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Many modern engineering challenges require solving
problems subject to political, legal, and regulatory constraints.
The increased reliance of modern societies on engineering systems
requires ESD researchers to consider many such constraints to
be design variables. Rather than treating regulations and policies
as given, ESD researchers investigate how they can be changes
as part of the design process. Understanding the policy-setting
process is critical to translating insights gained from modeling
and analysis into comprehensive solutions—ones that include
policy-making, engage diverse constituencies, and incorporate
implementation.
Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions for Flu
Preparedness and Response
This research focuses on the simple behavioral changes that can
reduce the incidence of infection. Merging probabilistic model
building with social science and management principles, this research
shows that simple, non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) could
significantly reduce the death toll of an epidemic. Read
more.
CO2 Geological Storage Options
A multi-disciplinary team looked at the challenge of regulating
carbon dioxide capture and storage. The research combined legal
analysis of potential tort liability from seismicity that might
be induced by carbon injection into geological formations and
from contractual liability from carbon dioxide leakage from structures,
with a technical review and assessment of sequestration
options. Read more.
New Approaches to Accident Modeling and
System Safety
ESD researchers are developing new, more powerful accident causality
models and risk management techniques that can handle the complexity
of today’s technical and social systems. Using systems and
control theory as the mathematical foundations and a causality
model (called STAMP) that expands traditional models, the researchers
are constructing computational models of the static (structural)
and dynamic aspects of complex, socio-technical systems to provide
information about potential risks. Read
more.
Uncertainty in Impacts of Global Climate
Change
This effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is complicated
by the wide range of uncertainty in future projections of climate.
A primary focus of the climate change research at MIT is to characterize
the uncertainty in future climate impacts. Using MIT’s Integrated
Global System Model, ESD researchers have performed a rigorous
assessment of the most critical uncertain assumptions in the model.
Read more.
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Continuing
coverage on climate change and energy policy, mentioning MIT research
(The New York Times - June 26, 2009)
“Economy
Heightens Debate Over Bill to Ease Union Organizing”
(The Wall Street Journal – November 1, 2008)
“What
the Public Doesn't Get About Climate Change” (TIME –
October 28, 2008)
“Is
It Time to Scrap the Electoral College?” (MSNBC –
October 21, 2008)
“MIT
recommends steps to slash gasoline use by 2035” (MIT
News – August 5, 2008)
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“The Future of Science and Technology
in Europe”
Charles L. Miller Lecture (2008)
José Mariano Gago, Minister of Science, Technology and
Higher Education in Portugal
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on MIT World.
“The Electoral College in U.S. Presidential
Elections: Logical Foundations, Mathematics and Politics”
Alexander Belenky, Visiting Scholar, MIT ESD, author of How
America Chooses Its Presidents
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on MIT World.
“The World Turned Upside Down: The
Impact of the Return of India and China to their Historical Global
Weight”
Charles L. Miller Lecture (2006)
Clyde V. Prestowitz Jr., Founder and President of the Economic
Strategy Institute
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on MIT World.
“Government Perspectives on Engineering
Systems”
Engineering Systems Symposium (2004)
Moderator: Granger Morgan; Panelists: Mortimer Downey, Pao Chuen
Lui, Joseph Bordogna SM '60, Mary Good
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on MIT World.
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Strategic
Thinking for the Next Economy
Michael A. Cusumano, Constantinos C. Markides
Environmental
Law, Policy, and Economics: Reclaiming the Environmental Agenda
Nicholas A. Ashford, Charles C. Caldart
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