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John Broome: A Climate Bank to Combat Climate Change
The usual way of thinking about climate change is that the present generation will have to make large sacrifices in order to reduce emissions. For example, by consuming less goods and services. This is one reason why cutting emissions is so hard. But what if there is a way to get climate change under control where no one needs to sacrifice?
Politics as organized combat – new players and new rules of the game in Sweden
New Political Economy. Published online. Abstract In this paper, Sweden is used as an example of how organized politics has changed quite dramatically in the last couple of decades. The paper argues that
Politics as organized combat – new players and new rules of the game in Sweden
Stefan Svallfors Working Paper 2016 no. 3(Published in New Political Economy , Vol 21 (6), pp 505-19 (2016). DOI: 10.1080/13563467.2016.1156662) In this paper, Sweden is used as an example of how organize
A Climate Bank to Combat Climate Change: A conversation between John Broome & Gustaf Arrhenius
Reducing emissions and combatting climate change now will be of huge value for the coming generations. In principle this value could be used to fund the huge green investment loans needed today in ord
Stefan Svallfors gave a lecture at Wissenschaftszentrum
Stefan Svallfors gave a lecture called: "Politics as Organized Combat: New Players and New Rules of the Game in Sweden” at Wissenschaftszentrum in Berlin March 24th. Read more about the lecture. Read m
Climate Change, Historical Emissions, and Unjust Benefits: A Comment on Axel Gosseries’ Account of Climate Justice
Journal of Practical Ethics Abstract One of the claims Axel Gosseries makes in What is Intergenerational Justice? is that greenhouse gas emissions produced before 1990 are morally unimportant for presen
Policy and the public in a polarized country
In order to reach the goals in the Paris Agreement on how to combat climate change, some aggressive policy changes need to be put in place. Apart from creating policies, policy makers also need to gai
Moa Bursell
I am a researcher in sociology and research leader at the Institute for Futures Studies. I am also teaching at the Department of Sociology, Stockholm University. I received my doctorate at Stockholm U
Countering Protection Rackets Using Legal and Social Approaches: An Agent-Based Test
Hindawi, Volume 2018, Article ID 3568085, 16 pages, doi.org/10.1155/2018/3568085. Abstract Protection rackets cause economic and social damage across the world. States typically combat protection rackets
Completed: Population Growth and the Sustainable Development Goals
To achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), several obstacles must be overcome. This planning project investigates an obstacle that is often neglected: population growth.
