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Student delegation from Northeastern University and Global Resilience Institute attends UN Climate Change Conference | COP24 Blog

by GRI

A delegation of Northeastern University (NU) students is attending the 24th Conference of the Parties…

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Dealing with setbacks | A series on personal resilience

by David Chrisinger

In my last post, I talked about the importance of optimism and how pessimistic…

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The cascading health and economic impacts of hospital closures on rural communities

by Jade Lin

According to The University of North Carolina’s Rural Health Research Program, 89 of the…

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Optimism and adversity | A series on personal resilience

by David Chrisinger

Why Are Optimistic People Optimistic? In my previous post, I wrote about resilience—what it…

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Thriving in the face of adversity | A series on personal resilience

by David Chrisinger

If you have any doubt that, in the words of Ben Okri, “The most…

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Applying chaos engineering principles to community resilience

by John Plodinec

Chaos engineering doesn’t just look at the software, it considers the entire system: software,…

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Aging natural gas lines show pressing danger of aging infrastructure | Leveraging Opportunity Zones for Resilience

by Alexis Palmer

Throughout this series have been stories of failing infrastructure that causes serious, long lasting…

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Prolonged post-hurricane electricity outages highlight need for more resilient energy infrastructure | Leveraging Opportunity Zones for Resilience

by Delanie Smither

The 2017 Hurricane Season left Puerto Rico reeling, isolated, and in the dark. Hurricane…

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Community continuity key for long term recovery and resilience | Leveraging Opportunity Zones for Resilience

by CJ Grasso

In previous installments of this week's blog series on leveraging Opportunity Zones to build infrastructure…

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Lessons learned from Superstorm Sandy on the cascading consequences of fragile fuel supply | Leveraging Opportunity Zones for Resilience

by Jade Lin

In October of 2012, Superstorm Sandy hit New York City. The storm caused a…

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How a 2016 wildfire impacted an entire region | Leveraging Opportunity Zones for Resilience

by Ari Young

The Blue Cut Fire began on the morning of August 16, 2016 in the…

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North Carolina’s private dams create large public problem | Leveraging Opportunity Zones for Resilience

by Alexis Palmer

In October 2016, Hurricane Matthew made landfall in North Carolina, covering the eastern part…

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