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Salience, Credibility, Legitimacy and Boundaries: Linking Research, Assessment and Decision Making
(2003)
The boundary between science and policy is only one of several boundaries that hinder the linking of scientific and technical information to decision making. Managing boundaries between disciplines, across scales of geography ...
Preventing Nuclear Terrorism: A Progress Update
(Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School. Nuclear Threat Initiative., 2003)
Controlling Nuclear Warheads and Materials: A Report Card and Action Plan
(Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School. Nuclear Threat Initiative., 2003)
The Economics of Reprocessing vs. Direct Disposal of Spent Nuclear Fuel
(2003)
This report assesses the economics of reprocessing versus direct disposal of spent nuclear fuel. The breakeven uranium price at which reprocessing spent nuclear fuel from existing light-water reactors (LWRs) and recycling ...
Knowledge systems for sustainable development
(Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2003)
The challenge of meeting human development needs while protecting the earth's life support systems confronts scientists, technologists, policy makers, and communities from local to global levels. Many believe that science ...
Sustainability Science: The Emerging Research Program
(Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2003)
The last decade has witnessed the emergence of an array of increasingly vibrant movements to harness science and technology (S&T) in the quest for a transition toward sustainability. These movements take as their point of ...
The Rise and Fall of the Indonesian Economy
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2003-06)
The Indonesia crisis was particularly severe. What began as an economic crisis quickly evolved in to a political crisis. Most analysts failed to recognize the growing weaknesses of the economy and were caught by surprise. ...
Political Institutions and Economic Growth in Africa
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2003-03)
In this paper we (a) review the literature on the so-called "African dummy"; (b) describe the system GMM method of estimation, by which Hoeffler (2002) shows the "Africa dummy" to be an artifact of the application of ...
Providing “Better” Data: Not as Simple as It Might Seem
(Informa UK Limited, 2003-05)