CSPO News

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Social Planning for Energy Transitions

  Clark A. Miller and Jennifer Richter published an article in Current Sustainable/Renewable Energy Reports on the social dimensions of energy policy development.

• Creating a taxonomic tool for technocracy and applying it to Silicon Valley

  Jathan Sadowski has co-authored an article in Technology in Society to advance theoretical understanding of the nature and scope of technocracy.

• Unbelievable Roadmap

  At the Arizona Science Center, Ira Bennett recently participated on a panel of biomedical policy, education, and research leaders discussing where Arizona needs to go next.

• Electric Utility Spiral

  E. Graffy

  Elisa Graffy, Professor of Practice at CSPO and Co-Director of Energy Policy, Law and Governance for ASU LightWorks, has a new article in the Energy Law Journal, which is available by open access at the journal website.

• Interview with Chief Editor of Journal of Responsible Innovation

  An interview with David Guston, Chief Editor of the new Journal of Responsible Innovation, explores the objectives behind the development of this new publication.

• Our High-Energy Planet

  The first report of the Climate Pragmatism project

  Drastically improved efforts to provide modern energy access to the poor opens up a new approach to development efforts and action on climate change, an international group of energy and environment scholars say in a new report, Our High-Energy Planet.