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Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members
Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members
Pages 187-192
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Dr. Luettich also serves as director of the UNC Center for Natural Hazards and Disasters in Chapel Hill and is the lead principal investigator on the Department of Homeland Security Center of Excellence in Natural Disasters, Coastal Infrastructure and Emergency Management.
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Berke is professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, and director of the Institute for Sustainable Coastal Communities, Texas A&M University at College Station. He is also a collaborative research scholar of the International Global Change Institute in New Zealand, and a faculty affiliate with the Plan Evaluation Lab of the University of British Columbia.
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He has numerous research, teaching, and service awards, was editor of the International Journal Structural Safety and the Journal of Engineering Mechanics, and chaired the Executive Committee of the International Association for Structural Safety and Reliability. He is a member of the National Academies Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment and previously served on the Disasters Roundtable Steering Committee and the Committee on Integrating Dam and Levee Safety and Community Resilience.
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Prior to joining the Coastal States Organization, he was the special counsel and director of environmental affairs at the American Association of Port Authorities, where he represented the International Association of Ports and Harbors at the International Maritime Organization on negotiations on the London Convention. He has also practiced law with a private firm in Washington, D.C., working on environmental and legislative issues, and served as the Washington, D.C.
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His research interests include ecosystem services, natural capital, biodiversity conservation, endangered species policy, integrating ecological and economic analysis, renewable energy, environmental regulation, and common property resources. He has served as coeditor and associate editor for the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, as associate editor for the International Journal of Business and Economics, and is currently serving as an associate editor for Conservation Letters, Ecology and Society, and Ecology Letters.
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Army Corps of Engineers Coastal and Hydraulics Lab from 1994 to 2011. He served as a coleader of the post-Katrina interagency forensics analysis of wave and storm surge effects on levees and subsequently became the leader of the risk analysis team for the South Louisiana Hurricane Protection Project, including consideration of the effects of climatic variability on hurricane characteristics in the Gulf of Mexico.
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