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  • Lessons from Impact Investing

    Lessons from Impact Investing

    Inevitably following a disaster, there is a tremendous amount of scrutiny regarding the response of charitable organizations and the government.  If private sector actors become involved through impact investing, the scrutiny will increase.  Critics have already voiced numerous concerns about the role of the private sector in addressing social problems. Interestingly, one of the leaders Read more

  • Ideas from Impact Investing

    Ideas from Impact Investing

    When problems seem insurmountable, innovative solutions are needed to try to solve them.  The government plays a key role in incentivizing financial preparedness through risk-sharing government programs and awareness building as well as through public/private partnerships. From a financial perspective, the primary means of preparing for and rebuilding a disaster is insurance, in various forms.   Read more

  • Building New Hope

    Building New Hope

    This post examines the issue of preparedness for and response to high-impact weather events, a discipline that is loosely referred to as disaster studies.  Disaster studies includes the study of community resilience or how communities can be better prepared to mitigate and prepare for risks. One of the reasons that disasters are so difficult to Read more

  • Envisioning a Better Future: The Case for Sustainable Development

    Envisioning a Better Future: The Case for Sustainable Development

    Progress is achieved through protection of the environment for future generations. Progress cannot be achieved through its degradation.  Sustainable development is the latest idea in the discipline of development as it has been envisioned since the end of World War II.  Sustainable development represents the movement to add protection for the environment to the agenda Read more

  • The Possibility for New Opportunities?

    The Possibility for New Opportunities?

    According to reinsurance giant Munich Re, 2011 produced the highest number of natural disasters in recorded history, following what had already proven to be a decade of unusual weather. The high-impact events in recent years have varied from the earthquake in Haiti to the earthquake and ensuing tsunami in Japan, the extreme drought in the Read more

  • BCM Implications of the New US Free Trade Agreements with Colombia and Panama

    BCM Implications of the New US Free Trade Agreements with Colombia and Panama

    Free trade is a cornerstone of the neoliberal worldview and the pursuit of trade expansion is a pillar of United States foreign policy.  According to the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR): “trade is critical to America’s prosperity – fueling economic growth, supporting good jobs at home, raising living standards and helping Americans provide Read more