Abrahm Lustgarten, an investigative reporter for The New York Times, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss where people might eventually resettle and the cities that could capitalize on that forced migration.
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The next disaster is coming. Are you ready?
Juliette Kayyem, a lecturer at Harvard and faculty director of the Homeland Security Project and the Security and Global Health Project, discusses her approach to crisis management.
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Why We Think We’re Ready for Natural Disasters And Why We’re Wrong
Seismologist Lucy Jones joins us to talk about the long-term psychological toll natural disasters have on the people who experience them. Her book “The Big Ones: How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Us (And What We Can Do About Them)” has just been released in paperback.
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The General And The Hurricane
Lt. General Russel Honoré joins us to talk about how his military training prepared him to tackle a natural disaster – and about how governments and organizations can be better prepared to handle emergencies.
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Seismic Shift: How An Earthquake Inspired An Engineer
Menzer Pehlivan joins us to talk about how she and her fellow engineers are creating a better world; the subject of the documentary “Dream Big 3D.”
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Lessons From A Disaster: The 1964 Alaska Quake
Henry Fountain joins us to tell the story of the geologist who studied the quake’s aftermath and redefined our understanding of plate tectonics.
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For Richer or Poorer: Natural Disasters
How does the aftermath of hurricanes, floods and the like fuel global inequality? We’ll talk about the topic with the author of The Disaster Profiteers: How Natural Disasters Make the Rich Richer and the Poor Even Poorer
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