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

Diets not riots: what would massive public dialogue on climate change look like?

Authoritarianism, populism and political ecology

Hilary Wainwright talking at the seminar

Video: Hilary Wainwright on knowledge, politics and the left

Steps Europe Projects

System Change Hive

Emancipatory Rural Politics Initiative (ERPI)

Governance of Socio-Technical Transformations (GOST)

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Steps Europe Publications

Transformative innovation in peri-urban Asia

T-Labs: A Practical Guide

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

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Steps Europe News

pastoralist with sheep in a mountainous landscape

How do pastoralists handle uncertainty? Insights from Asia, Europe and Africa

Learning from rapid change in a warming world: Rapid Transition Alliance launches

Japan book launches: Ian Scoones on sustainable rural livelihoods and the SDGs

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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.