Resources

Authors: the staff of the New England Climate Adaptation Project. Coastal Flooding in Shoreham: Responding to Climate Change Risks is a seven-person, multi-issue facilitated negotiation among local government, community, business, and environmental representatives trying to reach agreement on a strategy for managing climate change risks in a medium-sized coastal community. The game focuses on the difficulties of minimizing coastal flooding and storm damage through flood protection infrastructure...

The traditional, linear approach to policy-making involves defining and framing problems to be addressed; drafting solutions and evaluating their efficacy and viability; working through the political, legal and institutional processes to get solutions adopted into practice; and ultimately implementing them. Occasionally, policies and practices are modified when it becomes clear that they are not delivering as planned, but evaluation is often cursory and not well integrated into the decision...

2012. Author: Jenna Kay. Collaborative adaptive management (CAM) is a natural resource management approach in which a diverse group of stakeholders iteratively plan, implement, monitor, evaluate and adjust management actions to reduce uncertainty and improve decisions over time. In practice, few examples of successful CAM have been identified. This study examines three efforts in the southwestern United States: the Las Cienegas Adaptive Management Program and two projects in the Malpai...

2013. Author: Erica Simmons. In controversies over environmental management, participants often call for policies based on the best available science. However, environmental controversies are rarely simply disputes over scientific knowledge; instead, they are driven by stakeholders' conflicting interests and values. In this context, science often becomes a part of the political dispute, used and interpreted differently by different actors in the policy process. Scientists, therefore, face the...

2011. Author: Deborah Lightman. Social marketing has long been used in the field of public health, but its application in the environmental world is only a decade old. Although McKenzie-Mohr and Smith's (1999) guide to "community-based social marketing" (CBSM) has gained increasing support, there have been few attempts to delineate when CBSM can (and should) be used. In this thesis, I explore the use of CBSM at the neighborhood scale: first, to encourage the uptake of rain barrels and rain...

2022. Author: M. Hopkins. CSR and Sustainability promotes the need for social responsibility and sustainability and highlights their link with the big issues of society. It shows how science and positive thinking by humankind can prevent oft-vouched disasters due to human rights violation, global warming, growing income inequality (relative poverty), racism, gender discrimination and continuing absolute poverty. It looks at CSR in the US context and compares it with what has been going on in...

2022. Authors: I. Gándara, Picciano, P., Gerzsten, A., and Lane, N. While extractive energy industries such as coal have played a critical role in driving the Navajo Nation’s economy for decades, closures of coal mines and coal-fired power plants are and will be coming at the cost of local employment, revenue, energy sources, and other services in the region. Navajo Power, a Public Benefits Corporation with a majority Native board, strives to empower communities on the Navajo Nation through...

2019. Journal of Cyber Policy. Authors: G. Falco, Noriega, A., and Susskind, L. Technical tools dominate the cyber risk management market. Social cybersecurity tools are severely underutilised in helping organisations defend themselves against cyberattacks. We investigate a class of non-technical risk mitigation strategies and tools that might be particularly effective in managing and mitigating the effects of certain cyberattacks. We call these social-science-grounded methods Defensive Social...

2022. Authors: L. Susskind, Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School. Professor Lawrence Susskind presents information on a new technique in the Defensive Social Engineering toolbox of Cyber Negotiation. This is a new class of non-technical strategies against cyberattacks being developed. Cyber defenders can use Defensive Social Engineering along with technical tools to defeat or compromise attackers.

2018. Author: Greg Falco. Our cities are under attack. Urban critical infrastructure which includes the electric grid, water networks, transportation systems and public health and safety services are constantly being targeted by cyberattacks. Urban critical infrastructure has been increasingly connected to the internet for the purpose of operational convenience and efficiency as part of the growing Industrial Internet of Things (HoT). Unfortunately, when deciding to connect these systems, their...

2023. Author: K. Dunning. The conventional wisdom on coral reef management tells us that decentralized management, where the government shares power with local people, has both economic and ecological benefits. Three decades of research show that grassroots, stakeholder-focused management allows communities to collaboratively and sustainably manage reefs. “The people” began demanding a seat at the table in the 1990s, with decentralized management even becoming a requirement for international...

2013. Author: Carri Hulet. For decades, collaboration practitioners have been experimenting with different methods to address "wicked problems" - social policy issues that are impossible to define, affect multiple stakeholders, and must be addressed even though they cannot be solved. One challenge with these difficult issues is generating a range of acceptable options to choose from before decisions are made or processes stalled. This thesis explores an experimental brainstorming method called a...