If it takes more than 15 minutes, according to the UK government’s new environmental improvement plan for England, something needs to be done about it.
Over the past thirty years, disaster scholars have highlighted that communities with stronger social infrastructure—including social ties that enable trust, mutual aid, and collective action—tend to respond to and recover better from crises. However, comprehensive measurements of social capital across communities have been rare. This study adapts Kyne and Aldrich’s (Risk Hazards Crisis Public Policy 11, 61–86, 2020) county-level social capital index to the census-tract level, generating social capital indices from 2011 to 2018 at the census-tract, zipcode, and county subdivision levels. To demonstrate their usefulness to disaster planners, public health experts,...
While many politicians have experienced declining levels of public trust during the pandemic, faith in science has generally held up well. However, social sciences may struggle to achieve similar levels of authority. By Christina Boswell
It is possible that how a society comes out of a major emergency is more important to long-run human flourishing than how it goes into it. But this requires a deep understanding of how to make sound decisions for the future. By Claire Craig
