations, Knowledge Regimes and Design Practices towards Transitions for Sustainable Agriculture. Paris, France: INRA, pp. 171–192.

Levidow, Les; Papaioannou, Theo and Birch, Kean (2012). Neoliberalising technoscience and environment: EU policy for competitive, sustainable biofuels. In: Pellizzoni, Luigi and Ylönen, Marja eds. Neoliberalism and Technoscience. Theory, Technology and Society. Farnham: Ashgate, pp. 159–186.

Levidow, Les (2012). Generating regulatory futures: From agbiotech blockages to a bioeconomy? In: Howlett, Michael and Laycock, David eds. Regulating Next Generation Agri-Food Biotechnologies: Lessons from European, North American and Asian Experiences. Genetics and Society. London, UK: Routledge, pp. 15–33.

Levidow, Les and Psarikidou, Katerina (2012). Making local food sustainable in Manchester. In: Viljoen, Andre and Wiskerke, Johannes S. C. eds. Sustainable Food Planning: Evolving Theory and Practice. Wageningen: Wageningen Academic Publishers, pp. 207–220.

Levidow, Les (2009). Making Europe unsafe for agbiotech. In: Atkinson, Paul; Glasner, Peter and Lock, Margaret eds. The Handbook of Genetics and Society: Mapping the New Genomic Era. Genetics and Society. London: Routledge.

Levidow, Les (2006). The Transatlantic Agbiotech Conflict as a Problem and Opportunity for EU Regulatory Policies. In: Falkner, Robert ed. The International Politics of Genetically Modified Food. London, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 118–137.

Levidow, Les (2005). Governing conflicts over sustainability: agricultural biotechnology in Europe. In: Higgins, Vaughan and Lawrence, Geoffrey eds. Agricultural governance: globalization and the new politics of regulation. Routledge advances in sociology. London, UK: Routledge, pp. 98–117.

Levidow, Les (2002). Marketizing higher education: neoliberal strategies and counter-strategies. In: Robins, Kevin and Webster, Frank eds. The Virtual University?: Knowledge, Markets and Management. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, pp. 227–248.

Carr, Susan; Levidow, Les and Wield, David (1998). Fausses notes dans le consert reglementaire. In: Philipan, P. and Tasteman, C. eds. Plantes transgeniques: Les graines de la discorde. Paris, France: Elsevier, pp. 129–133.

Levidow, L.; Carr, S.; Schomberg, R and Wield, D. (1996). Bounding the Risk Assessment of a Herbicide Tolerant Crop. In: van Dommelen, A. ed. Coping with Deliberate Release: The Limits of Risk Assessment. Tilberg: International Centre for Human and Public Affairs, pp. 81–102.

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Carrera, Jennifer and Levidow, Les (2025). Introduction: participatory knowledge co-production. Science as Culture, 34(1) pp. 1–12.

Levidow, Les (2024). Traditional communities mobilising musical and agri-food cultures for a decolonial resistance-conservation in the Bocaina, Brazil. MUSICultures(50) (In Press).

Levidow, Les; Berardi, Andrea and Jung, Julia (2024). How does community food growing build community bonds? Insights from grassroots visual storytelling. Local Environment, 29(1) pp. 1–20.

Levidow, Les (2023). Territorialising Local Food Systems for an Agroecological Transition in Latin America. Land, 12(8), article no. 1577.

Levidow, Les (2022). Green New Deals: What Shapes Green and Deal? Capitalism Nature Socialism (Early access).

Levidow, Les; Sansolo, Davis and Schiavinatto, Monica (2022). EcoSol-agroecology networks respond to the Covid-19 crisis: building an economy of proximity in Brazil’s Baixada Santista region. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 49(7) pp. 1409–1445.

Levidow, Les; Vacaflores, Carlos; Sansolo, Davis and Schiavinatto, Monica (2022). EcoSol-agroecología construyen circuitos cortos solidarios por proximidades societales: Experiencias en Brasil y Bolivia. Revista das ITCPs (Incubadoras Tecnológicas de Cooperativas Populares), 2(1) pp. 52–69.

Levidow, Les; Sansolo, Davis and Schiavinatto, Monica (2021). Agroecological practices as territorial development: an analytical schema from Brazilian case studies. Journal of Peasant Studies, 48(4) pp. 827–852.

Levidow, Les; Sansolo, Davis and Schiavinatto, Monica (2021). Agroecological innovation constructing socionatural order for social transformation: two case studies in Brazil. Tapuya, 4(1), article no. 1843318.

Levidow, Les and Raman, Sujatha (2020). Sociotechnical imaginaries of low-carbon waste-energy futures: UK techno-market fixes displacing public accountability. Social Studies of Science, 50(4) pp. 609–641.

Padel, Susanne; Levidow, Les and Pearce, Bruce (2020). UK farmers’ transition pathways towards agroecological farm redesign: evaluating explanatory models. Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, 44(2) pp. 139–163.

Levidow, Les and Bonneuil, Christophe (2019). Movilizando pericia contra restricciones comerciales: un caso de disputa por la regulación de los OGM en la Organización Mundial del Comercio (OMC). Revista Administración Pública y Sociedad(7) pp. 119–129.

Levidow, Les and Raman, Sujatha (2019). Metamorphosing waste as a resource: Scaling waste management by ecomodernist means. Geoforum, 98 pp. 108–122.

Levidow, Les (2018). London’s Urban Agriculture: Building Community through Social Innovation. International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food, 24(3) pp. 354–376.

Levidow, Les and Papaioannou, Theo (2018). Which inclusive innovation? Competing normative assumptions around social justice. Innovation and Development, 8(2) pp. 209–226.

Levidow, Les and Upham, Paul (2017). Linking the multi-level perspective with social representations theory: Gasifiers as a niche innovation reinforcing the energy-from-waste (EfW) regime. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 120 pp. 1–13.

Levidow, Les and Upham, Paul (2017). Innovating thermal treatment of municipal solid waste (MSW): Socio-technical change linking expectations and representations. Science and Public Policy, 44(2) pp. 211–224.

Levidow, Les and Papaioannou, Theo (2016). Policy-driven, narrative-based evidence-gathering: UK priorities for decarbonisation through biomass. Science and Public Policy, 43(1) pp. 46–61.

Levidow, Les; Lindgaard-Jørgensen, Palle; Nilsson, Åsa; Skenhall, Sara Alongi and Assimacopoulos, Dionysis (2016). Process eco-innovation: assessing meso-level eco-efficiency in industrial water-service systems. Journal of Cleaner Production, 110 pp. 54–65.

Borras, Saturnino M.; Franco, Jennifer C.; Isakson, S. Ryan; Levidow, Les and Vervest, Pietje (2016). The rise of flex crops and commodities: implications for research. Journal of Peasant Studies, 43(1) pp. 93–115.

Levidow, Les; Blind, Michiel; Lindgaard-Jørgensen, Palle; Nilsson, Åsa and Skenhall, Sara Alongi (2016). Industry eco-innovation strategies for process upgrading: systemic limits of internalising externalities. Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, 28(2) pp. 190–204.

Levidow, Les (2015). Les bioraffineries éco-efficientes. Un techno-fix pour surmonter la limitation des ressources? [Eco-efficient biorefineries: Techno-fix for resource constraints?]. Économie rurale, 349-350 pp. 31–55.

Levidow, Les (2015). European transitions towards a corporate-environmental food regime: agroecological incorporation or contestation? Journal of Rural Studies, 40 pp. 76–89.

Forsyth, Tim and Levidow, Les (2015). An ontological politics of comparative environmental analysis: the green economy and local diversity. Global Environmental Politics, 15(3) pp. 140–151.

Levidow, Les; Zaccaria, Daniele; Maia, Rodrigo; Vivas, Eduardo; Todorovic, Mladen and Scardigno, Alessandra (2014). Improving water-efficient irrigation: prospects and difficulties of innovative practices. Agricultural Water Management, 146 pp. 84–94.

Levidow, Les; Pimbert, Michel and Vanloqueren, Gaetan (2014). Prácticas agroecológicas en Europa: ¿alimentado o transformando el régimen agroalimentario predominante? Agricultura y ganadería ecológico(17) pp. 38–40.

Levidow, Les; Pimbert, Michel and Vanloqueren, Gaetan (2014). Agroecological research: conforming — or transforming the dominant agro-food regime? Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, 38(10) pp. 1127–1155.

Levidow, Les and Neubauer, Claudia (2014). EU research agendas: embedding what future? Science as Culture, 23(3) pp. 397–412.

Levidow, Les; Lindgaard-Jørgensen, Palle; Nilsson, Åsa; Alongi Skenhall, Sara and Assimacopoulos, Dionysis (2014). Eco-efficiency improvements in industrial water-service systems: assessing options with stakeholders. Water Science and Technology, 69(10) pp. 2113–2121.

Birch, Kean; Levidow, Les and Papaioannou, Theo (2014). Self-fulfilling prophecies of the European knowledge-based bio-economy: the discursive shaping of institutional and policy frameworks in the bio-pharmaceuticals sector. Journal of the Knowledge Economy, 5(1) pp. 1–18.

Berti, Pietro and Levidow, Les (2014). Fuelling expectations: a policy-promise lock-in of UK biofuel policy. Energy Policy, 66 pp. 135–143.

Levidow, Les and Papaioannou, Theo (2014). UK biofuel policy: envisaging sustainable biofuels, shaping institutions and futures. Environment and Planning A, 46(2) pp. 280–298.

Levidow, Les; Borda-Rodriguez, Alexander and Papaioannou, Theo (2014). UK bioenergy innovation priorities: Making expectations credible in state-industry arenas. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 87 pp. 191–204.

Hincliffe, Steve; Levidow, Les and Oreszczyn, Sue (2014). Engaging cooperative research. Environment and Planning A, 46(9) pp. 2080–2094.

Levidow, Les; Papaioannou, Theo and Borda-Rodriguez, Alexander (2013). Innovation priorities for UK bioenergy: technological expectations within path dependence. Science & Technology Studies, 26(3) pp. 14–36.

Levidow, Les (2013). Pratiche agroecologiche in Europa: adeguare o trasformare il sistema agroalimentare? [Agroecological practices in Europe: Conforming – or transforming the dominant agro-food regime?]. Bioagricultura(142) pp. 43–46.

Levidow, Les and Papaioannou, Theo (2013). State imaginaries of the public good: shaping UK innovation priorities for bioenergy. Environmental Science & Policy, 30 pp. 36–49.

Levidow, Les; Papaioannou, Theo and Borda-Rodriguez, Alexander (2013). Path-dependent UK bioenergy. Science as Culture, 22(2) pp. 213–221.

Levidow, Les; Birch, Kean and Papaioannou, Theo (2013). Divergent paradigms of European agro-food innovation: the Knowledge-Based Bio-Economy (KBBE) as an R&D agenda. Science, Technology & Human Values, 38(1) pp. 94–125.

Levidow, Les (2013). EU criteria for sustainable biofuels: accounting for carbon, depoliticising plunder. Geoforum, 44(1) pp. 211–223.

Schmid, Otto; Padel, Susanne and Levidow, Les (2012). The bio-economy concept and knowledge base in a public goods and farmer perspective. Bio-based and Applied Economics (BAE), 1(1) pp. 47–63.

Levidow, Les; Birch, Kean and Papaioannou, Theo (2012). EU agri-innovation policy: two contending visions of the bio-economy. Critical Policy Studies, 6(1) pp. 40–65.

Levidow, Les and Oreszczyn, Sue (2012). Challenging unsustainable development through research cooperation. Local Environment, 17(1) pp. 35–56.

Bonneuil, Christophe and Levidow, Les (2012). How does the World Trade Organisation know? The mobilization and staging of scientific expertise in the GMO trade dispute. Social Studies of Science, 42(1) pp. 75–100.

Levidow, Les and Paul, Helena (2011). Global agrofuel crops as contested sustainability, Part II: Eco-efficient techno-fixes? Capitalism Nature Socialism, 22(2) pp. 27–51.

Levidow, Les and Boschert, Karin (2011). Segregating GM crops: why a contentious 'risk' issue in Europe? Science as Culture, 20(2) pp. 255–279.

Levidow, Les and Psarikidou, Katerina (2011). Food relocalization for environmental sustainability in Cumbria. Sustainability, 3(4) pp. 692–719.

Birch, Kean; Levidow, Les and Papaioannou, Theo (2010). Sustainable capital? The neoliberalization of nature and knowledge in the European “knowledge-based bio-economy”. Sustainability, 2(9) pp. 2898–2918.

Levidow, Les and Paul, Helena (2010). Global agrofuel crops as contested sustainability, Part I: Sustaining what development? Capitalism Nature Socialism, 21(2) pp. 64–86.

Franco, Jenny; Levidow, Les; Fig, David; Goldfarb, Lucia; Hönicke, Mireille and Mendonça, Maria Luisa (2010). Assumptions in the European Union biofuels policy: frictions with experiences in Germany, Brazil and Mozambique. Journal of Peasant Studies, 37(4) pp. 661–698.

Levidow, Les (2009). Democratizing agri-biotechnology? European public participation in agbiotech assessment. Comparative Sociology, 8(4) pp. 541–564.

Levidow, Les and Boschert, Karin (2008). Coexistence or contradiction? GM crops versus alternative agricultures in Europe. Geoforum, 39(1) pp. 174–190.

Levidow, Les (2007). European public participation as risk governance: enhancing democratic accountability for agbiotech policy? East Asian Science, Technology and Society: an International Journal, 1(1) pp. 19–51.

Levidow, Les and Carr, Susan (2007). Europeanising advisory expertise: The role of 'independent, objective and transparent' scientific advice in agri-biotech regulation. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 26(6) pp. 880–895.

Levidow, Les and Carr, Susan (2007). GM crops on trial: technological development as a real-world experiment. Futures, 39(4) pp. 408–431.

Levidow, Les; Murphy, Joseph and Carr, Susan (2007). Recasting “Substantial Equivalence”: Transatlantic Governance of GM Food. Science, Technology and Human Values, 32(1) pp. 26–64.

Murphy, Joseph; Levidow, Les and Carr, Susan (2006). Regulatory standards for environmental risks: understanding the US-European Union conflict over Genetically Modified Crops. Social Studies of Science, 36(1) pp. 133–160.

Levidow, Les; Carr, Susan and Wield, David (2005). EU regulation of agri-biotechnology: precautionary links between science, expertise and policy. Science and Public Policy, 32(4) pp. 261–276.

Levidow, Les (2003). Mercantilizando la educación superior: estrategias neoliberales y contra–estrategias. Boletin de Educación Superior(14-15) pp. 4–11.

Levidow, L.; Oreszczyn, S.; Assouline, G. and Joly, P.-B. (2002). Industry responses to the European controversy over agricultural biotechnology. Science and Public Policy, 29(4) pp. 267–275.

Levidow, L.; Søgaard, V. and Carr, S. (2002). Agricultural public-sector research establishments in Western Europe: research priorities in conflict. Science and Public Policy, 29(4) pp. 287–295.

Levidow, Les (2002). Ignorance-based risk assessment? Scientific controversy over GM food safety. Science as Culture, 11(1) pp. 61–67.

Levidow, L. and Bijman, J. (2002). Farm inputs under pressure from the European food industry. Food Policy, 27(1) pp. 31–45.

Levidow, Les (2001). Precautionary uncertainty: regulating GM crops in Europe. Social Studies of Science, 31(6) pp. 842–874.

Levidow, L. and Marris, C. (2001). Science and Governance in Europe: lessons from the case of agricultural biotechnology. Science and Public Policy, 28(5) pp. 345–360.

Levidow, Les (2001). Utilitarian bioethics?: market fetishism in the GM crops debate. New Genetics and Society, 20(1) pp. 75–84.

Levidow, Les; Carr, Susan and Wield, David (2000). Genetically modified crops in the European Union: regulatory conflicts as precautionary opportunities. Journal of Risk Research, 3(3) pp. 189–208.

Levidow, Les; Carr, Susan and Wield, David (1999). Regulating biotechnological risk, straining Britain's consultative style. Journal of Risk Research, 2(4) pp. 307–324.

Levidow, Les; Carr, Susan; von Schomburg, Rene and Wield, David (1997). European Biotechnology Regulation: Framing the Risk Assessment of a Herbicide-Tolerant Crop. Science, Technology and Human Values, 22(4) pp. 472–505.

Levidow, L.; Carr, S.; Schomburg, R. and Wield, D. (1996). Harmonization Difficulties of Uncertainty-Based Regulation. Science and Public Policy, 23(3) pp. 135–157.

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Papaioannou, Theo; Levidow, Les and Aksoy, Zuhre (2024). Inclusive Innovation for Global Development: the Role of Social Solidarity Economy (SSE) Ecosystems. In: DSA 2024: Social justice and Development in a Polarising World, 26-28 Jun 2024, SOAS University of London, UK / hybrid.

Levidow, Les (2021). Socio-environmental justice: traditional communities renewing musical cultures in the Bocaina, Brazil. In: Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM) Newsletter, Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM), USA, 55(2).

Hinchliffe, Stephen; Oreszczyn, Sue and Levidow, Les (2009). Knowledge practices: doing cooperative research with civil society organisations. In: Nordic Environmental Social Sciences (NESS) Conference, 9-12 Jun 2009, London, UK.

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Levidow, Les; Berardi, Andrea; Jung, Julia; Richards, Dave; McAllister, Fiona; Scott, Beth; Burton, Kath; Nuzzo, Claudia and Forest-Briand, Victoria Emanuelle (2022). Visual Storytelling about Community Food Growing: Participatory Action Research Methods, Processes, and Wider Implications. Cobra Collective.

Levidow, Les (2021). Meanings lost and found: translating ‘sociotechnical’ for a Brazilian counter-hegemonic agenda. In EASST Review European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST), Munich.

Levidow, Les (2014). What Green Economy? Diverse agendas, their tensions and potential futures. IKD, Open University.

Woodgate, Graham; Lamberti, Lamberto; Belsanti, Virginia; Bessaoud, Omar and Levidow, Les (2013). Sustainable Development of Rural Communities in the Mediterranean Region. CIHEAM-IAMB, Bari, Italy.

Oreszczyn, Sue; Levidow, Les and Hinchliffe, Stephen (2011). Cooperative research processes in CREPE (Cooperative research on Environmental Problems in Europe). The Open University, UK.

Levidow, Les and Carr, Susan (2010). EU agbiotech controversy: what has been on trial? Soziale Technik, Graz.

Levidow, Les (2003). Precautionary Expertise for GM Crops (PEG): EU Workshop Report. Centre for Technology Strategy, The Open University.

Levidow, Les; Carr, Susan and Wield, David (1999). Market stage precautions: managing regulatory disharmonies for transgenic crops in Europe. In AgBiotechnet AgBiotechNet.

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