Community Engagement Core (CEC)
Developing and disseminating interventions that increase resilience to disaster and climate change risk in underserved communities
Overview
TiCER’s engagement efforts are focused on well-documented priorities of stakeholder groups in the Texas Triangle, including urban and urbanizing neighborhoods within the contexts of Austin, Houston, and Dallas that are widely applicable to other areas at risk from environmental emergency events and climate change. To help achieve this goal, the CEC develops, tests, and disseminates data-driven community engagement outcomes and interventions that increase local resilience to existing disaster risk and the future effects of climate change, particularly in underserved communities.
The leaders of the CEC have an established track record of collaborative, interdisciplinary, and community-engaged research and are well-positioned to transmit community priorities to TiCER members and facilitate the translation of research findings to achieve more informed decision-making across the continuum of stakeholders from individuals to communities and policy-makers.
Goals:
Our goals are to address key elements of bi-directional engagement, such as:
- To disseminate data related to factors that influence environmental conditions, both currently and with climate change
- To develop collaborative, participatory-based, green-infrastructure-focused prevention and intervention strategies
- To support adaptive capacity in communities during acute environmental emergency events in environmental justice communities
- To utilize citizen science for community engagement to identify disparities among environmental conditions and suggest potential policy solutions
CEC Team
Peer-Reviewed Research
- Unseen Risk: Mapping Contamination Hazards to Enhance Risk Perception in Galena Park, Texas
- The relationships between neighborhood vacancy, probable PTSD, and health-related quality of life in flood-disaster-impacted communities
- Gauging the effects of potential chemical transferal in high flood-risk fenceline communities
- Evaluating the Impact of Proximity to Reported Toxic Release Facilities and Flood Events on Chronic Health Outcomes in the City of Galena Park, Texas
- Reducing Threats from Contamination and Flood Damage: Restoring the Brandywine Riverine Edge
- Integrating a Resilience Scorecard and Landscape Performance Tools into a Geodesign Process