Center for Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters (CRSCAD)

School for the Environment University of Massachusetts Boston

Research Publications

CRSCAD hosted the conference “Rebuilding Sustainable Communities in Afghanistan:

The Way Forward” in 2015

Image by: Mr. Najim M. Azadzoi, Afghan Architect and CRSCAD International Board

Advisor

March 2020

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Center for Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters

(CRSCAD)

School for the Environment

University of Massachusetts Boston

Research Publications

March 2020

Contents

1.0 Introduction to CRSCAD 4

2.0 CRSCAD’s Map of Global Engagement 6

3.0 CRSCAD’s Recent Research Publications

• Books

• Chapters in Books

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4.0 CRSCAD’s Publications on China, India and Iran 26

5.0 Research Collaboration with the University of Cape Town, South

Africa

• 5.1 Research Overview

• 5.2 List of Official Research Reports and Other Publications

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6.0 CRSCAD’s Faculty 43

7.0 Courses in Global Post-Disaster Reconstruction Studies 47

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Introduction to CRSCAD

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Center for Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters

(CRSCAD)

Established in 2008, the Center for Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters

(CRSCAD, pronounced “CHRIS-CAD”) has earned a global reputation as a leading force in a

field that is gaining momentum. It focuses on global post-disasters (bad governance and poverty;

Contamination of soils, air and water; HIV/AIDS and other disease pandemics; Wars and

regional conflicts; Severe weather-related events such as earthquakes, mudslides and tsunamis;

Large-scale attacks on civilian populations; and, Technological catastrophes) within the context

of national security, prosperity and environmental challenges. It introduces a forward-thinking

approach to disaster planning and recovery: envisioning opportunity and imagining a sustainable

reconstruction which incorporates those most often forgotten "after the cameras have gone."

In our inaugural year, we hosted a workshop for the U.S. Department of State, in collaboration

with WorldBoston. There were participants from Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, Argentina, and

Paraguay. Since then, CRSCAD has organized conferences on Afghanistan, China, Haiti,

Indonesia, Iraq, and Japan, among others.

With the Office of Emergency Management and Business Continuity at the University of

Massachusetts Boston, CRSCAD has also hosted “When a City Falls: Earthquake Response,

Recovery, and Restoration in Christchurch and the Canterbury Region of New Zealand.”

CRSCAD promotes collaborations, education, and knowledge sharing that enhance global post-

disaster reconstruction through teaching, consultancy, community outreach, service activities,

multidisciplinary and multisectoral research-based information generation, book publications,

and national/international conference presentations—including three in the Caribbean and South

America. The 2015 Caribbean Forum on Disaster Risk Reduction in Gros-Islet, Saint Lucia, was

the first of its kind in the Caribbean region and it brought together policy makers and

practitioners throughout the region, including the Ministers of Education and heads of national

tertiary institutions from twelve (12) Caribbean countries. CRSCAD’s participation was at the

invitation of the United States Agency for International Development Office of Foreign Disaster

Assistance (USAID/OFDA) in collaboration with The Sir Arthur Lewis Community College

(SALCC), Saint Lucia. CRSCAD’s contributions to the two 2014 Multihazards and Disaster

Risk Reduction global academic events in South America (Chile and Colombia) were at the

invitation of the USAID/OFDA, the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction

(UNISDR), University of Chile, the Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU), and Centro

de Investigacion Vulnerabilidades y Desastres Socionaturales (CIVDES).

CRSCAD offers graduate courses in Global Post-Disaster Studies.

To learn more about CRSCAD’s work, achievements and impact, please visit its website at

https://www.umb.edu/crscad

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CRSCAD’s Map of Global

Engagement

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The Center for Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters (CRSCAD, pronounced

“CHRIS-CAD”) is a relatively recent addition to the UMass Boston campus. It was founded

and is led by its director, Professor Adenrele Awotona, who has broad international background

in architecture, urban planning, sustainable community development, and post-disaster

reconstruction. CRSCAD was formally established on July 6, 2008.

CRSCAD came into being as a response to a perceived need. Disasters were growing in number

and increasing in intensity, but there was no academic center, with a focus on vulnerable

populations, that committed itself to plumbing and probing this realm while seeking to advance

meaningful modes and means to respond to post-disaster needs.

The center is now widely considered by the United States Government and international

multilateral agencies (including those of the United Nations) as a premier academic center for

studies in post-disaster reconstruction. And this has brought distinction and honor to UMass as

an innovative leader in the field. It has also earned a global reputation as a leading force in a

field that is gaining momentum. CRSCAD promotes collaborations, education, and knowledge

CRSCAD has been, and continues to be, active in more than 40 countries in all the continents.

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CRSCAD’s

Recent Research Publications

Books

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Awotona, Adenrele (Ed.) (2019). Rebuilding Afghanistan in Times of Crisis: A Global Response,

1st Edition, Routledge, Hardback: 9781138571587, 238 pages, eBoo9780203702659k

Rebuilding Afghanistan in Times of Crisis provides academics and researchers interested in

planning, urbanism and conflict studies with a multidisciplinary, international assessment of the

reconstruction and foreign aid efforts in Afghanistan.

The book draws together expert contributions from countries across three continents – Asia,

Europe and North America – which have provided external aid to Afghanistan. Using

international, regional and local approaches, it highlights the importance of rebuilding

sustainable communities in the midst of ongoing uncertainties. It explores the efficacy of

external aid; challenges faced; the response of multilateral international agencies; the role of

women in the reconstruction process; and community-based natural disaster risk management

strategies. Finally, it looks at the lessons learned in the conflict reconstruction process to better

prepare the country for future potential human, economic, infrastructural and institutional

vulnerabilities.

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Awotona, Adenrele (Ed.) (2018). Planning for Community-based Disaster Resilience

Worldwide: Learning from Case Studies in Six Continents, Routledge, 470pp.

We are witnessing an ever-increasing level and intensity of disasters from Ecuador to Ethiopia

and beyond, devastating millions of ordinary lives and causing long-term misery for vulnerable

populations.

Bringing together 26 case studies from six continents, this volume provides a unique resource

that discusses, in considerable depth, the multifaceted matrix of natural and human-made

disasters. It examines their bearing on the loss of human and productive capital; the conduct of

national policies and the setting of national development priorities; and on the nature of

international aid and bilateral assistance strategies and programs of donor countries. In order to

ensure the efficacy and appropriateness of their support for disaster survivors, international

agencies, humanitarian and disaster relief organizations, scholars, non-governmental

organizations, and members of the global emergency management community need to have

insight into best practices and lessons learned from various disasters across national and cultural

boundaries.

The evidence obtained from the numerous case studies in this volume serves to build a

worldwide community that is better informed about the cultural and traditional contexts of such

disasters and better enabled to prepare for, respond to, and finally rebuild sustainable

communities after disasters in different environments.

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Awotona, Adenrele (Ed.) (2014). Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters in China,

Japan and Beyond. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, U.K.: Newcastle upon Tyne, xliv+423pp.

This volume examines lessons learned in reducing the impact of disasters on communities in

China, Japan and other countries world-wide. Asia is the most disaster-prone continent. The

2012 data on natural disasters in 28 Asian countries, released by the United Nations Office for

Disaster Risk Reduction and the Belgian-based Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of

Disasters on December 11th, 2012 showed that, from 1950 to 2011, nine out of ten people

affected by disasters globally were in Asia; that of the top five disasters that created the most

damage in 2012, three were in China; that China led the list of most disasters in 2012; and, that

China was the only multi-hazard-prone country. Similarly, the March 2011 Tohoku earthquake

was the greatest known earthquake ever to have hit Japan and one of the five strongest ever

recorded earthquakes in the world since 1900. Subsequently, the Center for Rebuilding

Sustainable Communities after Disasters at the University of Massachusetts Boston organized a

conference in November 2012 to survey the best practices in post-disaster rebuilding efforts in

China and Japan. This edited book consists of selected papers from the proceedings of that event

and previously invited contributions from leading scholars in post-disaster rebuilding in China,

Japan and Namibia.

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Awotona, Adenrele (Ed.)(2012). Rebuilding Sustainable Communities with Vulnerable

Populations after the Cameras Have Gone: A Worldwide Study, Cambridge Scholars Publishing,

Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, 570pp.

This book was selected as the publisher’s ‘Critics’ Choice’ title for the January 2013 Book of the

Month newsletter due to its “strong sales and excellent reviews.”

This volume focuses on the status of the elderly and the disabled after disasters globally as well

as the challenges of post-earthquake rebuilding in Haiti. The International Federation of the Red

Cross and Red Crescent Societies has estimated that between 1987 and 2007, about 26 million

older people were affected each year by natural disasters alone and that this figure could more

than double by 2050 due to the rapidly changing demographics of ageing. People with

disabilities (physical, medical, sensory or cognitive) are equally at risk of utter neglect during

and after disasters. The Australian Agency for International Development estimates that 650

million people across the world have a disability and about 80 per cent of them live in

developing countries. Similarly, before the January 2010 earthquake, Haiti was a country with

tremendous development needs and numerous impediments to development, according to

Congresswoman Maxine Waters when introducing a Resolution in the U.S. House of

Representatives to cancel Haiti's debts in March 2007. These impediments included an

overwhelming burden of international debt; lack of personal and community assets; and, very

little or no internal and external capacities, all of which have been exacerbated by the aftermath

of the earthquake. It is against this background that the Center for Rebuilding Sustainable

Communities after Disasters at the University of Massachusetts Boston organized two

international Conferences in 2010 - in April, on Rebuilding Sustainable Communities in Haiti in

the wake of the January Earthquake; and, in July, on Rebuilding Sustainable Communities with

the Elderly and Disabled People after Disasters. This edited book consists of selected papers that

were presented at these academic events. The topics include Disaster Experiences of the Elderly

and the Disabled in Nigeria; The Vulnerability of Elderly People in the Aftermath of

Earthquakes in Iran; Methods for Assessing and Developing Understanding of Resiliency in

Communities; The Tuareg's traditional Shelter for Disaster Mitigation and Reconstruction in

Libya; and, People with Disabilities in Haiti Before and After the 2010 Earthquake.

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Awotona, Adenrele (Ed.). (2010). Rebuilding Sustainable Communities for Children and their

Families after Disasters: A Global Survey. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon

Tyne, United Kingdom, xxviii+458pp.

Disasters impose enormous misery on children, the most vulnerable members of the community.

Records show that two million children have died as a direct consequence of armed conflict over

the past decade. Globally, millions more have suffered death, disease, and dislocation as a result

of such natural disasters as earthquakes, droughts, and floods. And even when emergency relief

is available, permanent human damage remains; all too often, families fall apart, women are

assaulted and degraded, and children are left to take care of themselves. In November 2008, the

Center for Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters at the University of

Massachusetts Boston, USA, hosted an international conference to examine how to reconstruct

sustainable communities that would be safe and secure for children and their families after

disasters. This volume collects some of the papers that were presented at the conference. It is

remarkable for the sheer assortment of topics covered. These include the role of gender equality

in alleviating poverty and assisting children, their families and their communities after disasters;

war and child soldiers; lessons from Hurricane Katrina and the Tsunami; the nature of

psychosocial resilience and its significance for managing mass emergencies, disasters and

terrorism; and, the promotion of human dignity in the creation of sustainable environments that

empower families in the aftermath of disasters.

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Awotona, Adenrele (Ed.). (2008). Rebuilding Sustainable Communities in Iraq: Policies,

Programs and international perspectives. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon

Tyne, United Kingdom, xxiii+317pp.

The scene in Iraq is most troubling; and further failure therein, especially failure in sustainable

reconstruction, will compound the tragedy and bring grievous harm to too many: in Iraq, the

United States, the Middle East and the Western world. Yet, the current efforts at reconstruction

cannot succeed -- as we seem to be making many of the same mistakes that were made post-

invasion. Simply put, a national occupying power cannot reconstruct a massive societal vacuum

by working only top down. Reconstruction is not the simple reversal of destruction.

Sustainability requires serious localized reconstitution of localized community infrastructure.

Accordingly, in order to explore how Iraqi communities could be rebuilt in a manner that

promotes social justice, economic and political sustainability, and the full participation of all

stakeholders, the Center for Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters at the

University of Massachusetts at Boston, USA, hosted a four-day international conference of Iraqi

and international scholars and practitioners in July 2007. This volume collects some of the

papers that were presented at the conference. Amongst the topics that the contributing authors

have explored are the following: the role of organizations and institutions in defining strategies

for sustainable rebuilding of community; rebuilding the Iraqi Oil Industry; and, successful

project strategies in Iraqi’s Kurdistan region. The book concludes with a presentation of a

number of international perspectives and their lessons for Iraq. These studies spring from

Afghanistan, the United States of America and Africa.

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Chowdhury, C; Britton, M; and Hartling, L. (Eds.) (2020). Human Dignity: Practices,

Discourses, and Transformations. 331 pages. Dignity Press.

Dignity and humiliation are at the root of countless urgent issues today. This edited book

provides a multifaceted discussion of dignity from diverse social, cultural, religious, legal,

educational, psychological, and political perspectives. It is written as a special tribute to Dr.

Evelin Lindner, a global scholar and researcher nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2015,

2016, and 2017.

Using the study of dignity and humiliation as a common foundation, this book examines some of

the most challenging topics of our time, including human rights, mass incarceration,

immigration, education, prisoner rehabilitation, peace advocacy, therapeutic jurisprudence, social

justice, the preservation of indigenous wisdom, environmental destruction, and effective

community advocacy. All of the contributing authors were inspired by the remarkable efforts of

Evelin Lindner, the founding president of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies

(HumanDHS), a transdisciplinary global community dedicated to ending cycles of humiliation

and cultivating dignity in all relationships.

Readers will learn that Evelin Lindner is the rarest of visionary leaders. She is a global social

scientist, a Da Vinci of academic inquiry, transformative thought, and compassionate activism.

Her path has led her beyond the tragedy of her family’s forced displacement during WWII to the

highest levels of scholarship.

One of the best ways to appreciate Evelin Lindner’s commitment to humanity is by meeting

those who are inspired and energized by her message. The authors in this book represent a

growing fellowship of those who share Evelin Lindner’s commitment to encouraging the equal

dignity of all people while restoring the health of our fragile planet.

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Brotherton, David C. and Kretsedemas, Philip (Eds.) (2018). Immigration Policy in the

Age of Punishment: Detention, Deportation, and Border Control, Columbia University Press,

344 pages

The events of 2016 catapulted immigration policy to the forefront of public debate, and Donald

Trump’s administration has signaled a harsh turn in enforcement. Yet the deportation, detention,

and border-control policies that North American and European countries have embraced are by

no means new. In this book, sociologists David C. Brotherton and Philip Kretsedemas bring

together an interdisciplinary group of contributors to reconsider the immigration policies of the

Obama era and beyond in terms of a decades-long “age of punishment.”

Immigration Policy in the Age of Punishment takes a critical, interdisciplinary, and transnational

look at current issues surrounding immigration in the U.S. and abroad. It examines key features

of this age of punishment, connecting neoliberal governance, global labor markets, and the

national obsession with securing borders to explain critical research and theory on immigration

enforcement. Contributors document the continuities between presidential administrations and

across countries from many perspectives, with chapters discussing Canada, Australia, France, the

UK, the Dominican Republic, and Mexico in addition to the U.S. They offer macro-level

analyses of deportations and border enforcement, analyses of national policy and jurisprudence,

and ethnographic accounts of the daily life experience of the prison-to-deportation pipeline, the

making of deportability, and post-deportation transitions for noncitizens. This book highlights

new directions in critical immigration policy and enforcement and deportation studies with the

aim of problematizing the age of punishment that currently reigns over borders and those who

seek to cross them.

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Kretsedemas, Philip (2015). Migrants and Race in the US: Territorial Racism and the

Alien/Outside, 1st Edition, Routledge, 220 pages

This book explains how migrants can be viewed as racial others, not just because they are

nonwhite, but because they are racially "alien." This way of seeing makes it possible to

distinguish migrants from a set of racial categories that are presumed to be indigenous to the

nation. In the US, these indigenous racial categories are usually defined in terms of white and

black. Kretsedemas explores how this kind of racialization puts migrants in a quandary, leading

them to be simultaneously raced and situated outside of race.

Although the book focuses on the situation of migrants in the US, it builds on theories of

migrants and race that extend beyond the US, and makes a point of criticizing nation-centered

explanations of race and racism. These arguments point toward the emergence of a new field

visibility that has transformed the racial meaning of nativity, migration and migrant ethnicity. It

also situates these changing views of migrants in a broader historical perspective than prior

theory, explaining how they have been shaped by a changing relationship between race and

territory that has been unfolding for several hundred years, and which crystallizes in the late

colonial era.

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Kretsedemas, Philip (2012). The Immigration Crucible: Transforming Race, Nation, and

the Limits of the Law, Columbia University Press, 232 pages

In the debate over U. S. immigration, all sides now support policy and practice that expand the

parameters of enforcement. Philip Kretsedemas examines this development from several

different perspectives, exploring recent trends in U.S. immigration policy, the rise in extralegal

state power over the course of the twentieth century, and discourses on race, nation, and cultural

difference that have influenced politics and academia. He also analyzes the recent expansion of

local immigration law and explains how forms of extralegal discretionary authority have become

more prevalent in federal immigration policy, making the dispersion of local immigration laws

possible.

While connecting such extralegal state powers to a free flow position on immigration,

Kretsedemas also observes how these same discretionary powers have been used historically to

control racial minority populations, particularly African Americans under Jim Crow. This kind of

discretionary authority often appeals to "states rights" arguments, recently revived by

immigration control advocates. Using these and other examples, Kretsedemas explains how both

sides of the immigration debate have converged on the issue of enforcement and how, despite

differing interests, each faction has shaped the commonsense assumptions defining the debate.

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Lindner, Evelin (2017). Honor, Humiliation, and Terror, Dignity Press, lxxvii + 417 pages

Evelin Lindner was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2015, 2016 and 2017.

Humankind has reached a boiling point. Violence, hatred, and terror have become deeply

entangled with honor, heroism, glory, loyalty, and love. Over the past five percent of modern

human history on planet Earth, roughly the past ten millennia, human activity has reached a

crescendo of rapid and ruthless competition for domination, a fight for power over people and

the planet, where "might" has become "right." Within this context, a dangerous culture of honor

has evolved, in which destruction is mercilessly merged with love: “It is my duty, if I love my

people, to heroically destroy our enemies and secure all resources for us,” underwritten by an

ominous motto: "If you want peace, prepare for war."

Humanity has haphazardly constructed an entire world-system on top of this merger, holding the

whole world hostage through never-ending cycles of domination and humiliation. The

consequence, today, is the ubiquitous destruction of human and environmental life on this planet.

Terror and terrorism are the tools of a twisted honor system that should alert us to the mounting

danger while we still have a window of opportunity for change.

With this book, the author encourages us to recognize the immense historic opportunity that is

open to us in the wake of these dangerous times. Drawing on 40 years of research gathered on

her personal path of living globally, she calls us to action in service of restoring and replenishing

the health of human arrangements of relationships, emphasizing the lifesaving necessity of

mutually dignifying cooperation. When we overcome the legacy of honor and terror together, in

mutual respect, we can address the social and environmental crises of our time and the terror

these developments foment.

This book is a breathtaking, globally informed account of how humanity can reverse the

risingtide of terror, making dignity our destiny and legacy… before it is too late.

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Lindner, Evelin. (2012). A Dignity Economy: Creating an Economy that Serves Human Dignity

and Preserves Our Planet, Dignity Press, xxx + 429pp.

Evelin Lindner was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2015, 2016 and 2017.

The economic crisis has many labels ranging from "subprime crisis" to "credit crunch," to

"financial tsunami" or "economic Armageddon. Around the world, people are coming to a single

diagnosis: "Something is deeply unhealthy in our world." This book advocates a deep paradigm

shift, not just from one rigid paradigm to another rigid paradigm, but away from rigidity

altogether. Away from massive institutions toward a global movement that is co-created by

people and their enthusiastic energy. We need a dignity revolution, and not just in Tunisia or

Egypt. Now we need a global dignity revolution, a world dignity movement, a movement that

creates inclusion, both locally and globally. This book by the author of award winning books

"Making Enemies - Humiliation and International Conflict", "Emotion and Conflict", as well as

"Gender, Humiliation, and Global Security" provides an overview about the plurality of concepts

and movements aimed at this.

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Lindner, Evelin (2010). Gender, Humiliation, and Global Security: Dignifying Relationships

from Love, Sex, and Parenthood to World Affairs, Praeger, 305pp.

Evelin Lindner was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2015, 2016 and 2017.

Editorial Reviews

"In this far-ranging, sometimes brilliant book, Lindner (Columbia Univ. and Oslo Univ.) studies

the social and political ramifications of human violations and world crises related to humiliation,

defined as the enforced lowering of a person or group, a process of subjugation that harms or

removes the dignity, pride, and honor of the other. . . . it will be indispensable for psychologists,

humanists, and political scientists and invaluable to policy makers. Summing Up: Highly

recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals." – Choice

"Lindner may have risen more than a few eyebrows by stretching the parameters of scientific

inquiry into a realm usually associated with plastic lace, virtual Valentines and FTD.com. It is a

subject area she calls by various names…Desmond Tutu, in his Foreword to her book, writes that

she is advocating an African concept of ubuntu which he describes as 'traditional African

philosophy for living together and solving conflicts in an atmosphere of shared humility.'

Lindner knows she is taking a courageous step into uncharted - or should we say uncool? -

terrain. Fortunately, she is well-armed with impeccable academic qualifications: a doctorate in

medicine and another in psychology. . . . This book is partially a blueprint, partially a call to

action; however, it is as an authority on humiliation that the author is most powerful. She is able

to contribute an important psychological component to a cutting edge issue: the linkage between

a patriarchal family, an authoritarian state, and war. . . . This is an important book and should be

read by anyone concerned about the future of life beyond his or her lifetime." - Peace and

Conflict Review

"[Lindner's] extrapolation of humiliation as the cause of problems ranging from intrapsychic to

global conflict is thought provoking. And her call to embrace love is at least motivating, if not

prescriptive. This book would be of interest to a wide audience, including those individuals

interested in gender, diversity, conflict resolution, and international affairs." - PsycCRITIQUES

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Lindner, Evelin. (2009). Emotion and Conflict: How Human Rights Can Dignify Emotion and

Help Us Wage Good Conflict, Praeger, 267pp.

Evelin Lindner was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2015, 2016 and 2017.

A social scientist with global affiliations, among others with Columbia University in New York,

University of Oslo in Norway, and La Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in Paris, Lindner takes

us across history and into nations worldwide to show how emotion spurs hierarchies of

domination and therefore causes subjugation, human rights violations, abuse, conflict, and

fighting. She spotlights results ranging from the binding and subsequent deforming of Chinese

women's feet, to periods of slavery, bondage, feudalism, apartheid, and other events across time.

Related actions from political domination internationally, to spousal or child abuse on the

homefront are addressed. Lindner looks at how widely divergent societies―from the Japan of

Samurais to the Meso America of Aztecs, up to the modern Iraq at war―are driven by

hierarchies of emotionally-fueled control with rigid domination.

Combining classic literature with emerging research, Lindner explains how similar dynamics are

at work also in contemporary societies of the West, albeit more covert. What is still lacking,

almost everywhere, is access to the full range of our emotions, together with the skills to regulate

these emotions so that they become a liberating force in our lives, play a constructive role for

productive, fair, and so-called "good conflict," and inform our institution building. Lindner

concludes her book by laying out a road map for how to reduce domination and increase human

dignity, both in our lives and in the world, by using the power of emotion to implement global

systemic change.

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Chapters in Books

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Awotona, Adenrele (2020). “Climate Resilience, Mitigation and Adaptation Strategy: Case

Studies from the Middle East and West Africa,” In Burayidi, Michael A.; Allen, Adriana; Twigg,

John; and, Wamsler, Christine (Eds.). The Routledge Handbook of Urban Resilience, pp. 310-

319, Ist Edition, London & New York: Routledge

Awotona, Adenrele (2019). Housing and Disaster Risk Management in Uncertain Times” In

Awotona, Adenrele (Ed.), Rebuilding Afghanistan in Times of Crisis - A Global Response, pp. 5-

30, London & New York: Routledge.

Awotona, Adenrele (2018). “Preface,” in Awotona, Adenrele (Ed.). Planning for Community-

based Disaster Resilience Worldwide: Learning from Case Studies in Six Continents, Routledge,

pp.xviii-xx

Awotona, Adenrele (2018). “Aspects of Community-Based Disaster Management and Disaster

Resilience”, in Awotona, Adenrele (Ed.). Planning for Community-based Disaster Resilience

Worldwide: Learning from Case Studies in Six Continents, Routledge, pp.1-18

Awotona, Adenrele (2018). “Introduction: Africa,” in Awotona, Adenrele (Ed.). Planning for

Community-based Disaster Resilience Worldwide: Learning from Case Studies in Six

Continents, Routledge, pp.21-23

Awotona, Adenrele (2018). “Introduction: The Americas,” in Awotona, Adenrele (Ed.).

Planning for Community-based Disaster Resilience Worldwide: Learning from Case Studies in

Six Continents, Routledge, pp.86-90

Awotona, Adenrele (2018). “Introduction: Asia,” in Awotona, Adenrele (Ed.). Planning for

Community-based Disaster Resilience Worldwide: Learning from Case Studies in Six

Continents, Routledge, pp.187-191

Awotona, Adenrele (2018). “Introduction: Australia,” in Awotona, Adenrele (Ed.). Planning

for Community-based Disaster Resilience Worldwide: Learning from Case Studies in Six

Continents, Routledge, pp.329-332

Awotona, Adenrele (2018). “Introduction: Europe and Multi-continental Studies,” in Awotona,

Adenrele (Ed.). Planning for Community-based Disaster Resilience Worldwide: Learning from

Case Studies in Six Continents, Routledge, pp.391-394

Awotona, Adenrele (2018). “Planning for a more sustainable and disaster-resilient world,” in

Awotona, Adenrele (Ed.). Planning for Community-based Disaster Resilience Worldwide:

Learning from Case Studies in Six Continents, Routledge, pp.457-468

Awotona, Adenrele (2016). “Foreword,” Population Growth and Rapid Urbanization in the

Developing World, In Umar G. Benna and Shaibu Bala Garba (Eds.), Hershey, Pennsylvania: IGI

Global, pp. xvi-xvii, ,ISBN13: 9781522501879|ISBN10: 1522501878|EISBN13:

9781522501886|DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0187-9, http://www.igi-global.com/book/population-

growth-rapid-urbanization-developing/142201

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Awotona, Adenrele (2016). “Design for Disaster Preparation and Mitigation,” In Mitra Kanaani

and Dak Kopec (Ed.) The Routledge Companion for Architecture Design and Practice:

Established and Emerging Trends, Routledge, pp. 339-360, ISBN-10: 1138023159, ISBN-13:

978-1138023154 (Professor Adenrele Awotona is one of 47 invited international scholars,

educators, and practitioners in the field of architecture who have contributed to The Routledge

Companion for Architecture Design and Practice: Established and Emerging Trends, a 612-page

book published by Routledge.)

Awotona, Adenrele (2014). “A Synopsis of Experiences and Responses to Disasters in China

and Japan,” In Awotona, Adenrele (Ed.) Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters in

China, Japan and Beyond. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, U.K.: Newcastle upon Tyne, pp. xv-

xliv, ISBN 1-4438-5814-5

Awotona, Adenrele (2012). “Housing Abroad: Africa,” In Carswell, Andrew T.(Ed.), The

Encyclopedia of Housing, Second Edition in volume 1, SAGE Publications, California, USA, pp.

309-312. The Encyclopedia of Housing, Second Edition was selected by the Reference and User

Services Association (RUSA) committee as an Outstanding Reference Source at ALA on

Sunday, January 27, 2013.

Awotona, Adenrele (2012). “Vulnerable Populations: In Search of a Working Definition,” In

Awotona, Adenrele (Ed.). Rebuilding Sustainable Communities with Vulnerable Populations

after the Cameras Have Gone: A Worldwide Study, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle

upon Tyne, United Kingdom, pp.xvii-xxxvi, ISBN13: 978-1-4438-3739-2, and ISBN: 1-4438-

3739-3

Awotona, Adenrele (2010). “Introduction,” Rebuilding Sustainable Communities for Children

and their Families after Disasters: A Global Survey, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle

upon Tyne, United Kingdom, pp.xvii-xxviii; ISBN 13: 978-1-4438-1776-9, ISBN: 1-4438-1776-

7 and as e-book by MyILibrary (LaVergne, TN)

Awotona, Adenrele and Michael Donlan (2008). “Reconstructing Iraq: Massive investment,

Little sustainable results,” In Awotona, Adenrele (Ed.). Rebuilding Sustainable Communities in

Iraq: Policies, Programs and international perspectives, Cambridge Scholars Publishing,

Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, pp.3-36, (ISBN (10): 1-84718-927-X, ISBN (13):

9781847189271)

Hartling, L. M. (2020). “Moving beyond humiliation: A relational conceptualization of human

rights,” In C. Chowdhury, M. Britton, and L. Hartling (Eds.), Human Dignity: Practices,

Discourses, and Transformations, pp. 287–322, Lake Oswego, OR: Dignity Press

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4.0

CRSCAD’s Publications on

China, India and Iran

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4.1 List of Publications on China XUEPENG QIAN, WEISHENG ZHOU, AND KENICHI NAKAGAMI (2017). “Pairing aid

systems for disaster management: Case studies of China and Japan,” Chapter 16, In: Awotona,

Adenrele (ed.). Planning for Community-based Disaster Resilience Worldwide: Learning from

Case Studies in Six Continents, Routledge, ISBN 978-1-4724-6815-4.

https://www.routledge.com/Planning-for-Community-based-Disaster-Resilience-Worldwide-

Learning-from/Awotona/p/book/9781472468154

WANG YU AND HANS SKOTTE (2017). “Still at risk after reconstruction: How does the

mode of reconstruction cause new vulnerabilities when rebuilding a vernacular cultural heritage

settlement?” Chapter 18, In: Awotona, Adenrele (ed.). Planning for Community-based Disaster

Resilience Worldwide: Learning from Case Studies in Six Continents, Routledge, ISBN 978-1-

4724-6815-4.

https://www.routledge.com/Planning-for-Community-based-Disaster-Resilience-Worldwide-

Learning-from/Awotona/p/book/9781472468154

Awotona, Adenrele (ed.) (2014) Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters in China,

Japan and Beyond. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, U.K.: Newcastle upon Tyne, xliv+423pp.,

ISBN 1-4438-5814-5

http://www.umb.edu/news/detail/umass_boston_prof_edits_new_book_on_disasters_in_china_a

nd_japan

LYNN KING (2012). “A disaster-resilient world needs a new kind of leadership,” Chapter 10,

In: Awotona, Adenrele (ed.). Rebuilding Sustainable Communities with Vulnerable Populations

after the Cameras Have Gone: A Worldwide Study, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle

upon Tyne, United Kingdom

https://www.amazon.com/Rebuilding-Sustainable-Communities-Vulnerable-

Populations/dp/1443837393/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1461769564&sr=1-1-

fkmr0&keywords=Rebuilding+Sustainable+Communities+after+Disasters+in+China%2C+Japa

n+and+Beyond.

Ying Liu and Adenrele Awotona (1999). “Chinese vernacular dwellings: A popular approach to

housing supply”, In: Awotona, Adenrele (ed.). Housing provision and bottom-up approaches:

Case studies from Africa, Asia and South America, Ashgate, pp.223-312 (ISBN 1 84014 303 7).

Ying Liu and Awotona, Adenrele (1997). “The traditional courtyard house in China: its

formation and transition”, In: Gray, Madi (ed.), Evolving Environmental Ideals: Changing ways

of life, values and design practices, Stockholm (Sweden), Royal Institute of Technology, 1997,

pp.248-260 (ISBN 91-7170-756-5).

https://iaps.architexturez.net/doc/oai-iaps-id-1202bm1029

4.2 List of Publications on India SWETA BYAHUT (2017). “An effective development regulation system for a resilient built

environment: A reform project for Delhi, India,” Chapter 11, In: Awotona, Adenrele (ed.).

Planning for Community-based Disaster Resilience Worldwide: Learning from Case Studies in

Six Continents, Routledge, ISBN 978-1-4724-6815-4.

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https://www.routledge.com/Planning-for-Community-based-Disaster-Resilience-Worldwide-

Learning-from/Awotona/p/book/9781472468154

HEM CHANDRA, ANKITA PANDEY, SUPRIYA TRIVEDI, SARIKA SHARMA, NITIN

BHARADWAJ, AND LEELA MASIH (2017). “Medical preparedness for natural disasters in

India: Perspectives and future measures,” Chapter 12, In: Awotona, Adenrele (ed.). Planning

for Community-based Disaster Resilience Worldwide: Learning from Case Studies in Six

Continents, Routledge, ISBN 978-1-4724-6815-4.

https://www.routledge.com/Planning-for-Community-based-Disaster-Resilience-Worldwide-

Learning-from/Awotona/p/book/9781472468154

DARWIN H. STAPLETON (2017). “Community-based responses to epidemic diseases as a

potential public health disaster: The Rockefeller experience, 1915–1950,” Chapter 13, In:

Awotona, Adenrele (ed.). Planning for Community-based Disaster Resilience Worldwide:

Learning from Case Studies in Six Continents, Routledge, ISBN 978-1-4724-6815-4.

https://www.routledge.com/Planning-for-Community-based-Disaster-Resilience-Worldwide-

Learning-from/Awotona/p/book/9781472468154

PIJUSH SAMUI (2012). “Disaster Mitigation and Management: The Relevance of Artificial

Intelligence,” Chapter 13, In: Awotona, Adenrele (ed.). Rebuilding Sustainable Communities

with Vulnerable Populations after the Cameras Have Gone: A Worldwide Study, Cambridge

Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom.

https://www.amazon.com/Rebuilding-Sustainable-Communities-Vulnerable-

Populations/dp/1443837393/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1461769564&sr=1-1-

fkmr0&keywords=Rebuilding+Sustainable+Communities+after+Disasters+in+China%2C+Japa

n+and+Beyond

4.3 List of Publications on Iran MAHMOOD HOSSEINI and YASAMIN O. IZADKHAH (2017). “Main Lines of Action for

Seismic Risk Reduction in Developing Countries: A Case Study of Iran,” Chapter 15, In:

Awotona, Adenrele (ed.). Planning for Community-based Disaster Resilience Worldwide:

Learning from Case Studies in Six Continents, Routledge, ISBN 978-1-4724-6815-4.

https://www.routledge.com/Planning-for-Community-based-Disaster-Resilience-Worldwide-

Learning-from/Awotona/p/book/9781472468154

YASAMIN O. IZADKHAH and VIDA HESHMATI (2012). “The Vulnerability of Elderly

People in in the Aftermath of Earthquakes,” Chapter 7, In: Awotona, Adenrele (ed.). Rebuilding

Sustainable Communities with Vulnerable Populations after the Cameras Have Gone: A

Worldwide Study, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom,

https://www.amazon.com/Rebuilding-Sustainable-Communities-Vulnerable-

Populations/dp/1443837393/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1461769564&sr=1-1-

fkmr0&keywords=Rebuilding+Sustainable+Communities+after+Disasters+in+China%2C+Japa

n+and+Beyond

YASAMIN O. IZADKHAH and MAHMOOD HOSSEINI (2010). “Using Songs as an Effective

Educational Tool for Teaching Disasters to Preschoolers,” Chapter 15, In: Awotona, Adenrele

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(ed.). Awotona, Adenrele (Ed.). (2010). Rebuilding Sustainable Communities for Children and

their Families after Disasters: A Global Survey. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle

upon Tyne, United Kingdom

https://www.amazon.com/Rebuilding-Sustainable-Communities-Children-

Disasters/dp/1443817767/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1461769564&sr=1-2-

fkmr1&keyword

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5.0

Research Collaboration with

the University of Cape Town,

South Africa

(This project was led by Professor Adenrele Awotona, when he was the Director of the Center

for Architectural Research and Development Overseas, University of Newcastle upon Tyne,

United Kingdom and the Principal Investigator for a British Government’s Department for

International Development – then the Overseas Development Administration, ODA – funded

project. The extensive research, which was conducted in collaboration with the School of

Architecture and Planning at the University of Cape Town (UCT), was on the Integration and

Urbanization of Existing Townships in the Republic of South Africa – ODA Research Scheme

Number R6266. All the official research reports emanating from this project (listed below in

Section 5.2) should be available in the library of UCT’s School of Architecture and Planning.)

Professor Adenrele Awotona is the Founder and Director of the

Center for Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters

University of Massachusetts Boston

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5.1 Research Overview

The Center for Architectural Research and Development Overseas (CARDO), at the University

of Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, embarked on a major ODA funded research project

in South Africa in 1995. It was aimed at building foundations for the upgrading and integration

of low quality ‘townships’ in Cape Town which were developed under decades of Apartheid

rule. Working in close collaboration with the School of Architecture and Planning at the

University of Cape Town, CARDO conducted a detailed study of both residential and non-

residential areas of that city. It was hoped that the study would throw new light on factors

affecting the achievement of qualitative improvements to the urban environments in which most

South Africans live.

The project was centered around the concept of ‘integration’ which, in the context of this study,

conveys a number of related meanings. It suggests a multi-sectoral approach drawing together

the public sector, the private sector and community-based organizations, the linking and bringing

together of separated parts of the city, the generation of whole environments in which people can

gain full access to the opportunities of urban living, the building of positive and productive

relationships between activities, and the full inclusion of previously marginalized or excluded

groups within the social, cultural and economic life of the city.

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Context: The Apartheid Townships Racial policies under Apartheid saw the development of sprawling dormitory ‘townships’ on the

periphery of South African cities, particularly in the 1950s and 1960s. These ‘townships’ were

planned within an overall framework which sought to limit and control urbanization. A long

period in the 1970s and 1980s when minimal additions were made to housing stock resulted in

high occupancy rates and informal augmentation, through the building of shacks in backyards,

on vacant areas within the ‘townships’ and on peripheral land. Since the relaxation of controls on

urbanization in the 1980s, much of the growth in the major urban centers has occurred either

through site and services schemes, or through informal ‘squatter’ settlements.

This research project focused particularly on the ‘township’ areas – with their mix of formal and

informal housing. The development of these areas into whole living environments, which offer

access to a full spectrum of urban opportunities, is a key challenge for urban policy in the South

African context.

Objectives and Purpose of the Research A central objective of the project was a detailed exploration of the factors which affected how

the following challenges might be addressed:

• Policy Formulation and Implementation

• City-wide Integration

• Generating New Opportunities

• Housing Quality and Infrastructure

• Spatial Quality

• Inhabitants’ Perception of Their Spatial Environment

The case study areas were:

• Hanover Park

• Nyanga, KTC and Crossroads

• Khayelitsha

• Bloekombos

• Delft-Eindhoven

For further information, consult the list of official research reports in Section 5.2.1 below.

5.2 List of Publications

5.2.1 Official Research Reports

(They should be available in the UCT’s School of Architecture and Planning Library)

Awotona, Adenrele et al.(1997) Proceedings of the Workshop on Institutional structures for

projects in development in South Africa, (ODA-sponsored Research Scheme No.R6266), Center

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for Architectural Research and Development Overseas (CARDO), University of Newcastle upon

Tyne, United Kingdom, August, 167pp.

Awotona, Adenrele et al.(1996) Townships in Cape Town: A pilot study of Nyanga, New

Crossroads and KTC, The Integration and Urbanization of existing townships in South Africa

Working Paper No.12, (ODA-sponsored Research Scheme No.R6266), Center for Architectural

Research and Development Overseas (CARDO), University of Newcastle upon Tyne, United

Kingdom, April, 180pp. (ISBN 1 899638 16 4).

Briggs, Michael and Awotona, Adenrele (1996). Economic integration and development of

South African townships: key considerations and issues. The Integration and Urbanization of

existing townships in South Africa Working Paper No.11, (ODA-sponsored Research Scheme

No.R6266), Center for Architectural Research and Development Overseas (CARDO), University

of Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, January, 18pp. (ISBN 1 899638 15 6).

Awotona, Adenrele et al (1995). First Progress Report on the Integration and Urbanization of

existing townships in South African Project, (ODA-sponsored Research Scheme No.R6266),

Center for Architectural Research and Development Overseas (CARDO), University of

Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, October, 25pp.

Awotona, Adenrele et al.(1995) Townships in Cape Town: case study area profiles, The

Integration and Urbanization of existing townships in South Africa Working Paper No.9, (ODA-

sponsored Research Scheme No.R6266), Center for Architectural Research and Development

Overseas (CARDO), University of Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, October, 181pp.

(ISBN 1 899638 13 X).

Awotona, Adenrele; Japha, Derek; Huchzermeyer, M; Uduku, Ola (1995). Community-based

strategies for local development: lessons for South Africa, The Integration and Urbanization of

existing townships in South Africa Working Paper No.8, (ODA-sponsored Research Scheme

No.R6266), Center for Architectural Research and Development Overseas (CARDO), University

of Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, October , 42pp. (ISBN 1 899638 12 6)

Awotona, Adenrele and Khosa, Meshack (1995). Transportation and movement in South

African metropolitan areas especially as they concern township dwellers, The Integration and

Urbanization of existing townships in South Africa Working Paper No.7, (ODA-sponsored

Research Scheme No.R6266), Center for Architectural Research and Development Overseas

(CARDO), University of Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, October, 32pp. (ISBN 1

899638 11 2).

Awotona, Adenrele; Peled, Arie; Cooke, Julian (1995). How the inhabitants of South African

townships construe their spatial environment: the relevance of the ecoanalytic method, The

Integration and Urbanization of existing townships in South Africa Working Paper No.6, (ODA-

sponsored Research Scheme No.R6266), Center for Architectural Research and Development

Overseas (CARDO), University of Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, September, 46pp.

(ISBN 1 899638 10 4).

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Awotona, Adenrele; Briggs, Michael; Lucien le Grange (1995). Approaches to human

settlement development: implications for research into the upgrading of South African

townships, The Integration and Urbanization of existing townships in South Africa Working

Paper No.3, (ODA-sponsored Research Scheme No.R6266), Center for Architectural Research

and Development Overseas (CARDO), University of Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom,

August, 34pp. (ISBN 1 899638 07 5)

Awotona, Adenrele, et al (1995), Integration and urbanization of South African townships:

conceptual, theoretical and methodological issues, The Integration and Urbanization of existing

townships in South Africa Working Paper No.1, (ODA-sponsored Research Scheme No.R6266),

Center for Architectural Research and Development Overseas (CARDO), University of

Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, August, 38pp. (ISBN 1 899638 05 9).

Serviced Sites, Khayelitsha, Cape Town

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5.2.2 Other Publications and Presentations (Conference papers, book chapters, etc.)

Awotona Adenrele and Michael Briggs (1997). "The 'enablement' approach and settlement

upgrading in South Africa", in Awotona, Adenrele and Necdet Teymur (ed.). Tradition,

Location and Community: place-making and development, Avebury, pp.59-80 (ISBN 1 85972

320 9).

Awotona, Adenrele (1995). "Integration and urbanization of existing townships in South

Africa", ODA Urbanization, London, United Kingdom, No.1, December, pp.4-5.

Awotona, Adenrele (1999). “The role of the State in housing South Africans: Rhetoric versus

Reality”, in The Proceedings of the XXVIIth World Congress on Housing, San Francisco, USA,

June 1-7, pp.265-276.

Awotona, Adenrele (1998). The dynamics of habitation in South African Township

Environments, Paper presented at 40th Annual Conference of the Association of Collegiate

Schools of Planning (ACSP), Pasadena, California, USA, November 5-8, 33pp.

Awotona, Adenrele; Lucien le Grange; Derek Japha; & Ivor Prinsloo (1997). “Low-income

settlements in South Africa: community perception of development priorities” in The

Proceedings of the International Conference on ‘Environment-Behavior Studies for the 21st

Century’, Tokyo, Japan, November 4-6, pp.211-216.

Awotona, Adenrele (1996). Housing in South Africa's Reconstruction and Development

Program, an invited Seminar paper presented at the Department of Architecture, University of

Guyana, Georgetown, Guyana, South America, under the auspices of the British Council funded

CARDO-University of Guyana academic link program, Monday, 1 April, 42pp.+68 slides.

Awotona, Adenrele (1996). Implications of shifts in dominant approaches to housing in

'developing countries' for research into settlement upgrading in South Africa, paper presented at

the international Meeting/conference of the Urban Affairs Association, New York City, U.S.A.,

13-16 March, 19pp.

Awotona, Adenrele (1996). Housing conditions in, and community-based strategies for

upgrading, townships in South Africa, an invited paper presented at a Seminar organized under

the auspices of the British Council funded CARDO-McGill University academic link program,

Minimum Cost Housing Center, School of Architecture, McGill University, Montreal, Canada,

8th February 1996, 32pp.+65 slides.

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CRSCAD’s Faculty

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Biographical Sketches of CRSCAD’s Faculty

Adenrele Awotona, Ph.D., is a tenured Professor of Sustainable Urban

Development in the School for the Environment who has broad

international background in architecture, sustainable community

development, and post-disaster reconstruction. He is the founder and

director of the Center for Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after

Disasters. He has been a principal investigator on major projects funded by

various agencies, including the Boston Foundation, the U.S. Department of

Energy, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the U.S.

Department of Education, the British Government’s Department for

International Development, the United Nations Center for Human

Settlements, the United Nations Development Program, and the European

Union. The United States Agency for International Development

(USAID)/Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance has also sponsored

his participation in, and contribution to, global academic events. Through

research, consultancy and teaching, he has professional experience in

several countries in Europe, Africa, Asia, the Middle East, the Americas,

and the Caribbean. He earned his Doctorate degree from the University of

Cambridge, United Kingdom. He is the former Dean of the College of

Public and Community Service at UMass Boston. He has been a reviewer

of grant applications for the Office of University Partnerships in the United

States Department of Housing and Urban Development as well as the

Austrian Science Fund (FWF) in Europe. Professor Awotona has published

extensively on disaster risk reduction and reconstruction after disasters.

Michael Britton, Ed.D., Ph.D., is a practicing psychologist and scholar

who conducted interview research with retired U.S. military

commanders/planners who had dealt with nuclear weapons during the Cold

War, exploring their experience of the moral responsibilities involved. He

has lectured internationally on the implications of neuroscience for our

global future, and provides training for conflict resolution specialists on

applications of neuroscience to their work.

Jennifer Janisch Clifford, Ph.D. is a Lecturer II in Economics, College of

Liberal Arts at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She teaches

semester-long courses in environmental economics, natural resources,

environmental policy, and economic theory. She is an environmental and

natural resource economist specializing in economic valuation, resource

conservation, and incentive instruments. An economic consultant on

environmental conservation projects, Jennifer has worked on several water

projects, including coastal zone and coral reef protection. Currently, she is

an affiliate instructor at CRSCAD.

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Phillip Granberry, Ph.D., Public Policy, is a Lecturer II in Economics,

College of Liberal Arts at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He is a

social demographer who specializes in unauthorized immigration. He

worked with various community-based organizations assisting recently

arrived U.S. immigrants before earning a Ph.D. in 2007. His dissertation,

“The Formation and Effects of Social Capital among Mexican Immigrants”

examined how unauthorized Mexican immigrants accumulate social capital

in the United States, and how it helps explain both their economic and

health outcomes. He holds a M.A. in Theology and a M.T.S. in Pastoral

Studies from St. Meinrad School of Theology. Currently, he is an affiliate

instructor at CRSCAD.

William G. Hagar, Ph.D. is an Associate Dean in the College of Science

and Mathematics and a tenured professor in the Department of Biology at

the University of Massachusetts Boston. His research is centered on an

experimental approach to biochemical reactions and environmental

perturbations. The biochemical studies involve the use of instrumentation

to analyze plant protein complexes. The environmental monitoring work is

centered on measuring anthropogenic inputs on water systems, such as acid

precipitation on freshwater ponds and pools in Massachusetts. Recently,

this has involved the use of stable isotope analysis of organisms in the

water systems to determine structure of food webs and possible effects of

anthropogenic inputs.

Linda Hartling, Ph.D., who conducted the earliest research assessing the

experience of humiliation, is an expert on relational-cultural theory. She is

the past Associate Director of the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute at

the Wellesley Centers for Women at Wellesley College, Boston,

Massachusetts, the largest women’s research center in the United States.

Philip Kretsedemas, an Associate Professor in Sociology at UMass

Boston, earned his PhD in Sociology from the University of Minnesota in

1997 (and served as a Diamond Postdoctoral Fellow in the Graduate

Faculty of the New School for Social Research, 1997-1998). His areas of

specialization include democracy and development in the Caribbean, US

immigration policy and immigration enforcement and North American (US

and Canada) welfare reform outcomes and social service needs for migrant

populations. Dr. Kretsedemas has published a number of journal articles

on the subject of immigration policy, immigrant racialization and

marginality and the social service needs of immigrant populations.

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Evelin G. Lindner, MD, PhDs (Dr psychol, Dr med), is the Founding

President of the Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies network. She has

been nominated three times for the Nobel Peace Prize (2015, 2016 and

2017).

Stephen Metts (M.A. Clark University) possesses over twelve years of

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and planning experience in both

urban and international contexts. He is the founding principal of Geospex,

a GIS consultancy specializing in cartographic design, spatial analysis and

mapping applications. He has worked with a diverse group of

organizations, firms and agencies ranging internationally with Engineers

Without Borders and Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict, to

domestically with New York City’s planning department (NYCDCP) and

housing authority (NYCHA). Metts was a founding Co-Director of

OnRamp Arts, an award-winning non-profit digital arts organization

fostering collaborative projects with underserved communities, architects

and artists in Los Angeles. As an adjunct faculty with The University of

Massachusetts Boston and The New School, NYC, he teaches a hands-on

approach to geospatial technologies for international crisis, development

and the environment. He has also taught and developed GIS-related

curriculum at Parsons the New School for Design, LaGuardia College and

Clark University. In 2016, Metts was a recipient of a Tishman

Environment and Design Center (TEDC) faculty grant to develop mobile

GIS technologies for volunteer monitoring of fracked gas infrastructure

projects occurring throughout the Marcellus Shale Formation, Northeast

US. In 2017, Metts has continued to develop this work through the The

Fund for Multimedia Documentation of Engaged Learning at The New

School, NYC.

Ulrich (Uli) Spalthoff (Dr. rer. nat.) Director of Media Development for

Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies. Former Director of Advanced

Technologies at Alcatel-Lucent in Germany and France. As Director of

Advanced Technologies, his leadership included mentoring start-ups and

consulting high-tech companies in IT, telecommunication and

semiconductor industries from countries all over the world.

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7.0 Our Courses

Courses in Global Post-Disaster Reconstruction Studies

The Center for Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters at the University of

Massachusetts Boston offers online graduate courses.

Online Graduate Courses (3 credits each)

CRSCAD 522 Migrants and Refugees

CRSCAD 523 Climate Change: Strategies for Mitigation and Adaptation

CRSCAD 526 Disasters and Public Health

CRSCAD 527 GIS in Emergency and Disaster Management

CRSCAD 596 Independent Study in Global Post-Disaster Studies (online or on-campus)

CRSCAD 597 Special Topics in Global Post-Disaster Studies

CRSCAD 601L Social Vulnerability Approach to Disasters

CRSCAD 602L Climate Change, Global Food and Water Resources

CRSCAD 603L Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after the Cameras Have Gone

CRSCAD 621L Human Dignity, Human Rights and Sustainable Post-Disaster Reconstruction

CRSCAD 624L Survival Skills for the 21st Century: Developing Personal, Organizational and

Community Resilience Skills

CRSCAD 643L Political Economy of International Migration

To see which of these courses are being offered in the next term, please click the link below and

scroll to the courses beginning CRSCAD.

Summer 2020 Course descriptions, schedule, location, cost, and registration information

For more information, please contact:

Professor Adenrele Awotona

Telephone 617.287.7112

email: crscad@umb.edu

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Center for Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters

(CRSCAD)

School for the Environment

University of Massachusetts Boston, USA

Research Publications www.umb.edu/crscad

crscad@umb.edu