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

Cities, Uncertainty and Systems Change

Rediscovering the Water-Food-Energy Nexus

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Realising the SDGs: why a sustainable livelihoods approach can help

Steps Europe Projects

System Change Hive

Emancipatory Rural Politics Initiative (ERPI)

Governance of Socio-Technical Transformations (GOST)

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Steps Europe Publications

The Water-Food-Energy Nexus: Power, Politics and Justice

Engineering and Sustainability: Control and Care in Unfoldings of Modernity

Transformative innovation in peri-urban Asia

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Steps Europe News

New papers explore heated debates in agronomy for development

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Uncertainty, politics and science

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Preparing for pandemics and the role of uncertainty explored in new project

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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.