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- China and Environmental Sustainability Project (with ENRP)
ETIP, in conjunction with the Sustainability Science Program (SSP), is seeking fellows with a focus on sustainability policy in China. The China Sustainability Research Fellows will contribute to ETIP's efforts to identify and to promote policies that will contribute to a thoughtful use of China's natural resources (e.g., water, land) and/or to the adoption of cleaner and less carbon-intensive industrial and energy technologies. The Fellows may lead research efforts in areas that may include: analyzing the impact of energy and industrial policies on water scarcity; assessing the barriers to the development or deployment of cleaner energy technologies; studying the impact of industrialization on fragile ecosystems and livelihoods; or other environmental or resource policy topics. The Research Fellows will be expected to produce at least one publishable article, to present his or her findings before internal and external audiences, and to play a substantive role in the dissemination process of any findings, including interacting with policymakers or other people of influence in the United States and China.
- Energy Technology Innovation Policy Research Group
ETIP is seeking Research Fellows who will work to identify and to promote energy policy strategies for reducing conventional air pollution, minimizing emissions of climate-altering gases, lessening dependence on imported fuels, stimulating economic development, and alleviating poverty. ETIP Research Fellows will focus on: (a) the opportunities and societal and environmental impacts of using cleaner and more efficient energy technologies; and (b) the processes, policies, and institutions shaping technical change and diffusion of energy technologies. ETIP’s work in several countries (currently the United States, China, Europe, India, Brazil, and the Middle East and North Africa region) rather than in only one country, not only multiplies directly our leverage on the world scale and facilitates the pursuit of cooperative efforts of ETIP Fellows and Faculty, but also allows for the development of new insights from comparisons and contrasts among conditions and strategies in different cases.
- Geopolitics of Energy (with ENRP)
The Geopolitics of Energy focuses on topics related to the intersection of international politics, security, and energy. The Research Fellow or Visiting Scholar will contribute to the Geopolitics of Energy project's efforts to explore the nexus of politics — broadly defined — and energy, and to highlight policymaker issues of upcoming importance in this arena. A wide variety of research interests will be considered, although the project is particularly interested in work related to the geopolitics of natural gas, resource nationalism, resource mercantilism, energy strategies of great powers, the future of OPEC, international institutions, and competition in the Arctic.
- Information and Communications Technology and Public Policy (ICTPP)
Addresses the transforming effects on the formulation, execution, and communication of government policy, services and operations. The ICTPP Research Fellow will be expected to explore the critical aspects of ICT found at the intersection of technology policy and governance, such as net neutrality, looming technological advances in broadband, privacy, cyber security, and open government issues that could shape technology and communications innovation in coming years.
- Managing the Atom Project
Addresses the risks posed by nuclear weapons and weapons-usable materials; assessing the future of civilian nuclear power; and strengthening democratic management of both through improved access to information, broader public participation, and more effective regulation and oversight. Managing the Atom is a joint project of the Belfer Center's International Security Program (see above), and most of its fellowships are joint appointments with the International Security Program.
- Water-Energy Nexus (WEN)
Addresses the close link between water and energy. The water industry is energy-intensive: consuming electricity for desalination, pumping, and treatment of wastewater. The energy industry is water-intensive: consuming water for resource extraction (oil, gas, coal, biomass etc.), energy conversion (refining and processing), transportation, and power generation. The Water – Energy Nexus Research Fellows will be expected to explore the role that policy and innovation could play to incentivize a more efficient use of water and energy resources in different sectors and/or regions.
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