A5031002287- Urban Transport and Accessibility
- Environmental Justice and Health Disparities
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- American Environmental and Regional History
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Water Governance and Infrastructure
- Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Economic Theory and Policy
- Political Economy and Marxism
- Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Urban Planning and Governance
- demographic modeling and climate adaptation
- Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management
- Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
- International Maritime Law Issues
- Social Sciences and Governance
- Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
- Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
- Urban Planning and Landscape Design
- Historical and Scientific Studies
- International Environmental Law and Policies
- Diverse Historical and Scientific Studies
- Anthropological Studies and Insights
University of California, Berkeley
2020-2024
University of Pennsylvania
2016-2020
California University of Pennsylvania
2018-2019
New York University
2013-2019
Abstract As local governments and corporations promote ‘climate friendliness’, a low‐carbon lifestyle becomes increasingly desirable, more middle‐ upper‐income urban residents are choosing to live near public transit, on bike‐ pedestrian‐friendly streets, in higher‐density mixed‐use areas. This rejection of classical forms suburbanization has, part, increased property values neighborhoods offering these amenities, displacing lower‐income, often non‐white, residents. Increased prevalence...
Specters of rationing haunt metro São Paulo. Water supplies have plunged to historic, dangerous lows. The idea has become a flash-point. state’s center-right governor insisted that be avoided at all costs and the profit-driven water utility followed suit, even as dwindling are being opaquely unequally distributed. To make sense situation, I propose, through an exploration crisis’s origins recent developments builds on over one year ethnographic fieldwork, new approach ecological scarcity. It...
Abstract Social science often relies on surveys of households and individuals. Dozens such are regularly administered by the U.S. government. However, they field independent, unconnected samples with specialized questions, limiting research questions to those that can be answered a single survey. The presented data comprise fusion onto American Community Survey (ACS) microdata select donor variables from Residential Energy Consumption (RECS) 2015, National Household Travel (NHTS) 2017,...
How did New York City's climate politics change after Hurricane Sandy, and why? Prevailing accounts of extreme weather's impact on draw survey data characterize policy in vague terms. However, weather does not do the work politics; specifics matter. I develop a relational sociological approach focused mobilized actors, political economy, event theory. Drawing interviews document analysis, show how senior disaster officials, York's Mayor Bloomberg his Office Long-Term Planning Sustainability,...
Nothing will shape urban life in this century more than carbon—efforts to abolish it, and the consequences of its pollution. Critical studies must put climate emergency at very core discipline. This paper suggests four methodological injunctions end: (1) a field-wide development carbon literacy along lines how all critical urbanists understand capital inequalities; (2) research that links technical low-carbon projects spaces' political conflicts; (3) both recuperation historical cases...
On November 13, 2018, congressperson-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) joined dozens of young activists with the Sunrise Movement in occupying incoming House speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office. “...
How can the federal Justice40 policy framework tackle climate change and social inequalities at same time in places? We adopt a political economy approach. situate environmental injustice context of long-standing racist patterns public–private investments United States, especially housing, through practices such as redlining, transportation, industrial development. argue that any approach aiming to eliminate racism needs take on investment comparable scale. And building our recent research...
The horrors threatened by Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil's new president, are compounded the global climate stakes of a potential war on Amazon. Roberto Schaeffer, leading energy and environment scholar based in Rio de Janeiro, told me, "It could not be worse. Donald Trump would blessing for Brazil right now." Bolsonaro has promised an orgy destructive development embattled Amazon rainforest, which release gigatons heat-trapping carbon. But backlash already begun. Brazilian social movements...
Quantitative sociologists and social policymakers are increasingly interested in local context. Some city-specific studies have developed new primary data collection efforts to analyze inequality at the neighborhood level, but methods from spatial microsimulation yet be broadly used sociology take better advantage of existing public sets. The American Community Survey (ACS) is largest household survey United States indispensable for detailed analysis specific places populations. authors...
America's current housing regime—meaning the ways is allocated, owned, taxed, and regulated—is a major barrier to kinds of collective action needed decarbonize economy atmosphere. We outline why this case argue that reforms regime are necessary for fostering climate action.
In the fall of 2014, Rebuild by Design, an initiative President Barack Obama’s Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force, convened international working group experts to advance a global conversation on resiliency, design, and politics. As part that process, researcher Daniel Aldana Cohen interviewed several members challenges opportunities cities increasingly face in warming world, with focus revealing common points interest, shared understandings, divergent opinions.
As an image of a climate-changed world, the metaphor intertidal, "zone uncertainty and doubt, space risk reward," is great gift Kim Stanley Robinson's new novel New York 2140. It's hulking 600-page feast wounded, stubborn city teeming with broken hearts, young idealists, wizened pros, resilient 1-percenters, scrappy orphans, advanced tech, revolutionary passion. (Even epigraphs are epic.) And it's eventful feast. After methodical, satisfying build, last quarter book tasteful disaster porn...
Christian de Boissieu, Daniel Cohen et Gaël Pontbriand présentent ici une étude sur le comportement des entreprises russes au cours la transition vers l'économie marché. Partant d'enquêtes qu'ils ont réalisées dans quelques 160 entreprises, les trois économistes français soulignent leur relative flexibilité qui permet s'adapter à un environnement production distribution profondément différent celui qu'elles connaissaient, ce contexte récession profonde. Leur principal souci est survivre...
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