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

Flag of Europe as a round plate with knife and fork

Is the new European ruling on GM techniques ‘anti-science’?

A car drives on a mountain road with clouds of smoke in the background

What do we do about the heatwave?

Round icon with colours representing the Sustainable Development Goals

How can the Sustainable Development Goals be transformative?

Steps Europe Projects

Governance of Socio-Technical Transformations (GOST)

PASTRES: Pastoralism, Uncertainty & Resilience

‘Pathways’ Network: Transformative pathways to sustainability

More projects

Steps Europe Publications

Open and Collaborative Developments

How did we do that? The possibility of rapid transition

Defying Control: Aspects of caring engagement between divergent knowledge practices

More publications

Steps Europe News

A crowd of people walk through deep flooding in New Orleans

New journal ‘Nature and Space’ launched

New ‘TAPESTRY’ project on transformations from below in uncertain environments

Three PhD scholarships on pastoralism in Kenya, China and Italy

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.