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17 June, 2024

Are animals needed for food supply, efficient resource use, and sustainable cropping systems? An argumentation analysis regarding livestock farming

Food Ethics, vol. 9 Abstract It has been argued that livestock farming is necessary to feed a growing population, that it enables efficient use of land and biomass that would otherwise be lost from the

Type of publication: Journal articles | Torpman, Olle , Elin Röös
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12 September, 2011

Dropping out in Scandinavia. Social Exclusion and Labour Market Attachment among Upper Secondary School Dropouts in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden

Most researchers in the field are in agreement that a diploma from apprenticeship-based vocational training gives a smoother school-to-work transition than a diploma from school-based vocational train

Type of publication: Working papers | Olof Bäckman, Vibeke Jakobsen, Thomas Lorentzen, Eva Österbacka & Espen Dahl
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03 October, 2017

What can be understood, what can be compared, and what counts as context? Studying lawmaking in world history

In: Arne Jarrick, Janken Myrdal, Maria Wallenberg-Bondesson (eds.). Methods in world history. A critical approach. Lund: Nordic Academic Press. Methods in World Historyis the first international volume

Type of publication: Chapters | Wallenberg Bondesson, Maria
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26 January, 2021

Weighing Absolute and Relative Proportionality in Punishment

in Tonry, M. (ed.) Of One-eyed and Toothless Miscreants: Making the Punishment Fit the Crime? Oxford: Oxford University Press. Abstract Conflicts between relative and absolute proportionality are an imp

Type of publication: Chapters | Duus-Otterström, Göran
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21 April, 2023

Congratulations Partha Dasgupta!

Partha Dasgupta, professor of economics and member of the Climate Ethics and Future Generations-team at IFFS, and Gustaf Arrhenius at a conference in honour of Dasgupta who is turning 80 in 2023. Dasg

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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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12 April, 2024
IneQint - Inequality and Integration

IneQint - Inequality and Integration

This study will focus on inequality and spatial sepgregation, and how they affect the children of immigrants in Sweden in terms of their wellbeing and structural, social and cultural integration.

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22 March, 2024

Potential Institutions for Future Generations: What Do Current Generations Think?

Results from a Six-Country Public Opinion Survey 32 s. Summary Policymakers, civil society organizations, and academics are proposing the establishment of new institutions for better representing the rig

Type of publication: Other | Fairbrother, Malcolm
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12 November, 2014

Towards a new research program

New director – new research focus. That is how it works at the Institute for Futures Studies. This means that the new director Gustaf Arrhenius will also act as a research director and is now creating

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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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