Environmental Equity, Conflict, & Justice

Recognizing the ways that less-privileged communities, frontline communities and communities-of-color have been disproportionately affected by environmental harms and conflict and are granted less access to environmental goods and services, our projects explore these patterns and direct attention to the need for more equitable and just solutions.

CECE Director talks US Open climate protest with TMZ Live
October 25, 2023
Dana R. Fisher
In the build up to the UN Secretary General’s Climate Ambition Summit in NYC in September, climate activists worked to raise awareness of the climate crisis through numerous non-violent acts of civil disobedience. Particularly memorable actions took place on Thursday, September 7th, when three activists delayed a game at the US Open in NYC with […]
Vox’s Today Explained Podcast with CECE Director, Dana R. Fisher
October 25, 2023
Dana R. Fisher
CECE Director, Dana R. Fisher, spoke with Noelle King from Vox about how the radical flank is growing in the climate movement in the US. The interview appeared on the Today Explained Podcast on September 26th. It was also written up into this piece: How radical should you be when you’re trying to save the […]
Addressing Climate Change Through Our Nation’s Service Corps
October 25, 2023
W. Chris Jayko, Dana R. Fisher, Erika S. Svendsen
Traditional Trades Advancement Program Year 1 As part of its work assessing how federal service corps programs are expanding their efforts to care for the environment and diversify their workforces, CECE is studying the Traditional Trades Advancement Program (TTAP), a youth service project funded by the National Parks Service. This research aims to analyze TTAP through survey data […]
Multiscale RECIPES for Sustainable Food Systems Year 2 Report
October 25, 2023
Rachel Weiss, Matthew Hartings
RECIPES: Resilient, Equitable, and Circular Innovations with Partnership and Education Synergies Multiscale RECIPES (‘RECIPES’) is an interdisciplinary research network of 50 faculty and staff researchers co-creating solutions to wasted food. Through our research process, we partner with non-profits, industry leaders, frontline workers, community members, and policymakers to transform wasteful systems to promote sustainability, equity, and […]
Article: Assessing learning outcomes of a role-playing simulation in international environmental [...]
July 30, 2023
Ken Conca
American University School of International Service Professor Dr. Ken Conca and colleagues Dr. Abby Ostovar and Ratia Tekenet have taken role-playing simulations beyond fun and games (sorry, Dungeons and Dragons fans) and right into the classroom. Their new paper, “Assessing the Learning Outcomes of a Role-Playing Simulation in International Environmental Politics” discusses the shifts in […]
Article: Accounting for Non-Economic Loss: Climate Displacement and the Meaningful Omission of the [...]
July 28, 2023
Robert Albro
Dr. Robert Albro, Research Associate Professor in the American University Center for Latin American and Latino Studies, recently published a new article in the International Journal of Cultural Policy on the necessity of incorporating into loss-and-damage policy the intangible, non-economic loss of cultural heritage incurred as a result of climate displacement. Titled “Accounting for non-economic […]
Article: Towards Abolitionist Agrarian Geographies of Kentucky
July 19, 2023
Garrett Graddy-Lovelace
In her new paper “Towards Abolitionist Agrarian Geographies of Kentucky,” American University School of International Service Provost Associate Professor Dr. Garrett Graddy-Lovelace invites readers on a journey through space and time in a state with echoes of an oppressive, racially stratified agricultural past and a present of both agrarian exploitation and resistance. “This state names […]
Book: Landscapes of Care, Immigration and Health in Rural America
June 23, 2023
Thurka Sangaramoorthy
Landscapes of Care Immigration and Health in Rural America is a new book by American University Department of Anthropology Professor Dr. Thurka Sangaramoorthy, which was recently awarded an Honorable Mention in the 2023 Society for the Anthropology of North America Book Prize. Her work explores the ways in which immigrants in rural America navigate the […]
Book: Corruption Plots: Stories, Ethics, and Publics of the Late Capitalist City
April 15, 2023
Malini Ranganathan
Dr. Malini Rangathan is an Associate Professor in the School of International Service at AU. With a background in political ecology and geography, she researches urban environmental justice and studies the economic and political drivers of environmental racism and environmental casteism. Particularly, she studies how caste and race have shaped water and sanitation access, climate […]
Article: Parity as radical pragmatism: Centering farm justice and agrarian expertise in [...]
March 29, 2023
Garrett Graddy-Lovelace
From East India to the United States, the history and present reality of the movement for farmer parity is analyzed in a new paper published by American University School of International Service Provost Associate Professor Dr. Garrett Graddy-Lovelace and activist colleagues. Titled “Parity as radical pragmatism: Centering farm justice and agrarian expertise in agricultural policy,” […]