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Causes and consequences of environmental protests. The global environmental contestation and civic mobilization observatory
Environmental protest events are increasing. Does it have any consequences for policy? With global data-sets, this project will try to answer that question.
International Panel on Social Progress (IPSP)
Many wealthy societies face challenges and developing countries tend to attempt to imitate their solutions in order to end poverty and hardships instead of finding new models. Can we hope for a better society in the future?
Multistakeholder Partnerships for Sustainable Development: Promises and Pitfalls
Annual Review of Environment and Resources, vol. 49 Abstract This review examines the promises and pitfalls of multistakeholder partnerships (MSPs) for sustainable development. We take stock of the lite
Critique and Capital in History and in the Twenty-first Century
Organised by the Institute for Futures Studies and Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study. Recent years have witnessed a renewed interest in the long-run global development of wealth and inequality as we.
Erez Maggor: Bidenomics, Industrial Policy, and the Twenty-First Century American Developmental State
Venue: Holländargatan 13, Stockholm Research seminar with Erez Maggor, Assistant Professor at Ben-Gurion University. He studies the political economy of industrial policy and innovation. Register here &
School Contextual Features of Social Disorder and Mental Health Complaints - A Multilevel Analysis of Swedish Sixth-Grade Students
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2018, 15(1), 156; doi:10.3390/ijerph15010156 Abstract This study addressed school-contextual features of social disorder in relation to sixth-grade students’ experienc
Birth Spacing and Parents’ Physical and Mental Health: An Analysis Using Individual and Sibling Fixed Effects
Demography 61(2): 393–418 Abstract An extensive literature has examined the relationship between birth spacing and subsequent health outcomes for parents, particularly for mothers. However, this researc
Dark side of resilience: systemic unsustainability
Frontiers in Sustainability vol 4 Abstract Resilience is often presented as a championing solution for tackling the multi-level environmental, security, health, and financial threats facing the whole hum
Mikael Holmqvist: Djursholm – Sweden’s Leader Community
Mikael Holmqvist is Associate Professor of Sociology and Professor of Management at Stockholm University. ABSTRACTAll around the world there are ”leader communities”, i.e., places where leaders choose
Rethinking society for the 21st century
A couple of weeks ago it was decided that the Institute for Futures Studies will support the project International Panel on Social Progress. It is a large project with high ambitions that mobilizes se
