How Can We Improve Disaster Response?
Drawing Lessons from Hurricane Katrina: How Can We Improve Disaster ...
Even if the U.S. draws the right lessons from Hurricane Katrina, panelists suggest, the nation may still be caught short in the next disaster. Moderator: Kenneth Oye, Associate Professor of Political Science and Engineering Systems and Director of the MIT-CIS Program ...
Master's student Megan Lickley measures the risks of ...
Master's student Megan Lickley measures the risks of climate change on ...
A Masters student in the Technology and Policy Program, Megan Lickley studies the impact of climate change on coastal energy infrastructure. In particular, she is looking at how sea level rise and hurricanes will change over time, and how these changes will affect ...
Rebuilding New Orleans: An Opportunity to Re-Energize the ...
Rebuilding New Orleans: An Opportunity to Re-Energize the Planning ...
Kristina Ford, Adjunct Professor of Environmental Studies, Bowdoin College; Former Executive Director, New Orleans City Planning Commission Description: There's no love lost between Kristina Ford and New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin; he made it clear that she was not ...
Stacy, 5th year master's student in EAPS
Stacy, 5th year master's student in EAPS
Stacy is a 5th year master's student in EAPS. Her thesis work focuses on assessing the economic value of seasonal hurricane forecasts based on insurance and reinsurance company interactions and information asymmetries. Her advisor is Kerry Emanuel. In this interview she shares a ...
The Challenge: Meeting Global Energy Demands Sustainably
The Challenge: Meeting Global Energy Demands Sustainably
10/18/2006 6:00 PM MuseumErnest Moniz, Director, MIT Energy Initiative; Kerry Emanuel, '76, PhD '78, Professor of Atmospheric ScienceDescription: Despite their calm demeanors, Kerry Emanuel and Ernie Moniz impart grave and pressing concerns about global warming to ...
U.S.-Cuba Relations: The Beginning of a Long Thaw?
U.S.-Cuba Relations: The Beginning of a Long Thaw?
09/23/2009 4:30 PM Wong AuditoriumJulia Sweig, Nelson and David Rockefeller Senior Fellow For Latin America Studies, Council on Foreign Relations; Wayne Smith, Senior Fellow and Director of the Cuba Program, Center for International PolicyDescription: To the dismay of ...
Voices from New Orleans: Design and Planning Diaspora
Voices from New Orleans: Design and Planning Diaspora
There is general agreement that to call New Orleans home means "living with danger, dangerously," as William Barry put it.
The present and future risks associated with hurricanes?
What Does Current Scientific Research Have to Say About the Present and ...
Kerry Emanuel, '76, PhD '78, Professor of Atmospheric ScienceDescription: As the costs of Hurricane Katrina continue to spiral higher — to date, $125 billion in damages and 1,200 deaths — there's keen interest in perfecting the science of hurricane forecasting. The ...
What's So Natural About Natural Disasters?
What's So Natural About Natural Disasters?
11/15/2005 5:00 PM Kirsch 32-123Rosalind H. Williams, HM, Bern Dibner Professor of the History of Science and Technology; David A. Mindell, PhD '96, Frances and David Dibner Associate Professor of the History of Engineering and Manufacturing; ; David S. Jones, ...