Environmental justice communities, those disproportionately affected by pollutants, are simultaneously exposed to multiple environmental stressors and also experience social and cultural factors that may heighten their health risks in comparison to other communities. Availability of fine-grained, community-level data is limited…
The Center for Policy Research on Energy and the Environment at Princeton University/SPIA is sending a delegation of students, researchers, and faculty to attend COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt from November 6-18. We will be hosting two livestreams from Egypt on:
During World War II, the Army hired women to hand-calculate ballistics trajectories for artillery firing tables. But these differential calculus equations took over 2 dozen hours by hand, and the Army needed thousands of them. In an attempt to speed up the calculations, the Army agreed to fund the creation of a truly…
Carles Boix, Robert Garrett Professor in Politics and Professor of Public Affairs, Princeton University
The Value of Democracy
Andreu Arenas (University of Barcelona & Princeton University), Alícia Adserà (Princeton University) and Carles Boix (Princeton University)
Frances Lee, Professor of Politics and Public Affairs, Princeton University
High Stakes Negotiation: Reaching Agreement on Pandemic Aid in 2020
Christopher Bertram, American University
Bettina Poirier, American University
Stephen Rapp was United States Ambassador-at-Large heading the Office of Global Criminal Justice during 2009-2015, where he coordinated US Government support for international, hybrid, and national courts and tribunals prosecuting atrocity crimes. From 2007-2009, Ambassador Rapp served as prosecutor of the Special Court for…
FUNG PUBLIC TALK
Are citizens' assemblies a solution to solve two pressing crises: democratic dissatisfaction and climate emergency? The Citizens' Convention for Climate, and the Great National Debate in France, or the Conference on the Future of Europe, were attempts presented as new initiatives. Recently, many climate…
