Sporting Intelligence September 15, 2015 by Roger Pielke, Jr. Intercollegiate sports in the United States are as much a part of universities as math and physics, and the start of the 2015 NFL season is as good a time as any … Continue reading →

by Itay Fischhendler, Galit Cohen-Blankshtain, Yoav Shuali, and Maxwell Boykoff Public Understanding of Science October 2015 vol. 24 no. 7 794-810 Abstract: Given the potential for uncertainties to influence mega-projects, this study examines how mega-projects are deliberated in the public arena. … Continue reading →

by Deserai A. Crow, Lydia A. Lawhon, Elizabeth Koebele, Adrianne Kroepsch, Rebecca Schild, and Juhi Huda Risk, Hazards & Crisis in Public Policy Vol. 6, No. 1 States in the American West are experiencing significant population growth and exurban development, … Continue reading →

by Roger Pielke, Jr. Sporting Intelligence August 3, 2015 After flirting with the possibility of trying to stay on, it looks like FIFA President Sepp Blatter will indeed be standing down early next year. Blatter has announced that FIFA will … Continue reading →

by Roger Pielke, Jr. Transparency International August 10, 2015 As the presidential candidates start jostling to take over from beleaguered Sepp Blatter at FIFA, here I provide an update of my “FIFA Reform Scorecard” to set the stage for evaluating … Continue reading →

Society & Natural Resources Volume 28, Issue 8, 2015 by Katherine Dickinson, Hannah Brenkert-Smith, Patricia Champ, and Nicholas Flores Abstract: Social interactions are widely recognized as a potential influence on risk-related behaviors. We present a mediation model in which social … Continue reading →

Transparency International July 24, 2015 by Roger Pielke, Jr. Hisao Tanaka, president of Toshiba Corporation, and two top executives resigned after an independent investigation found that earnings had been improperly inflated by US$1.2 billion under his watch. Simultaneously, FIFA’s president … Continue reading →