Recent Research Publications
Welcome to the Center on Climate Change and Urbanism.
The Center on Climate Change and Urbanism (CCU) within the School of Architecture and Built Environment at Tulane University represents the culmination of a several generation’s worth of research and practice to understand how the built environment causes climate change and responds to it. Through research, design investigations, public programming, and university courses and studios, we are here to support students and faculty, as well practitioners, from across the United States, the Caribbean and Latin America. Whether you are an undergraduate student who is interested in exploring how climate change will shape your future career or a seasoned built environment professional, we are here to build bridges around a common dialogue.
"Our goal at CCU is to bridge communities of practice and scholarship to define our role in mitigating and adapting to climate change."
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Recent Research Publications
Keenan, J. M., Ajibade, I. & Tietjen, B. C. The state of planning, policy, and justice for human mobility in national adaptation plans. Earth Syst. Gov. 25, 100266 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esg.2025.100266
Dulin, S., Smith, M., Ellinport, B. et al. Quantifying the compounding effects of natural hazard events: a case study on wildfires and floods in California. npj Nat. Hazards 2, 40 (2025). doi: 10.1038/s44304-025-00090-7
Camuti, L. (2024). Another Gulf Is Possible: Desired Futures Beyond Petrocolonialism. Journal of Architectural Education, 78(2), 456–477. doi: 10.1080/10464883.2024.2381432
Keenan, J.M., Mattiuizzi, E., & Council, D. (2024). Bridging Community Investment and Resilience in the Community Reinvestment Act. In What’s Possible: Investing NOW for Prosperous, Sustainable Neighborhoods. New York, NY.: Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Strelzoff, A., Henslee,A., Stoddard, K., Dozier, H., Abraham, A., Fries, S., Trump, B., Keenan, J.M. & Linkov, I. (2024). Resilient Construction of Critical Infrastructure: Anticipating and Measuring Supply Chain Delays from Global Disruptions. Journal of Infrastructure Systems. doi: 10.1061/JITSE4.ISENG-2347
Keenan, J.M., Trump, B.D., Kytöma, E, Adlakha-Hutcheo, G.,& Linkov, I. (2024). The Role of Science in Resilience Planning for Military-Civilian Domains in the U.S. and NATO. Defence Studies. doi: 10.1080/14702436.2024.2365218
Galaitsi, S., Cox, S.A., Joseph, G., McConney, P., Cashman, A., Springer, C., Keenan, J.M., Cummings, C., Trump, B.D., & Linkov, I. (2023). Balancing climate resilience and adaptation for Caribbean Small Island Developing States (SIDS): Building Institutional Capacity. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management. doi: 10.1002/ieam.4860
Galaitsi, S.E., Pinigina, E., Keisler, J.M., Pescaroli. G., Keenan, J.M. & Linkov, I. (2023). Business Continuity Management, Operational Resilience, and Organizational Resilience: Commonalities, Distinctions, and Synthesis. International Journal of Disaster Risk Science. doi: 10.1007/s13753-023-00494-x
Marcus, A. (2024). 3D Printed Architectural Facades for Climate Adaptation. Conference Proceedings of the 2024 Earth USA Conference.
Marcus, A., & Rossi-Mastracci, J. (2023). Earthen Tectonics: Digitally Fabricated Form Liners for Modular Rammed Earth Fabrication. In A. Crawford, N. M. Diniz, R. Beckett, J. Vanucchi, & M. Swackhamer (Eds.), Habits of the Anthropocene: Scarcity and Abundance in a Post-Material Economy - Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture, ACADIA 2023; Vol. 1 (pp. 160-165). Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture.
Marcus, A., Kim, J., & Reichert, M. (2023). Lines of Flight: Facade Design for Multispecies Migrations. In M. Akbarzadeh, D. Aviv, H. Jamelle, and R. Stuart-Smith (Eds.), Hybrids and Haecceities. Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (pp. 486-497). Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture.
Marcus, A., Ikeda, M., & Jones, E. (2024). Floating With: Buoyant Ecologies of Collaboration and Solidarity. In A. Parr Zaretsky & M. Zaretsky (Eds.), Transspecies Design: Design for a Posthumanist World. New York: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003403494-8
Roberts, L. C., Marcus, A., & Falliers, C. (2022). Ecopoesis: Ecological Gatherings Towards Multi-disciplinary Solidarity. In E. Tilley (Ed.), Creative Activism: Research, Pedagogy and Practice. UK: Cambridge Scholars Press.