On friday 7 march 2025, my friend and colleague Isak Stoddard defended his PhD thesis Perilous times: Carbon budgets and the cosmopolitics of climate mitigation at Uppsala University. Below is the abstract in english from https://uu.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A1929133&dswid=519. Increasingly emphatic warnings from scientists about the dire consequences of global climate change has contributed to the establishment of [...]
We humans make mental ‘maps’ of processes around us in order to live and survive. Many of those maps are simplified, based on a limited set of acquired habits and experienced events. The maps also tend to assume single and linear relationships between causes and effects. Assuming that more cars (A) cause more traffic accidents [...]
There are quite some book on system dynamics which make a connection with sustainable development problems and solutions. Based on personal contacts, I choose two for a brief intrduction. The first one is the book Managing Complexity in Social Systems - Leverage Points for Policy and Strategy (2nd ed. 2023) by Christoph Mandl. The seond [...]