Jim Hall

Jan 6, 2025 | nature.com | Jim Hall

AbstractDespite the growing accessibility of international grain and oilseed markets, high production costs and trade frictions are still prevalent, contributing to regional heterogeneities in the landed cost of grain imports. Here we quantify the landed cost for six grain commodities across 3,500 administrative regions, capturing regional cost differences to produce grain and transport it across international borders.

Jul 15, 2024 | nature.com | Paul Bates |Jim Hall |Bruno Merz |Jaroslav Mysiak |Eric Tate |Jens de Bruijn

AbstractFlood adaptation measures such as levees, flood-proofing structures, nature-based solutions and flood insurance are essential to cope with the growing flood risk caused by climate change and urban development into flood-prone areas. However, many communities in flood zones are ill-protected because the implementation of adaptation measures is hindered by a variety of constraints to adaptation, including the cost, limitations on institutional capacity and societal inertia.

Jan 26, 2024 | seattletimes.com | Jim Hall

By now everyone is familiar with the accident on Alaska Airlines Flight 1282, where a panel from the sidewall of the Boeing 737 MAX 9 explosively separated from the aircraft at 16,000 feet shortly after takeoff. It is fortunate that this didn’t happen just a few short minutes later when the plane was at twice the altitude, turning a calamity into a catastrophe.