Hazard mitigation

Gavin Smith is Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning at North Carolina State University. His research focuses on hazard mitigation, disaster recovery, and climate change adaptation and the integration of research and practice through deep community engagement. He has written the text Planning for Post-Disaster Recovery: A Review of the United States Disaster Assistance Framework () and served as the coeditor of Adapting to Climate Chance: Lessons from Natural Hazards Planning () as well as writing numerous peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, and practice-oriented reports.

Allison Anderson is an architect who leads the firm unabridged Architecture, which has established a practice dedicated to civic and sustainable design within fragile coastal environments. Allison earned a master’s of architecture degree from the University of Texas, where she was awarded the President’s Fellowship, and a bachelor’s of architecture degree from the University of Southern California. She has been a licensed architect since 1991. Allison has taught architecture at the University of Texas and Louisiana State University and was the Favrot Visiting Chair in Architecture at Tulane University.

David Perkes is an architect and Professor at Mississippi State University. He is the founding director of the Gulf Coast Community Design Studio, a professional outreach program of the College of Architecture, Art & Design that was established after Hurricane Katrina to provide planning and architectural design support to help rebuild the Mississippi Gulf Coast.