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CRC 5th Annual Meeting March 11-13, 2020

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Expanding and Institutionalizing Disaster Resilient Policy and Design Education through National Hazard Mitigation Policy Counsel and Course

Development

PI: Gavin Smith, PhD, AICP. Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture. North Carolina State University

Partners: FEMA, North Carolina Division of Emergency Management, NC State Department of Public Administration; Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering



Chronological Summary of Year 1-4

• UNCCH Graduate Certificate in Natural Hazards Resilience (Years 1-4)• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Distinguished Teaching Award for Post-Baccalaureate

Instruction. 2017.

• Role of States / Gubernatorial Leadership in Disaster Recovery (Years 1 & 2)• Training Video; Training Guide; Journal Article

• Hurricane Matthew Disaster Recovery and Resilience Initiative (Years 3 & 4)• Homeplace (6), downtown flood retrofit (3); Land suitability analyss (6); recovery plans (4);

Princeville workshop; Final report; Journal article under development

• Resilient Design Education in the United States (Year 4)• Report; Journal Article under revision

• NC State Graduate Certificate in Disaster Resilient Policy, Engineering and Design (Year 4-5; beyond)



Student Supported (2017-2020) ** = UNC Certificate; * = NCSU Certificate

• Olivia Vila, Ph.D. student, NCSU Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management. 10 hours per week. Coastal Resilience Center grant. Spring 2020. (FEMA Summer Intern; Current FEMA work)*

• Gretchen Caverly, Master’s student, NCSU Department of Landscape Architecture. Coastal Resilience Center grant. 15 hours per week (tuition and fees). Fall 2019. Spring 2020. (Current FEMA work)**

• Samiksha Bhattarai. Master’s student, NCSU Department of Landscape Architecture. Coastal Resilience Center grant. 20 hours per week (tuition and fees plus stipend). Spring 2020.**

• Samata Gyawali. Master’s student. NCSU Department of Landscape Architecture. Coastal Resilience Center grant. 20 hours per week (tuition and fees plus stipend). Spring 2020.**

• Ahmad Khawaja. Master’s student, NCSU Department of Landscape Architecture. State of North Carolina Start-Up funds. 20 hours per week (stipend) Spring 2020.**

• Jessamin Straub, Master’s student. UNC, Department of Marine Science. Department of Homeland Security Workforce Development Grant (tuition and fees; $20,000 annual stipend). Fall 2018-Spring 2019.*



• Colleen Durfee, Master’s student, UNC, Department of City and Regional Planning. Department of Homeland Security Workforce Development Grant (tuition and fees; $20,000 annual stipend). Fall 2016-Spring 2018.*

• Darien Williams. Master’s student, UNC Department of City and Regional Planning. Department of Homeland Security Workforce Development Grant (tuition and fees; $20,000 annual stipend). Fall 2016-Spring 2018. (PhD MIT)*

• Ashton Rohmer. Master’s student, UNC Department of City and Regional Planning. Department of Homeland Security Workforce Development Grant (tuition and fees; $20,000 annual stipend). Fall 2015-Spring 2017. Hurricane Matthew Disaster Recovery and Resilience Initiative. 40 hours per week, Summer 2018. (FEMA advisor)*

• Carl Kolosna. Master’s student, UNC Department of City and Regional Planning. Hurricane Matthew Disaster Recovery and Resilience Initiative. 40 hours per week, Summer 2018.*

• Meredith Burns, Master’s student, UNC Department of City and Regional Planning. Hurricane Matthew Disaster Recovery and Resilience Initiative. 40 hours per week, Summer 2018; 20 hours per week Spring 2017, Fall 2018.*

• Christian Kamrath. Master’s student, UNC Department of City and Regional Planning. Hurricane Matthew Disaster Recovery and Resilience Initiative. 40 hours per week Summer 2018. 20 hours per week Spring 2017, Fall 2018. (Miami/Dade County Resilience)*



Students Supported (2017-2020) ** = UNC Certificate; * = NCSU Certificate

• Gar Yeung. Master’s student, UNC Department of City and Regional Planning. Hurricane Matthew Disaster Recovery and Resilience Initiative. 40 hours per week Summer 2018. 20 hours per week Spring 2017, Fall 2018.

• Amanda Martin. Ph.D. student, UNC Department of City and Regional Planning. Hurricane Matthew Disaster Recovery and Resilience Initiative. 40 hours per week Summer 2018. (NCEM Deputy Resilience Officer)

• Kirsten Frescoln. Ph.D. student, UNC Department of City and Regional Planning. Hurricane Matthew Disaster Recovery and Resilience Initiative. 40 hours per week Summer 2018.

• Samantha Farley. Undergraduate student, UNC. Hurricane Matthew Disaster Recovery and Resilience Initiative. 40 hours per week Summer 2018.

• Jonathan Peterson. Master’s student, UNC Department of City and Regional Planning. Hurricane Matthew Disaster Recovery and Resilience Initiative. 40 hours per week Summer 2018.

• Shama Chowdhury. Master’s student, NCSU Department of Landscape Architecture. Hurricane Matthew Disaster Recovery and Resilience Initiative. 20 hours per week Summer 2018.




• Lindsey Naylor. Master’s student, NCSU Department of Landscape Architecture. Hurricane Matthew Disaster Recovery and Resilience Initiative. 20 hours per week Summer 2018.

• Stephanie Heimstead. Master’s student, NCSU Department of Landscape Architecture. Hurricane Matthew Disaster Recovery and Resilience Initiative. 20 hours per week Summer 2018.

• Ezgi Balkanay. Master’s student, NCSU Department of Landscape Architecture. Hurricane Matthew Disaster Recovery and Resilience Initiative. 20 hours per week Summer 2018.

• Danielle Chelles. Master’s student, NCSU Department of Landscape Architecture. Hurricane Matthew Disaster Recovery and Resilience Initiative. 20 hours per week Summer 2018.

• Austin Marshall. Master’s student, NCSU Department of Landscape Architecture. Hurricane Matthew Disaster Recovery and Resilience Initiative. 20 hours per week Summer 2018.




• Nora Schwaller. Ph.D. student, UNC Department of City and Regional Planning. Hurricane Matthew Disaster Recovery and Resilience Initiative. 20 hours per week Fall 2018.*

• Adam Walters. Master’s student, NCSU Department of Landscape Architecture. Hurricane Matthew Disaster Recovery and Resilience Initiative. 20 hours per week Summer 2018. (Landscape Architecture Foundation - Fredrick Law Olmstead Award Winner; WithersRavenel)

• Devon McGhee. Master’s student, Duke University Environmental Management, Institute for the Environment. Hurricane Matthew Disaster Recovery and Resilience Initiative. 20 hours per week Summer 2018. (Natural Hazards Review article on buyouts; Michael Baker)*

• Lea Sabbag. Master’s student, UNC Department of City and Regional Planning. Department of Homeland Security Workforce Development Grant (tuition and fees; $20,000 annual stipend). Fall 2015-Spring 2017. (NC Emergency Management)*



Engagement with End-Users

• Obama White House

• Disaster Resilient Design Curricula Study• Climate Change Adaptation

• White House Intern (Sierra Woodruff)• Class Speaker – (Council on Environmental Quality and Office of Management and Budget, where

she worked on climate resilience, flood risk, and disaster recovery)

• Federal, State and Local Government Officials and Citizens

• FEMA –Disaster Recovery, Hazard Mitigation • States – North Carolina Emergency Management/Governor‘s Office; Queensland, Australia• Local Governments – Christchurch, Metata and Kaikura, New Zealand; Charlotte & Lumberton, NC• Local Governments – Hurricane Matthew Disaster Recovery and Resilience Initiative

Hurricane Matthew Disaster Recovery and Resilience Initiative

• Request for Assistance from North Carolina Division of Emergency Management and Governor’s Office

• Objectives• Engage communities to identify issues / unmet needs and ways to assist them through planning and design• Policy counsel to state and local governments, Governor’s Office• Blending Education, Research and Engagement

• Community Focus• 6 Communities (significant impact / modest to low capacity to recover)• Identified issues beyond traditional federal and state assistance

• Funding / Support (University of North Carolina, Post-Matthew Legislative funding, NC Emergency Management, Department of Homeland Security, North Carolina Community Foundation) - $1.2 million over 1 and ½ years; Ongoing Work Today at NC State

• Deliverables: Homeplace/Open Space Planning (6); Downtown Flood Retrofit Strategies (3), Disaster Recovery Plans (3), Land Suitability Analyses (6), Princeville Design Workshop (1)

• coastalresiliencecenter.org/Hurricane Matthew; https://www.coastaldynamicsdesignlab.com/homeplace/

Relocation Strategy: Replacement Housing Designs

Land Suitability Analysis:Post-Hurricane Matthew Replacement Housing

Resilient Design Education in the United States: Current and Emerging Curricula in Colleges and Universities

• Obama White House Supported/Department of Homeland Security-Funded Study

• Key questions:• How are universities in the U.S.

teaching resilient design?

• What are the barriers to teaching resilient design?

• Which programs offer innovative ways of teaching resilient design?

Recommendations / Goals of Study

• Improve institutional commitment among university administrators

• Develop new curricula models and organizational structures

• Emphasize field and studio-based projects

• Create flexible and responsive curricula

• Build interdisciplinary teams spanning university faculty

NC State Graduate Certificate Program: Disaster Resilient Policy, Engineering and Design

• Core Courses – (7 credit hours)• Survey of Natural Hazards and Disasters – 3 credit hours (Fall 2019)• Disaster Resilient Policy, Engineering and Design – 3 credit hours (Spring 2020)• Speaker Series – 1 credit hour (Fall 2019, Spring 2020)

• 3 Tracks (6 credit hours per track)• Policy (Dr. Christopher Galik, Department of Public Administration)• Engineering (Dr. Sankar Arumngam, Department of Civil, Construction and

Environmental Engineering; Dr. Mo Gabr, Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering)

• Design (Dr. Gavin Smith, Department of Landscape Architecture)



Year 5 Applied Research

• Advisor to FEMA and the development / rollout of Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities Program• Creation and Deployment of survey of States, Territories and Tribes• Survey developed and will be administered at the Emergency Management

Institute’s State Hazard Mitigation Officers Workshop the Week of March 23rd

• Students working on project: Gretchen Caverly (MLA) and Olivia Vila (Parks and Recreation, PhD candidate) – Olivia worked at FEMA National office in summer to assist with development of BRIC program• Survey Design & Implementation• Data Analysis• Writing Reports and Journal Articles (Summer 2020)

• Findings incorporated into certificate classes and BRIC policy, FEMA engagement strategy



Year 5 Applied Research

• International Comparative Study of Buyouts as Practiced in the US, New Zealand and Australia• Site visits and interviews conducted in 3 New Zealand communities December 2019• NZ Colleague, Dr Wendy Saunders to visit US week of March 16th to work on report, book chapter,

conduct interviews in Charlotte and Lumberton, North Carolina and give lecture at NC State classes• Visiting Australia in June to conduct interview in Grantham, Australia and speak at the Annual

Australasian Conference on Panel with Dr. Saunders • Preliminary findings: Adaptive/Emergent versus Routinized/Prescriptive buyouts; post-buyout use

of land management – Book Chapter in Disaster Law Handbook (Cambridge Press May 2020); Journal Article – Summer 2020.

• Samata Gyawali (MLA), Samiksha Bhattarai (MLA) and Ahmad Alkhawaja (MLA) – Samata and Samiksha developed post-disaster housing following 2015 Nepal Earthquake• Literature Review• Mapping Buyout Processes• Visualization of Policy Options

• Findings incorporated into certificate classes; Incorporated into FEMA policy

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