CSPV’s independent fact-finding report examining the events and circumstances leading to the 2013 fatal shooting at Arapahoe High School and offering recommendations for improvements in school safety is featured and discussed extensively …
IBS is undergoing a Strategic Planning process designed to craft a vision for the future and pathways to achieve that vision.
Lori Hunter was an invited panelist at a Tuesday conference at the Institute for Public Knowledge at NYU. The conference theme was “Will Climate Change Health?” and Lori spoke on the connections between climate, migration and health.
Lori Hunter has accepted an invitation to join the Editorial Board of the journal Global Environmental Change. Click here to visit the journal website.
While it may not be a surprise that the number of elderly inmates is growing in the United States, the pace of that growth and the complexity of the inmates’ health problems is posing new challenges to researchers, policymakers and correctional employees.
A new research article by Nnenia Campbell, Lucy McAllister and Liam Downey, “Invisible While in Plain Sight: The World Bank in the New York Times”, has been accepted for publication in the journal, Sociology of Development.
The new Natural Hazards library catalog interface is now online! It’s got lots of great new features and the Hazards Center and the IBS tech team have worked super hard to create it. Read more here: http://www.colorado.edu/hazards/dr/archives/dr651.html#three Access the library directly here: http://hazlib.colorado.edu/
If you’re not directly involved in the realm of natural and human-caused disasters, a small news item may have escaped notice last week: The U.S. Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology’s publication of its first comprehensive community resilience planning guide.
Andrei Rogers' latest book has just been published: "Applied Multiregional Demography: Migration and Population Redistribution", (Dordrecht: Springer), 2015. This book reconsiders conclusions reached in the literatureregarding several fundamental common sense demographicquestions in migration and population redistribution, including:Are the proximate sources of urban population growth mostlydue to migration or natural increase? Is it mostly migration or“aging-in-place”
“A Multi-level Life Course Model of Boundaries in Knowledge Production” Projects spanning multiple disciplines (e.g., interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary or transdisciplinary research) have been examined and evaluated in ways that are substantially under‐theorized. We propose a dynamic model of how disciplinary boundaries are constructed, maintained and crossed, as a means to identify how research fields change as
