River Path Associates, Knowledge consultancy covering Research, Strategic Counsel and Creative Solutions.

River Path is an organisational pathfinder. We work by challenging perceptions, building evidence for change, and mapping the future. We use a range of techniques, including strategic consulting, research, and the development of creative solutions.

We work in the public, private and not for profit sectors, and in multiple professional fields – ranging from demography to communications technologies, and from international relations to retail. But everything we do is focused on four strands that we consider essential to being fit for the future.

Library - Environment

Save your Country’s Roads

Save your Country's RoadsMinisterial-level briefing about a seemingly boring but economically very important issue. (River Path: co-authors; concept, production)

Client: World Road Association
Author: World Road Association and the Department for International Development
Date: 15/09/99
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Sustainability of Forest Plantations - The Evidence

Sustainability of Forest PlantationsA “review of evidence concerning the narrow-sense sustainability of planted forests” by Professor Julian Evans OBE. (River Path: editing and production)

Client: Department for International Development
Author: Julian Evans
Date: 31/05/99
Download: PDF 4.19mb

The Great Problem

The Great ProblemRiver Path hosted the Foreign & Commonwealth Office’s first conference on the environment, at which three government ministers - John Prescott, Margaret Beckett and Peter Hain, addressed delegates from 48 British embassies. “The Great Problem - an international relations, global issues and the environment,” a River Path briefing, provided intellectual fuel for the debate….

Client: Foreign & Commonwealth Office
Author: River Path Associates
Date: 01/11/99
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uk@earth.people: poverty and the environment

uk@earth.peopleAn award-winning book launched by Clare Short as “possibly the funkiest government publication ever produced in the UK”. Tackles myths using jokes, poems, top graphic illustration and high quality design to help reinvent the (frankly often tedious) narratives around poverty and the environment.

Client: Department for International Development
Author: River Path Associates
Date: 29/10/97
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