Daniel Aldana Cohen
Assistant Professor of Sociology, UC Berkeley,
Director of the Socio-Spatial Climate Collaborative, UC Berkeley
Daniel Aldana Cohen is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, where he directs the Socio-Spatial Climate Collaborative, or (SC)2. He has been a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, and a CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar. His research focuses on the political economy of climate change, cities, housing, inequalities, and eco-apartheid in the U.S. and Brazil. He is co-author of A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal (Verso 2019). His research and writing have appeared in Nature, Environmental Politics, Public Culture, The Guardian, The Nation and elsewhere.
All Contributions
A Green New Deal for Transportation
The transportation system is the connective tissue that transforms pockets of communities into a networked society. It links home, school, work, and play. It drives economic …
A New Era of Public Power
In 2019, New York State lawmakers passed the most ambitious state-level climate legislation in the country—and among the most ambitious in the world. The Climate Leadership …
A Green Stimulus for K-12 Schools
A Build It Back Better Stimulus is an essential opportunity to deliver a Green Stimulus for K-12 Schools. This stimulus would align directly with the Biden …
A Green New Deal for K-12 Public Schools
Public education in the United States has reached a critical point. Over the last 20 years, polling has shown that Americans are divided when it comes …
Critical Components of a School District COVID Education Plan
An already unequal school system, riven by inequalities of race, class, and gender, is under extraordinary stress from the worst pandemic and the worst economic meltdown …
Achieving Water Justice in California
California’s water rights system is rooted in land theft and racism. It facilitates unjust and unsustainable outcomes that threaten the wellbeing, and in some cases the …
Inflation Reduction Act
After an excruciating year of negotiations and ceaseless pressure from the climate movement, Senators Manchin and Schumer came to a deal: the Inflation Reduction Act. If …
Ceasefire now, ceasefire forever: No climate justice without Palestinian freedom and self‑determination
Climate crisis in Palestine cannot be detached from the Israeli occupation. The brutal and extensively documented apartheid regime that Israel imposes and maintains over Palestinians is …
Green Social Housing at Scale
Every day, millions of Americans struggle to find housing they can afford. Climate change makes finding stable housing even more precarious for low-income renters in the …
The Case for a Green New Deal for Public Housing
The massive backlog of deferred maintenance for public housing in the United States demands a comprehensive, holistic solution that brings every unit in the country up …
Memo: Key research findings on establishing a national Green Social Housing Development Authority
The only way out of our housing and climate crises is through a massive investment in housing as a public good: developing a national green social …
Homes Act: Analysis of Legislative Impact
The Homes Act, federal legislation authored by Senator Tina Smith (MN) and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY), would establish a housing development authority to finance, repair, and …