David Godschalk Dr. Godschalk is a city and regional planner and a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners. His research and publications span 3 planning fields: (1) growth management and land use planning, (2) hazard mitigation and coastal management, and (3) dispute resolution and public participation. He is a consultant to state and local governments on growth management, coastal management, and hazard mitigation. Dr. Godschalk is Stephen Baxter Professor Emeritus in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He holds degrees from Dartmouth College, the University of Florida, and the University of North Carolina. His co-authored books include: Urban Land Use Planning (University of Illinois Press, 2006); Natural Hazard Mitigation: Recasting Disaster Policy and Planning (Island Press, 1999); Pulling Together: A Planning and Development Consensus Building Manual (Urban Land Institute, 1994); Catastrophic Coastal Storms: Hazard Mitigation and Development Management (Duke University Press, 1989); Understanding Growth Management: Critical Issues and a Research Agenda (Urban Land Institute, 1989); Land Supply Monitoring: A Guide for Improving Public and Private Urban Development Decisions (Oelgeschlager, Gunn, and Hain, 1986); and Constitutional Issues of Growth Management (APA Press, 1979). His recent articles include: “Estimating the Value of Foresight: Aggregate Analysis of Natural Hazard Mitigation Benefits and Costs” (Environmental Planning and Management, September 2009); “Searching for the Good Plan: A Meta-Analysis of Plan Quality Studies” (Journal of Planning Literature, February 2009); “Benefit-Cost Analysis of FEMA Hazard Mitigation Grants” (Natural Hazards Review, November 2007); “Natural Hazard Mitigation: Creating Resilient Cities” (Natural Hazards Review, August 2003); "Public Participation in Natural Hazard Policy Formation: Challenges for Comprehensive Planning" (Environmental Planning and Management, September 2003); “Land Use Planning Challenges: Coping with Conflicts in Visions of Sustainable Development and Livable Communities” (Journal of the American Planning Association, Winter 2004); “Mitigate, Mitigate, Mitigate” Viewpoint (Planning, November 2005); and “Mitigation Generates Savings of Four to One and Enhances Community Resilience” (Natural Hazard Observer, March 2006). Dr. Godschalk serves on the Multi-Hazard Mitigation Council of the National Institute of Building Sciences, where he was involved with the preparation of the report to Congress on the benefits of natural hazard mitigation. He has been vice president of a Tampa consulting firm, planning director of Gainesville, Florida, and a planning faculty member at Florida State University. He has served as an expert witness in planning and growth management cases and as an elected member of the Chapel Hill Town Council. He is a registered architect (inactive) in the state of Florida.
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