Publications

New England’s K-12 schools are critical anchor institutions that serve some of the most important functions in our communities. Elementary and secondary education’s primary function is youth academic development, through the cognitive, social-emotional, and physical development of children.

Housing is a necessity, a choice, a financial investment, and a human right. For many communities, their housing supply, affordability, and quality are the invisible infrastructure that supports growth, vitality, sustainability, inclusion and resilience.

The COVID-19 pandemic has strained the food system as patterns of food consumption changed abruptly in March 2020 and food supply chains were disrupted. Americans are accustomed to plentiful, diverse, convenient, and inexpensive food, enabled by a nationally centralized food system.

The COVID-19 pandemic has created the need for massive federal investment to stimulate a recovery. Government investment will either integrate considerations of climate change and transition to renewable energy or thwart transformation by reinforcing the status quo of fossil fuel-based system.

The economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted every component of the U.S. health care system. This report provides a topical assessment of the economic impacts of COVID-19 on health care systems, as well as their implications on long-term recovery and resilience.

Developing local businesses recovery and resilience is essential to ensure holistic economic recovery in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. To better understand how to develop this recovery and resilience in the New England region, we carried out this Special Investigation Report on Local Business Resilience.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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.