Symposium date: January 29, 2018
Dr. Philip Berke’s PrepTalk explains how effective land use planning can reduce vulnerabilities and strengthen community resilience. He highlights how mitigation planning is often disconnected from other urban planning initiatives that influence development in hazard areas. He showcases best practice examples of integrated planning and offers his recommendations and policy implications.
Dr. Philip Berke is a Professor of Land Use and Environmental Planning and the Director, Institute of Sustainable Coastal Communities at College Station, Texas A&M. He co-authored Natural Hazard Mitigation: Recasting Disaster Policy and Planning, selected as one of the “100 Essential Books in Planning” of the 20th century by the American Planning Association Centennial Great Books. In 2015, his paper, "Evaluation of Networks of Plans and Vulnerability to Hazards and Climate Change: A Resilience Scorecard", received the Best Article Award from the Journal of the American Planning Association.
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- Dr. Philip Berke's biography
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