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Humanity - the biosphere's best hope?
Human activity often has a negative impact on the Earth's ecosystems. However, according to researchers Karim Jebari and Anders Sandberg, humans are still, in the long run, the best and actually the only
Social capital and leaving the nest: Channels and housing tenures
i Social Networks, Volume 65 AbstractYoung adults in Europe sometimes have trouble moving away from their parents and obtaining a home of their own, which is considered an important step in the transit
Daniel Waldenström: Richer and More Equal: A New History of Wealth in the West
Venue: Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13 in Stockholm, or online. Research seminar with Daniel Waldenström, Professor of Economics and Director of the Taxes and Society research program a
The climate ethics program: "Interdisciplinary at its best"
"Innovative, ambitious, and extremely well managed." A mid-term evaluation of the research program Climate Ethics and future generations praises it for being interdisciplinary at its best. Riksbankens
Divided by Memories? Beliefs about the Past, Ethnic Boundaries, and Trust in Northern Iraq.
Geopolitics, History, and International Relations 9(1), pp. 128-175. Abstract This paper examines beliefs about the past across ethnic groups in con- flict ridden Northern Iraq, and the extent to which s
The Social Consequences of Poverty. An Empirical Test on Longitudinal Data
Social Indicators Research, May 2015, Open Access, DOI 10.1007/s11205-015-0983-9. Poverty is commonly defined as a lack of economic resources that has negative social consequences, but surprisingly lit
Avia Pasternak: Violent Protests and the Proportionality Test
Research seminar with Avia Pasternak, Associate Professor in Political Theory at University College London. REGISTER HERE TO GET A MEETING LINK AbstractViolent protestors against state injustice typical
Countering Protection Rackets Using Legal and Social Approaches: An Agent-Based Test
Hindawi, Volume 2018, Article ID 3568085, 16 pages, doi.org/10.1155/2018/3568085. Abstract Protection rackets cause economic and social damage across the world. States typically combat protection rackets
Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist: Impacts of past climate variability – lessons for the 21st century
Place: Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13, Stockholm or onlineREGISTERResearch seminar with Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist, Professor of History.ABSTRACT The talk will start with summaris

Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist: Impacts of past climate variability – lessons for the 21st century
The talk summarizes key findings of state-of-the-art research on how climate variability and change have affected different aspects of human history in medieval and early modern Europe (c. 700–1815 CE