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11 July, 2019

Full Subgraphs

Journal of Graph theory 88, no 3, p.411-427. Abstract Let be a graph of density p on n vertices. Following Erdős, Łuczak, and Spencer, an m‐vertex subgraph H of G is called fullif H has minimum degree at lea. Let denote the order of a largest of G. If is a nonnegative integer, define

Type of publication: Journal articles | Markström, Klas , , Victor Falgas-Ravry & Jaques Verstraete
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01 December, 2022

How to Feel About Climate Change? An Analysis of the Normativity of Climate Emotions

International Journal of Philosophical Studies, Vol. 30, Issue 3: Ethics and the Emotions Abstract Climate change evokes different emotions in people. Recently, climate emotions have become a matter of normativization of climate emotionsaffective dilemmas

Type of publication: Journal articles | Mosquera, Julia , Jylhä, Kirsti
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01 December, 2022

Shame or hope? How should we feel about climate change?

Is it okay to enjoy warmer summers, given they are caused by climate change? Should we feel shame when we fly? Is anxiety an overreaction, or a rational response to the current climate crisis? There i

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12 March, 2018

Chris Armstrong: Decarbonisation and World Poverty

Professor of Political Theory at the University of Southampton. ABSTRACT If dangerous climate change is to be avoided, it is clear that the majority of the world’s fossil fuel supplies cannot be burned.

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18 September, 2015

Thomas Hylland Eriksen: Overheating

Overheating. Understanding accelerated change. Thomas Hylland Eriksen, professor at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo. ABSTRACTThe contemporary world is … too full? Too intense? All of the above, and more. Ours is a world of high-speed modernity where exponential growth can be found in domains as different as the number of cellphones in Africa and the number of international tourist arrivals. The fossil fuel revolution two centuries ago led to the contemporary ‘overheated’ world of exponential growth. The main dilemma of this overheated world is the insight that what was the salvation for humanity for two hundred years, namely fossil fuels, has rapidly become our damnation owing to climate change. This lecture outlines the parameters of ‘overheating’ and describes the main global challenges for our century.

Overheating. Understanding accelerated change.
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09 October, 2020

Governing the Climate-Energy Nexus: Institutional Complexity and Its Challenges to Effectiveness and Legitimacy

Cambridge University Press Combating climate change and transitioning to fossil-free energy are two central and interdependent challenges facing humanity today. Governing the nexus of these challenges

Type of publication: Books | Bäckstrand, Karin , , Fariborz, Zelli, Nasiritousi, Naghmeh, Skovgaard, Jakob & Widerberg, Oscar
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08 July, 2019
Sovereignty and sustainability - friends or foes? Interview with Steven Vanderheiden podcast

Sovereignty and sustainability - friends or foes? Interview with Steven Vanderheiden

To limit the global warming to a maximum of two degrees above pre-industrial levels, much of the coal and oil reserves on earth must stay in the ground. This requires international agreements to limit

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18 September, 2024

Tackling toxins: Case studies of industrial pollutants and implications for climate policy

Regulation & Governance Abstract As scholars race to address the climate crisis, they have often treated the problem as sui generisand have only rarely sought to learn from prior efforts to make indu

Type of publication: Journal articles | Fairbrother, Malcolm , & Tim Bartley
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05 May, 2023

Climate policy in British Columbia: An unexpected journey

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

Type of publication: Journal articles | Fairbrother, Malcolm , & Ekaterina Rhodes
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18 October, 2022
Emily Klancher Merchant: Challenging Overpopulation

Emily Klancher Merchant: Challenging Overpopulation

Can we ethically achieve a sustainable population size? Answers to this question typically focus on the human rights abuses perpetrated by efforts to control the world’s populations in the twentieth a

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