"The rise and spread of Covid-19 in the beginning of 2020 presents a once-in-a-century challenge and opportunity for decision makers, managers, scholars, and citizens to understand the risks, mitigate its impact and prepare for future crises. Drawing on a global network of scholars, this book...

1. Collective Cognition in Complex Systems Louise Comfort & Mary Lee Rhodes2. The Global Context: Progression of the Pandemic across the World, the Role of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Functioning of the Global Health Governance and Institutional System Laura Olson3. Achieving the...

One way to assess whether governments (at any level) learn from their disaster experience is to examine two similar events at different points in time. We investigate and compare the 1989 EXXON VALDEZ oil spill disaster with the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil platform and oil spill disaster to...