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

Modernity Without its Clothes: the pandemic crisis shines a light on futilities of control

1970s illustration of two heads facing each other with cut out section showing cogs

Post-normal pandemics: Why COVID-19 requires a new approach to science

Science, uncertainty and the COVID-19 response

Steps Europe Projects

System Change Hive

Emancipatory Rural Politics Initiative (ERPI)

Governance of Socio-Technical Transformations (GOST)

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Steps Europe Publications

Water for Food Security, Nutrition and Social Justice

Transformations to sustainability: combining structural, systemic and enabling approaches

Agricultural policy-making in Kenya: why must smallholder farmers’ agency be made central?

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Steps Europe News

IDS podcast: The Politics of Green Transformations

STEPS Uncertainty Podcast

STEPS at Transformations 2019

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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.