Joining the Center's Behavioral Policy Works in Process noon lunch series in September will be Cass Sunstein, the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard and coauthor of Nudge.He will speak on Tuesday, September 17, on work for a new book. His talk is entitled “The Barbie Problem: Goods that People Buy But Wish Did Not…
Leading journalists and scholars look back at the Supreme Court Term just past and at what’s coming up on the Court’s docket when the 2024-25 Term opens the first Monday in October. Moderated by P*LAW Director Deborah Pearlstein, panelists discuss the Court’s most consequential rulings and the institution’s changing role in…
Frances C. Moore is an Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy and the University of California Davis. She studies the risks climate change poses to human welfare and how individuals and communities respond to mitigate those risks. Her work is highly interdisciplinary with a focus on climate…
Join us for an afternoon workshop to introduce new and returning students and researchers to the wealth of experts at Princeton University working on environmental policy issues. Open to all with beginner to expert-level knowledge of climate change science and policy! This workshop will help you consider the intersectional and…
Policy making should be informed by evidence, especially scientific evidence. But exactly how is a surprisingly tricky question. In this talk Narayanan will take a close look at the science-policy interface: how it works and how it should work. The talk will diagnose structural reasons why he believes the kind of evidence that…
Efforts to achieve decarbonization targets often fall short. Energy system modeling based on integrated assessment models (IAMs) has been used widely to assess current climate policies and quantify the additional efforts needed to close the gap. Yet, most energy modeling still lacks adequate considerations of socio-political…
Princeton SPIA in DC, in collaboration with the Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) faculty, hosted the "Princeton AI Dialogues: Expert Briefings" on Capitol Hill. Princeton Professor Arvind Narayanan, Professor Peter Henderson, and PhD candidate Sayash Kapoor delivered briefings on critical questions on…
Serving as a political appointee has notable differences from a traditional civil service career. There are both benefits and disadvantages to appointed roles; however, this discussion will posit that the advantages far outweigh their shortcomings for ambitious policy thinkers.
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Princeton University’s Program on Science and Global Security (SGS) and the Center for Policy Research on Energy and the Environment (C-PREE), part of the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, invite you to the North America launch of The World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2023 (WNISR2023).RSVP Here.
