James Schwab
Jim Schwab is the manager of the American Planning Association’s (APA) Hazards Planning Research Center, a senior research associate, and co-editor of a monthly publication, Zoning Practice. He served as the primary author for Planning for Post-Disaster Recovery and Redevelopment as well as authored two other Planning Advisory Service (PAS) Reports, Industrial Performance Standards for a New Century and Planning and Zoning for Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations. He was project manager for a FEMA-supported project in which APA developed training for planners on the planning provisions of the Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000, as well as the Firewise Communities Post-Workshop Assessment, which gauged the impact of the National Fire Protection Association’s Firewise workshops on community behavior. He also coauthored the PAS report Planning for Wildfires co-authored with Stuart Meck.
Schwab was the project manager and editor for Hazard Mitigation: Integrating Best Practices into Planning. He was also the principal investigator and primary author of Tribal Transportation Programs, a 2007 report produced for the Transportation Research Board. He was the project manager and general editor for the PAS Report, Planning the Urban Forest: Ecology, Economy, and Community Development which is now being developed into a full-day training workshop in cooperation with the U.S. Forest Service.
In addition, Schwab has worked on hazards and disaster recovery issues in the Dominican Republic and Sri Lanka, spoken in Taiwan, and was a visiting fellow in 2008 for the Centre for Advanced Engineering in New Zealand.
Workshop Abstracts
Hazard Mitigation: Integrating Best Practices into Planning
With Ken Topping and Kathleen Smith