Research
CECE Whitepaper No. 2: Mobilizing Young People to Help Communities Recover from Disaster–A [...]
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
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 Fellows visited the third and final site of the summer in the city of Los Angeles. Here, they met with […]
Workforce Development & the 4Rs Continue Site Visits in Utah with the DataCorps
Author: Cici Akuley Nestled in the Mountain West region of the United States, rural Utah is known for its breathtaking mountainous landscapes. Nevertheless, residents must also contend with a wide range of natural disasters that include droughts, floods, and wildfires. The Workforce Development & the 4Rs project research team, along with our DataCorps fellows, visited Richfield, […]
Workforce Development & the 4Rs Kicks Off Summer 2025 Site Visits with DataCorps
Author: Michael Culbert The New Orleans area is racked with a variety of environmental challenges. Much of the area is below sea level, its position on the Gulf Coast is prone to intense hurricanes, and the combination of high humidity and high temperatures leads to substantial heat-related threats. The CECE research team kicked off our […]
What We Lose When America Loses AmeriCorps
Click here to read CECE Director, Dr. Dana R. Fisher‘s recent commentary in Rolling Stone about losing AmeriCorps and the effects it could have on federal workforce development and community response to disasters.
CECE Researchers Survey Rallies as Action Grows Around the Country
As demonstrations have become more commonplace in Washington, DC, CECE has deployed teams of researchers to many of the larger rallies to document trends in activism and civic engagement. To date, we have collected data at the People’s March in January, the Stand Up for Science Rally in March, and the HandsOff Rally in April. […]
The People’s March 2025: Surveying Protesters in Resistance 2.0
CECE Director and SIS Professor, Dr. Dana R. Fisher, along with a research team of 8 AU-affiliated researchers and students, attended the People’s March in Washington, DC on 1/18/2025 to survey participants. The March was organized as a legally permitted peaceful demonstration on the Saturday before the inauguration of Donald Trump. Data were collected as […]
Article: The Political Economy of Energy Security in Wartime Yemen
CECE Postdoctoral Fellow, Abeer Al-Eryani, has published a new article in Middle East Law and Governance, titled The Political Economy of Energy Security in Wartime Yemen. The study examines how war fragments traditional governance structures, alters subsidy frameworks, and destabilizes infrastructure, creating a complex energy landscape responsive to shifting power dynamics. In addition to these […]
Using Remote Sensing to Uncover Changes in Haiti’s Land Use
Narratives of Haiti’s degraded landscapes are as notorious as narratives of its political instability. How Haitians use their land, and its level and quality of vegetative cover have spurred millions in aid funding and have been the source of intense academic debate surrounding environmental well being of the country. Pressures like land grabs, climate change, […]
2024 CECE Faculty Research Incubator Grant: Systems Lens to Increase Sustainable Procurement [...]
We are thrilled to announce the winner of the 2024 Faculty Research Incubator Grant! This year’s winning project comes from a collaboration across Kogod School of Business, the College of Arts and Science, and the School of Public Affairs. Entitled “Systems Lens to Increase Sustainable Procurement Success: Co-creating Insights to Bolster Employee Engagement.” The project by […]
[Research Paper] Making them pay: Comparing how environmental facts matter in two accountability [...]
How do polluters come to pay? In many popular depictions–think the George Clooney film Michael Clayton–the story ends when whistleblowers bring the facts of a powerful entity’s wrongdoing into the public sphere. Exposure and censure, presumably, follow. But even when facts come to light, they do not automatically count. Think of the many revelations about fossil […]
CECE Whitepaper No. 1: The 4Rs of Climate Work: A Case Study of AmeriCorps
CECE has published its inaugural whitepaper, focusing on climate work in service corps programs across the US. CECE Director, Dr. Dana Fisher authored the whitepaper that lays out a framework on the 4 Rs of climate work. The whitepaper uses data collected through semi-structed interviews with AmeriCorps leadership and staff to uncover how government agencies […]