Lawrence Susskind
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 363837 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Lawrence Susskind |
| NOMBRES | Lawrence |
| APELLIDO | Susskind |
| FIRMA | SUSSKIND L |
| AFILIACIONES | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 42 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 107 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 42 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1973 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
From promise to practice
AI-Assisted Negotiation Instruction
In March 2025 the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School hosted a two-day summit at MIT on AI and negotiation. One panel at the summit explored several approaches to designing and using AI as a teacher. This article discusses the papers presented on that panel. The summit made clear that AI already has transformed how negotiation is studied, taught, and practiced—by enhancing preparation, encouraging deeper analysis, facilitating consensus-…
Negotiation Backtable Bots
The authors developed negotiation coaching bots using generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) and experimented with them in multiparty negotiation courses at MIT in the spring of 2024. This article focuses on one of the three kinds of bots we created: a coaching bot that allows learners to interact with the back tables of their assigned negotiation partners in an upcoming multiparty role-play simulation. Interacting with the back tables of oth…
Sources of opposition to renewable energy projects in the United States
Many policy analysts believe that once electricity from renewable energy becomes less expensive than electricity from fossil fuel, new renewable energy facilities will be built quickly across the United States. Cost-effective renewable energy has largely been achieved, but there appear to be substantial barriers to building new renewable energy facilities. We identified 53 utility-scale wind, solar, and geothermal energy projects that were delaye…
Municipal Cybersecurity
As governments have digitized their operations, they have opened themselves to cyberattacks, resulting in harmful disruptions to government services. The scholarly world has been slow to pick up on this growing risk. Professional associations have conducted studies of their own, and produced recommendations, but few scholars have looked closely at cybersecurity practices at the municipal level. The interconnectedness of local infrastructure—acros…
Initiating Collaboration in the Midst of a Standoff
Even when “warring parties” know that eventually they will have to talk to one another so that there can be peace, it is extremely difficult to get them to “fast-forward” to that moment. The reasons for this vary. Sometimes the parties think that “time is on their side”—that continuing the battle will benefit them. Other times, leaders worry how they will appear in the eyes of their own followers if they seem to have lost heart or are ready to gi…
Water Shutoffs in Older American Cities
We highlight a worrisome situation in American cities—rising water bills that growing numbers of residents cannot afford to pay, leading to water shutoffs. A study of each state’s two largest water utilities suggested fifteen million Americans experienced water shutoffs in 2016. We describe how utility responses to financial challenges facing older cities have caused shutoffs that disproportionally hurt low-income customers. We present new data f…
Complexity of Transboundary Water Conflicts
Response to “On the appropriate use of QCA in environmental management research
ACSP Distinguished Educator, 1997
Factors driving collaboration in natural resource conflict management
Water in the Middle East
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is considered one of the most water scarce in the world. Two new books look closely at the prospects for water policy reform in two MENA countries. In Water Politics in Turkey: Structural Change and EU Accession, Vakur Sumer assesses the impacts that harmonizing Turkey's water-management efforts with broader EU legal standards might have on the country's water management. In her new book, Social Capi…
The need to build policy literacy into climate science education
An increased focus on ‘policy literacy’ for climate scientists, parallel to ‘science literacy’ for the public, is a critical need in closing the science–society gap in addressing climate mitigation. We define policy literacy as the knowledge and understanding of societal and decision‐making contexts required for conducting and communicating scientific research in ways that contribute to societal well‐being. We argue that current graduate educatio…
Cities and City Planning
Paternalism, Conflict, and Coproduction
Water Diplomacy
Water is the resource that will determine the wealth, welfare, and stability of many countries in the twenty-first century. This book offers a new approach to managing water that will overcome the conflicts that emerge when the interactions among natural, societal, and political forces are overlooked. At the heart of these conflicts are complex water networks. In managing them, science alone is insufficient and so is policy-making that doesn't ta…
Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Distinguished Educator Award
Religious and Ideological Dimensions of the Israeli Settlements Issue
Whether or not it will be possible to relocate settlers from the “territories” depends not just on the willingness of the relevant Israeli officials to authorize evacuation of some or all of the West Bank and Gaza given the violence it may cause, but especially on the thinking and the changing attitudes of the settlers themselves. Only by understanding the views of the current settlers — their motivations, their beliefs, and the differences among…
Expert views on sustainability and technology implementation
Twenty-one senior researchers were interviewed about their conception of sustainability and implementation in projects linked to the Alliance of Global Sustainability, a joint project of MIT (Boston), ETH (Zurich and Lausanne), UT (Tokyo), and Chalmers (Gothenburg). We identified five complementary views on sustainability: i) science is sustainable per se, ii) sustainability is an ethical relationship with the past and future, iii) sustainability…
Multistakeholder Dialogue at the Global Scale
Multistakeholder Dialogues (MSDs) are being used as part of many international policy-making efforts. Official and unofficial representatives are being brought together to build relationships, set agendas for future official and unofficial dialogues, and even to generate packages of proposals or recommendations. The authors describe the key challenges that face prospective MSD designers, including: finding the right participants, managing with ex…
Negotiating on Behalf of Others
Preface - Abram J. Chayes Introduction - Robert H. Mnookin and Jonathan R. Cohen PART ONE: NEGOTIATION THEORY REVISITED Toward a Theory of Representation in Negotiation - Joel Cutcher-Gershenfield and Michael Watkins Commentary The Shifting Role of Agents in Interest-Based Negotiations - Lawrence E. Susskind Authority of an Agent - Roger Fisher and Wayne Davis When is Less Better? Commentary Rational Authority Allocation to an Agent - Max H Bazer…
The Consensus Building Handbook
This handbook on group decision-making for those wanting to operate in a consensus fashion stresses the advantages of informal, common sense approaches to working together. It describes how any group can put these approaches into practice, and relates numerous examples of situations in which such approaches have been applied
Managing urban sustainability
High-intensity mineral resource exploitation has resulted in numerous ecological problems that seriously threaten the sustainability of resource-based cities. Resilience is considered as the key to maintaining regional sustainability. Therefore, this study established an index framework that affected the resilience of resource-based cities. We selected Changzhi in China as the study area and determined its current distribution of resilience. The …
Risk and Justice
In recent years, environmental justice advocates have made a convincing claim that risky facilities have been disproportionately clustered in poor communities and communities of color. NIMBYism (not in my backyard) has spread from predominantly white, affluent suburbs to poorer communities of color. In this article, we propose a means of addressing environmental inequities and breaking the siting impasse. We think that poor communities of color m…
The incineration conflict
Mediating Science-Intensive Policy Disputes
Mediated Negotiation in the Public Sector
Resource allocation decisions in the public sector are typically made by legislative and administrative bodies. All too often, these methods of decision making fail to produce wise and efficient responses to conflicting needs and interests and courts are asked to review or to overturn these decisions Recent experiments with medi ated negotiation — face-to-face negotiation involving teams representing key stake- holding interests and an impartial …
Water Shutoffs in Older American Cities
We highlight a worrisome situation in American cities—rising water bills that growing numbers of residents cannot afford to pay, leading to water shutoffs. A study of each state’s two largest water utilities suggested fifteen million Americans experienced water shutoffs in 2016. We describe how utility responses to financial challenges facing older cities have caused shutoffs that disproportionally hurt low-income customers. We present new data f…
Emerging Perspectives on Citizen Participation
Mediated Negotiation in the Public Sector
Three case studies of mediated negotiation in the public sector are summarized. Special attention is given to the roles played by the mediators in these cases, the difficulties of ensuring adequate representation of all stakeholders, and the problems of protecting the "public interest." Criteria for evaluating mediated negotiation as a supplement to traditional legislative, administrative, and judicial means of resolving resource allocation dispu…
Factors driving collaboration in natural resource conflict management
Mediating science‐intensive policy disputes
Public policy disputes involving complex scientific issues usually entail conflicts not only over those scientific issues, but also over the distribution of gains and losses. The presence of scientific or technical dimensions to a dispute should not be allowed to mask underlying distributional considerations. On the other hand, science‐intensive disputes require special attention. Merely resolving distributional conflicts without incorporating th…
Mediating Public Disputes
Mediated negotiation has recently been used to supplement traditional methods of resolving complex public resource allocation disputes in the United States. Although many of these efforts have apparently been successful, procedural concerns have been raised by a number of analysts. In this paper, we focus on five of these concerns: (1) problems of representation, (2) the difficulties of setting an appropriate agenda, (3) obstacles to joint fact f…
Managing urban sustainability
High-intensity mineral resource exploitation has resulted in numerous ecological problems that seriously threaten the sustainability of resource-based cities. Resilience is considered as the key to maintaining regional sustainability. Therefore, this study established an index framework that affected the resilience of resource-based cities. We selected Changzhi in China as the study area and determined its current distribution of resilience. The …
Mediating development disputes
The importance of nonobjective judgments in environmental impact assessments
Risk and Justice
In recent years, environmental justice advocates have made a convincing claim that risky facilities have been disproportionately clustered in poor communities and communities of color. NIMBYism (not in my backyard) has spread from predominantly white, affluent suburbs to poorer communities of color. In this article, we propose a means of addressing environmental inequities and breaking the siting impasse. We think that poor communities of color m…
Municipal Cybersecurity
As governments have digitized their operations, they have opened themselves to cyberattacks, resulting in harmful disruptions to government services. The scholarly world has been slow to pick up on this growing risk. Professional associations have conducted studies of their own, and produced recommendations, but few scholars have looked closely at cybersecurity practices at the municipal level. The interconnectedness of local infrastructure—acros…
Multistakeholder Dialogue at the Global Scale
Multistakeholder Dialogues (MSDs) are being used as part of many international policy-making efforts. Official and unofficial representatives are being brought together to build relationships, set agendas for future official and unofficial dialogues, and even to generate packages of proposals or recommendations. The authors describe the key challenges that face prospective MSD designers, including: finding the right participants, managing with ex…
The siting puzzle
The need to build policy literacy into climate science education
An increased focus on ‘policy literacy’ for climate scientists, parallel to ‘science literacy’ for the public, is a critical need in closing the science–society gap in addressing climate mitigation. We define policy literacy as the knowledge and understanding of societal and decision‐making contexts required for conducting and communicating scientific research in ways that contribute to societal well‐being. We argue that current graduate educatio…
A sharper focus
Planning for New Towns
Influential members of the urban planning profession have developed certain ideas about new town design, including notions such as self-containment, social balance, and the neighborhood unit. These parallel, to some extent, concepts that have emerged from the field of community sociology. Efforts to put these ideas into practice have fallen far short of the mark. Without more sophisticated implementation mechanisms, better theories of social inte…
The incineration conflict
Restoring the credibility and enhancing the usefulness of the EIA process
The dangers of preemptive legislation
Planning for New Towns
Influential members of the urban planning profession have developed certain ideas about new town design, including notions such as self-containment, social balance, and the neighborhood unit. These parallel, to some extent, concepts that have emerged from the field of community sociology. Efforts to put these ideas into practice have fallen far short of the mark. Without more sophisticated implementation mechanisms, better theories of social inte…
The dangers of preemptive legislation
The importance of nonobjective judgments in environmental impact assessments
Restoring the credibility and enhancing the usefulness of the EIA process
Mediated Negotiation in the Public Sector
Three case studies of mediated negotiation in the public sector are summarized. Special attention is given to the roles played by the mediators in these cases, the difficulties of ensuring adequate representation of all stakeholders, and the problems of protecting the "public interest." Criteria for evaluating mediated negotiation as a supplement to traditional legislative, administrative, and judicial means of resolving resource allocation dispu…
Mediated Negotiation in the Public Sector
Resource allocation decisions in the public sector are typically made by legislative and administrative bodies. All too often, these methods of decision making fail to produce wise and efficient responses to conflicting needs and interests and courts are asked to review or to overturn these decisions Recent experiments with medi ated negotiation — face-to-face negotiation involving teams representing key stake- holding interests and an impartial …
I'd Rather Invent the Future Than Discover It
Mediating Science-Intensive Policy Disputes
Mediating science‐intensive policy disputes
Public policy disputes involving complex scientific issues usually entail conflicts not only over those scientific issues, but also over the distribution of gains and losses. The presence of scientific or technical dimensions to a dispute should not be allowed to mask underlying distributional considerations. On the other hand, science‐intensive disputes require special attention. Merely resolving distributional conflicts without incorporating th…
The siting puzzle
Emerging Perspectives on Citizen Participation
Mediating Public Disputes
Mediated negotiation has recently been used to supplement traditional methods of resolving complex public resource allocation disputes in the United States. Although many of these efforts have apparently been successful, procedural concerns have been raised by a number of analysts. In this paper, we focus on five of these concerns: (1) problems of representation, (2) the difficulties of setting an appropriate agenda, (3) obstacles to joint fact f…
A sharper focus
Public perceptions and scientific uncertainty
Mediating conflict over dioxin risks of resource recycling
Mediating development disputes
Negotiating better superfund settlements
The incineration conflict
Managing urban sustainability
High-intensity mineral resource exploitation has resulted in numerous ecological problems that seriously threaten the sustainability of resource-based cities. Resilience is considered as the key to maintaining regional sustainability. Therefore, this study established an index framework that affected the resilience of resource-based cities. We selected Changzhi in China as the study area and determined its current distribution of resilience. The …
Risk and Justice
In recent years, environmental justice advocates have made a convincing claim that risky facilities have been disproportionately clustered in poor communities and communities of color. NIMBYism (not in my backyard) has spread from predominantly white, affluent suburbs to poorer communities of color. In this article, we propose a means of addressing environmental inequities and breaking the siting impasse. We think that poor communities of color m…
Negotiating on Behalf of Others
Preface - Abram J. Chayes Introduction - Robert H. Mnookin and Jonathan R. Cohen PART ONE: NEGOTIATION THEORY REVISITED Toward a Theory of Representation in Negotiation - Joel Cutcher-Gershenfield and Michael Watkins Commentary The Shifting Role of Agents in Interest-Based Negotiations - Lawrence E. Susskind Authority of an Agent - Roger Fisher and Wayne Davis When is Less Better? Commentary Rational Authority Allocation to an Agent - Max H Bazer…
The Consensus Building Handbook
This handbook on group decision-making for those wanting to operate in a consensus fashion stresses the advantages of informal, common sense approaches to working together. It describes how any group can put these approaches into practice, and relates numerous examples of situations in which such approaches have been applied
Multistakeholder Dialogue at the Global Scale
Multistakeholder Dialogues (MSDs) are being used as part of many international policy-making efforts. Official and unofficial representatives are being brought together to build relationships, set agendas for future official and unofficial dialogues, and even to generate packages of proposals or recommendations. The authors describe the key challenges that face prospective MSD designers, including: finding the right participants, managing with ex…
Expert views on sustainability and technology implementation
Twenty-one senior researchers were interviewed about their conception of sustainability and implementation in projects linked to the Alliance of Global Sustainability, a joint project of MIT (Boston), ETH (Zurich and Lausanne), UT (Tokyo), and Chalmers (Gothenburg). We identified five complementary views on sustainability: i) science is sustainable per se, ii) sustainability is an ethical relationship with the past and future, iii) sustainability…
Religious and Ideological Dimensions of the Israeli Settlements Issue
Whether or not it will be possible to relocate settlers from the “territories” depends not just on the willingness of the relevant Israeli officials to authorize evacuation of some or all of the West Bank and Gaza given the violence it may cause, but especially on the thinking and the changing attitudes of the settlers themselves. Only by understanding the views of the current settlers — their motivations, their beliefs, and the differences among…
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