Todd Miller
Biographic Data
| ID | 3709644 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Todd Miller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Todd |
| FAMILY NAME | Miller |
| SIGNATURE | MILLER T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Independent researcher |
| ORCID | 0009-0003-2162-3434 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The adaptive shift
Disaster and Emergency Management (DEM) systems are increasingly challenged by the complexity and interconnectedness of today's DEM environment. While rigid, phased-based approaches to DEM provide valuable structural frameworks, they often fail in addressing the dynamic, non-linear, and unpredictable nature of contemporary disasters. This paper critically examines key challenges in DEM, including non-linearity, complexity, and the coordination of…
Exploring communication inefficiencies in disaster response
During disasters, emergency management and health agencies are typically the key providers of healthcare services, yet communication breakdowns between the two sectors often hinder response. This qualitative study explores the experiences of emergency managers and health professionals to identify challenges in cross-agency collaboration. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with professionals from New Zealand and the United Nations Office fo…
Constructivist Networked Grounded Theory
This paper introduces Constructivist Networked Grounded Theory (CNGT), an innovative methodology designed to address the analytical limitations of both Constructivist Grounded Theory (CGT) and Social Network Analysis (SNA) when applied independently to complex systems. In contexts such as Disaster and Emergency Management (DEM), where meaning-making processes are tightly interwoven with relational dynamics, existing methodologies often fail to pr…
Impacts of algal blooms and microcystins in fish on small-scale fishers in Winam Gulf, Lake Victoria
Lake Victoria, bordered by Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, provides one of the largest freshwater fisheries in the world and supports millions in small-scale fishing communities. Historical environmental change, including population growth, nutrient loading, introduced invasive species, and rising temperatures, has resulted in eutrophication and persistent cyanobacterial harmful algae blooms (cyanoHABs) over recent decades, particularly in the shall…
The Climate-Induced U.S. Border
PHOTO (COLOR): The border wall between Nogales, Arizona and Nogales, Mexico, seen in 2019. This physical infrastructure is reinforced by an ever-increasing array of surveillance technology, as well as 20,000 armed U.S. Border Patrol agents mostly stationed along the U.S.-Mexico border, but also deployed to the U.S.-Canada border and the Caribbean third border.. [Extracted from the article] Copyright of NACLA Report on the Americas is the property…
Alter-geopolitics and the feminist challenge to the securitization of climate policy
In the United States and beyond the challenges of global climate change are increasingly being governed via the militarization of nation-state borders rather than, or in addition to, the mitigation of carbon emissions and collective strategies for climate adaptation. In this article we apply the concept of “geopopulationism,” introduced by Bhatia et al. (this issue), to think through the zero-sum Manichaean logics of traditional geopolitical calc…
Empire of Borders
Five Decades of Organizing, Five Decades of Nacla
"Five Decades of Organizing, Five Decades of NACLA." NACLA Report on the Americas, 50(3), pp. 331–332
Storming the Wall
This talk will connect the dots between climate change, the displacement of people, and hardening, militarized borders proliferating across the globe. Todd Miller will report from the flashpoints of climate clashes, chronicling militarized divisions between rich and poor, the environmentally secure and those most exposed. About the Lecturer: For the past fifteen years Todd Miller has researched, written about, and worked on immigration and border…
The Refugee Movement is the Movement of Today”
Beyond Trump’s Big, Beautiful Wall
In the fall of 2016, Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful wall” along the U.S.-Mexico divide seemed like an unlikely presidential candidate’s campaign bluster. Since the New York real estate magnate’s sw
Border Patrol Capitalism
The truck I’m in rumbles into a military checkpoint on the western outskirts of Agua Prieta, where all traffic is forced to a halt. The soldiers, in light brown desert camo and black balaclavas cov
Follow the Money
Arizona, the Anti-Immigrant Laboratory
"Arizona, the Anti-Immigrant Laboratory." NACLA Report on the Americas, 43(4), pp. 3–4 Additional informationNotes on contributorsTodd MillerTodd Miller is NACLA’s editorial assistant
Easements on Tribal Sovereignty
There are more than fifty million acres of Indian trust lands in the United States, with the bulk of them located in the western half of the country.'Thousands of miles of easements cross over Indian lands for one purpose or another.These easements include rights-of-way for highways, railroads, electric transmission lines, oil and gas pipelines, and various communication facilities.They are an essential part of the nation's infrastructure.Because…
Books
Coronary Heart Disease: A Behavioral Perspective. T. W. Smith and A. S. Leon. Champaign, Illinois: Research Press, 1992. pp 198. $16.95. Reviewed by Todd Miller
Alter-geopolitics and the feminist challenge to the securitization of climate policy
In the United States and beyond the challenges of global climate change are increasingly being governed via the militarization of nation-state borders rather than, or in addition to, the mitigation of carbon emissions and collective strategies for climate adaptation. In this article we apply the concept of “geopopulationism,” introduced by Bhatia et al. (this issue), to think through the zero-sum Manichaean logics of traditional geopolitical calc…
Constructivist Networked Grounded Theory
This paper introduces Constructivist Networked Grounded Theory (CNGT), an innovative methodology designed to address the analytical limitations of both Constructivist Grounded Theory (CGT) and Social Network Analysis (SNA) when applied independently to complex systems. In contexts such as Disaster and Emergency Management (DEM), where meaning-making processes are tightly interwoven with relational dynamics, existing methodologies often fail to pr…
Books
Coronary Heart Disease: A Behavioral Perspective. T. W. Smith and A. S. Leon. Champaign, Illinois: Research Press, 1992. pp 198. $16.95. Reviewed by Todd Miller
Easements on Tribal Sovereignty
There are more than fifty million acres of Indian trust lands in the United States, with the bulk of them located in the western half of the country.'Thousands of miles of easements cross over Indian lands for one purpose or another.These easements include rights-of-way for highways, railroads, electric transmission lines, oil and gas pipelines, and various communication facilities.They are an essential part of the nation's infrastructure.Because…
Arizona, the Anti-Immigrant Laboratory
"Arizona, the Anti-Immigrant Laboratory." NACLA Report on the Americas, 43(4), pp. 3–4 Additional informationNotes on contributorsTodd MillerTodd Miller is NACLA’s editorial assistant
Follow the Money
Border Patrol Capitalism
The truck I’m in rumbles into a military checkpoint on the western outskirts of Agua Prieta, where all traffic is forced to a halt. The soldiers, in light brown desert camo and black balaclavas cov
Storming the Wall
This talk will connect the dots between climate change, the displacement of people, and hardening, militarized borders proliferating across the globe. Todd Miller will report from the flashpoints of climate clashes, chronicling militarized divisions between rich and poor, the environmentally secure and those most exposed. About the Lecturer: For the past fifteen years Todd Miller has researched, written about, and worked on immigration and border…
The Refugee Movement is the Movement of Today”
Beyond Trump’s Big, Beautiful Wall
In the fall of 2016, Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful wall” along the U.S.-Mexico divide seemed like an unlikely presidential candidate’s campaign bluster. Since the New York real estate magnate’s sw
Five Decades of Organizing, Five Decades of Nacla
"Five Decades of Organizing, Five Decades of NACLA." NACLA Report on the Americas, 50(3), pp. 331–332
Alter-geopolitics and the feminist challenge to the securitization of climate policy
In the United States and beyond the challenges of global climate change are increasingly being governed via the militarization of nation-state borders rather than, or in addition to, the mitigation of carbon emissions and collective strategies for climate adaptation. In this article we apply the concept of “geopopulationism,” introduced by Bhatia et al. (this issue), to think through the zero-sum Manichaean logics of traditional geopolitical calc…
Empire of Borders
The Climate-Induced U.S. Border
PHOTO (COLOR): The border wall between Nogales, Arizona and Nogales, Mexico, seen in 2019. This physical infrastructure is reinforced by an ever-increasing array of surveillance technology, as well as 20,000 armed U.S. Border Patrol agents mostly stationed along the U.S.-Mexico border, but also deployed to the U.S.-Canada border and the Caribbean third border.. [Extracted from the article] Copyright of NACLA Report on the Americas is the property…
Impacts of algal blooms and microcystins in fish on small-scale fishers in Winam Gulf, Lake Victoria
Lake Victoria, bordered by Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, provides one of the largest freshwater fisheries in the world and supports millions in small-scale fishing communities. Historical environmental change, including population growth, nutrient loading, introduced invasive species, and rising temperatures, has resulted in eutrophication and persistent cyanobacterial harmful algae blooms (cyanoHABs) over recent decades, particularly in the shall…
The adaptive shift
Disaster and Emergency Management (DEM) systems are increasingly challenged by the complexity and interconnectedness of today's DEM environment. While rigid, phased-based approaches to DEM provide valuable structural frameworks, they often fail in addressing the dynamic, non-linear, and unpredictable nature of contemporary disasters. This paper critically examines key challenges in DEM, including non-linearity, complexity, and the coordination of…
Exploring communication inefficiencies in disaster response
During disasters, emergency management and health agencies are typically the key providers of healthcare services, yet communication breakdowns between the two sectors often hinder response. This qualitative study explores the experiences of emergency managers and health professionals to identify challenges in cross-agency collaboration. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with professionals from New Zealand and the United Nations Office fo…
Constructivist Networked Grounded Theory
This paper introduces Constructivist Networked Grounded Theory (CNGT), an innovative methodology designed to address the analytical limitations of both Constructivist Grounded Theory (CGT) and Social Network Analysis (SNA) when applied independently to complex systems. In contexts such as Disaster and Emergency Management (DEM), where meaning-making processes are tightly interwoven with relational dynamics, existing methodologies often fail to pr…
Political science (11 works) · Law (8 works) · Business (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Computer security (3 works) · Disaster Management and Resilience (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · History (3 works) · Border security (2 works)