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19 January, 2023

Climate Obstruction - How Denial, Delay and Inaction are Heating the Planet

Routledge, 156 p. InClimate Obstruction: How Denial, Delay and Inaction are Heating the Planet, Kristoffer Ekberg, Bernhard Forchtner, Martin Hultman and Kirsti Jylhä bring together crucial insights fr

Type of publication: Books | Jylhä, Kirsti , ; Kristoffer Ekberg; Bernhard Forchtner; Martin Hultman
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18 September, 2015

The Future of the Nation

Welcome to a seminar with Thomas Hylland Eriksen about the future of the nation. Main speaker:Thomas Hylland Eriksen, anthropologist and writer at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of O Lisa Pelling, Chief Analys at Arena Idé, and Peter Aronsson, PhD in history, Linneaus University. Göran Rosenberg.

Welcome to a seminar with Thomas Hylland Eriksen about the future of the nation.
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23 March, 2018
Giulia Andrighetto

Giulia Andrighetto

I am a senior researcher at Mälardalen University, Västerås, Sweden. I am also a senior researcher at the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies of the National Research Council of Italy in ).

PhD, Philosophy
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18 March, 2024

Malcolm Fairbrother: Explaining Environmental Successes and Failures

Venue:Institutet för framtidsstudier, Holländargatan 13, 4th floor, Stockholm, or online. Research seminar with Malcolm Fairbrother, Professor of Sociology, researcher at the Institute for Futures Stud

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28 June, 2024
Malcolm Fairbrother: Explaining Environmental Successes and Failures

Malcolm Fairbrother: Explaining Environmental Successes and Failures

Research seminar with Malcolm Fairbrother, Professor of Sociology, researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies. Abstract Why has the world failed so disastrously on climate change? Humanity has su

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10 March, 2016

Of Malthus and Methuselah: does longevity treatment aggravate global catastrophic risks?

Physica Scripta 89 128005 (7pp) Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Abstract  Global catastrophic risk is a term that refers to the risk of the occurrence of an event that kills at least millions of people

Type of publication: Journal articles | Jebari, Karim
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18 March, 2021

Acceptance of group‐based dominance and climate change denial: A cross‐cultural study in Hong Kong, New Zealand, and Sweden

in: Social Psychology Of Climate Change: Special Issue AbstractDespite the importance of overcoming the persistent delay in climate action, almost no research has investigated the psychological underpin

Type of publication: Journal articles | Jylhä, Kirsti , Tam, Kim-Pong & Taciano L. Milfont
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15 December, 2021

Self-Driving Vehicles — an Ethical Overview

Philosophy & Technology 34: 1383–1408 Abstract The introduction of self-driving vehicles gives rise to a large number of ethical issues that go beyond the common, extremely narrow, focus on improbabl

Type of publication: Journal articles | Lundgren, Björn , Hansson, S. O. & M. Belin
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17 May, 2023

Humanity - the biosphere's best hope?

Human activity often has a negative impact on the Earth's ecosystems. However, according to researchers Karim Jebari and Anders Sandberg, humans are still, in the long run, the best and actually the only

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