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Current Focus:
Community-based Resilience and Climate Change Mitigation
CERENE is a community-based resilience research center based at Kapi’olani Community College that is dedicated to making O’ahu more resilient!
CERENE works in collaboration with the City and County of Honolulu, Office of Climate Change, Sustainability, and Resilience as well as the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa along with a network of engaged community collaborators such as the Waikīkī Community Center, Ko’olauloa Community Resilience Center, “We are Oceania”, and many others.
CERENE has four active resilience research and community projects ongoing right now focused on food security, micro-grid energy storage, community resilience hubs, and community perceptions of resilience.
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Ongoing Projects:
Role of Higher Education in Supporting the Integration of Indigenous Wisdom & Western Science: https://www.nativesciences.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/jns.v2n1.2022.pdf
“The Study of Us” – Examining Expert and Novice social science researcher perspectives on subjectivity. (Phase I Launching Soon!)
Forest Bathing Research [Shinrin-yoku 森林浴]