Publications

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.

When it comes to making decisions that involve risks, we humans can be irrational in quite systematic ways — a fact that the psychologists Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman famously demonstrated with the help of a hypothetical situation, eerily apropos of today’s coronavirus epidemic, that has come to be known as the Asian disease problem.

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The Emergency Assistance Rental Program won't benefit all Americans equally, according to a USA TODAY analysis. The government payments will overwhelmingly…

Much research has demonstrated that vulnerable people fare more poorly than non vulnerable ones in disasters and crises across a…

With the help of a $1 million recently awarded federal grant, GRI and its GRRN island members, are partnering with three communities in Barbados and Dominica over the next two years to develop plans to respond to climate change and extreme weather events.

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has pledged that his country will become carbon neutral by 2050. “Responding to climate change…

Resilient societies are able to bounce back from disruptions. The capacity to rebuild physical infrastructure is, of course, important after calamity strikes. But resilience also requires shoring up social infrastructure, the ties that bind us together.

The NSCAI maintains that a global treaty that prohibits the development, deployment and use of artificial intelligence (AI) enabled weapons…

Traumatic joint injuries can result in significant cartilage defects, which can greatly increase the risk of osteoarthritis development. Due to…

When an infrastructure system responds to a disruption, its adaptive behavior can be described by the interactions between elements. These…

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.