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

Endings and beginnings: project-based work within wider transformations

Petrol station in a dry landscape with goats in foreground

Who benefits and loses from large developments in Eastern Africa’s rangelands?

Flag of Europe as a round plate with knife and fork

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

Steps Europe Projects

Governance of Socio-Technical Transformations (GOST)

PASTRES: Pastoralism, Uncertainty & Resilience

‘Pathways’ Network: Transformative pathways to sustainability

More projects

Steps Europe Publications

T-Labs: A Practical Guide

Market Linkage Strategies for Local Food Systems: Lessons for Brighton & Hove

Open and Collaborative Developments

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Steps Europe News

New publication: T-Labs: A Practical Guide

STEPS at the World Social Science Forum (WSSF) on 25-28 September

How can we reveal power and bias when synthesising evidence for policy?

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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.