- Community Health and Development
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Urban Planning and Governance
- Urban and Rural Development Challenges
- Place Attachment and Urban Studies
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Climate Change Policy and Economics
- Public Policy and Administration Research
- Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development
- Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics
- Community Development and Social Impact
- Disaster Response and Management
- Climate Change and Geoengineering
- Academic Research in Diverse Fields
- Rural development and sustainability
- Insurance and Financial Risk Management
- Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
Kingsborough Community College
2024
Rutgers Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
2023
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
2021-2022
Stewardship consists of acts claims-making on space and caretaking place that activate urban environments to function as social infrastructure. While stewardship practices are enacted by actors across the governance network, there is a need better understand role civil society. Civic groups care advocate for green, grey, blue spaces, can strengthen trust foster civic engagement. We conducted semi-structured interviews (n = 26) with sample New York City from previous survey dataset 754); was...
Using interview data with civic environmental stewardship groups in New York City ( n = 26), we identify strategies through which stewards engage transboundary governance and urban climate adaptation planning. Our findings articulate the diverse ways that planning socio-ecological systems, as they (1) shape physical spaces, (2) broker partnerships, (3) disrupt status quo, (4) build capacity, (5) envision new futures. We contribute to literature by embedding within discourse, suggesting...
A growing body of community resilience literature emphasizes the importance social resources in preparing for and responding to disturbances. In particular, scholars have noted that based organizations strong networks positively contribute adaptive capacity, or ability adjust respond change while enhancing conditions necessary withstand future events. While it is well established civic engagement enhanced capacity times change, there more learn about how at group network level impacted...
In the face of increasingly frequent climate crises, hazard and disaster studies, best practices stress importance social resilience adaptation to changing conditions. Yet critical scholars remind us that ability adapt change hinges on political economic structures create contribute existing inequities, thus determining amount type resources different communities can access in times crisis. Traditional forms aid from state elite funders sometimes explicitly exclude those most need support...
The Green New Deal is arguably the most ambitious climate policy platform to gain legislative traction in U.S. date. A pioneering framework its holistic consideration of change, social justice, and economic reform, resolution would have vast implications for commons governance regimes if enacted. Planning theorists long debated how manage global commons, this paper adds that conversation by assessing Deal’s theoretical underpinnings. Our analysis suggests practice, “top-down” Hardinian...