Switching San Diego off fossil fuels onto green energy will require careful efforts to preserve and create high quality jobs, experts told the San Diego County Board of Supervisors Wednesday.
On Monday Nov 8, the SDSN launched the very first Sustainable Development Report for Paraguay. The project came out of a year-long collaboration between SDSN and Paraguay’s Finance Ministry with…
San Diego County supervisors got a glimpse of a more climate-friendly future when briefed on a regional plan designed to de-carbonize the county. The idea driving the effort is to…
San Diego County Supervisor, Terra Lawson-Remer, and UCSD's Gordon McCord join a panel discussion framed around a whole systems approach to develop the Climate Neutral Districts Vision that crosses city…
San Diego — San Diego County releases new report outlining strategies for drastically cutting carbon emissions across the region to stave off the worst effects of climate change in coming decades.
The El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a principal component of global climate variability known to influence a host of social and economic outcomes, but its systematic effects on human…
We use a policy experiment in Indonesia to show how local political boundaries affect ethnic tension. Redrawing district borders along group lines reduces conflict. However, the gains in stability are…
We study optimal policy experimentation by a committee. We consider a dynamic bargaining game in which committee members choose either a risky reform or a safe alternative each period. When…
“Rugged individualism”—the combination of individualism and anti-statism—is a prominent feature of American culture with deep roots in the country’s history of frontier settlement. Today, rugged individualism is more prevalent in…
Global coal use must be phased out if we are to minimize temperature increases associated with climate change. Most new coal plants are being built in the Asia Pacific and…