Our international research programme takes up the challenge of exploring political solutions and novel, more effective governance systems to cope with the current transitions in the biogeochemical systems of our planet.
"Humanity is now at a critical juncture. As Paul Hawken succinctly put it in his inspiring address to Portland University's graduate class in May of 2009, "civilization needs a new operating system," and fast. Many of the socio-economic rules under which we operate were created under a worldview that failed to recognize that the earth is a living system"