Publications

New Urban Development and Hazard Mitigation

Stevens, Mark, Philip Berke, and Yan Song 2008. Protecting People and Property: The Influence of Land Use Planners on Flood Hazard Mitigation, Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. Vol. 51, No. 6: 737-757.

Song, Yan, Philip Berke, and Mark Stevens. 2008. Smart Developments in Dangerous Locations? A Reality Check of a Existing New Urbanism Developments. International Emergencies and Mass Disasters (forthcoming).

Berke, Philip, Yan Song, and Mark Stevens. 2008. Integrating Hazard Mitigation into New Urban and Conventional Developments, Journal of Planning Education and Research Vol. 28, No. 4: 441-455.

Stevens, Mark, Philip Berke, and Yan Song. 2008. Toward Disaster-Resilient Design: Do New Urbanist Developments Incorporate More Hazard Mitigation Techniques Than Conventional Developments? Landscape and Urban Planning (forthcoming).

Stevens, Mark, Philip Berke, and Yan Song. 2008. Public Participation in Local Government Review of Development Proposals in Hazardous Locations: Does it Matter, and What Do Local Government Planners Have to Do With it?, Environmental Management (forthcoming).

Analysis of Federal Mitigation Policy in the U.S.: Mitigation Plans, Expenditures, Civic Engagement, and Local Capability

Berke, Philip and Gavin Smith. 2009. "Hazard Mitigation, Planning, and Disaster Resiliency: Challenges and Strategic Choices for the 21st Century," In Sustainable Development and Disaster Resiliency, Ed. Urbano Fra: Amsterdam, The Netherlands: IOS (in press). PDF

Coastal Ecosystem Degradation and Tsunami Mitigation

Berke, Philip, Ratana Chuenpagdee, Kungwan Juntarashote, Stephanie Change. 2008. Human-Ecological Dimensions of Disaster Resiliency in Thailand: Social Capital and Aid Delivery, Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. Vol. 51 (2): 303-318.

Chang, Stephanie, Beverley J. Adams, Jacqueline Alder, Philip R. Berke, Ratana Chuenpagdee, and Shubharoop Ghosh, and Colette Wabnitz. 2006. Coastal Ecosystems and Tsunami Protection. Earthquake Spectra. Vol. 22 (S3): 863-877.

Emergency Preparedness Demonstration Project

Center for Sustainable Community Design. 2008. Promoting Disaster Resiliency through Community-based Participatory Research: An Assessment of Six Disadvantaged Communities. Chapel Hill, NC: MDC and Institute for the Environment. Read It

Center for Sustainable Community Design. 2008. Disaster Plans: Challenges and Choices to Build the Resiliency of Vulnerable Populations. Chapel Hill, NC: MDC and Institute for the Environment. Read It

Center for Sustainable Community Design. 2008. Emergency Preparedness Demonstration Project: Hertford County Case Study Chapel Hill, NC: MDC and Institute for the Environment. Read It

Sustainable Schools

Cabarrus County Growth Summit, 2007

Report for the Wallace Genetic Foundation on schools and environmental hazards, 2007

SC Sustainable Schools Summit, 2006

Development of a Framework for Transforming Eastern North Carolina to a Sustainable Future

Building Local Government Capacity to Manage Growth in Eastern North Carolina
Proposed Strategies for Building a Sustainable Future in Eastern North Carolina

Other

Berke, Philip. 2007. "Ecology and New Directions for Land Use Planning: Barriers and Opportunities to Change". In Lasting Landscapes: Reflection on the Role of Conservation Science in Land Use Planning, Eds. R.I. Kihslinger and J. Wilkinson , Environmental Law Institute Press, Washington, D.C , 59-71.

Berke, Philip. 2008. The Evolution of Green Community Planning, Scholarship and Practice: An Introduction to the Special Issue on Green Communities, Journal of the American Planning Association, Vol. 74, No. 4: 393-407.

Berke, Philip. 2009. Integrating Bio-conservation and Land Use Planning: A Grand Challenge for the Twentieth First Century, Philip Berke, Vermont Journal of Environmental Law Vol. 10, No. 3: 407-434.

Evenson KR, Aytur SA, Rodriguez DA, and Salvesen D. Involvement of park and recreation professionals in pedestrian plans. Journal of Park and Recreation Administration, 27(3):132-142

Salvesen. 2009. "Safe Schools: Identifying Environmental Threats to Children Attending Public Schools in NC." Center for Sustainable Community Design, UNC Institute for the Environment. Read It

Salvesen, David and Peter Zambito. 2009. Environmental Threats to Children Attending Public Schools in NC: A Case Study," in School Siting and Healthy Communities: Why Where We Invest in School Facilities Matters. East lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press (forthcoming).

Berke, P. and D. Godschalk. 2009. Searching for the Good Plan: A Meta-Analysis of Plan Quality Studies, Journal of Planning Literature, Vol. 23 (3): 227-240.

Berke. P. 2008. Social Disparities and the Impacts of Disasters: Closing the Gap, white paper, submitted upon request to the President Obama Transition Team, November 2008, 4 pp.

Berke, P (editor). 2008. Federal Hazard Mitigation Policy Reforms, white paper, submitted upon request to the President Obama Transition Team, November, 9 pp.

Berke, P., R. Chuenpagdee, K. Juntarashote, S. Chang. 2008. Human-Ecological Dimensions of Disaster Resiliency in Thailand: Social Capital and Aid Delivery, Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, Vol. 51 (2): 303-318.