Janine Barr, a researcher at the Bloustein School’s Environmental Analysis and Communication (EAC) Group, joins Dean Stuart Shapiro this week on EJB Talks to discuss the center’s work on climate change impacts, the New Jersey Climate Change Resource Center’s Science and Technology Advisory Panel Report, and her path to environmental policy.
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data analysis
Inside, Outside, & In Between: Leading In Government
This week on EJB Talks, Bloustein School Young Alumni honoree and Advisory Board Member Sara Meyers MPP ’09 shares her unconventional path into public policy, beginning with a background in music and German before being inspired by political events to pursue change from within government.
Shooting Calls to NBPD Increased Sharply in 2021, Data Analysis Shows
Since January 2020, the NBPD received a total of 205 calls reporting shots fired or shot heard in the area. The number of calls reporting shots fired or shots heard in the area was 61 through mid-November 2020, while there were 122 such incidents during the same time...
New Jersey Policy Lab: The Challenges Associated with Making “Good” Public Policy
Policy analysis can illuminate the choices but, like science, it cannot answer questions definitively. The goal of policy analysis, and the New Jersey Policy Lab, is to provide decision-makers with the best information possible available to make better decisions.