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Disaster Recovery Planning - Mississippi Following Hurricane Katrina
Program Code:
360
Date:
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Time:
1:30 PM to 2:20 PM
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Gavin Smith, PhD, Principal, Risk and Emergency Management Division, PBS&J and Adjunct Professor, Department of City and Regional Planning,
University of North Carolina and Chapel Hill
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Gavin Smith, Ph.D. is a Principal Professional within the Risk and Emergency Management Division at PBS&J. Dr. Smith recently completed work in the Mississippi Office of the Governor, serving as the Director of the Office of Recovery and Renewal. In this role, he and his staff focused on four primary tasks: the identification of federal, corporate, non-profit and foundation financial assistance; the provision of education, outreach and training to local governments and state agencies; providing policy counsel to the Governor, his staff and state agency officials regarding disaster recovery policy issues, and the implementation of the Governor’s Commission Report: After Katrina: Building Back Better than Ever.
Dr. Smith is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and teaches courses in Disaster Recovery, Hazard Mitigation and Special Topics. Dr. Smith wrote a college course manual for FEMA’s Emergency Management Institute titled Holistic Disaster Recovery: Creating a More Sustainable Future and recently completed a book chapter titled Sustainable Disaster Recovery: Operationalizing an Existing Agenda in Handbook of Disaster Research, edited by Havidan Rodriguez, E.L. Quarantelli and Russell R. Dynes (2006). Dr. Smith was recently awarded a book contract to publish the text, Disaster Recovery Assistance Network: Planning for a Sustainable Recovery (Public Entity Risk Institute).
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Description
This session will explore observations, lessons learned, and research applied in Mississippi following Hurricane Katrina.