Rapid social and environmental changes and the erosion of democracy globally impose injustices and inequalities. Injustices and inequalities have multiple consequences, for example, "stratified" modes of global development. Resource extractivisms occur at the expense of socio-ecological wellbeing and inclusion.
HELSUS aims to address both old and new questions, develop new regulation and governance theories, tools, and methods for assessing tensions and prospects for just sustainability transitions, inclusive of multiple ethnicities, genders, classes and socio backgrounds. Research on inequalities provides the foundations that ground the analyses of global historical, systemic, social, and institutional processes of change and continuity. We strive towards globally recognised expertise on socio-ecological and economic resilience, multispecies justice and democratic governance.