Handbook of Disaster Research

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Focuses on dynamic pressures such as population growth, composition, and distribution, as well as income inequality, stratification, and poverty Provides theoretical, methodological, and public policy contributions of the field of disaster studies at the national and international level Discuses new trajectories and opportunities for social science research in research

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Havidán Rodríguez is the President of the University at Albany of the State University of New York (SUNY). However, most of his work for this Handbook took place in his previous role as Founding Provost & Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, and a tenured professor in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology, at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. He also served as director of the Disaster Research Center (DRC) at the University of Delaware. He was the principal investigator for the Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Program: Training the Next Generation of Disaster Researchers, funded by NSF. Dr. Rodríguez is the co-editor (with Quarantelli and Dynes) of the Handbook of Disaster Research (2006).  Joseph E. Trainor is an Associate Professor of Public Policy and Administration at the University of Delaware (UD). He is the current director of the UD Disaster Science and Management Degree Programs and is a Core Faculty memberat the Disaster Research Center (DRC). William Donner is Associate Professor of Sociology and Disaster Studies M.A. Director at the University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley.  Research interests include hazard warnings, epidemiology, demography, and statistical applications in disaster research.

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