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Is There a Hidden Potential for Rural Population Growth in Sweden?
This paper examines whether a hidden potential for rural population growth can be found in Sweden through investigating survey data of people expressing their desire to move to rural areas, and regist
Understanding Rural Change – Demography as a Key to the Future
The aim of this paper is to exploit demographic change in rural areas as a means to forecast their possible economic and social futures. The peripheral rural areas of Europe will experience problems o
Rural Population Growth in Sweden in the 1990s: Unexpected Reality or Spatial-Statistical Chimera
This article addresses the matter of “urban spillover” in rural population development, i.e. how urban localities tend to push a ring of diffuse urban growth outwards as they expand in area. The data
Leaving Rurality Behind: Re-orientation of Spatial Policies in Sweden
The paper will address the changing status of rural regions in policy formation in Sweden, which includes two processes: self-propelling de-population and a shift towards supporting dynamic growth reg
In Sweden we shake hands – but are we really?
Sociologisk Forskning, vol 54, no 4, pp 377–381. Abstract Motivated by a recent controversy over handshaking, a survey of the personal networks of young Swedes (n=2244) is used to describe greeting prac
Tom Mueller
I am a free-lance writer of non-fiction and fiction. I studied at Oxford (DPhil, Rhodes Scholar), Harvard (BA, summa cum laude), and Alief Hastings High School in rural east Texas. After that, I worke
NEW DATE! Avner de-Shalit: Cities and immigrants: Should cities have the power to decide who can settle in them?
Avner de-Shalit, Professor of Political Science and Max Kampelman Chair of democracy and human rights at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.Abstract All over the world immigrants move to cities, rather
Competition: Your vision of a positive future
The Paris Institute for Advanced Study and the 2100 Fondation in partnership with the Institute for Futures Studiesare launching the first Positive Future competition in order to encourage the elaboration
Aid and child health: A disaggregated analysis of the effects of aid on impaired growth
World Development, vol. 182 Abstract Motivated by a recent setback in the fight against child malnutrition, this study explores whether aid projects help reduce stunting or impaired growth among childre
International Panel on Social Progress (IPSP)
Many wealthy societies face challenges and developing countries tend to attempt to imitate their solutions in order to end poverty and hardships instead of finding new models. Can we hope for a better society in the future?
