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I grew up in the 1980s in Texas, attended really good public schools. I learned about "great civilizations" like Greece/Rome. I memorized the founders but knew nothing about them. I

Fellow disaster researchers I offer some hope--major outlet news coverage of the compound pandemic-hurricane-wildfire-social justice disaster seems to have absorbed some of our core conceptual premises and empirical findings! 2.

The largest refinery in the United States is shutting down in advance of Hurricane Laura. It won't be safe for workers to travel to and from work.https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-weather/hurricanes/article/Motiva-to-shut-do

There are no distinguishable boundaries separating COVID-19, racial violence, environmental racism, & an inequality-producing economy. It's one disaster process--carving it up into separable parts has allowed (some of) us to

Imagine if 15 years ago universities had poured money into developing best practices in online learning--using technology to hold tuition costs down, building a culture around creative online pedagogy. We

Over a decade ago I was talking w/the great disaster scholar Russell Dynes (RIP) and he clued me in to the importance of the tremendous compound disaster that struck Lisbon