Scholars
Miriam Pollock
University College London
Based in
United Kingdom
Europe
Miriam Pollock is a PhD student at University College London (UCL) in the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES) and the recipient of a UCL Research Excellence Scholarship. She researches obstacles to urban sustainability, with a focus on the influence of regime type and of corporations. Miriam received her MA in Russian and Post-Soviet Politics from UCL SSEES and her BA in Slavic Languages and Literatures and in Classics from Stanford University.
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Country(ies) of Specialty
Russia United StatesFocus areas of expertise
Greenwashing Climate policy and politicsPublications
Peer Reviewed Articles
Linkov, Igor, et al. “Applying Resilience to Hybrid Threats.” IEEE Security & Privacy, vol. 17, no. 5, 2019, pp. 78-83. doi: 10.1109/MSEC.2019.2922866. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8821471
Book Chapters
Pollock, Miriam, et al. “The Cases of Novgorod and Muscovy: Using Systems Thinking to Understand Historical Civilizational Response to Exogenous Threats.” How Worlds Collapse: What History, Systems, and Complexity Can Teach Us about Our Modern World and Fragile Future, edited by Centeno, Miguel, et al., Routledge, 2023, pp. 206-235. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003331384-14/cases-novgorod-muscovy-miriam-pollock-benjamin-trump-igor-linkov
Trump, Benjamin. D., et al. “Promoting Effective Biosecurity Governance: Using Tripwires to Anticipate and Ameliorate Potentially Harmful Development Trends.” Synthetic Biology and Biotechnology: Security and Resilience, edited by Trump, Benjamin D., et al., Springer, 2021, pp. 209–225. doi: 10.1007/978-94-024-2086-9_14. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36122102/
Pollock, Miriam, et al. “U.S. Navy Resilience in the Arctic: The Importance of Resilience for Countering Emerging Environmental, Cyber, and Geopolitical Threats in a Rapidly Changing Region.” Cybersecurity and Resilience in the Arctic, edited by Trump, Benjamin D., et al., NATO Science for Peace and Security Series, vol. 58, IOS Press, 2020, pp. 105-149. doi: 10.3233/NICSP200045. https://ebooks.iospress.nl/volumearticle/54715
Pollock, Miriam, et al. “Analytical Strategies to Operationalize Arctic Infrastructure Threat Absorption and Resilience.” Cybersecurity and Resilience in the Arctic, edited by Trump, Benjamin D., et al., NATO Science for Peace and Security Series, vol. 58, IOS Press, 2020, pp. 200-223. doi: 10.3233/NICSP200049. https://ebooks.iospress.nl/DOI/10.3233/NICSP200049
Wandji, Thierry, et al. “Digital Resilience for Naval Software and Missions.” Resilience and Hybrid Threats: Security and Integrity for the Digital World, edited by Linkov, Igor, et al., NATO Science for Peace and Security Series, vol. 55, IOS Press, 2019, pp. 43-47. doi: 10.3233/NICSP190019. https://ebooks.iospress.nl/DOI/10.3233/NICSP190019
Galaitsi, S. E., et al. “The Ethics of Algorithm Errors.” Resilience and Hybrid Threats: Security and Integrity for the Digital World, edited by Linkov, Igor, et al., NATO Science for Peace and Security Series, vol. 55, IOS Press, 2019, pp. 121-128. doi: 10.3233/NICSP190025. https://ebooks.iospress.nl/DOI/10.3233/NICSP190025
Other Selected Works
“GCRF COMPASS+: Comprehensive Capacity Building in Central Eurasia: Tackling sustainability challenges through the lens of resilience.” Warwick Institute for Global Sustainable Development, GCRF COMPASS Policy Brief, 2023. https://issuu.com/niftyfoxcreative/docs/uow_compass_policybrief_web
Pollock, Miriam. “Russia to Unveil Most Ambitious Climate Change Strategy Yet.” Post-Soviet Brief, 2021. https://sway.office.com/Hq8aTkEAGaN0RlGd