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Lawrence Susskind

City Planner, Mediator, and MIT Professor


 * Biography
 * Training
 * Teaching and Research
 * Intellectual Contributions
 * Publications
   * Books
   * Journal Articles
   * Multimedia
   * Role Play Simulations
   * Book Chapters
 * Blog


NEW AND UPDATES

Larry Susskind Action-Reflection-Adaptation-Public Learning: Excerpts from the
Life of a Pracademic
Larry Susskind in conversation with Shekhar Chandra
a digital resource that is part of the Conversations in Planning Theory and
Practice Booklet Project of the Association of European Schools of Planning
(AESOP), provides a selection of Larry Susskind’s contributions, grouped into
academic domains with open access to web accessible documents.

Many of the materials presented in the AESOP booklet are also avaiable via the
Susskind Reader– an online, open access resource for select materials from Larry
Susskind’s work.


CURRENT COURSE

MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHONOLOGY

 * 11.601: Theory and Practice of Environmental Planning
 * 11.255: Negotiation and Dispute Resolution in the Public Sector
 * 11.159/11.259 (Fall and Spring) Entrepreneurial Negotiation
 * 11.274/11.074 (Fall and Spring) Cybersecurity Clinic
 * 11.S198/11.S398: Indigenous Environmental Planning

MIT Online

 * Edx: Socially Responsible Real Estate Development
 * MITx: Cybersecurity for Critical Urban Infrastructure
 * MITxPRO: Negotiating to Create Value: The Mutual Gains Approach
 * MITxPRO: Health Care Negotiations: Better Outcomes for Sales Professionals
 * MITxPRO: Negotiating and Applying Influence and Power


POSITIONS

 * Ford Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning at the Massachusetts
   Institute of Technology
 * Vice Chair, Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School
 * Director, Science Impact Collaborative, MIT
 * MIT Director, MIT-UTM Malaysia Sustainable Cities Program
 * Founder and Chief Knowledge Officer, the Consensus Building Institute


RECENT PRACTICE

 * Cybersecurity for Critical Urban Infrastructure
 * Siting of Renewable Energy Facilities (US and Mexico)
 * Science Diplomacy (with UNITAR)
 * Public Engagement in Climate Adaptation Planning
 * Socially-Responsible Real Estate Development (in China and Malaysia)
 * Advanced Negotiation Instruction for the U.S. Foreign Service Institute
 * Arctic Fisheries Devising Seminar
 * Malaysia Sustainable Cities Program
 * OECD: Mediation of Corporate Social Responsibility Challenges to
   Multinational Corporations


CURRENT RESEARCH

 1. The water shut-off crisis in older American cities
 2. Cybersecurity and AI: Protecting critical urban infrastructure
 3. Building consensus on local, state and national adaptive responses to the
    risks posed by climate change
 4. Overcoming the opposition to the siting of renewable energy facilities
 5. Transboundary water diplomacy and the world’s great rivers
 6. Defending critical urban infrastructure against cyber-attack


LINKS

MIT Faculty Profile 
Harvard Law School Faculty Profile 
Wikipedia profile 
Facebook 
Consensus Building Approach Blog 
Twitter

Using Serious Games to Enhance Community Participation



Recent Books


 * MANUALE DI CONFRONTO CREATIVO : LE ARTI DELLA COMUNICAZIONE, DELLA CONVIVENZA
   E DELLA DEMOCRAZIA NEL XXI SECOLO
   
   2020
   Lawrence Susskind
   Marianella Sclavi


 * ENTREPRENEURIAL NEGOTIATION: UNDERSTANDING AND MANAGING THE RELATIONSHIPS
   THAT DETERMINE YOUR ENTREPRENEURIAL SUCCESS
   
   2018
   Lawrence Susskind
   Samuel Dinnar
   Edward Roberts


 * MANAGING CLIMATE RISKS IN RESILIENT CITIES
   
   2016
   Lawrence Susskind


 * HET KAN WEL!
   
   2017
   Lawrence Susskind
   Frans Evers


 * ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEM-SOLVING – A VIDEO-ENHANCED SELF-INSTRUCTIONAL E-BOOK
   FROM MIT
   
   2017
   Lawrence Susskind
   Bruno Verdini
   Yasmin Zaerpoor
   Jessica Gordon

Recent Journal Publications

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   SOURCES OF OPPOSITION TO RENEWABLE ENERGY PROJECTS IN THE UNITED STATES
   
   2022
   Lawrence Susskind
   Jungwoo Chun
   Alexander Gant
   Chelsea Hodgkins
   Jessica Cohen
   Sarah Lohmar

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   PLAYING ROLES IN CLASSES PRODUCES REAL PROBLEM‐SOLVING AND NEGOTIATION SKILLS
   
   2022
   Lawrence Susskind

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   BUILDING LOCAL CAPACITY TO ADAPT TO CLIMATE CHANGE
   
   2021
   Lawrence Susskind
   Amber Kim

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   MUNICIPAL CYBERSECURITY: MORE WORK NEEDS TO BE DONE
   
   2020
   Lawrence Susskind
   Benjamin Preis

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   INITIATING COLLABORATION IN THE MIDST OF A STANDOFF: WHAT TO DO AT THAT
   CRITICAL MOMENT
   
   2020
   Lawrence Susskind

Recent Blogs


 * PREPARING THE NEXT GENERATION OF PROFESSORS OF ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
   
   24/03/2019 12:00 am


 * ANTICIPATORY GOVERNANCE: DO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT IS?
   
   16/11/2018 12:00 am


 * PLANNERS ARE NO LONG GENERALISTS WITH A SPECIALTY
   
   23/05/2018 12:00 am


 * THREE SURPRISING LEADERSHIP SKILLS
   
   12/01/2018 12:00 am

Recent Popular Publications


 * SOURCES OF OPPOSITION TO RENEWABLE ENERGY PROJECTS IN THE UNITED STATES


 * PLAYING ROLES IN CLASSES PRODUCES REAL PROBLEM‐SOLVING AND NEGOTIATION SKILLS


 * BUILDING LOCAL CAPACITY TO ADAPT TO CLIMATE CHANGE


 * MUNICIPAL CYBERSECURITY: MORE WORK NEEDS TO BE DONE


 * INITIATING COLLABORATION IN THE MIDST OF A STANDOFF: WHAT TO DO AT THAT
   CRITICAL MOMENT

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