Publications

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Every state, city, and town is a system of systems. Public schools. Transportation. Housing. Local commerce. Industry and manufacturing. Law…

After September 11, 2001, infrastructures—the mundane systems that undergird much of modern life—were suddenly considered “soft targets” that required immediate…