Community Engagement Core (CEC)

Developing and disseminating interventions that increase resilience to disaster

Overview

TiCER’s engagement efforts are focused on well-documented priorities of stakeholder groups in the Texas Triangle, Austin, Houston, and Dallas that are widely applicable to other areas at risk from environmental emergency events. 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.

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
• To develop collaborative, participatory-based, green-infrastructure-focused prevention and intervention strategies
• To support adaptive capacity in communities during acute environmental emergency events
• To utilize citizen science for community engagement to identify environmental conditions and suggest potential policy solutions

CEC Team

Dr. Galen Newman

Professor & Dept. Head

CEC PI

Dr. Carolyn Cannon

Associate Professor

CEC Co-I

Dr. Ivis Garcia

Associate Professor

CEC Co-I

Dr. Nasir Gharaibeh

Professor

CEC Co-I

Dr. Sungmin Lee

Assistant Professor

CEC Co-I

Dr. Arnold Vedlitz

Professor

Environmental Justice
& Policy Theme Leader,
AC Co-I,
CEC Co-I

Peer-Reviewed Research