Scholars
Daniel Aldana Cohen
University of Pennsylvania
Based in
United States
North America
Daniel Aldana Cohen is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, where he directs the Socio-Spatial Climate Collaborative, or (SC)2. In 2018-19, he was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study, in Princeton, New Jersey. Daniel led the research for the Green New Deal for Public Housing Act in 2019. He is the co-author of A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal. His research and writing have appeared in Nature, Public Culture, The International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Environmental Politics, The Guardian, The Nation, Dissent, and elsewhere.
Publications
Articles
Jennifer Rice, Daniel Aldana Cohen, Joshua Long, & Jason Jurjevich. 2020. “Contradictions of the Climate‐Friendly City: New Perspectives on Eco‐Gentrification and Housing Justice,” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (2020).
Daniel Aldana Cohen. 2020. “New York City as ‘Fortress of Solitude’ After Hurricane Sandy: A Relational Sociology of Extreme Weather’s Impact on Climate Politics,” Environmental Politics (September 2020).
Daniel Aldana Cohen & Thea Riofrancos. 2020. “Latin America’s Green New Deal,” NACLA Report on the Americas (June 2020).
Daniel Aldana Cohen. 2020. “Confronting the Urban Climate Emergency: Critical Urban Studies in the Age of a Green New Deal,” City: Analysis of Urban Change, Theory, Action (April 2020).
Daniel Aldana Cohen. 2018. ”Water Crisis and Eco-Apartheid in São Paulo: Beyond Naive Optimism About Climate-Linked Disasters,” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (2018).
David Wachsmuth, Daniel Aldana Cohen, & Hillary Angelo. 2016. “Expand the Frontiers of Urban Sustainability,” Nature (August 2016).
Daniel Aldana Cohen. 2016. “The Rationed City: The politics of Water, Housing, and Land Use in Drought-Parched São Paulo,” Public Culture (May 2016).
Daniel Aldana Cohen & Max Liboiron. 2016. “New York’s Two Sandys,” Metropolics (October 2014).