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…
Climate change is impacting biodiversity, ecosystem function, and human well-being. Regions with stable climates can act as climate refugia that will be critical to safeguarding climate-sensitive species. However, such refugia may only be “ecologically viable” if they are not heavily degraded by human activities. This talk…
The world needs to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by mid-century for a chance at limiting warming to less than 1.5°C. Last year, the Canadian government followed the lead of other nations and legislated a goal of net-zero by 2050. Achieving this goal requires shifting from incremental to transformational approaches…
Law and computer science interact in critical ways within sociotechnical systems, and recognition is growing among computer scientists, legal scholars, and practitioners of significant gaps between these disciplines that create potential risks for privacy and data protection. These gaps need to be bridged to ensure in the…
CSDP AMERICAN POLITICS COLLOQUIUM
Sarah Anzia, Associate Professor of Public Policy & Political Science, Berkeley.
The Political Influence of City Employees: Civil Service Adoption in America
Daniel Simberloff is the Nancy Gore Hunger Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Tennessee. He received his A.B. (1964) and Ph.D. (1968) from Harvard University and was a faculty member at Florida State University from 1968 through 1997, when he joined the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the…
CSDP AMERICAN POLITICS COLLOQUIUM
Joe Soss
Cowles Chair for the Study of Public Service, University of Minnesota
Preying on the Poor: Criminal Justice as Revenue Racket
