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10 March, 2025

Emily Jones: Afterlives: Edmund Burke, Benjamin Disraeli, and the Invention of Modern Conservatism

Venue: Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13 in Stockholm or online Research seminar with Emily Jones, Lecturer in Modern British History at the University of Manchester. Register here > Abs

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01 January, 2010

Identification of influential spreaders in complex networks

2010. Nature Physics 6:888-893. AbstractNetworks portray a multitude of interactions through which people meet, ideas are spread, and infectious diseases propagate within a society. Identifying the most

Type of publication: Journal articles |
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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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05 October, 2021

Completed: The home care service interviews residents and relatives – two-way communication with vulnerable groups

The spread of COVID-19 has been high among the elderly and risk groups. This study aims to develop methods for knowledge acquisition, focusing on vulnerable groups.

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01 June, 2012

Exploiting Temporal Network Structures of Human Interaction to Effectively Immunize Populations

2012. PLoS ONE 7, e36439. AbstractDecreasing the number of people who must be vaccinated to immunize a community against an infectious disease could both save resources and decrease outbreak sizes. A k

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14 January, 2025

Generationally Parochial Geoengineering: Early Warning-Signs of a Basic Threat

In: Mosquera, J. & O. Torpman (ed.),Studies on Climate Ethics and Future Generationsvol. 6. Working Paper Series 2024:10–17 Abstract ‘Geoengineering' has come to refer to massive technological inter

Type of publication: Working papers | Stephen M. Gardiner & Catriona McKinnon
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15 August, 2022

Stephen Gardiner: Generationally Parochial Geoengineering - A Threat to the Young and Other Future Generations

Place:At the Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13, Stockholm, or online. REGISTERAbstract'Geoengineering' has come to refer to massive, deliberate technological interventions into fundamentis Professor of Philosophy and Ben Rabinowitz Endowed Professor of the Human Dimensions of the Environment at the University of Washington, Seattle, where he is also Director of the Program on Ethics. His research focuses on global environmental problems, future generations and virtue ethics.Join the seminar online or at the Institute for Futures Studies. If you will join on site, please check the box in the 

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27 April, 2020

Myths and truths about "the experiment"

The Swedish response to Covid-19 put in context.

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01 January, 2011

Simulated epidemics in an empirical spatiotemporal network of 50,185 sexual contacts

2011. PLoS Comp. Bio. 7(3):e1001109. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1001109 Abstract Sexual contact patterns, both in their temporal and network structure, can influence the spread of sexually transmitted inf

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09 February, 2015

Christian Munthe: The Price of Precaution

Christian Munthe, Professor of Practical Philosophy, University of Gothenburg and comments by Olle Häggström, Professor of Mathematical Statistics at Chalmers. "The Price of Precaution: Evaluating Acti

Christian Munthe, Professor of Practical Philosophy, University of Gothenburg.
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