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Luis E. Santiago is an associate professor and director of the urban and regional planning program. He also served as professor at the University of Puerto Rico Graduate School of Planning. Dr. Santiago holds a doctoral degree in city and regional planning from Cornell University. His interest in the role of ecosystem services in Planning…

Claire Connolly Knox, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor and the Emergency Management and Homeland Security Program Director in UCF’s School of Public Administration. Her research interests include environmental policy and management, Habermas’ critical theory, and environmental vulnerability and disaster response. She teaches Disaster Response and Recovery, Environmental Planning, Environmental Policy and Management, and Managing Emergencies and Crises…

Dr. Naim Kapucu is Pegasus Professor and Director of the School of Public Administration at the University of Central Florida (UCF). He is the founding director of the Center for Public and Nonprofit Management (CPNM) at UCF (2008-2011). Dr. Kapucu’s main research interests are emergency and crisis management, network leadership and governance, decision-making in complex…

I am an interdisciplinary scholar of risk and resilience management in the context of hazards and disasters. My research is focused on decision making under uncertainty, urban resilience, hurricane evacuation behaviors and logistics, socioeconomic impacts of flooding, and hazard mitigation planning and policy. My projects have been funded by National Science Foundation, National Aeronautics and…

Emrich is an Endowed Associate Professor of Environmental Science and Public Administration within the School of Public Administration and a founding member of the newly formed National Center for Integrated Coastal Research at University of Central Florida (UCF Coastal). His research/practical service includes applying geospatial technologies to emergency management planning and practice, long-term disaster recovery,…

Bryer is highly published and conducts extensive research in the areas of public participation and collaboration across segments of society, including government, nonprofit, private, faith-based, and voluntary sectors. He has won multiple awards for his research, teaching, and service. In 2015, he was granted a Fulbright Core Scholar award to conduct research in Lithuania from…