Abstract The United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide guide-posts to
society as it attempts to respond to an array of pressing challenges. One of these challenges …

Regions and cities face unceasing pressures to adapt in response to processes of
globalization, changes in industrial production, and new patterns of migration and trade. At …

Social capital—the strength of an individual's social network and community—has been
identified as a potential determinant of outcomes ranging from education to health …

While degraded trust and cohesion within a country are often shown to have large socio-
economic impacts, they can also have dramatic consequences when compliance is required …

INTRODUCTION A growing body of research suggests that populations around the globe
vary substantially along several important psychological dimensions and that populations …

We study the implications of the Great Recession for voting for antiestablishment parties, as
well as for general trust and political attitudes, using regional data across Europe. We find a …

Social distancing can slow the spread of COVID-19 if citizens comply with it and internalize
the cost of their mobility on others. We study how civic values mediate this process using …

We investigate the effect of social capital on health outcomes during the Covid-19 pandemic
in independent analyses for Austria, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden …

During the late eighteenth century, innovations in Europe triggered the Industrial Revolution
and the sustained economic progress that spread across the globe. While much has been …

This chapter takes sustainable development as the starting point and focus for analysis. It
considers the broad and multifaceted bi-directional interplay between sustainable …