James Schwab
Jim Schwab is the manager of the American Planning Association’s Hazards Planning Research Center in Chicago. He is the project manager for “Planning for Post-Disaster Recovery: Next Generation,” an ambitious three-year effort funded by Federal Emergency Management Agency to rewrite Planning for Post-Disaster Recovery and Redevelopment. This new effort includes substantial multimedia web tools including the Recovery News blog.
Schwab was also project manager for Hazard Mitigation: Integrating Best Practices into Planning, released in May 2010. With Stuart Meck, he co-authored the 2005 report, Planning for Wildfires. He was the project manager and general editor for Planning the Urban Forest: Ecology, Economy, and Community Development, released in January 2009, and the subsequent development of a training workshop based on that report. He is also the lead for APA’s partnership with National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Digital Coast.
Mr. Schwab has worked overseas several times on hazard-related planning: in the Dominican Republic overseeing site planning training in 2001; in Sri Lanka following the Indian Ocean tsunami; and as a visiting fellow of the Centre for Advanced Engineering in New Zealand in 2008.
Mr. Schwab is also the author of two books: Raising Less Corn and More Hell: Midwestern Farmers Speak Out and Deeper Shades of Green: The Rise of Blue-Collar and Minority Environmentalism in America. He is presently developing a new book about the 1993 and 2008 Midwest floods.
Related Resources from James Schwab
Planning for Post-Disaster Recovery: Next Generation
