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

Embracing uncertainty: lessons from journeys and struggles

Net zero and low-carbon transformation: why targets are not enough

Climate change: how do we move beyond ‘the Great Derangement’?

Steps Europe Projects

System Change Hive

Emancipatory Rural Politics Initiative (ERPI)

Governance of Socio-Technical Transformations (GOST)

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Steps Europe Publications

How deep is incumbency? A ‘configuring fields’ approach to redistributing and reorienting power in socio-material change

Transformative innovations start with the social and political, not technology hardware and finance

Beyond Technical Fixes: climate solutions and the great derangement

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Steps Europe News

STEPS at Transformations 2019

Local knowledge and ideas are key to action on climate disruption

Round icon with colours representing the Sustainable Development Goals

In turbulent times, how can science, technology and innovation be joined up?

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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.