Browsing Senter for utvikling og miljø by Author "Witoszek, Nina"

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  • A History of Possible Futures: Multipath Forecasting of Social breakdown, Recovery and Resilience 
    Turchin, Peter; Witoszek, Nina; Thurner, Stefan; Garcia, David; Griffin, Roger; Hoyer, Daniel; Midttun, Atle; Bennett, James; Næss, Knut Myrum; Gavrilets, Sergey (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
    Recent years have seen major political crises throughout the world, and foreign policy analysts nearly universally expect to see rising tensions within (and between) countries in the next 5–20 years. Being able to predict ...
  • A Multilevel Selection Model for Prosocial Well-Being 
    Larsen, Mads; Witoszek, Nina; Chun Yeung, June (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
    This article proposes an evolutionary model for well-being informed by multilevel selection. We posit that people’s subjective assessment of their own quality of life is the sum their happiness, which is related to individual ...
  • Deep ecology: Life after Life? 
    Witoszek, Nina; Mueller, Martin Lee (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2017)
    This chapter interrogates the intellectual robustness and mobilizing potential of Arne Naess’s deep ecology in the 21st century. Our contention is that deep ecology is not a spent force, as some influential Western ...
  • Evolutionary Perspectives on Enhancing the Quality of Life 
    Larsen, Mads; Witoszek, Nina (Book / Bok / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
    Positive psychology is a thriving field with increasing political influence, yet there are few evolutionary studies that have had a tangible impact on rethinking mechanisms of well-being. This Element reviews existing ...
  • Humanism Under Siege: The Janus Face of Modern Revolution of Dignity 
    Witoszek, Nina (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
    The article interprets the crisis of liberal democracy in the 21st century as the result of an ongoing, dual revolution of dignity. One such revolution is the work of “humanist outliers”: small groups and individuals ...
  • Strategies of Prosociality: Comparing Nordic and Slavonic Altruism toward Ukrainian Refugees 
    Larsen, Mads; Witoszek, Nina (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
    Nordic high-trust societies are underpinned by prosociality , a term denoting cooperation and working for the good of others. State-funded voluntarism provides opportunities for altruism that appears to contribute to the ...
  • Teaching Sustainability in Norway, China and Ghana: Challenges to the UN Programme 
    Witoszek, Nina (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2017)
    The article compares how the UN-initiated education for sustainable development (ESD) has fared in three seemingly dissimilar countries: Norway, a wealthy, ‘post-materialist’ liberal democracy, Ghana, a developing democratic ...
  • The Competitive Advantage of Collaboration – Throwing New Light on The Nordic Model 
    Midttun, Atle; Witoszek, Nina (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
    In one of the most influential contributions to modern political economy, Hall and Soskice have launched a distinction between ‘liberal’ and ‘coordinated’ market economies, placing the Nordic countries firmly in the latter ...