Eric E. Anderson is an independent consultant and a licensed professional geophysicist with over 20 years of experience servicing both government and Fortune 500 companies. He specializes in preparedness planning and the development of risk management strategies to facilitate regional resilience through disaster risk reduction. He has a master’s in geosciences from the University of South Carolina and a master’s in information technology from Virginia Tech. In addition, he has been a visiting scholar to Ǻlborg University, DK. His research interests include: the assessment of the vulnerability of communities, cities and regions and their critical life support infrastructure to disasters within the context of the globalization of people, information, markets and security; the simulation of complex maladaptive human-environmental systems capable of creating disastrous cascading effects over space and time and the design and use of Web-based collaborative spatial decision support system tools to prioritize risk management solutions for investment.
Track:
Education Symposium & Sessions
Breakout Title:
Designing Disaster-Resilient Communities
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