Lars Ingelstam on the beginnings of the Institute for Futures Studies in Sweden

In 2013 the Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm celebrated 40 years. Lars Ingelstam, the first CEO of the organisation reminisces how it all began and talks about the first years of activities

Futures  Volume: 101, pp. 46–54. doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2018.06.007  Abstract Among scholars dedicated to Search for Extra-terrestrial Intelligence (SETI), the risks and possibilities of actively contac

Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment 69, pp. 276-292, doi: 10.1016/j.trd.2019.02.008 Abstract Dedicated to show climate leadership, Sweden has committed to cut 70% of greenhouse-gas

Ethics and Information Technology Abstract So-called digital tracking and tracing systems (DTTSs) have been proposed as a means to prevent the spread of SARS-CoV-2. There are ethical guidelines and eval

Working Paper 2007 No. 3 A revised version is published in the European Sociological Review, 24 (4). Lars Brännström

in: The Civic Culture Transformed: from Allegiant to Assertive Citizens, Dalton, R & Welzel, C.,(eds), Page 261–281, Cambridge University Press, New York.

Workshop talk: War and cultural property in the era of identity wars by Frederik Rosén

Frederik Rosen from the Centre for Advanced Studies at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, talks about the gap between the growing international discourse on the topic of cultural property a

The project aims to provide an overall analysis of the challenges and opportunities that the implementation of self-driving cars will bring, as well as a more detailed analysis of any of these problems.

Pp. 25–47 in P. Hedström and P. Bearman (Eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Analytical Sociology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

The new pattern in demographic behavior in the industrialized world, i.e. the “second demographic transition”, appeared in the mid-1960s and spread more recently to the Eastern parts of Europe. This o