Resources GRI's Resources is your premier source to stay up to date on the latest resilience news, expert publications, and insightful events focused on resilience-related topics. See below for the most recent updates. Resilience News See All News GRI Faculty Affiliates Receive Best Paper Award at 2022 IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications GRI Faculty Affiliates Receive Excellence in Research and Creative Activity Awards Jennie Stephens on News@Northeastern: Why Aren’t We Using The Global Gas Crisis To Go Green? Amy Mueller Awarded Seed Grant to Investigate A New, Ultra-Low-Cost Method of Monitoring Urban Water Systems GRI Whitepaper Series See All Whitepapers Catch up on GRI’s Whitepaper Series 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. 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. 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. Resilience Events See All Events May 25 at 8:00 am International Symposium on Risk Assessment Approaches for Decision Making – Communication Jun 6 at 8:00 am Empowering the Higher Education community to create transformational change From June 6-9th, FEMA(Federal Emergency Management Agency) will be hosting the 24th Annual Emergency Management HiEd Symposium will be held June 6–9, 2022. Expert Publications See All Publications John Plodinec on the Advantages of Defining Victory John Plodinec explains in his latest piece says that planning for victory without a clearly defined plan or roadmap, will make all paths look the same, and almost all will lead nowhere. Why Companies Need Cybersecurity and Cyber Resilience Global Resilience Research Network (GRRN) partner Paul Kirvan, recently shared some of his thoughts on why Companies now more than ever need cyber security & cyber resilience. Does Global Integration Stimulate Corporate Citizenship? Faculty Affiliates, Luis Alfonso Dau & Elizabeth M. Moore alongside two other researchers collaborated & examined the effects of global trade integration on firm-level adoption of Corporate Social Responsibility Climate and Extreme Weather Events: Considerations for Insurance, Infrastructure Planning & Environmental and Financial Compliance
GRI Faculty Affiliates Receive Best Paper Award at 2022 IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications
Amy Mueller Awarded Seed Grant to Investigate A New, Ultra-Low-Cost Method of Monitoring Urban Water Systems
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.
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.
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.
May 25 at 8:00 am International Symposium on Risk Assessment Approaches for Decision Making – Communication
Jun 6 at 8:00 am Empowering the Higher Education community to create transformational change From June 6-9th, FEMA(Federal Emergency Management Agency) will be hosting the 24th Annual Emergency Management HiEd Symposium will be held June 6–9, 2022.
John Plodinec on the Advantages of Defining Victory John Plodinec explains in his latest piece says that planning for victory without a clearly defined plan or roadmap, will make all paths look the same, and almost all will lead nowhere.
Why Companies Need Cybersecurity and Cyber Resilience Global Resilience Research Network (GRRN) partner Paul Kirvan, recently shared some of his thoughts on why Companies now more than ever need cyber security & cyber resilience.
Does Global Integration Stimulate Corporate Citizenship? Faculty Affiliates, Luis Alfonso Dau & Elizabeth M. Moore alongside two other researchers collaborated & examined the effects of global trade integration on firm-level adoption of Corporate Social Responsibility
Climate and Extreme Weather Events: Considerations for Insurance, Infrastructure Planning & Environmental and Financial Compliance