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The thesis deals with power and control in public health interventions in Sweden using structured parental support programs. The aim is to visualize how parents and children's relationships are described and discussed in manuals and courses intended for all parents with children between the ages of 0 and 17 and how the children themselves describe in their family. By using theories of power and governing, the thesis aims to study how the parent-child relationship is regulated through normative discourses and power processes in selected parenting courses (Connect and ABC). The thesis also wants to give children a voice about their position in the family. The interest of the thesis is how preventive work, through structured courses, currently used in universal parenting training, can contribute to promote children's health. Previous research on universal parenting training in Sweden is based primarily on health economic calculations and quantitative assessments of behavioural changes in children and parents. This thesis instead wants to study the values and methodology of parenting training programs and the children's experiences in their family when parents have participated in parenting courses. With a children´s rights perspective, the thesis also wishes to highlight the parenting support in relation to the children's situation. The thesis contains four qualitative studies. Two are conducted with discourse analysis (Study I and III) and two use content analysis (Study II and IV). Study I examines two public investigations from 1947 and 2008, both of which deal with child rearing, parenting and parenting education. Study II explores the contents of the course manuals of the Canadian Connect program and Swedish All Children in Focus (ABC) in relation to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Study III examines how principles about parental skills and children's actions are reflected in the parenting courses. Study IV describes children's experiences of being children in the families where the parents have participated in a parenting course. The findings in study I show that society's views on parents' relational ability in both investigations creates the prerequisite for acting politically for universal parenting training. The children's position is subordinate to adults in the investigations. Furthermore, in Study II, it appears that the content of both program manuals (Connect and ABC) is in accordance with Swedish public health policies, where parental ability can be seen as a protective factor for children's development. The study also shows that the courses can both restrain and promote children's participation. Study III shows that leaders at course meetings encourage parents to improve their parenting through self-control and conflict management. Parental capacity is seen as a determinant for children's development and health. In study IV, with children´s interviews, the children´s relate their views on the relationship with their parents and the children´s own relational ability. Throughout the thesis the findings show how an adult perspective is used to deal with conflicts and stabilize relationships in the family. An adult ambition to understand children and promote good relationships within the family is hampered by the concern of both society and parents for the parental child rearing ability. This concern can contribute to an uneven balance of power between adults and children. Preventive manual-based parenting training offers limited scope for children's influence in a health-promoting public health context. Children's experiences should thus be captured when society provides parenting support.

Book reviewed in this article: Susan B. Anthony: A Biography of a Singular Feminist. Kathleen Barry. New York and London: New York University Press, 1988, 426 pages. Samhällsvetenskapens klassiker (The Classics of the Social Sciences). Margareta Bertilsson and Bjorn Hansson, eds. Studentlitteratur, Lund, Sweden, 1988. Feminist Perspectives on Wife Abuse, edited by Kersti Yllo and Michele Bograd. Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1988, 318 pages, $35.00, hardback, $16.95, paperback. The New Black Middle Class. Bart Landry. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1987, xi + 250 pages, $22.50. Families and Economic Distress: Coping Strategies and Social Policy, edited by Patricia Voydanoff and Linda C. Majka. Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1988, 306 pages, $29.95 hardcover, $14.95 softcover.

The Nordic region is jointly in an excellent position to deploy innovative technologies due to ambitious energy and climate policy goals, as well as extensive research programs. This is illustrated by the numerous activities taking place and the vast industrial interest in these emerging solutions. In fact, the Nordic governments are working closely with private actors to boost the introduction of low-carbon solution and the inclusive process undertaken by many Nordic countries also ensures prudent policies. This report has mapped the strengths of the Nordic countries and has also highlighted the promising synergies between their efforts. Building on this identification, the report concludes with recommendations and remarks on national, Nordic and international level – which have the potential to further unlock large-scale deployment of hydrogen, electrofuels, CCUS in the Nordic region.

The First 1000 Days in the Nordic Countries is a three-year Nordic collaborative project that aims to support mental health and wellbeing during the first years of life. This report applies findings from the project's two earlier reports to propose policy recommendations to better support children's mental health and wellbeing during the early years. Nordic governments are encouraged to: Recognize the importance of the first 1000 days of life for lifelong mental health and wellbeing; Provide comprehensive support for parents during children's first 1000 days of life; Identify and respond systematically to risk factors early in life; Improve equity and quality in services for young children and their families; Strengthen cross-sectoral collaboration for the benefit of young children and their families; and Advance research, knowledge and understanding about the first 1000 days of life.

The Nordic countries are dedicated to working towards carbon neutral and inclusive societies. With this joint commitment, the Nordic Council of Ministers will advance learning and advocacy on how climate action is critically strengthened by gender equality. Embedding a gender perspective in Nordic climate action is a prerequisite for reaching the Nordic vision of becoming the most sustainable and integrated region in the world by 2030. The commitment joins Generation Equality convened by UN Women. It is part of Feminist Action for Climate Justice, one of six Action Coalitions, bringing together governments, corporations, civil society, and change makers on a journey to achieve irreversible progress towards gender equality.

The study identifies and elaborates options for the basic financial set-up and approaches to resource mobilisation and delivery that ensure an effective national and international operation and implementation of a global agreement on plastic pollution. Four key messages stand out: 1. The transition to a more circular global plastics economyprovides significant environmental, economic and social opportunities. 2. The current availability, mobilisation and provision of public and private financial resources is overall insufficient 3. Substantial contributions from business actors in the global plastics economy are needed to mobilise and provide sufficient financial resources. 4. An effective global agreement on plastic pollution can establish a legislative framework that stimulates necessary investments and that assists countries in mobilising and delivering financial resources.

Policy makers, educators, and scholars observe with interest how Nordic countries organise services for the education and care of the youngest children. The 'Nordic model' of ECEC has become synonymous with a holistic, children's rights-based approach to pedagogy, grounded in democratic values. But as societies keep changing, what exactly characterises the 'Nordic model' today? Given the diversity between and within countries, are there common principles?We investigated the values and principles that underpin the evaluation of early childhood education and care in five Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden). We found that a 'Nordic' approach to evaluation still exists, although it is changing, not least under the influence of wider international developments. An important aspect of the 'Nordic' approach is the central role given to the local and municipal context.

Nordisk Ministerråd har noteret sig FNs anbefalinger om at tage initiativer til at sikre de grundlæggende retsstatslige og demokratiske værdier i forbindelse med offentlig digitalisering og om at overveje tech-industriens stigende indflydelse på de offentlige administrationer. De fællesnordiske værdier om demokrati, retsstat, retssikkerhed og tillid mellem borgere og myndigheder bør bæres med ind i den digitale tidsalder. Derfor har Nordisk Ministerråd iværksat et pilot-projekt, der på baggrund af input og informationer fra myndigheder og prøvelsesinstanser i Norge, Sverige, Færørene, Finland og Danmark udpeger relevante temaer og initiativer. Teamet bag rapporten vurderer, at der er behov for, at: · styrke vidensdeling om praksis fra prøvelses- og tilsynsinstanser i de nordiske og baltiske lande · afdække og analysere de forfatnings- og menneskeretlige rammer for offentlig digitalisering og vurdere, om de forvaltningsretlige regler støtter op om, at offentlig digitalisering sker inden for disse overordnede rammer · undersøge digitaliseringens påvirkning af styrings- og ansvarskonstruktioner i de digitale forvaltninger og eventuelt også domstolsadministrationerne · undersøge lovgivningsmæssige tendenser, hvilke hensyn en given udvikling hviler på og vurdere denne i lyset af grundlæggende retssikkerhedsmæssige og retsstatslige værdier · retsvidenskabelig forskning indgår som en integreret del af projekter, der relaterer sig til offentlig digitalisering inden for de fællesnordiske forskningsprogrammer. Nordisk Ministerråd vil nu overveje, hvordan rådet kan støtte op om, at anvendelse af de digitale muligheder sker på en sådan måde, at der værnes om fællesnordiske værdier.

The Nordic energy ministers present a new Nordic energy policy co-operation programme for the period 2022–2024. The Nordic Region wants to be the most sustainable and integrated region in the world by 2030, and that is also the overall vision for co-operation on energy. A green transition of the Nordic societies will not be possible without a substantial green energy transition. As the Nordic energy systems are closely linked, working together on joint initiatives will lead to a green transition that is more cost-effective and socially sustainable than if the countries were each to achieve the goals individually. In 2020, the Nordic Council of Ministers for Energy Policy (MR-E) adopted seven focus areas as input into the action plan for Our Vision 2030. These will structure Nordic energy co-operation during the period covered by the programme and be at the heart of all of the work: - The green transition of the energy sector - Closer collaboration on research to aid the green transition - Nordic co-operation in the electricity market - Energy efficiency, technology and behavioural change - Working together on EU/EEA-related energy questions - Social acceptance of new energy plants and the green transition - The green transition of the transport sector.

How are the Nordic countries, and the Faroe Islands, Greenland, and Åland working on the 2030 Agenda and the 17 SDGs? This review provides the answers, with an emphasis on the national political structures for implementing the 2030 Agenda, i.e. action plans with national and international prioritisations, along with follow-up work and areas for improvement. The aim of the review is to create a factually based overview of the Nordic countries' work on the 2030 Agenda, where the relevant basic information can be found easily, with links to websites and other material, for each of the Nordic countries.

Gender-based violence is defined as harmful acts directed at an individual or a group of individuals based on their gender. Online gender-based violence is a serious concern in the Nordics and has consequences for both individuals and society as a whole. It threatens gender equality, security, democracy and the freedom of speech. As part of the Presidency of the Nordic Council of Ministers for Gender Equality and LGBTI in 2021, Finland has hosted an online conference "Gender-based Hate, Threat and Harassment on the Internet". The aim of the conference held on 10 - 11 June 2021 was to recognize good practices and concrete measures to prevent online gender-based violence in the Nordic region. This publication consists of key takeaways from the conference presented by Gender Equality and Inclusion Expert Elina Nikulainen.

A report commissioned by the Finnish presidency in the Nordic Council of Ministers, written by Nea Alasaari and Sara Sundell, maps the legislation and national curriculums steering early childhood education and care (ECEC), studies made related to gender equality and ECEC during 2010–2021 and practises and tools to promote gender equality in preschools in the Nordic region.

This thesis explores risk, peripheralisation and normalisation in the case of the maternity ward closure at Sollefteå Hospital, located inland in the Swedish region of Västernorrland. When the ward closed in 2017, it drew significant media attention and political discussions on the continuous cuts to Swedish maternity care and the growing economic gap between urban and rural areas – discussions that actualised questions of power and risk. This thesis, building on newspaper articles and interviews with expectant parents and midwives in Sollefteå, uses feminist risk theory to 1) investigate the experiences of those directly affected by the closure, i.e. expectant parents and midwives at the ward and 2) explore how the theoretical approach of 'doing risk' can be used to deepen our understanding of the processes of peripheralisation and normalisation. The two aims are addressed in four empirical studies and in the Discussion and Concluding remarks. I conclude that three peripheralisation processes were at work in the closure of BB Sollefteå: peripheralisation of women's risks, periheralisation of people in rural municipalities from the welfare state and peripheralisation of small-ward work practices in the healthcare discourse. I also found that the closure made Swedish norms on childbirth and discourses on family visible, predominantly manifested through the 'gender-equal nuclear family' norm, which repeated in the material. Further, addressing the thesis' second aim, I conclude that normalisation and peripheralisation can be seen as regulatory practices, which in different ways are structured around risk and power. In this context, 'doing risk' helps to theorize how these concepts intersect, and relate to ideology, and thus contributes to a better understanding of ideological processes in contemporary societies. ; Vid tidpunkten för disputationen var följande delarbete opublicerat: delarbete 4 inskickat. At the time of the doctoral defence the following paper was unpublished: paper 4 submitted.

The project is concerned with sustainability in compulsory education in the Nordic countries and is part of the Iceland Presidency Project for the Nordic Council of Ministers initiated in 2018. The overall focus of the Presidency Project is on young people but this report looks at policy, curricula, teacher education and school practices. The analysis shows both similarities and differences across the Nordic Region. Compulsory education in the Nordic countries share some striking similarities, reflecting a strong emphasis on certain aspects of sustainability such as equality, democracy.Although sustainability education has a clear application in the fields of social and political life and economic activities in all of the Nordic countries, it is still the case that when sustainability education is discussed, an environmental perspective is most often taken.