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Originally created in 2004, Prometheus is a project of University of Colorado's Center for Science and Technology Policy Research. Prometheus is designed to create an informal outlet for news, information, and opinion on science and technology policy.-
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Orbital-Use Fees Could More Than Quadruple the Value of the Space Industry
by Akhil Rao, Matthew G. Burgess, and Daniel KaffineProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1921260117, Published April 14 Coauthor, Matthew Burgess was also recently interviewed on CBS Denver News about the paper Abstract: The space industry’s rapid recent growth … Continue reading
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How Experiences of Climate Extremes Motivate Adaptation Among Water Managers
by Rebecca Page and Lisa Dilling Climatic Change, doi: 10.1007/s10584-020-02712-7 (2020) Abstract: As water systems are likely to experience mounting challenges managing for climate variability and extremes as well as a changing climate, there is increasing interest in what motivates systems … Continue reading
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Mass Media Representations of Anthromes
by Leslie Sklair and Maxwell Boykoff In M. Goldstein & D. DellaSala (eds). Encyclopedia of the World’s Biomes: Reference Module in Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences. Oxford: Elsevier, 2020. Abstract: This article is divided into three sections. The first deals … Continue reading
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Opportunities for Agent-Based Modelling in Human Dimensions of Fisheries
Fish and Fisheries, 2020 by M.G. Burgess, E. Carrella, M. Drexler, R.L. Axtell, R.M. Bailey, J.R. Watson, R.B. Cabral, M. Clemence, C. Costello, C. Dorsett, S.D. Gaines, E. S. Klein, P. Koralus, G. Leonard, S.A. Levin, L.R. Little, J. Lynham, … Continue reading
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What Unmanaged Fishing Patterns Reveal About Optimal Management
Applied to the Balanced Harvesting Debate by Matthew G. Burgess and Michael J. PlankICES Journal of Marine Science, doi: 10.1093/icesjms/fsaa012 Abstract: Balanced harvesting (BH)—the idea of harvesting all species and sizes in proportion to their production rate—has been a topic … Continue reading
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You Can’t Value What You Can’t Measure: A Critical Look at Forest Carbon Accounting
by Lauren Gifford, CSTPR Research AffiliateClimatic Change, 2020 Abstract: This article takes on the political and contested nature of forest carbon accounting via three “points of engagement” that articulate forest carbon initiatives as representations of tradable carbon. The three points … Continue reading
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Simple Adaptive Rules Describe Fishing Behaviour Better than Perfect Rationality in the US West Coast Groundfish Fishery
by Ernesto Carrella, E., S. Saul, K. Marshall, M.G. Burgess, R.B. Cabral, R.M. Bailey, C. Dorsett, M. Drexler, J. Koed Madsen, and A. MerklEcological Economics, Volume 169 (2020) Introduction: We calibrate and validate the POSEIDON (Bailey et al., 2018) fisheries … Continue reading
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Digital Cultures and Climate Change: ‘Here and Now’
by Maxwell BoykoffJournal of Environmental Media (2020) Abstract: We are living through momentous times as we confront issues surrounding digital cultures and communications about climate change. There is urgency derived from our recognition that climate change is ‘here and now’. … Continue reading
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The Politics of ‘Usable’ Knowledge: Examining the Development of Climate Services in Tanzania
Climatic Change (2019)by Meaghan Daly and Lisa Dilling Abstract: The field of climate services has arisen rapidly out of a desire to enable climate science to meet the information needs of society to respond to climate variability and change. In … Continue reading
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Climate Change Already Damaging Health of World’s Children, Threatens Lifelong Impact
CSTPR’s Max Boykoff and Olivia Pearman were one of over 60 experts from around the world that contributed to the 2019 Lancet Report on Health and Climate Change. The authors say every child born today will be affected by climate … Continue reading
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