William Siembieda
William Siembieda works in the applied areas of disaster mitigation planning, housing finance, and land economics. He has worked on disaster mitigation planning and reconstruction plans for the State of California, the District of Caracas, Venezuela, the municipality of Tegucigalpa, Honduras, and for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Office of Policy Development and Research. Among his latest professional work is the 2007 State of California Multi-Hazard Mitigation Plan. In 2004, he was part of the Pacific Consultants International Team that drafted the Federal District of Caracas Preparedness and Disaster Mitigation Team. In 2008, he was a visiting research fellow at the Disaster Research Systems Center at Kyoto University, where he studied the Japanese system of disaster mitigation planning and recovery. He is author of “Choosing A Paradigm for Disaster Recovery,” a four country comparative study of how low-income communities construct their recovery strategies.
Siembieda holds a PhD in urban planning from the University of California, Los Angeles, and is professor of city and regional planning at California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo. He is on the advising board of CityScape, the HUD housing journal. His latest co-authored academic book is "Contemporary Urbanism in Brazil: Beyond Brasilia" (2009), University Press of Florida.
Workshop Abstracts
Towards an Asset-Based Mitigation Policy
Related Resources from William Siembieda
Lowering Vulnerability Using the Asset-Access-Time Method
Journal of Disaster Research, Volume 5, Number 2, 2010
Related Resources by William Siembieda from the Natural Hazards Library Staff
Actions Towards Disaster Recovery: A Global Planning Perspective
With Bruce Baird and Kenneth Topping, Focus, Volume 1, April 2004
Planning For Disaster Resilient Environments: California and the World
With Rhianna Ortiz, Focus, Volume 9, 2009