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Urban Heat Islets: Street Segments, Land Surface Temperatures, and Medical Emergencies During Heat Advisories

Objectives. To examine the relationships among environmental characteristics, temperature, and health outcomes during heat advisories at the geographic scale of street…

Avoiding Leapfrog Brain

When times are uncertain, we are eager to find meaning. We find comfort in thinking we are in the know.…

Racial Equity and Urban Climate Action

Government has long been complicit in creating our nation's structural racism. The nation was founded with slavery enforced by the…

Emissions dropped during COVID-19. Here’s what cities can do to keep them from rising

COVID-19 upended our daily lives and shifted our relationship to transportation, although we don’t yet know how trends that started…

John Bolton has a habit of toppling leaders but having no replacement in mind

Imagine writing a bestseller to derail a president’s reelection bid without two seconds of thought about whom you’ll vote for…

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Op Ed: Climate Crisis Demands Diverse Leadership

Dr. Jennie Stephens, GRI's Director of Strategic Research Collaborations, Director of SPPUA and Dean's Professor of Sustainability Science & Policy at Northeastern University contributed an Op-Ed to The Progressive focused on climate and energy policies with social, economic, and racial justices at its core.

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Building Community Resilience: Social ties and connections

Social ties and connections are embedded in our everyday lives, but we often only recognize their value in times of need. In an urbanizing city like Singapore, social infrastructure and ties play a crucial role in helping us deal with impacts of climate change, extreme weather and other potential shocks This article examines the importance of building up social infrastructure and ties in operationalising community resilience in a highly dense and urbanized city in order to deal with climate change as well as a wide range of risks and threats.

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Getting rid of fossil fuels in buildings

GRI Faculty Affiliate, Joan Fitzgerald, Professor in the School of Public Policy & Urban Affairs at Northeastern University, wrote a piece for CommonWealth about passive housing.

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Impacts to New England’s Commercial Fisheries

COVID-19 continues to have severe socioeconomic impacts on New England’s commercial fishing communities. All facets of New England fisheries have been disrupted. In addition to the commercial fishers themselves, the dealers, processors, distribution, labor and consumer demand have been severely impacted.

Economic Needs of New England State and Local Governments in Pandemic Recovery

The COVID-19 pandemic has precipitated a contraction of economic activity of unprecedented speed and magnitude. One consequence of the contraction is that state and local governments are experiencing large decreases in revenue inflows and increased need for expenditures associated with public education and social welfare and public health programs.

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Higher Education in New England – Planning a Post-COVID-19 Recovery

The New England Commission on Higher Education accredits over 200 public and private colleges and universities across the six states within the region, giving New England a larger per capita percentage of higher education institutions than any other region in the United States.

The Childcare Industry in New England

As part of the GRI Whitepaper Series, GRI has released 10 Special Investigation Reports supported by the Federal Emergency Management…