Axel Lofgren
Biographic Data
| ID | 148291 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Axel Lofgren |
| GIVEN NAMES | Axel |
| FAMILY NAME | Lofgren |
| SIGNATURE | LOFGREN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Gothenburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4528-1753 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 75 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Mapping sustainability in higher education: A natural language processing analysis of student theses
This paper examines the integration of sustainability in higher education, focusing on how business, economics, and finance students relate their work to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We develop SustainSight, an inference engine using natural language processing to assess sustainability content in written text. Using SustainSight, we analyze over 23,000 bachelor’s and master’s theses from the five largest Swedish universities offering…
A risk framework for optimising policies for deep decarbonisation technologies
Massive resource infusion and coordination between state and market actors are needed to develop and diffuse deep decarbonisation technologies. This makes wise policy design imperative. Policy-makers are confronted with a plethora of diverging views on which policies are preferable for a low carbon transition, and which interventions, such as R&D funding, information, environmental taxes, or bans, should be employed to achieve necessary and suffi…
Brick by brick: Governing industry decarbonization in the face of uncertainty and risk
Basic materials such as steel and cement have been instrumental to modern society, but the production requires high energy inputs and is associated with significant CO2 emissions. Long investment cycles, slow turnover rate of the capital stock, and high capital intensity mean that basic materials industries are among the economic activities that will be the most difficult to decarbonize. Although the importance of addressing industrial emissions …
Covid-19: Large-scale collective action, government intervention, and the importance of trust
On the preconditions for large-scale collective action
The phenomenon of collective action and the origin of collective action problems have been extensively and systematically studied in the social sciences. Yet, while we have substantial knowledge about the factors promoting collective action at the local level, we know far less about how these insights travel to large-scale collective action problems. Such problems, however, are at the heart of humanity’s most pressing challenges, including climat…
Policy design for the Anthropocene
Higher education for sustainability: Can education affect moral perceptions
A considerable literature looks at universities’ approaches to integrating sustainable development into teaching and learning, but less is known about how Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) affects student attitudes, values and norms. To our knowledge, only a few studies have quantified such effects of changes in curricula. This study contributes to this literature by quantifying and measuring the effect of a compulsory sustainability ac…
Doing Fence Sitting: A Discursive Analysis of Clinical Psychologists’ Constructions of Mental Health
A growing body of research indicates that the way health care professionals conceptualize mental health might have important clinical implications. We adopted a discursive psychology approach to explore clinical psychologists' accounts of mental health and its effects. Semistructured interviews were conducted with 11 clinical psychologists in the East Midlands region of the United Kingdom. The participants constructed mental health through buildi…
What Have We Learnt from the European Union’s Emissions Trading System
Is fairness blind?—The effect of framing on preferences for effort-sharing rules
Climate change in a public goods game: Investment decision in mitigation versus adaptation
Covid-19: Large-scale collective action, government intervention, and the importance of trust
Policy design for the Anthropocene
On the preconditions for large-scale collective action
The phenomenon of collective action and the origin of collective action problems have been extensively and systematically studied in the social sciences. Yet, while we have substantial knowledge about the factors promoting collective action at the local level, we know far less about how these insights travel to large-scale collective action problems. Such problems, however, are at the heart of humanity’s most pressing challenges, including climat…
Doing Fence Sitting: A Discursive Analysis of Clinical Psychologists’ Constructions of Mental Health
A growing body of research indicates that the way health care professionals conceptualize mental health might have important clinical implications. We adopted a discursive psychology approach to explore clinical psychologists' accounts of mental health and its effects. Semistructured interviews were conducted with 11 clinical psychologists in the East Midlands region of the United Kingdom. The participants constructed mental health through buildi…
Brick by brick: Governing industry decarbonization in the face of uncertainty and risk
Basic materials such as steel and cement have been instrumental to modern society, but the production requires high energy inputs and is associated with significant CO2 emissions. Long investment cycles, slow turnover rate of the capital stock, and high capital intensity mean that basic materials industries are among the economic activities that will be the most difficult to decarbonize. Although the importance of addressing industrial emissions …
What Have We Learnt from the European Union’s Emissions Trading System
Higher education for sustainability: Can education affect moral perceptions
A considerable literature looks at universities’ approaches to integrating sustainable development into teaching and learning, but less is known about how Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) affects student attitudes, values and norms. To our knowledge, only a few studies have quantified such effects of changes in curricula. This study contributes to this literature by quantifying and measuring the effect of a compulsory sustainability ac…
Climate change in a public goods game: Investment decision in mitigation versus adaptation
Is fairness blind?—The effect of framing on preferences for effort-sharing rules
What Have We Learnt from the European Union’s Emissions Trading System
Doing Fence Sitting: A Discursive Analysis of Clinical Psychologists’ Constructions of Mental Health
A growing body of research indicates that the way health care professionals conceptualize mental health might have important clinical implications. We adopted a discursive psychology approach to explore clinical psychologists' accounts of mental health and its effects. Semistructured interviews were conducted with 11 clinical psychologists in the East Midlands region of the United Kingdom. The participants constructed mental health through buildi…
Higher education for sustainability: Can education affect moral perceptions
A considerable literature looks at universities’ approaches to integrating sustainable development into teaching and learning, but less is known about how Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) affects student attitudes, values and norms. To our knowledge, only a few studies have quantified such effects of changes in curricula. This study contributes to this literature by quantifying and measuring the effect of a compulsory sustainability ac…
Policy design for the Anthropocene
Covid-19: Large-scale collective action, government intervention, and the importance of trust
On the preconditions for large-scale collective action
The phenomenon of collective action and the origin of collective action problems have been extensively and systematically studied in the social sciences. Yet, while we have substantial knowledge about the factors promoting collective action at the local level, we know far less about how these insights travel to large-scale collective action problems. Such problems, however, are at the heart of humanity’s most pressing challenges, including climat…
A risk framework for optimising policies for deep decarbonisation technologies
Massive resource infusion and coordination between state and market actors are needed to develop and diffuse deep decarbonisation technologies. This makes wise policy design imperative. Policy-makers are confronted with a plethora of diverging views on which policies are preferable for a low carbon transition, and which interventions, such as R&D funding, information, environmental taxes, or bans, should be employed to achieve necessary and suffi…
Brick by brick: Governing industry decarbonization in the face of uncertainty and risk
Basic materials such as steel and cement have been instrumental to modern society, but the production requires high energy inputs and is associated with significant CO2 emissions. Long investment cycles, slow turnover rate of the capital stock, and high capital intensity mean that basic materials industries are among the economic activities that will be the most difficult to decarbonize. Although the importance of addressing industrial emissions …
Mapping sustainability in higher education: A natural language processing analysis of student theses
This paper examines the integration of sustainability in higher education, focusing on how business, economics, and finance students relate their work to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We develop SustainSight, an inference engine using natural language processing to assess sustainability content in written text. Using SustainSight, we analyze over 23,000 bachelor’s and master’s theses from the five largest Swedish universities offering…
Economics (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Business (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Climate Change Policy and Economics (4 works) · Ecology (3 works) · Engineering (3 works)