Planning for Post-Disaster Recovery I

Bio: Christine Butterfield has served as the Community Development Director for the City of Cedar Rapids, IA since November 2007. Since the catastrophic flooding in Iowa of June 2008, the City has administered $380M in disaster recovery assistance to businesses and homeowners. The Community Development Department led a post flood visioning process for recovery that involved more than 4,000 residents. The City was awarded the 2009 International Downtown Association Pinnacle Award and 2011 American Planning Association – Hazard Mitigation Planning Excellence Award for this visioning work. Before serving Cedar Rapids, Christine work for communities in the Chicago and Twin Cities metro areas.

Education: Christine holds a BA in Political Science and History from the University of Minnesota and MA in Public Policy from the University of Wisconsin.

Bio: Jim Schwab is senior research associate and manager of the Hazards Planning Research Center at the American Planning Association. He also serves as co-editor of Zoning Practice. He has managed numerous major APA sponsored research projects producing training or research related to hazards and environmental planning. As adjunct professor, he also teaches a course on disaster planning for the University of Iowa School of Urban and Regional Planning.

Education: B.A., Political Science, Cleveland State University, 1973 M.A., Journalism, University of Iowa, 1985 M.A., Urban and Regional Planning, University of Iowa, 1985

Key Publications: Schwab, James C., ed. 2010. Hazard mitigation: Integrating best practices into planning. Planning Advisory Service Report No. 560. Chicago: American Planning Association. Schwab, James C. 2009. Making hazards a planning priority. PAS Memo, 1–6. July/August. Schwab, James C. 2008. The role of planning in reducing impacts of global warming. Pp. 19-50 in Global warming, natural hazards, and emergency management, eds. George Haddow, Jane Bullock, and Kim Haddow. New York: Taylor & Francis. Schwab, James, and Stuart Meck with Jamie Simone. 2005. Planning for wildfires. Planning Advisory Service Report No. 529/530. Chicago: American Planning Association. Schwab, James, with Kenneth C. Topping, Charles D. Eadie, Robert E. Deyle, and Richard A. Smith. 1998. Planning for post-disaster recovery and reconstruction. Planning Advisory Service Report No. 483/484. Chicago: American Planning Association. December. Schwab, James C. 2009. Winds of Change. Planning, 24–7. October. Schwab, James, ed. 2009. Planning the urban forest: Ecology, economy, and community development. Planning Advisory Service Report No. 555. Chicago: American Planning Association. Schwab, James C., Paula L. Gori, and Sanjay Jeer, project editors. 2005. Landslide hazards and planning. Planning Advisory Service Report No. 533/534. Chicago: American Planning Association. Schwab, James C. 2004. Planning for a rainy day: Addressing natural hazards in state land use laws. Planning & Environmental Law 56(1): 3–8. Schwab, James. 1994. Deeper shades of green: the rise of blue-collar and minority environmentalism in America. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books. Schwab, James. 1988. Raising Less Corn and More Hell: Midwestern Farmers Speak Out. Champaign: University of Illinois Press.

Past Assignments: "Identifying Your Target Audience When Surveying Professionals," Social Coast Forum, Charleston, SC, 2/16/12 "Incorporating Smart Growth into Disaster Recovery Planning," New Partners for Smart Growth Conference, San Diego, CA, 2/3/12 "Getting Ahead of the Next Flood," Tennessee APA Conference, Nashville, TN, 9/30/11

Bio: Ken Topping, FAICP, is president, Topping Associates International of Cambria, California, lecturer with the City and Regional Planning Department of California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly-SLO), project director for the 2010 State Hazard Mitigation Plan prepared by Cal Poly for the California Emergency Management Agency (Cal EMA), co-principal investigator for the California Climate Adaptation Policy Guide and California Vital Infrastructure Vulnerability Assessment (Cal VIVA) projects prepared by Cal Poly for Cal EMA, and is also a planning commissioner with San Luis Obispo County. Ken was formerly planning director of the City of Los Angeles (1986-1990), principal of Topping Jaquess Consultants (1991-1997), general manager of the Cambria Community Services District (1997-2001), California, visiting professor at the Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University (2002-2004), Japan, as well as and planning director and deputy administrator for development services at San Bernardino County (1973-1986). Ken is recognized internationally for work integrating city planning with safety and sustainability. He has advised on hazard mitigation and disaster recovery initiatives in Australia, China, Korea, the Philippines, Taiwan, Japan, as well as the United States and Canada.

Education: --California State University – Los Angeles, M.S. Public Administration, 1972. --University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Graduate studies in sociology, 1956-57. --University of Redlands, B.A. cum laude, Sociology, 1956.

Key Publications: --Topping, Kenneth C. “Chapter 4. Los Angeles--San Diego,” in Blakely, Edward J. and Armando Carbonell, eds., Resilient Coastal City Regions: Planning for Climate Change in the United States and Australia, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2012 --Topping, Kenneth C. “LA’s Love-Hate Relationship with Nature” essay in “Chapter 2. History of Planning” in Sloane, David C. ed. Planning Los Angeles, American Planning Association, 2012 --Topping, Kenneth C., co-authored with J. Schwab and others, Planning for Post-Disaster Recovery and Reconstruction, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and American Planning Association (APA), PAS Report 483/484, 1998. --Topping, Kenneth C., co-authored with J. Schwab and others, Hazard Mitigation: Integrating Best Practices into Planning, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and American Planning Association (APA), PAS Report 560, May 2010. --Topping, Kenneth C., “Strengthening Resilience Through Mitigation Planning,” invited comment in Natural Hazards Observer, November 2011. --Topping, Kenneth C., “Toward a National Disaster Recovery Act of 2009,” invited comment in Natural Hazards Observer, January 2009. --Topping, Kenneth C., co-authored with Robert B. Olshansky and Laurie Johnson. “Rebuilding Communities Following Disasters: Lessons from Kobe and Los Angeles" Built Environment, Vol. 32, November 2006.

Other Publications: --Topping, Kenneth C., ed., with co-eds. M. Boswell, H. Hayashi, and W. Siembieda. Special Issue on “Building Local Capacity for Long-term Disaster Resilience” Journal of Disaster Research, Part 1, Volume 5, Number 2, April 2010; and Part 2, Volume 5, Number 5, October 2010. --Topping, Kenneth C., “Using National Financial Incentives to Build Local Resiliency: The U.S. Disaster Mitigation Act” Journal of Disaster Research, Volume 5, Number 2 April 2010.

Past Assignments: Speaking and panel assignments on community resilience and disaster recovery at annual APA National Conferences and PTS workshops(2010-2012), and Natural Hazards Workshops 2010-2012), Broomfield, Colorado.