Human society is vulnerable to various crises, ranging from hazardous exposure, natural disasters (hurricanes and forest fires), to organized terrorist attacks threatening national security. Although geographical information are widely applied to critical decisions for crisis management, recent field studies have shown that GIS are rarely used by crisis managers at the time of actual crises, be...

This study examines how sudden shrinkage of domestic demand affects firm-level export performance. Using the Asian economic crisis as a natural experiment, we show that while the industrial organization (IO) economics and resource-based view (RBV) apply well in the pre-crisis period, the real options perspective does a better job in explaining firms’ efforts to increase exports in the post-cris...

We compare people greatly affected by a crisis with those less affected to explore how level of crisis influences their response to experiencing nature. A questionnaire comprising a validated protocol to evaluate frequency of stress conditions, the level of crisis retention, reorientation and rehabilitation potential was answered by 547 individuals. The questionnaire also comprises items on eve...

I am here today to report on the findings of a recent study that I helped manage and conduct, a study titled “Easing the Natural Gas Crisis: Reducing Natural Gas Prices Through Increased Deployment of Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency.” This study explores the relationship between renewable generation and energy efficiency investments and natural gas prices. As I will describe, the report ...

Automatic language processing systems depend on, among others factors, the effectiveness in modeling human cognitive abilities, including the capacity to draw inferences about prototypical or expected sequences of events and their temporal order. Appropriate response to a crisis is as important for public security as are efforts to prevent any such natural or man made disaster. Recent research ...