In Hazardous Seas, coeditors Louise K. Comfort and Harkunti P. Rahayu lead a team of scholars who developed a tsunami detection and warning that relies on low-cost underwater sensors and networks of smartphone communication.
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In The Government of Emergency, Stephen Collier and Andrew Lakoff investigate how a particular perspective on understanding and managing emergencies developed from the Great Depression through the Cold War. Their analysis points to how experts developed a understanding of emergencies as arising from complex of vital, vulnerable systems.
With Eva Sorensen, Jacob Torfing and Jarle Trondal, Chris Ansell recently published a short book with the Cambridge Elements Series on Robust Governance in Turbulent Times. The book uses the conccept of "turbulence" to descrribe some of the specific challenges faced by the public sector and the concept of "robust governance" to describe some of the strategies that the public sector can use to adapt to and manage turbulent conditions. The book contains a discussion of the relationship between turbulence and crisis.
In The Dynamics of Risk, Louise Comfortsets the global problem of seismic risk in the framework of complex adaptive systems to explore how the consequences of such events ripple across jurisdictions, communities, and organizations in complex societies, triggering unexpected alliances but also exposing social, economic, and legal gaps.
In Pragmatism and Political Crisis Management, Chris Ansell and Martin Bartenberger examine strategic leadership in the 2007-2008 financial crisis, contrasting a "pragmatist" and a "principle-oriented" leadership style.