Publications

This paper revolves around Emily Chamlee Wright's book The Cultural and Political Economy of Recovery: Social Learning in a Post-Disaster Environment.

This research paper examines the effects of catastrophes on supply chains, and focuses on increasing the resilience and recovery time…

This paper uses mathematical document methods to analyze the topics discussed post Hurricanes Katrina (2005) and Sandy (2012) as a…

This paper looks at the risk that critical infrastructure faces when power or heating services are lost in the United…

This document analyzes how the risk of pandemics has escalated with the acceleration of globalization and technological innovation. The document…

This document analyzes key "lifelines," or critical transportation corridors that would be essential for providing emergency services and facilitating economic…

This article emphasizes resilience, the ability to withstand and respond to as well as quickly recover from a disaster, as…

Resilient supply chains are crucial to maintaining the consistent delivery of goods and services to the American people. The modern…

We’ve crossed the threshold into a new decade. There’s a lot of resolution advice swirling, but not all of it is evidence-based or realistic. The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared a global mental health crisis. It projects that, by the next turn of the decade in 2030, lifestyle and stress-related illness will surpass communicable diseases.

After claiming credit for killing Qassem Soleimani outside Baghdad International Airport, Donald Trump said that the world was now a “safer place.” This viewpoint was perhaps understandable, given Soleimani’s position as the commander of Iran’s Quds Force and his role in developing the Badr Organization in Iraq, Hezbollah in Lebanon and Syria, and the Houthi movement in Yemen, among numerous other fighting outfits around the world. At the heart of this sprawling violent network stood Soleimani.

Be grateful. That’s been my science-backed mantra for a good many years. I say science-backed because unlike the rationale your parents relied on when urging you to be appreciative (though they were right!), my advice comes from more than a decade of accumulating empirical evidence showing that gratitude makes life better.

When Liberal Party leader Justin Trudeau took office in 2015 as Canada’s prime minister, a top priority was to establish Canada as a global leader on climate change.