Projects
Spring 2023
Living with Water, Ithaca Edition
How can Ithaca adapt to new FEMA flood maps in ways that promote social justice and ecological repair? A Cornell workshop class explored the possibilities. Here's what they found.
2021-2024
Risk or Refuge: Inequality in Exposure to Environmental Vulnerability in California
This study assesses people’s cumulative exposure to environmental vulnerability over time, taking into account both natural hazards and pollution in California.
2022-2023
A Northeast Safe and Thriving for All (NEST)
A Northeast Safe and Thriving for All (NEST) is a one-year planning project funded by NOAA to develop regional collaboration for climate adaptation and migration in the Northeast Region.
2022-2023
Cooperative Adaptation Strategies for Affordable Housing in New York City (CASA)
This project explores the barriers and opportunities facing low-income housing in New York City’s most flood-vulnerable neighborhoods.
2020-2024
Equitable Buyouts: Learning from State, County, and Local Flood Mitigation Programs
This project examines subnational (state, county, and local) buyout programs to see what lessons they offer federal programs in enhancing the equity and ecological restoration of buyouts.
2018-2022
Fiscal Impacts of Sea Level Rise
This study examines the extent to which local revenues are impacted by sea-level rise in Massachusetts and Florida.
2022-2023
Comparing Shanghai and New York’s Adaptation Governance (SNAG)
This project compares how two megacities – Shanghai and New York – are planning for the impacts of climate change.
2021- Now
Governing Land for a Dynamic Earth (GLADE)
This project examines how dominant property regimes constrain large-scale, collective adaptation that is socially just and ecologically restorative, and the extent to which alternative property regimes enable adaptation.