Don’t get Ebola in Missouri “Stephen E. Flynn, political science professor at Northeastern University, explains that the Ebola story isn’t a story of federal government…
Katrina at 10: Reflections on a Human-Made Disaster “The flooding of New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina was a human-made disaster, not a natural one. The flood-protection system for…
DC Metro faces uncertain future in wake of several failures Top officials from the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (Metro) warned riders that they may be required to shut down…
Rail Security in the Wake of Brussels Center for Resilience Studies Executive Director Sean Burke was recently featured in a WCVB report on rail security in the…
Iraq’s Mosul Dam risks catastrophic collapse Officials from the United States, Iraq, and the United Nations have warned that the Mosul Dam in Iraq risks a…
2017 Federal Budget decreases funding for Pre-Disaster Mitigation program President Obama delivered his fiscal 2017 federal budget to Congress in early February, where it has already faced criticism from…
California Gas Leak Temporarily Contained After three months of leaking methane gas in Porter Ranch, the Southern California Gas Company announced on February 11 that…
Is Amtrak vulnerable to a terrorist attack? Center for Resilience Studies Executive Director Sean Burke recently sat down with WCVB Boston to discuss the threat of a…
Coromandel Floods On the Eastern length of South India, otherwise known as the Coromandel Coast, dramatic flooding over the course of the…
Infrastructure Spending in America Spending money is not very popular in Congress these days. As a result, finding the political will to increase investment…
Airport Security On October 31st, a Russian commercial airline came down in the Sinai Peninsula, killing all 224 on board. The plane…
The Need for Societal Resilience after Paris Last weekend saw horrifying attacks in Paris and Beirut from the Islamic State, killing over 170 people. The attacks in…
