Research
Research Interests
Climate-Conflict Nexus, International Political Economy, Development, Climate Policy, (Im)migration Policy, Refugee Studies, Civil War & Peacebuilding, Conflict, Research Methodology, Quasi-Experimental Analysis, Geospatial Data, Computational Social Science
Publications
Book
- D’Amico, E. The Effects of Climate Change We Don’t Count: Migration, Cities, and Hidden Instability. Under contract, Cambridge University Press.
Peer-Reviewed Articles
- 2026D’Amico, E. Difference-in-Differences Estimation: A Quasi-Experimental Approach to Sustainable Development Interventions. Global Environmental Politics. Published 20 September 2026. Replication data.
- 2026D’Amico, E. Regional El Niño Patterns Shape Wheat-Flour Price Responses to Climate Disasters. Environmental Research Letters. Published 25 September 2026. Replication data.
- 2026D’Amico, E. The Price of Instability: Hydrological Disasters, Food Prices, and Violent Conflict. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (Nature Portfolio). Published 20 August 2026. Replication data.
- 2026Houghton, K., & D’Amico, E. Financial Dependencies and Conflict Resolution: The Role of Militarised Mediators in Modern Insurgencies. Civil Wars. Published 10 September 2026.
- 2025D’Amico, E., Sosa, S., & Melin, M. Private Goods for Peace: Economic Provisions of Peace Agreements and the Durability of Peace. Journal of Peace Research, 62(6), 2001–2019. Published 22 September 2025. Replication data.
- 2025D’Amico, E. From Garments to Grievances: The Dynamics of Urban Growth and Economic Shocks in Rapidly Industrialising Economies. Review of International Political Economy, 32(6), 1953–1990. Published 11 June 2025. Replication data.
- 2025Maboudi, T., & D’Amico, E. Life, Liberty, and Litigation: Do Constitutional Rights Impact Climate Litigation Outcome?. Political Research Quarterly, 79(1), 126–139. Published 23 September 2025.
- 2025D’Amico, E. Resilient by Design: Isolating Impactful Climate Adaptation Measures in New England. npj Climate Action, 4. Published 26 August 2025. Replication data.
- 2025D’Amico, E., & Maboudi, T. Timing Matters: Analyzing Climate Policies and Adaptive Resilience. Climate Policy. Published 17 December 2025. Replication data.
- 2024Maboudi, T., & D’Amico, E. Vulnerability, Climate Laws, and Adaptation in the Middle East and North Africa. Environmental Policy and Governance, 35(1), 145–158. Published 30 October 2024.
Book Chapters
- 2026D’Amico, E. (forthcoming). Chapter 4: The National Framework for Peace: Cross-national Instances of Economic Reincorporation in Treaties and their Outcomes. In M. Melin & S. Sosa (Eds.), The Missing Peace: Understanding Private Enterprises in Conflict Prevention and Resolution. Oxford University Press.
- 2026Clausen, M., & D’Amico, E. (forthcoming). Chapter 7: Reducing Urban Violence: The Case of Chicago. In M. Melin & S. Sosa (Eds.), The Missing Peace: Understanding Private Enterprises in Conflict Prevention and Resolution. Oxford University Press.
Conference Proceedings
- 2024D’Amico, E., & Peter, M. Enhancing Conflict Mediation Research: First Steps in the Mediation and Negotiators Database (MEND). Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Advanced Research Methods and Analytics (CARMA 2024), Valencia. Published 26 June 2024.
Dissertation
- 2024D’Amico, E. The Climate-Conflict Nexus: Urban Migration and Methodological Innovations. Ph.D. dissertation, Loyola University Chicago.
Revise & Resubmit
- D’Amico, E., & Häfliger, N. From Disaster to Dispute in the DRC: Climate’s Role in Resource Wars.
- D’Amico, E., Glaser, S., & Hendrix, C. From Ocean Changes to Conflict: Predicting Fishery-Related Militarized Disputes in a Warming World.
Under Review
- D’Amico, E., & Mullen, T. From Peace to Policy: How Institutional Linkages Drive Climate Law Adoption.
- D’Amico, E., & Nutley, K. Legislating Under Pressure: The Conditional Influence of Environmental Protest on Climate Policy.
- D’Amico, E., & Houghton, K. Profit through Peace: Energy Transitions and the Political Economy of Sustainable Peace. Special issue, PNAS.
- Maboudi, T., D’Amico, E., & Burge, K. Judging the Climate: Political Ideology and Climate Lawsuits.
- D’Amico, E., & Lujala, P. Minerals, Markets, and Armed Conflict: Rare Earths in the Modern Green Economy.
- D’Amico, E. Weathering War: How Environmental Shocks Shape Rebel Strategies and Peace Outcomes.
Working Projects
NS = Near Submission
- D’Amico, E., Ha, N., & Heintze, D. (NS) Disasters, Territorial Contestation, and the Geographic Reallocation of Civil War.
- D’Amico, E., & Somboonkittichai, K. (NS) Who Governs After Disaster? Political Exclusion and Ethnic Rebel Service Provision.
- Miranda, D., Hooda, D., Paleczny, K., & D’Amico, E. (NS) Climate Law Framing and Legislative Success in Ireland.
- Hoepner, A., Guisande, D., & D’Amico, E. Corporate Lobbying and Environmental Policy Under Crisis.
- Liang, K., Mutoni, I., Schlittke, Z., & D’Amico, E. Who Gets to Leave? Displacement after the Valencia Floods.
- D’Amico, E. The Geography of Conflict Mediation: Proximity and Success in Armed Conflict Resolutions. Read the interactive summary or watch the poster walkthrough (LSE Methodology, PolMeth Europe 2025).
Policy Engagement
- 2026Hooda, D., Miranda, D., & Paleczny, K. Implementation Over Urgency: What 2,170 Parliamentary Speeches Reveal About Climate Law in Ireland. Connected_Politics Lab Blog, University College Dublin. Project designed and supervised by D’Amico, E.
- 2026Peter, M., D’Amico, E., Houghton, K., & Badanjak, S. Mediation in 2025: Navigating overlapping conflict systems. MEND Data Series, PeaceRep. Published 13 May 2026.
- 2026Peter, M., D’Amico, E., Houghton, K., & Badanjak, S. Current Trends in Mediation: MEND Key Findings. Policy Brief, PeaceRep. Published 13 May 2026.
- 2025D’Amico, E. Conflict in a Warming World: How Climate Shocks Impact Rebel Demands and Peace Agreement Outcomes. PeaceRep Report: Climate & Natural Resources, PeaceRep, University of Edinburgh. Published 16 January 2025.
- 2024D’Amico, E. Semi-automated coding for conflict mediation research: Database development. Peace Analytics Series, PeaceRep. Published 15 November 2024.
- 2024D’Amico, E. Stitching a Sustainable Future: Policy for Youth Migration, and Climate in Bangladesh’s Textile Industry. Blog Series: Youth, Migration, Environment, Climate Change, and Disaster Risk Reduction, IOM UN Migration. Published 5 June 2024.
- 2023D’Amico, E. Montenegro v. Ashcroft Case Summary. Earth Refuge Legal Database. Published 20 August 2023.
- 2023D’Amico, E. Rising Tides and Sudden Surprises: The Two Faces of Climate Displacement. Medium. Published 24 May 2023.