CSPO News Announcements

• Socio-energy systems design: A policy framework for energy transitions

  A new article by Clark A. Miller, Jennifer Richter and Jason O’Leary published in Energy Research & Social Science says significant changes to energy systems increasingly are accompanied by social, economic, and political shifts, and energy policy is a problem of socio-energy system design. The article offers a definition of socio-energy systems and reconceptualizes key questions in energy policy in terms of socio-energy systems change.

• The Frankenstein Bicentennial Project

  Three Arizona State University researchers, including the co-director of CSPO, Dave Guston, have received a grant from the National Science Foundation to lead a workshop to build a global, multi-institutional network of collaborators to celebrate the bicentennial of the publication of Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus.”