Frank N. Laird

Scrivner Institute

Global Environmental Sustainability, Public Policy

Laird Frank N. 2022. "The “Save the Earth!” Narrative Creates a Narrative Trap for climate advocates." Frontiers in Climate 4:900672. doi: 10.3389/fclim.2022.900672.

Laird, Frank N. 2021. "Sputnik 2.0? Issues in Science and Technology" (July 21). Available at https://issues.org/sputnik-competition-china-science-funding-laird/

Laird, Frank N. 2020. "Sticky Policies, Dysfunctional Systems: Path Dependency and the Problems of Government Funding for Science in the United States" Minerva 58, Issue 4 (December): 513-533. Online First DOI: 10.1007/s11024-020-09409-2.

Laird, Frank N. 2016. "Avoiding Transitions, Layering Change: The Evolution of American Energy Policy" In Germany's Energy Transition: A Comparative Perspective" edited by Carol Hager and Christoph Stefes, 111-131. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Berry, Michael, Frank N. Laird, and Christoph Stefes. 2015. "Driving Energy: The Enactment and Ambitiousness of State Renewable Energy Policy" Journal of Public Policy 35, no. 2: 297-328.

Howard, Daniel J. and Laird, Frank N. 2013. "The New Normal in Funding University Science" Issues in Science and Technology 30, no. 1 (Fall): 71-76.

Laird, Frank N. 2013. "Against Transitions? Uncovering Conflicts in Changing Energy Systems" Science as Context 22, no. 2: 188-195.

Laird, Frank N. and Christoph Stefes. 2009. "The Diverging Paths of German and U.S. Policies for Renewable Energy: Sources of Difference" Energy Policy 37, no. 7 (July): 2619-2629.

Laird, Frank N. 2009. "A Full-Court Press for Renewable Energy" Issues in Science and Technology 25 (2)(Winter): 53-56.

Laird, Frank N. 2008. "Learning Contested Lessons: Participation Equity and Electric Utility Regulation" Review of Policy Research 25 (5) (Fall): 429-448.

Laird, Frank N. Entries on "Alternative Energy" and "Democracy" in Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics, edited by Carl Mitcham (Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2005): 56-59 and 491-496.

Laird, Frank N. "Constructing the Future: Advocating Energy Technologies in the Cold War" Technology and Culture 44 (1) (January 2003): 27-49.

Laird, Frank N. "Just Say No to Greenhouse Gas Emissions Targets" Issues in Science and Technology 17 (2) (Winter 2000-2001): 45-52.

Laird, Frank N. "Rethinking Learning" Policy Currents 9, No. 3-4 (November 1999):3-7.

Laird, Frank N. "Entries on Farrington Daniels, Amory B. Lovins, Paley Commission, Soft Energy Paths, and the Solar Energy Research Institute" in Robert Paehlke, ed. Encyclopedia of Conservation and Environmentalism (New York: Garland Publishing, 1995).

Laird, Frank N. "Information and Disaster Prevention: Lessons from Bhopal" in Sheila Jasanoff, ed., Learning From Disaster (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994): 204-224.

Laird, Frank N. "Participatory Analysis, Democracy, and Technological Decision Making" Science, Technology and Human Values 18 (Summer, 1993): 341-361.

Laird, Frank N. "Participating in the Tension: A Response to Guston" Social Epistemology 7 (January 1993): 35-46

Laird, Frank N. "Political Science, Policy, and Technology" The Weaver of Information and Perspectives on Technological Literacy 8 (Spring 1990): 4-5.

Laird, Frank N. "Technocracy Revisited: Knowledge, Power, and the Crisis in Energy Decision Making" Industrial Crisis Quarterly 4 (January 1990): 49-61.

Laird, Frank N. "Risk Assessment and Occupational Health: Conceptual Problems" Annals of the New York Academy of Science vol. 572, Philip Landrigan and Irving J. Selikoff, Eds. (New York: New York Academy of Sciences, 1989).

Laird, Frank N. "The Decline of Deference: The Political Context of Risk Communication" Risk Analysis 9 (December 1989): 543-550.

Markert, T., Winkler, P.F., Laird, F.N., et al., "A Catalog of the Results of the OSO-7 MIT X-ray Experiment" Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series (March 1978).

Winkler, P.F., and Laird, F.N., "Detection of X-ray Emission From the Supernova 1006 A.D." Astrophysical Journal (Letters) 24 (15 March 1976): L111-L114.

Laird, Frank N. Solar Energy, Technology Policy, and Institutional Values. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.