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Interview Archives: Disasters
Tuesday January 24, 2012, 10:06 AM
Campus Disaster Preparedness
Todd Short, Director, Office of Campus Emergency Planning, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Host: David Inge
Colleges and universities have long been important centers for research into disaster preparedness. But they have often been criticized for failing to take their own advice when it comes to their own campuses. We’ll look at what higher education is doing to prepare for crisis--everything from natural disaster to random acts of violence.
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Categories: Disasters • University of Illinois
Thursday September 22, 2011, 11:06 AM
Disaster Planning for Campus and Champaign County
John Dwyer, Deputy Director of Champaign County Emergency Management Agency
Todd Short, Emergency Planning Lieutenant with the University of Illinois Police Department, Office of Campus Emergency Planning
Host: Rick Atterberry
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Categories: Community • Disasters
Thursday March 10, 2011, 11:06 AM
"Haiti: Roots of Inequalities, the New Social Contract, and Consideration for Effective Reconstruction"
Claudine Michel, Ph.D., Department of Black Studies, University of California Santa Barbara
Host: David Inge
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Bonus video: Claudine Michel says Haitians need to be part of the conversation about the reconstruction of their country.
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Categories: Disasters • Caribbean • Haiti
Tuesday January 11, 2011, 10:06 AM
Current Events in Haiti
Alex Dupuy, Ph.D., the Class of 1958 Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Wesleyan University
Host: David Inge
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Categories: Disasters • Government • Politics
Wednesday November 17, 2010, 11:06 AM
The 1000 Year Flood: Destruction, Loss, Rescue, and Redemption Along the Mississippi River
Stephen J. Lyons, Journalist and Writer
Host: David Inge
This is a repeat broadcast from Tuesday, July 27, 2010, 11 am
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Categories: Disasters • History • United States history
Friday October 29, 2010, 10:06 AM
"Impact of New Madrid Seismic Zone Earthquakes on the Central USA"
Amr S. Elnashai, FREng, Head, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department; Bill and Elaine Hall Endowed Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Host: David Inge
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Categories: Disasters • United States • Illinois
Friday September 24, 2010, 10:06 AM
Disaster Planning for Champaign County and the University of Illinois
Greg Abbott, Deputy Director of METCAD; Deputy Director of Champaign County Emergency Management Agency
Lieutenant Todd E. Short, Director of Emergency Planning, Division of Public Safety, University of Illinois
Host: Rick Atterberry
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Categories: Decision -Making • Disasters
Monday September 13, 2010, 10:06 AM
The Pakistan Flood Disaster
John Briscoe, Ph.D., The Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Environmental Health, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; Professor of the Practice of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University; serves on the Water Science and Technology Board of the National Academy of Sciences
Asma Faiz, Doctoral Student in the Department of Political Science, University of Illinois, and Fulbright Fellow
Host: David Inge
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Categories: Disasters • Environment • Climate Change • Land Use • Water resources • Asia • Pakistan
Friday August 27, 2010, 10:06 AM
Disaster Planning for Champaign County and the University of Illinois
Bill Keller, Director of Emergency Planning, Public Safety Association, Division of Public Safety, University of Illinois
Todd E. Short,
Host: Rick Atterberry
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Categories: Disasters • University of Illinois
Friday August 27, 2010, 10:06 AM
Clear as Mud: Planning for the Rebuilding of New Orleans
Robert B. Olshansky, Ph.D., Professor and Associate Head of the Department of Urbana and Regional Planning, University of Illinois
Host: David Inge
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Categories: Disasters • Urban Planning
