Science, Technology, Policy, Power

The Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC) requires all of its regulated utilities to perform an Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) every two year...

The notion of anticipatory governance is intriguing to me. As discussed in previous classes, the notion of prediction and reliable modeling ...

Anticipatory governance, with its concentration on foresight, engagement, and integration (roughly forecasting technological change, engagin...

Miller and Bennett (2008, 597) argue that “efforts to grapple with long-term societal implications of technological change must pursue a m...

Rayner (2009) argues that trust can lead to successful transformation of energy systems. He identifies trust as a key concept in his res...

Anticipatory governance is predicated on the notion that co-production of technology for the benefit of society is possible and relevant dur...

Science Magazine posted an article in the April 1 st 2011 issue called “Scientific Consensus on Great Quake Came Too Late.” The auth...

Wilsdon and Willis walk us through some of the past attempts to democratize science highlighting the UK’s failure of the Public Understandin...

This is one of my favorite topics. Though it wasn’t explicitly labeled as such, it deals with several topics including Governance, public o...

Democratizing Science Democratizing science can involve increased upstream participation of the general public and benefit policy makers by ...

Science in the 20th century produced miracles. Physicists discovered the fundamental building blocks of the universe, chemists invented alm...