# positions[].label
The Sandy and Bryan Mitchell Master Builder Endowed Chair

# positions[].organizations[].label
Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning

# overview
Walter Gillis Peacock is professor of Urban Planning in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning,  where he has been a member of the faculty since 2002. From August 2019 to August 2021 he served as the Program Director of the Humans, Disasters, and the Built Environment (HDBE) in the Engineering Directorate at the National Science Foundation. Until the summer of 2019 he was Director of the Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center at Texas A&M University (TAMU). He received his Ph.D. from the University of Georgia. He is internationally known for his research on disaster recovery, community resiliency, and social vulnerability. In 2009 he was awarded the Quarantelli Award for Social Science Disaster Theory, acknowledging significant theoretical work in disaster and hazards research. Between 2008 and 2012 he was the holder of the Rodney L. Dockery Endowed Professorship in Housing and the Homeless and in 2012 he was awarded the Sandy and Bryan Mitchell Master Builder Endowed Chair at Texas A&M. In 2014 he received the Distinguished Achievement Award in Research from Texas A&M, an award sponsored by the Association of Former Students. He has conducted research in Florida, Texas, California, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, the former Yugoslavia, Italy, Turkey, and India. He has been PI or Co-PI on approximately 7 million dollars in external funding since joining TAMU with the majority of that funding coming from the National Science Foundation (NSF), National Oceanographic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST). He has authored or co-authored 3 books and over a hundred journal articles, book chapters, research monographs, and professional papers. He has given briefings regarding household, housing, and community recovery following major natural disasters to local, state, and federal officials.

# educationAndTraining[].organization.label
University of Georgia - (Athens, Georgia, United States)

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Columbus State University - (Columbus, Georgia, United States)

# educationAndTraining[].organization.label
University of Georgia - (Athens, Georgia, United States)

# awardsAndHonors[].label
Senior Research Fellow, Hazards Reduction and Recovery Center, College of Architecture

# awardsAndHonors[].label
Enrico L. Quarantelli Award for Social Science Disaster Theory

# awardsAndHonors[].label
Association of Former Students University-Level Distinguished Achievement Award, The

# awardsAndHonors[].label
Senior Fellow, Center for Texas Beaches and Shores

# awardsAndHonors[].label
Research Associate, International Laboratory of Socio-Political Ecology

# awardsAndHonors[].label
Senior Research Associate, Center for the Study of Global Issues

# awardsAndHonors[].label
Rodney L. Dockery Endowed Professor in Housing and the Homeless

# awardsAndHonors[].label
Fellow, Institute for Science Technology and Public Policy

# publications[].label
Perspectives from nongovernmental organizations on education and training needs for community disaster recovery.

# publications[].label
Variations in tropical cyclone-related discharge in four watersheds near Houston, Texas

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Coastal Bend Hurricane Evacuation Study: Hurricane Harvey Evacuation Behavior Survey Outcomes and Findings

# publications[].publisher
Texas A&M Transportation Institute and the Texas A&M Hazard Reduction & Recovery Center

# publications[].label
The Centerville Virtual Community: a fully integrated decision model of interacting physical and social infrastructure systems

# publications[].label
Housing Recovery after Disasters: Primary versus Seasonal and Vacation Housing Markets in Coastal Communities

# publications[].publisher
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

# publications[].label
Hurricane Andrew Ethnicity, Gender and the Sociology of Disasters

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Assessing the impact of the Indian Ocean tsunami on households: a modified domestic assets index approach.

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Using social vulnerability mapping to enhance coastal community resiliency in Texas

# publications[].label
Beyond Aztlan: Ethnic Autonomy in Comparative Perspective.                     Mario Barrera

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Community Resilience-Focused Technical Investigation of the 2016 Lumberton, North Carolina, Flood: An Interdisciplinary Approach

# publications[].publisher
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

# publications[].label
Reframing disaster policy: the global evolution of vulnerable communities

# publications[].label
Ethnic and racial inequalities in Hurricane damage and Insurance Settlements

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Hurricane Mitigation Status and Factors Influencing Mitigation Status among Florida's Single-Family Homeowners

# publications[].publisher
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

# publications[].label
Evaluating Regional Contra-Flow and Phased Evacuation Strategies for Texas Using a Large-Scale Dynamic Traffic Simulation and Assignment Approach

# publications[].label
The consequences of contact: Views of the scientific community and the science media

# publications[].label
Assessing the impact of the Indian Ocean tsunami on households: a modified domestic assets index approach

# publications[].label
Perspectives on Loss Estimation Models and Metrics

# publications[].label
Social vulnerability and the natural and built environment: a model of flood casualties in Texas.

# publications[].label
Inequities in Long-Term Housing Recovery After Disasters

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An Assessment of Coastal Zone Hazard Mitigation Plans in Texas

# publications[].label
Living Conditions, Disasters, and Development: An Approach to Cross- Cultural Comparisons

# publications[].label
Reframing disaster policy: the global evolution of vulnerable communities

# publications[].label
Recovery, change and development: a longitudinal study of the 1976 Guatemalan earthquake.

# publications[].label
Coastal Bend Hurricane Evacuation Study: Evacuation Zone Development Report

# publications[].publisher
Texas A&M Transportation Institute and the Texas A&M Hazard Reduction & Recovery Center

# publications[].label
Conceptualizing Social Structure: The Misuse of Classification in Structural Modeling

# publications[].label
Ecological indicators of flood risk along the Gulf of Mexico

# publications[].label
Hindcasting Validation of a Resilience Computational Environment Architecture: Community Level Damage Assessment following the 2011 Joplin, Missouri Tornado

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Evacuating Together or Separately: Factors Influencing Split Evacuations Prior to Hurricane Rita

# publications[].label
Highway congestion during evacuation: examining the household's choice of number of vehicles to evacuate

# publications[].label
Social Science Research Needs for the Hurricane Forecast and Warning System

# publications[].publisher
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

# publications[].label
The Effects of Disaster Damage and Housing AID on Household Recovery Following the 1976 Guatemalan Earthquake* **

# publications[].label
Hurricane risk perceptions among Florida's single family homeowners

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Integration of detailed household and housing unit characteristic data with critical infrastructure for post-hazard resilience modeling

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Warning and evacuation: A night for hard houses

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Disasters and social change: Hurricane Andrew and the reshaping of Miami?

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Flood performance and dislocation assessment for Lumberton homes after Hurricane Matthew

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Florida households' expected responses to hurricane hazard mitigation incentives.

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Sheltering and Housing Recovery Following Disaster*

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DIVERGENCE AND CONVERGENCE IN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT - A DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS OF INEQUALITY IN THE WORLD SYSTEM

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Mitigation Planning: Why Hazard Exposure, Structural Vulnerability, and Social Vulnerability Matter

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Computational environment for modeling and enhancing community resilience: Introducing the center for risk-based community resilience planning

# publications[].label
Do Hazard Mitigation and Preparedness Reduce Physical Damage to Businesses in Disasters? Critical Role of Business Disaster Planning

# publications[].publisher
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

# publications[].label
Mapping social vulnerability to enhance housing and neighborhood resilience

# publications[].label
Modeling Hurricane Evacutaion Decisions with Ethnographic Methods*

# publications[].label
Social Science Research Needs for the Hurricane Forecast and Warning System

# publications[].label
Social Science Research Needs for the Hurricane Forecast and Warning System: An Introduction

# publications[].publisher
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

# publications[].label
Social Systems, Ecological Networks, and Disasters: Toward a Socio-Political Ecology of Disasters

# publications[].label
Social vulnerability and the natural and built environment: a model of flood casualties in Texas

# publications[].label
And the poor get poorer: A neglected Black community

# publications[].label
Housing type matters for pace of recovery: Evidence from Hurricane Ike

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Planning for Housing Recovery? Lessons Learned From Hurricane Andrew

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A stochastic approach to model household re-occupancy in a community following a natural hazard

# publications[].label
Coastal Bend Hurricane Evacuation Study: Vulnerability Analysis Report

# publications[].publisher
Texas A&M Transportation Institute and the Texas A&M Hazard Reduction & Recovery Center

# publications[].label
Organizational Communication and Decision Making for Hurricane Emergencies

# publications[].publisher
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

# publications[].label
Inequities in long-term housing recovery after disasters

# publications[].label
Planning for Community Resilience, A Handbook for Reducing Vulnerability to Disasters

# publications[].label
The Adoption of Hazard Mitigation and Climate Change Adaptation Policies, Programs, and Actions by Local Jurisdictions along the Gulf and Atlantic Coasts

# publications[].label
Examining the Influence of Development Patterns on Flood Damages along the Gulf of Mexico

# publications[].label
Hurricanes and society in British greater Caribbean, 1624-1783.

# publications[].label
Probabilistic Risk Assessment of Coupled Natural-Physical-Social Systems: Cascading Impact of Hurricane-Induced Damages to Civil Infrastructure in Galveston, Texas

# publications[].publisher
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

# publications[].label
Poster for Social Institution Resilience Theory: Implications for Community Resilience Planning Models

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Measuring Disaster Impact on Household Living Conditions: The Domestic Assets Approach*

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Wind hazard mitigation in southeast Florida

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Social capacity in Nagapattinam, Tamil Nadu after the December 2004 Great Sumatra earthquake and tsunami

# publications[].label
Post-Disaster Sheltering, Temporary Housing and Permanent Housing Recovery

# publications[].label
Cross-National and Comparative Disaster Research

# editorOf[].label
Community Resilience-Focused Technical Investigation of the 2016 LUMBERTON, NORTH CAROLINA FLOOD: MULTI-DISCIPLINARY APPROACH

# editorOf[].publisher
National Institute of Standards and Technology

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Pre-Impact Preparation and Post-impact Restoration Activities following Hurricane Andrew.

# researcherOn[].awardedBy.label
National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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Hurricane Andrew 10 Years Later: Implications for Disaster Mitigation.

# researcherOn[].awardedBy.label
National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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REU Site: Studies in Social Inequality and Social Vulnerability.

# researcherOn[].awardedBy.label
National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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RAPID: Technological versus Natural Disasters: Consequences for Early Recovery Planning and Decision-Making at the Community and Household Level.

# researcherOn[].awardedBy.label
National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

# researcherOn[].label
Developing a Living Laboratory for Examining Community Recovery and Resilience after Disaster

# researcherOn[].awardedBy.label
National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

# researcherOn[].label
A Workshop on a New Cross-Directorate program on Disaster Resilience, Vulnerability, and Risk Reduction.

# researcherOn[].awardedBy.label
National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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CRISP Type 2/Collaborative Research: Scalable Decision Model to Achieve Local and Regional Resilience of Interdependent Critical Infrastructure Systems and Communities.

# researcherOn[].awardedBy.label
National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

# researcherOn[].label
Structures of Long-Term Disaster Recovery: Organizational Roles and Collaboration in Six Cities

# researcherOn[].awardedBy.label
National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

# researcherOn[].label
RAPID: Critical Infrastructure Disruption and the Food Distribution Network: The Implications for Food Security Following a Natural Disaster.

# researcherOn[].awardedBy.label
National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

# researcherOn[].label
Mitigation and Evacuation Decision in the face of an Impending Disaster.

# researcherOn[].awardedBy.label
National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

# researcherOn[].label
A Workshop on the Concept of a National Hazard Vulnerability and Resiliency Observatory Network.

# researcherOn[].awardedBy.label
National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

# researcherOn[].label
Social Vulnerability Mapping and GIS in Tsunami Impact Analysis.

# researcherOn[].awardedBy.label
National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

# researcherOn[].label
The Adoption and Utilization of Hazard Mitigation Practices by Jurisdictions along Gulf and Atlantic Coasts.

# researcherOn[].awardedBy.label
National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

# researcherOn[].awardedBy.label
National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

# streetAddress
3137 TAMU; Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning; 3137 TAMU

# organizations[]
Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning

# etdChairOf[].label
Hamideh, Sara (2015-08). Planning for Disaster Recovery: Lessons from Hurricane Ike for Theory and Practice. Doctoral Dissertation.

# etdChairOf[].label
Lin, Yi-Sz (2010-10). Development of Algorithms to Estimate Post-Disaster Population Dislocation--A Research-Based Approach. Doctoral Dissertation.

# etdChairOf[].label
Lee, Hye Kyung (2015-12). A Spatial Assessment of Green Infrastructure and Its Potential Effectiveness on Streamflow. Doctoral Dissertation.

# etdChairOf[].label
Kultgen, Pat Morrison (2013-08). Perceived Risk and the Siting of a Controversial Wastewater Treatment Plant in Central Texas. Master's Thesis.

# etdChairOf[].label
Galindo, Kim Blanca (2009-06). Variations in disaster aid acquisitions among ethnic groups in a rural community. Doctoral Dissertation.

# etdChairOf[].label
Jacobs, Fayola Helen (2018-08). Insuring Inequity: An Intersectional Analysis of the Community Rating System. Doctoral Dissertation.

# etdChairOf[].label
Ge, Yue (2013-05). Planners' Perceptions of Land Use Planning Tools in the U.S. Pacific States. Doctoral Dissertation.

# etdChairOf[].label
Rosenheim, Nathanael Proctor (2015-07). Consequences of Commuting Patterns and the Structure of Food Retail Markets for SNAP Redemption: Implications for Food Access. Doctoral Dissertation.

# etdChairOf[].label
Mayunga, Joseph S. (2010-07). Measuring the Measure: A Multi-dimensional Scale Model to Measure Community Disaster Resilience in the U.S. Gulf Coast Region. Doctoral Dissertation.

# etdChairOf[].label
Husein, Rahmawati (2012-07). Examining Local Jurisdictions' Capacity and Commitment For Hazard Mitigation Policies and Strategies along the Texas Coast. Doctoral Dissertation.

# etdChairOf[].label
Wei, Hung-Lung (2016-07). Washington Households' Expected Responses to the Volcanic Threat of Mt. Rainier. Doctoral Dissertation.

# etdChairOf[].label
Zhang, Yang (2009-06). Modeling single family housing recovery after Hurricane Andrew in Miami-Dade County, FL. Doctoral Dissertation.

# etdChairOf[].label
Wieters, Kathleen M. (2010-10). Integrating Walking for Transportation and Physical Activity for Sedentary Office Workers in Texas. Doctoral Dissertation.

# etdChairOf[].label
Mhatre, Pratik Chandrashekhar (2010-10). Examination of Housing Price Impacts on Residential Properties Before and After Superfund Remediation Using Spatial Hedonic Modeling. Doctoral Dissertation.

# etdChairOf[].label
Kang, Jung Eun (2010-10). Mitigating Flood Loss through Local Comprehensive Planning in Florida. Doctoral Dissertation.

# etdChairOf[].label
Lu, Jing-Chein (2009-05). A comparative study of single family and multifamily housing recovery following 1992 Hurricane Andrew in Miami-Dade County, Florida. Doctoral Dissertation.