Disaster & Resilience

Projects in this area focus on communities affected by natural disasters, how they respond and recover, as well as how communities can prepare beforehand by building resilience.

CECE Whitepaper No. 4: Understanding Community Response to Disaster: Results from Three AmeriCorps [...]
February 11, 2026
Natalia Piland, Dana R. Fisher, Michael Culbert
AmeriCorps members and volunteers engage in community response to disaster across the United States. How do they explain the skills they use, the motivations that urge them to respond, and their experiences with disaster? Across the three programs that we visited, participants reported drawing from their prior life experiences, whether personal or professional,to increase their […]
[Article] Public Participation in Tropical Conservation and Environmental Management Research
January 20, 2026
Natalia Piland
CECE Postdoctoral Fellow Natalia C. Piland is lead author of a new paper in Biotropica titled, “Public participation in tropical conservation and environmental management research: Towards a locally grounded and reflexive practice.” This paper highlights research and practitioner experiences from the 18 co-authors and local histories, as well as results of bibliometric analyses from peer-reviewed literature, to […]
[Article] Drawing Systems of Stewardship to Guide Action and Reveal Critical Relationships of Care
January 20, 2026
Natalia Piland
CECE Postdoctoral Fellow Natalia C. Piland is lead author of a new paper in Earth Stewardship titled, “Drawing systems of stewardship to guide action and reveal critical relationships of care.” This paper is a presentation of a tool she, with her co-authors, developed while working at the U.S. Forest Service. The tool is meant to lower activation […]
[Article] After One Year of Trump, Is Anything Left of the American Climate Corps?
January 13, 2026
CECE’s work was recently featured in an article on Grist. The article investigates the fallout from the cancellation of the American Climate Corps. The feature showcases CECE’s recent report that looked into where jobs and communities were most impacted when the ACC was shut down and funding was cut. To read the whole article click […]
[Report] Visualizing the Loss of the American Climate Corps
November 17, 2025
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How do we visualize the loss of the American Climate Corps? This report maps out the reach of the American Climate Corps to understand where jobs and communities were most impacted when the program was shut down and funding was cut. Read the full report below.
CECE Postdoctoral Fellow Speaks on Demography and Climate Disasters
October 16, 2025
Julie A. Gonzalez
Dr. Julie A. González, Environmental Justice Postdoctoral Fellow at CECE, was featured on the podcast The Demographer’s Diary, hosted by Dr. Coda Rayo-Garza, to discuss how demographic research shows the human dimensions of climate disasters. In the episode titled, “Demography and Climate Disasters,” Dr. González explained how population data such as age, housing, health, language, […]
CECE Postdoctoral Fellow Speaks on Extreme Heat and Health
October 6, 2025
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Dr. Julie A. González, Environmental Justice Postdoctoral Fellow at CECE, was invited to join a live news forum with journalist Cesar Miguel Rondón, broadcast simultaneously on TVV Network and Éxitos 107.1 FM Miami, to discuss headlines about regions projected to face dangerous levels of extreme heat by 2050. In her remarks (timecode 1:14 to 1:30 […]
CECE Explores Community Resilience at Climate Week NYC’s House of Scientista
September 30, 2025
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On Thursday September 25th, CECE co-sponsored the House of Scientista event at Climate Week NYC. The event, hosted by Scientista, discussed the future of food, philanthropy, and communications during climate and political change. As people arrived at the event, Dr. Dana R. Fisher, elicited insight from four leaders in community resilience via red carpet interviews. […]
CECE at Climate Week NYC 2025
September 21, 2025
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Several CECE faculty and affliates will be attending Climate Week next week in New York City. Below are a few events that they will be participating in. Upstream, Downriver – Uniting for Water Justice Screening The Center for Environmental Filmmaking‘s Professor Maggie Stogner will be screening her documentary “Upstream, Downriver – Uniting for Water Justice” virtually […]
CECE Whitepaper No. 3: Workforce Development and the 4Rs in California and Vermont
July 21, 2025
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How are service corps programs supporting communities as they build resilience, respond to and recover from disaster, and work to reduce their emissions? This paper provides insights into who is working in such service corps programs, what are their motivations for serving, and how they hope to contribute to creating more resilient communities. The study […]
CECE Whitepaper No. 2: Mobilizing Young People to Help Communities Recover from Disaster–A [...]
July 10, 2025
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How are service corps programs supporting communities as they respond to and recover from disaster? This paper provides insights into who is working in such programs, what are their motivations for serving, and how do they hope to contribute to creating more resilient communities post-disaster. The study integrates data collected from members of three different […]
Workforce Development & the 4Rs Wraps Up Site Visits in Los Angeles with the DataCorps Fellows
July 10, 2025
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Author: Kaitlin Dellaposta The city of Los Angeles in southern California is well known for its glamour and beautiful scenery, but also for its dangerous wildfires. The Workforce Development & the 4Rs research team along with the DataCorps Graduate Fellows visited the third and final site of the summer in the city of Los Angeles. Here, […]