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Air: Pollution, Climate Change and India's Choice Between Policy and Pretence
Harper Collins India’s air pollution is a deadly threat. Will its politics meet the challenge? Exposure to the world’s worst air pollution kills over a million Indians each year. It also affects childr
Pol Campos-Mercade
I use randomized controlled-trials (RCT), lab experiments, and theory to investigate issues related to education, health, and behavioral economics. I am especially interested in studying how incentive
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
Articles in Framtider no. 2/2005 English edition
This issue is about unexpected futures in five separate areas: demography, medicine, the environment, superpowers and technology. Contents Is it harder to foresee the future nowadays?Arne Jernelöv ImaginArne Jernelöv
A Weighted Configuration Model and Inhomogeneous Epidemics
2011. Journal of Statistics Physics 145:1368-1384. AbstractA random graph model with prescribed degree distribution and degree dependent edge weights is introduced. Each vertex is independently equipped
Significant but inconclusive evidence
Where:Institute for Futures Studies, Stockholm Speakers: Richard Dawid (Stockholm), Ulrike Hahn (Birkbeck), Wendy Parker (Virginia Tech), Joe Roussos (IFFS), Karim Thebault (Bristol) and William Wolf II (Oxford). P before October 7.
Someone to sit next to in the segregated class room
“Who in your class would you not like to sit next to?” This question was posed to almost 5000 pupils (age 14–15) at Swedish high schools 2010/2011. Many adolescents experience systematic rejection duri
Tim Bartley: Perceptions of distant problems. Popular understandings of labor and environmental problems in global supply chains
Tim Bartley is a senior lecturer at the Department of Sociology at Stockholm University. He is an organizational, political, and economic sociologist with particular interests in globalization, labor,
Tim Bartley: Popular understandings of labor and environmental problems in global supply chains
Perceptions of distant problems. Popular understandings of labor and environmental problems in global supply chains Tim Bartley is a senior lecturer at the Department of Sociology at Stockholm Univers
Learning to play
In 2007, the Swedish gambling agency ran a simple gambling game called LIMBO. Gamblers were invited to stake 10 kronor on a number of their choice between 1 and 99,999. The person choosing the smalles