Search for dissertations about: "intergenerational justice"

Found 4 swedish dissertations containing the words intergenerational justice.

  2. 1. Global Warming and Our Natural Duties of Justice : A cosmopolitan political conception of justice

    Author : Aaron Maltais; Jörgen Hermansson; Ludvig Beckman; Edward Page; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Political science; Global warming; climate change; global justice; natural duties; political conception; contractualism; intergenerational; political duty; political authority; collective action; public goods; John Rawls; Thomas Nagel; Statsvetenskap; Political science; Statsvetenskap; Statskunskap; Political Science;

    Abstract : Compelling research in international relations and international political economy on global warming suggests that one part of any meaningful effort to radically reverse current trends of increasing green house gas (GHG) emissions is shared policies among states that generate costs for such emissions in many if not most of the world’s regions. Effectively employing such policies involves gaining much more extensive global commitments and developing much stronger compliance mechanism than those currently found in the Kyoto Protocol. READ MORE

  4. 2. Essays on Economic Disadvantage : Criminal Justice, Gender and Social Mobility

    Author : Ulrika Ahrsjö; Mårten Palme; Susan Niknami; Julien Grenet; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Labor economics; Economic inequality; Criminal justice; Youth crime; Intergenerational mobility; Gender wage gap; In-group bias; Economics; nationalekonomi;

    Abstract : Youth Crime, Community Service and Labor Market OutcomesCan lifetime trajectories of youth offenders be improved through criminal justice policy? I evaluate the effects of a youth justice reform in Sweden that sharply increased the share of juveniles assigned to court-ordered community service --- i.e. unpaid, low-skilled work. READ MORE

  5. 3. Three essays on our planetary future

    Author : Rasmus Karlsson; Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; democracy; intergenerational justice; Global change; sustainable development; innovation policy;

    Abstract : This thesis propounds a techno-environmentalist position. Seeking to combine the need for natural restoration with human development, the thesis explores to what extent more radical forms of ecological modernization can offer a basis for political compromise and open new paths to global long-term sustainability. READ MORE

  6. 4. Sharing the doughnut : Exploring sustainable and just futures

    Author : Eléonore Fauré; Ulrika Gunnarsson-Östling; Göran Finnveden; Frances Fahy; KTH; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Sustainability goals; goal conflicts; trade-offs; environmental justice; futures studies; backcasting; future scenarios; climate and energy targets; sustainability assessments; Objectifs de durabilité; Conflit d objectifs de durabilité; justice environnementale; prospective; backcasting; évaluation d impacts de durabilité; Hållbarhetsmål; målkonflikter; miljörättvisa; framtidsstudier; backcasting; framtidsscenarier; klimat och energimål; hållbarhetsutvärderingar; Planering och beslutsanalys; Planning and Decision Analysis;

    Abstract : Despite decades of international discussions or summits on the need to radically reduce e.g. increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases (GHGs) or biodiversity loss, these are still rising. READ MORE