CSPO News
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Advancing Research on Climate Resilience
((Focus)) on water and energy infrastructure around climate change.
CSPO continues to be at the cutting edge of worldwide efforts to understand and enhance the resilience of technological infrastructures to climate change.
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Globalization and Discontent
An article by Clark Miller published in Social Epistemology: A Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Policy
The concept of social license to operate was forged in the crucible between globalization—which has radically decentralized the ability of organizations to operate wherever they choose—and the rise of oppositional social movements, newly empowered to confront global actors infringing on their communities.
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Informing NASA’s Asteroid Initiative
A Citizen Forum
In its history, the Earth has been repeatedly struck by asteroids, large chunks of rock from space that can cause considerable damage in a collision. Can we—or should we—try to protect Earth from potentially hazardous impacts?
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Sonoran SciComm Workshop for Sustainability
Erik Fisher was the music leader for a Sonoran Science Communication workshop, which Tom Seager organized. The participants learned and recorded a song Fisher wrote for the occasion entitled “Desert Rain.“
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The “Digital Native,” a Profitable Myth
Are there actual “digital natives” or is the idea really a myth?
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Adaptive Pathways to Climate Change in Nepal
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View the first in a video series depicting some initial findings in the Adaptive Pathways to Climate Change in Nepal project.
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Biometrics are coming for you
Jathan Sadowski authored a new opinion piece in Al Jazeera America on biometrics and issues of politics, power, and identity.
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Where Are Today’s Engineering Heroes?
CSPO Professor of Practice Gregg Zachary’s cover story in IEEE Spectrum launches a new public crusade: Engineering needs more heroes.
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Exploring ethical reasoning among climate negotiators
Manjana Milkoreit explores how policy-makers and advisors, diplomats, or representatives of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) think about their own and others’ ethical obligations in climate change negotiation.