March 15, 2008
SPPD Research Professor Adam Rose and Garrett Asay of the USC Viterbi School are part of a four-man team that has been awarded a $750,000 National Science Foundation grant to study the public's response to disasters, a North County Times story reported. Using public surveys as a starting point, the team will then use mathematical modeling to identify everything from the pace at which fear spreads through a community after a disaster, to the likelihood that people will cut back on spending so severely that it affects the economy. Rose and Asay both work at USC's Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE), the article noted.
SPPD Research Professor Adam Rose and Garrett Asay of the USC Viterbi School are part of a four-man team that has been awarded a $750,000 National Science Foundation grant to study the public's response to disasters, a North County Times story reported. Using public surveys as a starting point, the team will then use mathematical modeling to identify everything from the pace at which fear spreads through a community after a disaster, to the likelihood that people will cut back on spending so severely that it affects the economy. Rose and Asay both work at USC's Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE), the article noted.