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Engaged Undergraduate Research Grants

Rust to Green Binghamton: Living with Water Initiative

Using a participatory-action approach to engage local and state government officials with residents and artists to achieve community flood resilience while working toward sustainable community development in Binghamton.

In 2014, Cornell launched a project in Binghamton as part of its Rust to Green initiative that was created to foster sustainable community development in post-industrial cities in upstate New York. The initiative in Binghamton, Living with Water, is a community-engaged research project addressing the city’s vulnerability to climate change and flooding. Binghamton experienced record flooding in 2006 and 2011, and this project uses a variety of research strategies to engage local and state government officials with residents and artists to achieve community flood resilience. Working with faculty at Cornell and Binghamton University, the students interview residents who were affected by the 2011 flood. Students also assess the impact a new play, which explores living with water, has on community development and flood resilience.

Topics: Access, Equity and Justice; Economic Vitality and Entrepreneurship; Energy, Environment and Sustainability; Law, Government and Policy

The Team

  • Shorna Allred, Department of Global Development and Department of Natural Resources

    College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

  • Paula Horrigan, Department of Global Development

    College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

  • Joana Chan, Department of Natural Resources

    College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

  • Scott Peters, Department of Global Development

    College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

  • Amy Kuo Somchanhmavong, Public Service Center

    Student and Campus Life

  • Robin Blakely-Armitage, Department of Global Development

    College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

  • David Kay, Department of Global Development

    College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

  • Keith Tidball, Department of Natural Resources

    College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

  • Community partner:  Binghamton University
  • Community partner:  City of Binghamton
  • Community partner:  Civic Ensemble
  • Community partner:  Cornell Cooperative Extension of Broome County
  • Community partner:  Ordinary People

In the News

JUNE 29, 2018 
Sustainable economic strategies spur engaged research interest
– Cornell Chronicle

APRIL 18, 2018 
Allred receives third annual Engaged Scholar Prize
– Cornell Chronicle


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