Planning for Post-Disaster Recovery II

Bio: Lori Feild Schwarz, AICP is the Interim Director of Planning for the City of Galveston. She oversees the planning division and also serves as Historic Preservation Officer for the City. Ms. Schwarz was hired by the City in 2001 and has participated in numerous city-wide planning efforts, including: 2001 Comprehensive Plan, Beach Access Plan, Hazard Mitigation Plan, Disaster Response Plan for Historic Properties, and the Long-Term Recovery Plan for the City of Galveston. She is currently supervising the large-scale Progress Galveston project, which includes a comprehensive revision of the City’s land development regulations and numerous specialized plans.

Education: The University of Georgia, Master's degree, Historic Preservation; University of Maryland: College Park, Bachelor's of Science degree, Interior Design

Past Assignments: American Planning Association, Planners’ Training Service, Ft. Worth, TX, November 2011 and Philadelphia, PA, June 2012. Subject: Preparing for Change: Creating Resilient Communities

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: Laurie Johnson has over 20 years of experience in urban planning, catastrophe risk management, and disaster recovery management, and has researched or helped manage recovery following many major urban disasters, including the Tohoku Japan (2011), Christchurch NZ (2010 and 2011) earthquakes and 2005 Hurricane Katrina. In 2006, she was a lead author of the recovery plan for the City of New Orleans and she is currently a recovery governance and advance planning advisor to the City and County of San Francisco. She is authoring two chapters about long-term recovery planning processes and implementation, for an update to APA’s Planning Advisory Service guidebook on Planning for Post-Disaster Recovery, with funding from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. She is also coauthoring a book on “Evolving Approaches to Managing Recovery from Large-scale Disasters” for the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.

Education: Laurie Johnson completed her Doctor of Informatics degree at Kyoto University, Japan in March 2009; her dissertation focused on developing a management framework for local disaster recovery. She also holds a Master of Urban Planning and a Bachelor of Science in Geophysics, both from Texas A&M University.

Key Publications: Olshansky, Robert B. and Laurie A. Johnson, 2010. Clear as Mud: Planning for the Rebuilding of New Orleans, Chicago, IL: Planner's Press, American Planning Association.

Past Assignments: Laurie Johnson is on the Advisory Council on Earthquake Hazards Reduction (ACEHR) of the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program, and the Board of Directors of the San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR) and Public Entity Risk Institute (PERI). She is also on the Steering Committee for GEER – Geotechnical Extreme Event Reconnaissance, a past Board member of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI), and a member of the editorial board of Earthquake Spectra. Since 1991, she has been a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners and a long-standing member of both the American Planning Association and EERI.

Bio: Mr. Walther has over 46 years of experience in urban and regional planning; however, over the past 15 years his focus has been on issues related to hazard mitigation, long term recovery planning, climate adaptation and wildland fire mitigation projects. He has been a member of the Florida State Hazard Mitigation Planning Advisory Team since 2004 serving as a representative of the Florida APA. He serves as a board member of the Natural Hazard Mitigation Association. Presently he is on a consultant team working on a Disaster Recovery and Long-Term Resiliency Plan for the Mad River Valley, Vermont. He served as Project Director for a study that focused on integrating hazards and the vulnerabilities associated with them into comprehensive plans by providing local governments with a data Profile that included a hazard risk assessment along with recommendations. The effort included conducting five regional workshops. Another study involved advocating the inclusion of hazards into Charlotte County/Punta Gorda MPO's Long-Range Transportation Plan. Mr. Walther has spent a number of years working in a proactive manner on the issue of long-term disaster recovery. This involved developing a Post-Disaster Redevelopment Planning Guide for the Florida Department of Community Affairs. The contents of the Guide reflected the efforts of six pilot post-disaster long-term recovery plans. The largest pilot involved Hillsborough County, FL, a county with a diverse number of potential post-disaster recovery issues. Mr. Walther is involved in preparing a number of county Community Wildfire Protection Plans for the Florida Forest Service.

Education: Master of Science, Urban & Regional Planning, Florida State University, 1970. Bachelor of Arts, Social Studies, University of South Florida, 1965.

Key Publications: Integration of Local Mitigation Strategy (LMS) Plans into Local Comprehensive Plans (2005-2006). Taking the High Road – Integrating Hazard Mitigation into Long-Range Transportation Planning (2010). Post-Disaster Redevelopment Planning – A Guide for Florida Communities (2010). Hillsborough County, FL Countywide Post-Disaster Redevelopment Plan (2010).

Past Assignments: New Partners for Smart Growth and Disaster Recovery, Long-Term Recovery, San Diego, 2012. APA Planning Training Service (PTS) Sustainable Zoning & Development Controls, Tampa, 2012. APA PTS Hazard Resiliency, Climate Adaptation, and Disaster Redevelopment, Ft. Worth, 2011. APA PTS Sustainable Zoning & Development Controls, Ft. Lauderdale, 2010. APA National Conference, Planning for a Disaster Resistant Community, 2010. Florida Governor’s Hurricane Conference, Building Community Resiliency into Pre and Post-Disaster Planning, 2010.