In her senior thesis, Morris explored how Maine’s climate action process can better include a group on the frontlines of climate change.

Urban Studies and Mathematics concentrator Rafael Ash ’26 is investigating how communities in Jakarta, Indonesia, and Warren, Rhode Island, adapt to their rapidly changing environments through democratic planning, local partnerships, and managed retreat strategies.

Recent titles that inform and inspire fresh ways of thinking about people and the planet.

The Institute at Brown for Environment and Society is pleased to introduce two new faculty members jointly appointed in the School of Public Health: Marianthi-Anna Kioumourtzoglou, Professor of Epidemiology and Environment and Society, and Meredith Niles, Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Environment and Society.

IBES faculty affiliate Mark Blyth, a professor at the Watson School for International and Public Affairs, penned this article with Daniel Driscoll, assistant professor of sociology at the University of Virginia.

IBES Research Professor Elizabeth Fussell studied where tens of thousands of New Orleans residents fled to after Hurricane Katrina.

Associate Professor Bathsheba Demuth penned this essay, which poignantly describes how declining salmon populations threaten the future of the Yukon River and its surrounding communities.

IBES affiliate Matthew Kraft, a professor in the Department of Education and founder of the SustainableED initiative, makes the case for teaching about climate science and investing in resilient, sustainable schools.

IBES Professors Stephen Porder and Meredith Hastings discussed heatwaves' consequences and prevention.

Voss Podstoc Elodie Freymann led a scientific review that found chimpanzees use some of the same medicinal plants as humans.

This paper, coauthored by IBES Professor Stephen Porder and Declan Johnson '24, suggests that wood vaults are a promising emissions-reduction strategy, but challenges remain.

Assistant Professor of Environment and Society Rachel Wetts examines how the social value of education contributes to partisanship within climate debates.

IBES Professor Dov Sax coauthored this article, which highlights why ecology's space-for-time substitution method can be misleading, and makes suggestions for improving the reliability of ecological forecasts.