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Resilience News

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GRI Resilience Roundup: Week of November 16

Stephen Flynn in News@Northeastern: Meet the ‘Secret Weapon’ that Helps Distribute Money During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Serena Parekh featured in NPR’s Postcards From The Road Podcast

Stephen Flynn in News@Northeastern: Here’s Why the U.S. Military Can’t Be Asked to Distribute a COVID-19 Vaccine

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A Global Disruption Requires a Global Response: Policies for building international business resilience for this and future pandemics

The COVID-19 global pandemic has exacerbated the move toward greater economic nationalism and isolationism across the world. As nations have independently constructed responses to the pandemic with vastly dissimilar success levels, the repercussions for international businesses and national economies has been intense. We posit that addressing a global disruption, such as this pandemic that cannot be contained effectively by borders, requires a global response - not a national nor a local response.

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K-12 Education in New England

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.

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Housing Insecurity in New England

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.

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Food System Resilience in New England

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.

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Getting rid of fossil fuels in buildings

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.

he interplay between bonding, bridging and linking ties illustrates different forms of social capital.

Building Community Resilience: Social ties and connections

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.

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Op Ed: Climate Crisis Demands Diverse Leadership

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.

John Bolton has a habit of toppling leaders but having no replacement in mind