Visualizing information is a way to communicate scientific results efficiently and in an appealing way. This is particularly important if scientists want to communicate their results not only to their

School impacts of violent relgious extremism

How does the spread of violent extremism in the Sahel region in Africa affect the access to education for boys and girls?

Venue: Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13 in Stockholm The project Global Social Norms(GSN) aims to organize global studies of social norms, how they vary across societies and change over t), and one of them is John Jamir Benzon R. Aruta at De La Salle University in the Philippines. 

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

Vienna Yearbook of Population Research Abstract We theoretically explore the interrelations between population (P), affluence (A) and technology (T) for various environmental impacts (I ) using IPAT-typ

Journal of Development Economics 166 (2024) Abstract We investigate the long-run impacts of Christian missions on female genital cutting (FGC) in Africa. Our empirical analysis draws on historical data o

Venue: Institute for Futures Studies,Holländargatan 13 in Stockholm or online  Research seminar with Victor Galaz, Associate Professor in Political Science at the Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm

Victor Galaz: AI and Climate Change – the Good, the Bad, the Ugly

Artificial intelligence (AI) is often discussed as a potential “game changer” for climate change action. One key issue in this conversation focuses on the growing energy, water and carbon footprint of

There are two competing hypotheses regarding demographic processes and technological progress. One holds that a rapidly growing adult population stimulates technological progress, while the other hold