Frontiers in Climate 4 Abstract Since introducing a path-breaking carbon tax in 2008, the western Canadian province of British Columbia (BC) has attracted significant attention from climate policy schola

Dr. Katya Rhodescomes from British Columbia, Canada, to share her academic and policy-making experiences on how to achieve climate success using British Columbia’s climate policies as a case study. Abs

Katya Rhodes: Designing policies for climate success. Lessons from British Columbia, Canada

Dr. Katya Rhodes comes from British Columbia, Canada, to share her academic and policy-making experiences on how to achieve climate success using British Columbia’s climate policies as a case study. Dr

Dr.Katya Rhodes comes from British Columbia, Canada, to share her academicresearch findings and government policy-making experiences on how to designpolitically acceptable and effective policies to mitigate climate change usingBritish Columbia’s climate policies as a case study. 

Venue: Institutet för framtidsstudier, Holändargatan 13 i Stockholm Research seminar with Vegard Skirbekk, professor at Columbia Aging Center, Columbia University and senior researcher at the Norwegian I

Olle Hammar

I am a researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies and an assistant professor in economics at Linnaeus University. My research focuses on issues related to economic inequality, migration and cultu, at Uppsala University in 2021. I have also been a postdoc at the Research Institute of Industrial Economics and a visiting researcher at Columbia University and the University of California, Berkeley.

Main speaker: Saskia Sassen Today’s socioeconomic and environmental dislocations cannot be fully understood in the usual terms of poverty and injustice, but more accurately in terms of expulsion—from p

Wendy H. Wong: We, the Data - Human Rights in the Digital Age

Research seminar with Wendy H. Wong, Professor of Political Science and Principal's Research Chair at the University of British Columbia. In this talk Wendy H. Wong discusses some of the key themes fr

New year and new exciting projects! One of them is named Anxieties of Democracy, which will investigate in what ways representative democracy may be said to be in crisis, to explain why this is so, and

In the US, levels of Covid-19 testing have varied greatly between states. But there seems to be a pattern. According to a new study by Malcolm Fairbrother, researcher at Institute for Futures Studies, , states with high levels of social trust and social capital performs more Covid-19 tests.