This research examines why businesses remain in disaster-prone regions despite increasing climate risks. Using satellite imagery and business location data, it shows that firms often stay because local supplier networks, skilled labor pools, and community relationships create valuable economic advantages. Strengthening community resilience may therefore be more effective than encouraging relocation.

This research develops human–AI methods to prioritize massive data streams, especially in public health. By combining expert expectations with extreme value theory, it ranks events by contextual importance, reducing alert overload. Deployed nationally, the approach triaged thousands of outbreaks and data-quality issues, making big data interpretable, actionable, and life-saving decisions.