Melissa Leach, Mike Hulme and Johan Rockström at the Resource Politics conference in 2015

Europe Hub

The STEPS Europe Hub builds on longstanding joint work on transformations and resilience, and how technology, innovation and politics relate to concepts around planetary boundaries and the ‘Anthropocene’. The Europe Hub is a collaboration between the ESRC STEPS Centre in the UK and the Stockholm Resilience Centre in Sweden and is part of the Pathways to Sustainability Global Consortium.

This page showcases the joint work between these two centres and any activities of the Global Consortium that relate to Europe. For more information on each centre, visit the STEPS Centre homepage and the Stockholm Resilience Centre website.

Steps Europe Posts

Waves of challenging research for sustainability

A crossroads for ‘genome editing’ in Europe – questions, options and dilemmas

Post-pandemic transformations: new directions for development studies?

Steps Europe Projects

System Change Hive

Emancipatory Rural Politics Initiative (ERPI)

Governance of Socio-Technical Transformations (GOST)

More projects

Steps Europe Publications

Response to DEFRA Consultation on ‘The regulation of genetic technologies’

Three ways of understanding social transformations to sustainability

Future pathways for genome editing in agriculture: public policies, public debates, public goods

More publications

Steps Europe News

Animated explainer: What are Pathways to Sustainability?

STEPS members recognised in global list of ‘highly cited’ researchers

IDS Bulletin: Fifty Years of Research on Pastoralism and Development

More news

Paper: Transforming Innovation for Sustainability

A radical new approach to innovation is urged in this paper by STEPS, Stockholm Resilience Centre and Tellus Institute. Keeping human societies within a ‘safe operating space’ is urgently needed, but delivering on this requires a radically new approach to innovation, that gives far greater recognition and power to grassroots actors and processes, involving them within an inclusive, multi-scale innovation politics.