News from the House of Sustainable Society

Climate change is making droughts more frequent and severe in many parts of the world, but can stronger primary healthcare help communities cope with the health impacts? 

Giving families information about the health benefits of cleaner water may not be enough to change behavior for good. A field experiment in Karachi, Pakistan, finds that families were much more likely to keep chlorinating their water when both they and their neighbors had learned from their own experience.

Torkel Strömsten has been appointed interim Center Director of the House of Sustainable Society. He will lead the center during Martina Björkman Nyqvist’s one-year sabbatical, continuing to strengthen the House’s interdisciplinary research on sustainability. 

Stable wage jobs for women can reshape local economies far beyond the workplace. New research from Kenya's booming cut-flower industry shows that rural employment can spur the growth of small towns, raise living standards, and even influence family decisions.

New research shows that rising income inequality can make fuel taxes relatively more burdensome for lower-income households. The findings suggest that the fairness of climate policies can change over time, even when the policies themselves remain unchanged.

Sustainability programs are often designed to improve working conditions and environmental performance. New research shows that they also influence how responsibility for sustainability is distributed across global supply chains.