Research
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 […]Article: Same Old Story with a Different Ending: Homophily and preferential selection of [...]
CECE Director, Dr. Dana Fisher, CECE Project Manager, W. Chris Jayko, and University of Exeter Professor, Dr. Lorien Jasny, published a paper studying the US Climate Policy Network. The paper takes a deeper look into how a climate policy, in this case the Inflation Reduction Act, was passed in such a polarised network. Read the […]An Untapped Opportunity for DC’s Media: Connecting the gaps in the climate conversation
Years of heavy industry pollution mean DC’s rivers aren’t safe for fishing or swimming. Many local media articles carry updates on the health of the water, but, as a study of local media my class carried out indicates, journalists may not be linking stories about related topics like river pollution, trash pickup, and more, to […]Article: Busting Myths and Calls to Action – A Round-Up of Environmental Books
Saving Ourselves, by CECE Director Dana Fisher was discussed as part of a review of a “roundup of environmental books” in the Financial Times on February 12th. See the full review here.Marine-Based Carbon Dioxide Removal: The Promise and Peril
On Thursday, February 8th, the Institute of Responsible Carbon Removal convened a brown-bag presentation and discussion featuring Dr. Sara Nawaz, the Director of Research at American University’s Institute for Carbon Removal Law and Policy. Dr. Nawaz delivered a presentation entitled “Marine-Based Carbon Dioxide Removal: Promise and Peril,” which was moderated by Dr. Simon Nicholson. The […]State of Deception Report Released on Mining and Water Rights in El Salvador
On Thursday, January 11, MiningWatch Canada hosted a press release event presenting the findings from the ‘State of Deception’ fact-finding report on the detained water defenders, mining, and the state of human rights under the Bukele regime in El Salvador. The report is co-authored by Robin Broad, a research professor in Environment, Development, and Health […]COP28 DC Climate Hub
On Thursday, December 7th, CECE, The School of International Service, and We Don’t Have Time cohosted the COP28 DC Climate Hub. Policymakers, climate activists, journalists, and academic experts came together to discuss what is needed to ensure a just and equitable climate transition. This multi-panel event included: Ambassadors Up-Close: COP28 Reflections, The Power of Storytelling, […]