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opulation ageing is increasing the demand for long-term care services across high-income countries, a trend which will continue as populations over 80 years old increase in size. Unpaid caregivers are often the main source of long-term care services for ageing, sick and disabled adults. Their time provides an important service to recipients while offsetting substantial costs to health care systems

This Development Dissertation Brief summarises a study of Sweden’s long-term media aid engagement in Vietnam from 1993 to 2007, examining howjournalistic skills, norms and practices were introduced, translated and reshapedwithin an authoritarian media system. Drawing on project documentation andinterviews with Swedish journalism trainers and radio technicians, the disserta-tion analyses how techno

South Korean cultivators share features with counterparts in both the global south and north. This combination of traits has produced a diversity of sources that underpin a food sovereignty movement. A case study of t’ojong, or native, seed activism illustrates how local systems of meaning and particular constellations of interests make food sovereignty appealing to a broad coalition of farmers, c

Global climate change is one of the greatest environmental threats facing humanity and it is affecting every country on every continent. Recent evidence confirms a close liaison between climate change induced hazards and the built environment, as the built environment demonstrates a high fragility and vulnerability to hazardous situations. The impact of climate change is particularly pertinent to

Academic discussion of climate-related human mobility has understandably focused on the places where people are especially vulnerable to climate-related harm: the Global South. Yet, the unique biophysical, legal and socio-political characteristics of the Nordic region, as well as its roles as both ‘home’ and ‘host’ to climate-related mobilities, justify its independent attention. Filling this lacu

The global plastics industry is undergoing significant expansion, driven by record-scale infrastructure investments that are increasing fossil fuel demand. However, this growth has largely bypassed Europe, where mature markets, limited feedstock availability, and stringent environmental regulations prevail. Despite these constraints, in 2019 the petrochemical conglomerate INEOS announced plans for

The spread of global multistakeholder partnerships (MSPs) for the2030 Agenda for sustainable development has generatedsignificant expectations on policy synergies and transformativegovernance. This article contributes to the study of the currentgeneration of MSPs by focusing on the self-legitimation attemptsthat MSPs undertake to justify their authority. We compare theself-legitimation claims of a

Flimmer, eller närmare bestämt temporal ljusmodulering (TLM), har återigen blivit ett problem i samband med införandet av LED-baserad belysningsteknik. TLM, dvs. variationer i ljusintensiteten över tiden, kan ha en negativ inverkan på människors hälsa och orsaka irritation, huvudvärk, ögonbesvär och migrän. Förutom det onödiga lidande som TLM orsakar för enskilda personer utgör de negativa konsekv

Who should be recognized as a refugee? This article seeks to uncover the normative arguments at the core of legal and philosophical conceptions of refugeehood. It identifies three analytically distinct approaches grounding the right to refugee status and argues that all three are normatively inadequate. Refugee status should neither be grounded in individual persecution for specific reasons (class

Corporate Social Responsibility is used as an organizational strategy and with this power it has been established that it brings endless advantages, especially in market acceptance and growth of business image. In the country and in the department of Cochabamba, it is undergoing considerable development, growth and evolution, reaching the idea of it being used as a business strategy, to be include

Almost seven million Ukrainians have fled Ukraine since Russia’s large-scale invasion in February 2022. Seeking refuge in other European states, they were welcomed. However, recent analyses have emerged which point to an increasing discrimination against Ukrainian refugees who were displaced by Russia’s aggression, including in previously supportive nations like Poland. The shifting treatment and

Japan's January withdrawal of funding from the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women highlights its aversion to addressing gender equality issues at home. Despite externally presenting a commitment to progressive gender norms, a tension between Japan's international image and its domestic reality persists. Japan continues to rank low in major gender equality indexes as re

The importance of older adults’ participation in policymaking is increasingly recognized, but the nuanced participation processes remain insufficiently understood. This scoping review aims to map existing research on older adults’ participation in policymaking, focusing on who participates, their activities and contributions, resulting outputs and outcomes, and the enablers and barriers affecting

The size, structure and ‘quality’ of the population are issues of concern in contemporary East Asia, as the region is becoming enmeshed with the global economy, and competitiveness increasingly centers on ‘a fitting’ human capital. While Singapore is located in Southeast Asia geographically speaking, it is culturally linked to East Asia in terms of its heritage of Confucianism and the Chinese lang