Using unique survey data from the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA), the paper examines whether men and women differ in their views regarding their support for climate policy and in undertaking climate action in their everyday lives.
Using digitised parish records combined with local weather data in northern Sweden from 1880 to 1950, the authors analyse the association between season of birth, temperature and neonatal mortality according to socioeconomic status .
Event Dates: 2-12 September 2019
The Centre for Economic Demography at Lund University will hold the research course “Adding the Geographic Context to Demographic Analysis” on September 11-15, 2017. The course will cover methods and theories in historical demography and GIS and will be fully hands on.
Application is competitive and the deadline for submission is 15 April 2017.
In this course, students will gain an understanding of methods used in the field of climate change and health and will have practice applying their analytical skills in this interdisciplinary research field. The course is for PhD students and post-docs in public health, environmental sciences and related fields. Pre-course “climate change and health” knowledge is essential, and a basic understanding of statistical and epidemiological methods is also beneficial. All course applicants will be advised to study some pre-course texts.
Authors find that unspecific air pollution at workplaces is associated with an increased risk of adult-onset asthma.
In 1799 Malthus spent six months in Scandinavia. There he witnessed the extreme deprivation, misery, and mortality that were once the common accompaniments of a bad harvest. On his return to England he found that the topic of the day was the exceptionally high price of bread, which threatened both political turmoil and human suffering. In the event, suffering even among the very poor was far less than in Sweden, though the increase in the price of the chief bread grain was greater.
The article examines existing research on gender and climate change and the discussion focuses largely on examples from Sweden and India.
