The socially sustainable society

A socially sustainable society is a society where people live well and feel safe. But such a society is constantly faced with challenges, from organized crime, differences in values and scarcity of resources, but also from ideas we have about each other that are not even conscious but can still affect the way we shape our society. This is our most comprehensive theme.

Completed: Sustainable population in the time of climate change

What level of population is sustainable, given the available resources and a certain level of well-being? How can we achieve a stable or declining population?

Report from the research project "Sustainable population in the time of climate change", finansierad av Global Challenges Foundation. Cut from the foreword by PI Gustaf Arrhenius: I’m pleased to present

Seminar on "Sustainable Population in the Time of Climate Change". This is an internal seminar for IFFS only.  The seminar will have five sessions. Each session is 30 minutes, ca 20 min presentation and

Conservative climate justice for a sustainable transformation

 The purpose of this project is to determine whether, and how, conservative principles can support an effective and just low-carbon transition.

Research seminar with Sanna Wolk, professor of law, president of the union SULF, and Leif Dahlberg, professor of media technology at Royal School of Technology (KTH).  Register here AbstractThe goal is tJoin the seminar online or at the Institute for Futures Studies. If you plan to join on site, please check the box in the registration form. 

The article studies how the ideas of a sustainable society have developed and adapted to Swedish politics between the years 1988-2004. Social democratic welfare ideology seems to have given its imprin

Annual Review of Environment and Resources, vol. 49 Abstract This review examines the promises and pitfalls of multistakeholder partnerships (MSPs) for sustainable development. We take stock of the lite

To achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), several obstacles must be overcome. This planning project investigates an obstacle that is often neglected: population growth.

Institutet för Framtidsstudiers skriftserie: Framtidens samhälle nr 3, 2006 Demographic projections indicate a considerable ageing of the European population. Part of the ageing is due to increasing lo