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Kimberly Nicholas: From Population to A Child: Personalizing Future Generations and Climate Change
Kimberly Nicholas, Associate Professor of Sustainability Science at Lund University in Sweden. ABSTRACT Based on questions from high school students, Seth Wynes and I set out to identify which personal
Studies on climate ethics and future generations vol. 3
Working paper series 2021:1-10 Joe Roussos & Paul Bowman (eds) This volume comprises the third collection of working papers by researchers within the program Climate ethics and future generations.Th
From population to child: Personalizing future generations and climate change
Research seminar at the Institute with Kimberly Nicholas, spring 2018.
Symposium on the ethics of economic ordeals: Introduction
Economics and Philosophy 37 Abstract Economic ordeals are allocation mechanisms that impose non-financial ‘deadweight costs to qualify for a transfer’ (Nichols and Zeckhauser 1982: 372). Examples include
Futures: Climate policies and public support in the US - the way forward
Many agree that some aggressive policy changes need to be put in place when it comes to climate change. Megan Mullin, associate professor of environmental politics at Duke University’s Nicholas School
Policy and the public in a polarized country
In order to reach the goals in the Paris Agreement on how to combat climate change, some aggressive policy changes need to be put in place. Apart from creating policies, policy makers also need to gai
Four decisions that actually matter for climate change
Did you take part in Earth Hour last month? On the 24th of March each year a big part of the earth’s population in the most energy consuming countries turn the lights off for one hour to stress the en
Ethical Perspectives on Population and the Sustainable Development Goals
Welcome to a One-Day Workshop at the Institute for Futures Studies in StockholmWhen: 25:th of September at 9.00–18.00Where: Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13, StockholmThis workshop ai
#MeToo, Social Norms, and Sanctions
in: The Journal of Political Philosophy, Volume 28:3, s. 273-295 (2020) In October 2017, following the Harvey Weinstein scandal, US actress Alyssa Milano called upon victims of sexual harassment to uni
The Tyranny of Political Correctness? A Game-Theoretic Model of Social Norms and Implicit Bias
Journal of Applied Philosophy Abstract This article sets out to describe and solve two puzzles that emerge in segregated labour markets (e.g. the USA or Sweden). First, in many hiring contexts people prqualification norm
