Venue: Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13 in Stockholm, or online Welcome to a seminar arranged in collaboration with two visiting researchers from the Hague University of Applied Science,

Anna Lührmann: Walking the Talk. Which Parties Threaten Democracy?

The recent increase of democratic declines around the world has sparked a new generation of studies on the topic. Scholars agree that these days the main threat to democracy arises from democratically

Statistics from Web of Scienceshow that researchers at the Institute for Futures Studies have considerable international impact. During 2010, 6250 articles were published in sociology journals worldwid

in: The Journal of Political Philosophy, Volume 28:3, s. 273-295 (2020) In October 2017, following the Harvey Weinstein scandal, US actress Alyssa Milano called upon victims of sexual harassment to uni

International Journal of Sociology Abstract Environmental problems such as climate change, air and water pollution, and biodiversity loss affect humans globally. The International Social Survey Programm

World Bank Economic Review 33, 21-40 Abstract How much should the present generations sacrifice to reduce emissions today, in order to reduce the future harms of climate change? Within climate economics,

Interest in the future and the attempt to predict what will happen can be traced back a long way through history. The first attempts at more systematic studies about the future were made in the US def

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.

Global Social Norms

The Global Social Norms network is a research collaboration with its base at the Institute for Futures Studies, connecting social norms researchers from over 130 countries.

Emily Klancher Merchant: Challenging Overpopulation

Can we ethically achieve a sustainable population size? Answers to this question typically focus on the human rights abuses perpetrated by efforts to control the world’s populations in the twentieth a