Research
[Article] Wildfire Displacement in the United States: A Qualitative Synthesis of the Social [...]
CECE Director, Dana R. Fisher, and former CECE Post Doctoral Fellow, Julie A. González, recently published a paper about displacement after wildfires using the 2025 Los Angeles County wildfires as a case. Abstract: Wildfire-driven displacement is an urgent and underexamined dimension of social vulnerability in the United States. This study synthesizes findings from a qualitative […]
CECE Whitepaper No. 4: Understanding Community Response to Disaster: Results from Three AmeriCorps [...]
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 […]
Assessing Patterns of Changing Media Diets in the US
CECE conducted a survey of a nationally representative sample of 1,500 adults in the US through YouGov during the two weeks leading up to the 2025 election. The survey included a question about the public’s media diet, which was modeled on a question fielded by the Pew Research Center in March 2025. The tool below […]
[Article] Lessons for Nature-Based Carbon Removal: Learning From the Politics of Environmental [...]
In his new paper, “Lessons for Nature-Based Carbon Removal: Learning From the Politics of Environmental Conservation”, School of International Service Assistant Professor, Scott Freeman discusses the legacy and lessons from the social impacts of environmental conservation is an essential consideration for nature-based carbon dioxide removal. You can read the full article here.
[Article] After One Year of Trump, Is Anything Left of the American Climate Corps?
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] Energy Transition in Yemen: A Path to Justice and Sustainable Development
CECE’s postdoctoral fellow Abeer Al‑Eryani, in collaboration with the Arab Reform Initiative and the Sana’a Center for Strategic Studies, has published a new policy document titled “Energy Transition in Yemen: A Path to Justice and Sustainable Development.” The brief examines how conflict, institutional fragmentation, and socio-economic precarity are reshaping Yemen’s energy landscape, and proposes a framework for designing […][Report] Visualizing the Loss of the American Climate Corps
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.
[Article] Amazonian Fish Migration as a Social-Cultural-Ecological Process
CECE Postdoctoral Fellow Natalia C. Piland is one of six co-authors of the recently published paper, “Amazonian fish migration as a social-cultural-ecological process,” in People and Nature. The paper was led by PhD candidate LuLu Victoria-Lacy (Florida International University), whose ethnographic research highlights how short and long fish migrations in the Amazon are important to […]
[Article] What’s radical? Comparing how climate activists and the general public perceive social [...]
A team from CECE has published a paper in Environmental Research Letters that compares perspectives about social movement tactics between climate activists and the general public. Read the abstract below and and Click here to read the article. As the climate crisis worsens, activists have employed a wide range of tactics to draw attention to […]
CECE Team Surveys NoKings Day 2.0 Participants in Washington D.C.
On October 18th, a coalition of left-leaning political groups coordinated a second national day-of-action to declare that the US has no kings. Almost 3,000 events took place across the US during NoKings Day 2.0 with early estimates predicting that over 5 million people had joined the day of action in the US (with many more […]
Final Student Reports Complete Inaugural DataCorps Fellowship
The Workforce Development & the 4Rs project wrapped up its first summer of the DataCorps Fellowship Program. At the beginning of the summer, the DataCorps fellows identified individual topics they would like to research. Each fellow then designed one to two questions on their topics to be included in the project’s service corps member survey. […]
Tracking Activism and Resistance at the No Kings Day of Action
Over the past 6 months, protesters have flooded the streets across the country to voice their concerns about the Trump Administration and its policies. Multiple large-scale, coordinated days of action organized by groups such as Indivisible and more informal networks like 50501 movement have taken place. The most recent day of action was called No […]