Dr. Sternberg’s current work is on the ethics of complex
decision making to avert disasters, whether from terrorism or
natural or technological hazards. His earlier research has examined
complex resources whose allocation requires public planning because
they are not effectively allocated by pure markets. He pursued this
topic through successive studies of resource types, including
technological research endowments, cultural and heritage resources,
urban physical form and infrastructure systems, and (the opposite
of such resources) geophysical and technological hazards. Some of
the results may be seen in the publications listed below. His
most recent interest is the study of new radical ideologies
affecting perceptions of public affairs.
