Pardee Initiative Publications

Sep 27, 2024

Examining Trends in the Food-Energy-Water Security Nexus and Its Relationships with Human Development, Population Growth, and Conflict

We used data from the recently updated Pardee RAND Food-Energy-Water Index to assess global and regional trends in resource security and relationships with the Human Development Index, internal conflict risk, and population growth.

Zohan Hasan Tariq, Henry H. Willis

Jan 12, 2024

Interactive Pardee RAND Food-Energy-Water Security Index

To provide information to agencies and efforts focused on food, water, and energy resources, RAND researchers developed the Pardee RAND Food-Energy-Water Index.

Henry H. Willis, David G. Groves, Jeanne S. Ringel, Zhimin Mao, Shira Efron, Michele Abbott, Zohan Hasan Tariq, Michael W. Robbins

Nov 2, 2022

Humanitarian Policymaking as Networked Governance: Social Network Analysis of the Global Compact on Refugees

This article uses social network analysis to understand policymaking from a networked governance perspective. We examine one of the most significant refugee policy processes, the efforts to formulate and adopt the Global Compact on Refugees.

Aaron Clark-Ginsberg, Jay Balagna, Cyd Stacy Nam, Maya Casagrande, Olivia Wilkinson

Dec 29, 2021

Addressing Emerging Technology Adoption in Food Production through Digital Games

Examines how blockchain, the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence with machine learning, and satellite imaging are being or could be implemented to decrease uncertainty and mitigate risks to support agricultural production and distribution.

Patricia A. Stapleton, Padmaja Vedula, Jalal Awan, Jonathan Lamb, Timothy R. Gulden, Jonathan W. Welburn

Jul 16, 2021

Risk Technopolitics in Freetown Slums: Why Community-Based Disaster Management Is No Silver Bullet

Chapter from "Critical Disaster Studies" (Penn Press, 2021) detailing a study of Sierra Leone and proposing that community-based disaster risk management actually distracts from larger social and political root causes of vulnerability.

Aaron Clark-Ginsberg

Sep 16, 2020

Hybrid Governance of Disaster Management in Freetown, Monrovia, and Dar Es Salaam

This article introduces a hybrid governance perspective to disaster management. Hybrid governance refers to situations where state and non-state actors collectively provide key services.

Aaron Clark-Ginsberg, Jonathan S. Blake, Karishma V. Patel

Sep 3, 2020

A Complexity Approach for Reducing Disaster Risks for Marginalized Urban Populations: Comparing DRR Interventions Across Four Cities

This chapter conceptualizes cities and their risks as a complex adaptive system and examines the methods for risk reduction.

Aaron Clark-Ginsberg

Sep 3, 2020

Disaster Risk Reduction in Cities: Towards a New Normal

This chapter introduces some of the key issues facing scholars and practitioners of disaster risk reduction in urban areas, which are now home to over half of the global population.

Aaron Clark-Ginsberg, Jonathan S. Blake, Karishma V. Patel

Dec 18, 2018

Challenges to the Integration of Syrian Refugees

In this study, we provide an overview of the situation of Syrian refugees and other non-citizens living in host countries. We explored the cases of Turkey, Germany, the United Kingdom, Greece, Italy, Canada and Australia.

Ernesto F. L. Amaral, Mahlet Atakilt Woldetsadik, Gabriela Armenta

Jan 30, 2018

Examining the Food-Energy-Water and Conflict Nexus

This article provides an in-depth review of the interactions between insecurity and conflict within the component sectors of the FEW nexus.

Michele Abbott, Morgan Bazilian, Daniel Egel, Henry H. Willis