Harvard Kennedy School faculty disseminate their research in working publications and papers that contribute to public knowledge and fuel policy innovation. This list features recent faculty publications, including journal articles, books, edited volumes, research papers, and public testimony.
Faculty Publications
Fransen, Sonja, Neil Adger, Ricardo Safra de Campos, and William C. Clark. "Migrants Can Be a Transformative Force for Sustainable Development." The Conversation. January 18, 2024.
Adger, William Neil, Sonja Fransen, Ricardo Safra de Campos, and William C. Clark. "Migration and Sustainable Development." PNAS 121.3 (January 16, 2024): e2206193121.
Adger, William Neil, Sonja Fransen, Ricardo Safra de Campos, and William C. Clark. "Scientific Frontiers on Migration and Sustainability." PNAS 121.3 (January 16, 2024): e2321325121.
Geels, Frank W., Florian Kern, and William C. Clark. "Sustainability Transitions in Consumption-Production Systems." PNAS 120.47 (November 21, 2023): e2310070120.
Geels, Frank W., Florian Kern, and William C. Clark. "System transitions research and sustainable development: Challenges, progress, and prospects." PNAS 120.47 (November 21, 2023): e2206230120.
Selin, Noelle E., Amanda Giang, and William C. Clark. "Progress in modeling dynamic systems for sustainable development." PNAS 120.40 (October 3, 2023): e2216656120.
Lawrence, Christopher, Sheila Jasanoff, Sam Weiss Evans, Keith Raffel, and L. Mahadevan. "Ethics Inside the Black Box: Integrating Science and Technology Studies into Engineering and Public Policy Curricula." Science and Engineering Ethics 29.4 (August 2023).
Borrmann, Vera, Christopher Coenen, Alfred Nordmann, Roberto Cantoni, Sascha Dickel, Christopher Groves, Armin Grunwald, Ben Hurlbut, Sheila Jasanoff, George Khushf, Sebastian Pfotenhauer, Arie Rip, Martin Sand, and Christina Schües. "Future Conversations – A Topical Exchange." Hermeneutics, History, and Technology: The Call of the Future. Ed. Armin Grunwald, Alfred Nordmann, and Martin Sand. Routledge, 2023.
Jasanoff, Sheila, and Alfred Nordmann. "Technology in the Imagination of Society – A Conversation." Hermeneutics, History, and Technology: The Call of the Future. Ed. Armin Grunwald, Alfred Nordmann, and Martin Sand. Routledge, 2023.
Harding, Anthony, David Keith, Wenchang Yang, and Gabriel Vecchi. "Impact of Solar Geoengineering on Temperature-Attributable Mortality." Resources for the Future Working Paper Series, May 30, 2023.
Schafer, Benjamin C., Jong-hyoung Kim, Joost J. Vlassak, and David W. Keith. "Analytical models for the design of photophoretically levitating macroscopic sensors in the stratosphere." November 2022.
Jasanoff, Sheila. "The Discontents of Truth & Trust in 21st Century America." Daedalus 151.4 (Fall 2022): 25-42.
Kim, Jong-hyoung, Lishuai Jin, Benjamin C. Schafer, Quan Jiao, Katia Bertoldi, David W. Keith, and Joost J. Vlassak. "Ultralight and ultra-stiff nano-cardboard panels: mechanical analysis, characterization, and design principles." November 2022.
Yukins, Christopher, and Steven Kelman. "Overcoming Corruption and War -- Lessons from Ukraine's ProZorro Procurement System." NCMA Contract Management Magazine. July 2022, 22-27.
Harding, Anthony R., Mariia Belaia, and David W. Keith. "The value of information about solar geoengineering and the two-sided cost of bias." Climate Policy (June 2022).
Jasanoff, Sheila, and Stephen Hilgartner. "A Stress Test for Politics: A Comparative Perspective on Policy Responses to COVID-19." Routledge Handbook of Law and the COVID-19 Pandemic. Ed. Joelle Grogan, and Alice Donald. Routledge, 2022.
Sun, Hongwei, Sebastian Eastham, and David Keith. "Developing a Plume-in-Grid Model for Plume Evolution in the Stratosphere." Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 14.4 (April 2022): e2021MS002816.
Jasanoff, Sheila. "Spaceship or Stewardship: Imaginaries of Sustainability in the Information Age." Historical Social Research / Historische Sozialforschung 47.4 (2022): 29-47.
Joseph E. Aldy, Tyler Felgenhauer, William A. Pizer, Massimo Tavoni, Mariia Belaia, Mark E. Borsuk, Arunabha Ghosh, Garth Heutel, Daniel Heyen, Joshua Horton, David Keith, Christine Merk, Juan Moreno-Cruz, Jesse L. Reynolds, Katharine Ricke, Wilfried Rickels, Soheil Shayegh, Wake Smith, Simone Tilmes, Gernot Wagner, and Jonathan B. Wiener. "Social science research to inform solar geoengineering." Science 374.6569 (2021): 815-818.
Keith, David. "Toward constructive disagreement about geoengineering." Science 374.6569 (November 2021): 812-815.
Jasanoff, Sheila. "Mythmakers in the Market for Perfection." American Scientist 109.6 (November-December 2021): 376.
Jasanoff, Sheila, and Hilton R. Simmet. "Renewing the future: Excluded imaginaries in the global energy transition." Energy Research & Social Science 80 (October 2021): 102205.
Behrer, A.P., R.J. Park, G. Wagner, C.M. Golja, and David Keith. "Heat has larger impacts on labor in poorer areas." Environmental Research Communications 3.9 (September 2021): 095001.
Belaia, Mariia, Juan B. Moreno-Cruz, and David Keith. "Optimal climate policy in 3D: mitigation, carbon removal, and solar geoengineering." Climate Change Economics 12.3 (August 2021): 2150008.
Ruggie, John Gerard. "Corporate Globalization and the Liberal Order: Disembedding and Reembedding Governing Norms." The Downfall of the American Order: Liberalism’s End? Ed. Peter J. Katzenstein and Jonathan D. Kirshner. Cornell University Press, 2021.
Saich, Anthony. From Rebel to Ruler: One Hundred Years of the Chinese Communist Party. Harvard University Press, 2021.
Felgenhauer, Tyler, Joshua Horton, and David Keith. "Solar geoengineering research on the U.S. policy agenda: when might its time come?" Environmental Politics 31.3 (2022): 498-518.
Felgenhauer, Tyler, Joshua Horton, and David Keith. "Solar geoengineering research on the U.S. policy agenda: when might its time come?" Environmental Politics 31.3 (June 2021): 498-518.
Fan, Yuanchao, Jerry Tjiputra, Helene Muri, Danica Lombardozzi, Chang-Eui Park, Shengjun Wu, and David Keith. "Solar geoengineering can alleviate climate change pressures on crop yields." Nature Food 2 (May 2021): 373–381.
Irvine, Peter James, Elizabeth Burns, Ken Caldeira, Frank N Keutsch, Dustin Tingley, and David Keith. "Expert judgements on solar geoengineering research priorities and challenges." April 2021.
Jasanoff, Sheila. "The Practices of Objectivity in Regulatory Science." Social Knowledge in the Making. Ed. Charles Camic, Neil Gross, and Michèle Lamont. University of Chicago Press, 2021, 307-338.
Beck, Silke, Sheila Jasanoff, Andy Stirling, and Christine Polzin. "The governance of sociotechnical transformations to sustainability." Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 49 (April 2021): 143-152.
Horton, Joshua B., Penehuro Lefale, and David Keith. "Parametric Insurance for Solar Geoengineering: Insights from the Pacific Catastrophe Risk Assessment and Financing Initiative." Global Policy 12.S1 (April 2021): 97-107.
Jasanoff, Sheila, Ian McGonigle, and Hallam Stevens. "Science and Technology for Humanity: An STS View from Singapore." East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal 15.1 (March 2021): 68-78.
Lawrence, Robert Z. "The unappreciated trend toward unilateral trade liberalization." Peterson Institute for International Economics Policy Briefs, March 2021.
Hilgartner, Stephen, J. Benjamin Hurlbut, and Sheila Jasanoff. "Was 'Science' on the Ballot? Labeling Dissent as 'Anti-Science' is Bad Social Science and Bad Politics." Science Magazine. February 26, 2021.
Jasanoff, Sheila. "Humility in the Anthropocene." Globalizations (02/09/2021).
Jasanoff, Sheila. "The Vanishing Square: Civic Learning in the Internet Age." Hastings Center Report, January-February 2021.
Zhen Dai, Elizabeth T. Burns, Peter J. Irvine, Dustin H. Tingley, Jianhua Xu, and David Keith. "Elicitation of US and Chinese expert judgments show consistent views on solar geoengineering." Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 8 (January 2021).
Seeley, Jacob T., Nicholas J. Lutsko, and David Keith. "Designing a Radiative Antidote to CO2." Geophysical Research Letters 48.1 (January 2021).
Clark, William C., and Alicia G. Harley. "Sustainability Science: Toward a Synthesis." Annual Review of Environment and Resources 45.1 (October 2020): 331-386.
Ruggie, John Gerard. "The Paradox of Corporate Globalization: Disembedding and Reembedding Governing Norms." HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP20-023, August 2020.
Aldy, Joseph, and Robert N. Stavins. "Rolling the Dice in the Corridors of Power: William Nordhaus’s Impacts on Climate Change Policy." HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP20-022, July 2020.
Bilmes, Linda J. "Budgeting for the Sustainable Development Goals." United Nations Economic and Social Council, January 2020.
Jelnov, Artyom, Yair Tauman, and Richard Zeckhauser. "Confronting an Enemy with Unknown Preferences: Deterrer or Provocateur?" HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP18-006, January 2018.
Collins, Ross D., Noelle E. Selin, Olivier L. de Weck, and William C. Clark. "Using Inclusive Wealth for Policy Evaluation: Application to Electricity Infrastructure Planning in Oil-Exporting Countries." Ecological Economics 133 (January 2017): 23-34.
Clark, William C., Lorrae van Kerkhoff, Louis Lebel, and Gilberto C. Gallopin. "Crafting Usable Knowledge for Sustainable Development." PNAS 113.17 (April 26, 2016): 4570–4578.
Clark, William C., Thomas P. Tomich, Meine van Noordwijk, David Guston, Delia Catacutan, Nancy M. Dickson, and Elizabeth McNie. "Boundary Work for Sustainable Development: Natural Resource Management at the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)." PNAS 113.17 (April 26, 2016): 4615-4622.
Ruggie, John Gerard. "For the Game. For the World. FIFA and Human Rights." 2016.