Transformation for a life within planetary boundaries

An international conference – ‘Transformations2015’ – was hosted by the Stockholm Resilience Centre in early October, bringing together research on how we can live within the limits of our planet. At the meeting, which attracted researchers from 32 countries, the Centre’s director Johan Rockström pointed out that we are the first generation to know what is happening to the planet, and that ‘business as usual’ is therefore not an option. Research on transformation towards sustainability is a rapidly growing field. It involves the use of scientific methods to initiate processes of change, and to study the changes involved.

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