Title
Assistant Professor

Department
Dept of Sociology


Faculty URL
https://sociology.berkeley.edu/faculty/daniel-aldana-cohen

Email
dacohen@berkeley.edu


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Research Expertise and Interest
politics of climate change

Research Description
Daniel Aldana Cohen is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology, and he?directs the?Socio-Spatial Climate Collaborative, or (SC)2,?and co-directs the?climate + community project.?Cohen works on the politics of climate change, investigating the intersections of climate change, housing, political economy, social movements, and inequalities of race and class in the United States and Brazil. As Director of?(SC)2, he is leading qualitative and quantitative?research projects on Whole Community Climate Mapping,?green political economy, and eco-apartheid. He was also co-founder and co-PI of the?Superstorm Research Lab, in New York City.?
Cohen is also mobilizing collaborative research for Green New Deal policy development in partnership with social movements and progressive elected officials in the United States and Brazil. He led the research for the?Green New Deal for Public Housing Act?introduced in Congress by Rep. Ocasio-Cortez.?And he serves on the policy team for People’s Action’s?Homes Guarantee?campaign.?
Cohen is a?CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar?(2021-23). He is the co-author of?A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green Deal?(Verso 2019).?He is?currently completing a book project called?Street Fight: Climate Change and Inequality in the 21st Century City, under contract with Princeton University Press.??His research and writing?have appeared in?Nature;?Environmental Politics;?Public Culture;?The International Journal of Urban and Regional Research;?City:?Analysis of Urban Change, Theory, Action;?NACLA Report on the Americas;?The Century Foundation;?The Guardian;?The Nation;?Jacobin;?Dissent; and elsewhere.?He is the co-editor of a special issue of the?NACLA Report on the Americas,?A Green New Deal for the Americas: Mobilizing for Climate Justice from Above and Below.
Cohen has been?cited?for?his research and public engagement in?The Washington Post, Bloomberg,?Vox, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Huffington Post, Energy & Environment News, Gizmodo,?and elsewhere.?