David Alexander is Professor of Risk and Disaster Reduction at University College London. His books include "Natural Disasters", "Confronting Catastrophe", "Principles of Emergency Planning and Management" and "Recovery from Disaster" (with Ian Davis). He is Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. His research and teaching interests include natural hazards, earthquake disasters and emergency planning and management. He is currently working on a new book on emergency planning.
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David Alexander |
Mark Barnes is an Assistant Professor in the History and Geography Department at Morgan State University in Baltimore, MD. His scholarship intersects hazard, global environmental change, urban, transport and mobility geography subfields. His work emphasizes equity, mobility, sustainability, and environmental justice concerns and interventions relating to the causes and consequences of institutional and societal responses to extreme weather events. His research agenda entails investigative undertakings of localized and metropolitan-scale analyses of extreme weather and climate change adaptation and resilience for transit agency, municipal, and higher ed institutions. Mark lends critical development counsel to Morgan’s environmental studies program whose purpose is to bridge divides among social and physical science disciplines through collaborative research, teaching, service, and institutional advancement activities. The environmental studies program emphasizes multidisciplinary perspectives on energy use, atmospheric pollution, and the impacts of extreme weather events on urban communities. Mark is a co-founder of Morgan’s Geospatial Collaborative task force. He is and has been a fellow of the National Science Foundation’s Next Generation of Hazards and Disasters Researchers, Rutgers’ Eagleton Institute of Politics, and Minorities Striving and Pursuing Higher Degrees of Success Professional Development Program in Earth Science. His organizational affiliations include the Association of American Geographers and the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity.
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Mark Barnes |
Monalisa Chatterjee is a geographer with expertise in adaptation and environment policy. Currently she is a Lecturer in Department of Environmental Studies at University of Southern California. Prior to this appointment she worked as the Adaptation Lead in the science team of the Technical Support Unit with the Working Group II Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report. She has also worked as an environment policy analyst with Human Development Report Office at UNDP, New York. Her current research interests are in (1) examining the impact of climate and societal change on the distribution of risks, vulnerability and resilience, and (2) integrating methods using multidisciplinary approaches, and (3) qualitative and quantitative consolidation of findings on adaptation to develop integrated policy frameworks of vulnerability reduction and sustainable adaptation.
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Monalisa Chatterjee |
Lee Clarke is author of Mission Improbable, Worst Cases (both from the University of Chicago Press), and Acceptable Risk? (University of California Press). He is often invited to speak about leadership, culture, disaster, and organizational and technological failures; he consults with corporations, government agencies, and research foundations. One of Clarke's current projects concerns how scientists negotiate the boundaries of science and politics; the project focuses on scientists whose work foretold, in various ways, the great harm that Katrina would bring to New Orleans. His most recent book is Worst Cases: Terror and Catastrophe in the Popular Imagination, and his edited volume, Terrorism and Disaster: New Threats, New Ideas, was published in 2003. He has also written about the Y2K problem, risk communication, panic, civil defense, evacuation, community response to disaster, organizational failure, and near Earth objects. Clarke was awarded the Rutgers Graduate School Award for Excellence in Teaching and Graduate Research, 1996-1997, and Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools' 1998 Graduate Mentoring Award. In August 2005 he was honored with the Fred Buttel Distinguished Scholarship Award by the Environment and Technology section of the American Sociological Association. During spring 2007 Clarke was the Anschutz Distinguished Scholar at Princeton University. In 2009 he was elected as Fellow of AAAS. Clarke served on a National Academy of Science committee whose report, Reopening Public Facilities After a Biological Attack: A Decision-Making Framework, was published in June 2005. He has written for, or been featured in, The Atlantic Monthly, Boston Globe, National Public Radio, the Washington Post, and the NY Daily News, the New York Times, and the Harvard Business Review, among others. He has appeared on the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, ABC World News Tonight, and National Public Radio's affiliate in Irvine, CA, KUCI.
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Lee Clarke |
Susan Cutter is a Carolina Distinguished Professor of Geography at the University of South Carolina where she directs the Hazards and Vulnerability Research Institute. She received her B.A. from California State University, East Bay and her M.A. and Ph.D. (1976) from the University of Chicago. Her primary research interests are in the area of disaster vulnerability/resilience science and how vulnerability and resilience are measured, monitored, and assessed. She authored or edited fourteen books, the most recent published by Cambridge University Press, Hurricane Katrina and the Forgotten Coast of Mississippi, more than 150 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. Dr. Cutter serves on many national advisory boards and committees including those of National Research Council (NRC), the National Science Foundation (NSF), and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). She served as Vice-Chair of the Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR) Science Committee supported by ISSC, ICSU, and UN-ISDR and now directs its International Centre of Excellence on Vulnerability and Resilience Metrics located at the University of South Carolina. Dr. Cutter serves as co-executive editor of Environment, associate editor of Weather, Climate, and Society, member of the Advisory Board of the Journal of Extreme Events and is an editorial board member for Natural Hazards, Annals of the AAG, and IJDRR. She is also serving as the Editor-in-Chief for the Oxford Research Encyclopedias Natural Hazard Science.
Dr. Cutter is an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (1999), and past President of the Association of American Geographers (2000), and of the Consortium of Social Science Associations (COSSA) (2008). Dr. Cutter held the MunichRe Foundation Chair (2009-2012) on Social Vulnerability through the United Nations University-Institute for Environment and Human Security, in Bonn, Germany. She is the recipient of the Decade of Behavior Research Award (2006), the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association of American Geographers (2010), and was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway (2015). |
Susan Cutter |
James Jeffers is a geographer specialising in global environmental change, natural hazards and urban environments. He is currently a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at Bath Spa University, having previously worked as a Teaching Associate in Geography at the University of Strathclyde and as a Teaching Assistant in the Department of Geography and the Department of Human Ecology at Rutgers University. He completed his Ph.D. in geography at Rutgers in 2011. Prior to undertaking his Ph.D., he studied geography and law at the National University of Ireland, Galway, where he received B.A., LL.B., and LL.M. degrees. His research to date has focused on flood hazards and climate change adaptation in cities. His work draws on insights and perspectives from several subfields of geography including natural hazards, human dimensions of global environmental change and political ecology to examine a number of themes and issues including: knowledge, decision-Making, and lived experiences of hazards; economic development and environmental change in cities; vulnerability and public policy; and historical perspectives on hazards, society and culture.
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James Jeffers |
Mariana Leckner has 27 years of experience in hazard research, assessment and planning, and has worked in the field of emergency management operations, planning, outreach and training since 1996. Mariana specializes in hazard mitigation planning and operational response planning, with technical expertise in atmospheric and hydrologic hazards and emergency operations center management. She has worked with the New Jersey Office of Emergency Management for “all-hazards” planning, training, outreach and response capacities from 2000-2006 and from 2012 to the present, she taught college-level courses in geography, environmental hazards and emergency management from 1990-2014, and has taught FEMA courses in emergency management over the past decade. Presently, Mariana provides consulting services to municipal, county, State and private sector clients for emergency operations center operational training, emergency operations plans, continuity of operations plans and hazard mitigation planning. In this capacity, she serves in the State Emergency Operations Center for emergency events, to include Radiological Emergency Response Program (RERP) operations for nuclear generating station exercises and events in New Jersey. Mariana has served in the State EOC for events including 9/11, anthrax threat, hurricanes and tropical systems, coastal and inland flooding, and technological and human-made emergencies. She also serves as the trainer for personnel that staff the State EOC for emergency response, working with State agencies, NJ State Police and all New Jersey counties. Mariana has bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Virginia. She completed her doctorate in Geography at Rutgers University, focusing on environmental hazards and New Jersey coastal hazard planning.
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Mariana Leckner |
Robin Leichenko is Professor of Geography at Rutgers University and co-Director of the Rutgers Climate Institute. Her current research examines climate change impacts, vulnerability and adaptation in U.S. cities and coastal regions. Leichenko served as a review editor for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report and as a contributing author on the IPCC Special Report on Extreme Events. Leichenko has authored or co-authored two books and more than 60 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters. Her book, Environmental Change and Globalization: Double Exposures (2008, Oxford University Press), won the Meridian Book Award for Outstanding Scholarly Contribution from the Association of American Geographers.
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Robin Leichenko |
Mark Mauriello began his career with the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) in May 1980, after earning a bachelor’s degree in geology from Middlebury College in Vermont. He accepted a position as a shoreline mapping specialist with the New Jersey Geological Survey, and during the 1980’s and 1990’s he rose through the ranks of the Division of Coastal Resources and Land Use Regulation Division, and was appointed as Division Director in 2002. In 2006, Mauriello was selected by Lisa Jackson to be DEP’s Assistant Commissioner for Land Use Management. In November 2008, Mauriello was nominated by Governor Jon S. Corzine to serve as Commissioner of the DEP, replacing newly confirmed EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson. He served in that capacity from November 2008 until his retirement from DEP in January 2010. Throughout his 30-year career with the DEP, Mauriello gained extensive experience in land use regulation, natural hazard management and mitigation, coastal zone management and floodplain management. Mauriello has authored or co-authored numerous papers and publications focusing on a wide range of issues affecting New Jersey’s famed coastline. He was a founding member of the New Jersey Association for Floodplain Management, served two terms as Regional Director of the Association of State Floodplain Managers, served as Vice-Chair of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, and served as a member of the NJ State Planning Commission. He has also served on many committees and working groups, including the USEPA’s Coastal Elevation and Sea Level Rise Advisory Committee, FEMA’s National Hurricane Program Task Force, FEMA’s Post-Storm Mitigation Assessment Teams, the New Jersey State Police Hazard Mitigation Team, and DEP’s Global Climate Working Group. Upon retiring from DEP in January 2010, Mauriello formed Mark Mauriello Consulting, LLC, specializing in coastal zone management, floodplain management, land use regulation and regulatory compliance. In March, 2010, Mauriello accepted a position as Director of Environmental Affairs and Planning with Edgewood Properties of Piscataway. In this capacity, Mauriello is responsible for overseeing the company’s environmental programs and planning initiatives, and serves as an advisor on regulatory issues and property acquisitions.
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Mark Mauriello |
Karen M. O’Neill studies how policies about land and water affect government power, the status of experts, and the well-being of various social groups. Her work centers on headwater areas, river flood control, and coastal storm vulnerability. Other topics include international conservation, risk preparedness and response, and the social experience of space and place. Karen is working on a co-edited book considering whether Hurricane Sandy has transformed the ways coastal institutions are planning for the climate future.
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Karen O'Neill |
William Solecki’s research focuses on urban environmental change, resilience, and adaptation transitions. He currently is a Professor within the Department of Geography at Hunter College-City University of New York. From 2006-2014, he served as the Director of the CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities at Hunter College. He also served as interim Director of the Science and Resilience Institute at Jamaica Bay. He has co-lead several climate impacts studies in the greater New York and New Jersey region, including the New York City on Panel on Climate Change (NPCC). He recently was a lead author of the IPCC, Working Group II, Urban Areas chapter (chapter 8) and a coordinating lead author of the US National Climate Assessment, Urbanization, Infrastructure, and Vulnerability chapter (chapter 11). He is a co-founder of the Urban Climate Change Research Network (UCCRN), co-editor of Current Opinion on Environmental Sustainability, and founding editor of the Journal of Extreme Events. He holds degrees in Geography from Columbia University (BA) and Rutgers University (MA, PhD). |
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Dr. Juha I. Uitto is Director of the Independent Evaluation Office of the Global Environment Facility (GEF), a partnership for international cooperation where 183 countries work together with international organizations, civil society and the private sector to address global environmental issue. Before his current post, Juha was Deputy Director of the Independent Evaluation Office of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), where he previously worked as Evaluation Adviser. Prior to that, he worked as Monitoring and Evaluation Coordinator/Specialist with the GEF. Over the past 17 years, he has conducted and managed a large number of programmatic and thematic evaluations of international cooperation, in particular related to environmental management and poverty-environment linkages. Before becoming a fulltime evaluator, Juha spent the 1990s with the United Nations University coordinating the university’s environment and sustainable development research and training programs. There he initiated and managed the university’s urban disaster vulnerability program. He has also held positions in the Nordic Africa Institute, the International Fund for Agricultural Development and as consultant in development cooperation.
He is currently Visiting Professor of Global Practice at the Division of Global Affairs at Rutgers, and has also had visiting positions in the Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University in Japan and the International Studies Program of the University of Montana, Missoula. He was educated at the Universities of Helsinki and Lund, and holds a PhD in Social and Economic Geography. He has authored/edited several books and published more than 30 peer reviewed articles and book chapters on topics related to the environment, natural resources management, environmental hazards, and evaluation. His latest book, Sustainable Development and Disaster Risk Reduction (co-edited with Rajib Shaw) was published recently (Springer 2016). He also serves on the editorial boards of the journals Environmental Hazards and Evaluation and Program Planning. In 2012, the European Evaluation Society awarded his work on environmental evaluation for a “distinguished contribution to evaluation practice.” |
Juha I. Uitto |
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