Janine R. Wedel is a university professor in the School of Public Policy at George Mason University and a Senior Research Fellow of the New America Foundation. ABSTRACTA new breed of influence elite ha

How come, despite a series of troubling new reports and studies, the world has yet to respond adequately to the threat posed by global warming? In this article, published at the website Project Syndica

In Hanemaayer, A. (editor) Artificial Intelligence and Its Discontents. Palgrave. Abstract AI has often reached individuals covertly, rather than by their own choosing. Standard automatic version update

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

Place:Holländargatan 13, Stockholm, or online.REGISTERAbstractTo address climate change we need to reduce net emissions globally. Most international processes and frameworks have involved seeking to g

Which emissions belong to us?

To address climate change we need to reduce net emissions globally. Most international processes and frameworks have involved seeking to get countries to make cuts to their emissions. Net zero has rec

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 41(3), 399-424. DOI:10.1080/1369183X.2014.920690 Abstract Despite the importance of adequately measuring ethnicity to keep track of ethnic disparities in importa

Demography journal Abstract A large body of research has found an association between short birth intervals and the risk of infant mortality in developing countries, but recent work on other perinatal o

Malcolm Fairbrother is professor of sociology at Umeå University and researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies. In this seminar he presents the paper How Much Do People Value Future Generations? C

Health & Place 51 (2018) pp.189–199, doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2018.03.010. Abstract Several studies indicate that young people from certain ethnic minority groups in Britain have significant men