Biography
Dr. Per Wikman-Svahn is a Researcher in the Department of Philosophy and History at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. He is expert on philosophical aspects of managing risks and uncertainty. He has extensive experience with scenario-methodology and research into emerging technologies and autonomous systems, including in several EU-wide research collaborations on future studies funded by the EU Research and Innovation Programmes. Dr. Wikman-Svahn leads research projects on robust decision-making for deep uncertainty and how to use future scenarios to create a sustainable and ethical adaptation to climate change, philosophical aspects of worst-case scenarios, and values in climate modelling.
Selected Publications
- Carlsson Kanyama, A., Zapico, J.L., Holmberg, C., and Wikman-Svahn, P. (2024) “The Greatest Benefit Is to Think Differently”: Experiences of Developing and Using a Web-Based Tool for Decision-Making under Deep Uncertainty for Adaptation to Sea Level Rise in Municipalities. Sustainability 16, p. 2044.
- Undorf S., Pulkkinen K., Wikman-Svahn P., Bender F.A.. (2022) How do value-judgements enter model-based assessments of climate sensitivity? Climatic Change, 174(3), pp. 1–26.
- Pulkkinen, K., Undorf, S., Bender, F., Wikman-Svahn, P., Doblas-Reyes, F., Flynn, C., Hegerl, G.C., Jönsson, A., Leung, G.K., Roussos, J. and Shepherd, T.G. (2022) The value of values in climate science. Nature Climate Change, pp.1-3.
- Wikman-Svahn, P., (2021) The flow of values in environmental risk assessments. In Research Ethics for Environmental Health (pp. 198-208). Taylor & Francis.
- Wedin, A., Wikman–Svahn, P. A (2021) “Value Sensitive Scenario Planning Method for Adaptation to Uncertain Future Sea Level Rise.” Sci Eng Ethics, 27, 69. (2021).https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-021-00347-0