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Contact Info
e-mail : rebekah.green@wwu.edu
tel : +1 360.650.4495
Blog : http://igcr.blogspot.com
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Dr. Green is a research associate and grant writer at the Institute for Global and Community Resilience at Western Washington University, Huxley College of the Environment. She received her PhD from Cornell University where she combined structural engineering and anthropology to study physical and social vulnerability and risk perceptions in informal districts of Istanbul, Turkey. She used qualitative and quantitative research methods in these settlements to recommended innovative, culturally-appropriate methods for decreasing population vulnerability. As a post-doctoral research fellow at Earth Institute of Columbia University, her focus was on community disaster recovery. She worked with residents, local NGOs and university partners, to support community recovery in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina to establish reliable information on housing damage and reparability in some of the most heavily damaged low-income neighborhoods of the city, supporting collaboratively-developed community recovery plan. This and other advocacy led to a decision to move segments of the low-income, African American neighborhood of the Lower Ninth Ward off of the depopulation list and onto the high-priority redevelopment list.
Dr. Green has worked with community-based organizations in Turkey, India, and Central Asia to develop and implement disaster risk reduction education material and training programs. She coordinated a project with the American Red Cross and the Disaster Preparedness Education Program to develop local non-structural mitigation guidance for home and office seismic risk reduction in Turkey and a project to teach basic principles of seismic resistant construction to the public and school children. Working with academic and governmental representatives in Central Asia, Dr. Green led the development of public education materials for seismic resistant adobe construction. Most recently, as a member of the non-profit Risk RED, she led a stocktaking of public awareness education programs in eleven countries, for the Organization for Economic Development and Cooperation.
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REFEREED AND INVITED PUBLICATIONS
Green, R. (2008). Constructing Safety: Unauthorised housing and earthquake vulnerability in Istanbul, Turkey, UNU-EHS Source Book, forthcoming.
Green, R. (2008). Unauthorized Development and Seismic Hazard Vulnerability: A Study of Squatters and Engineers in Istanbul, Turkey Disasters, 32 (3): forthcoming.
Green, R. (est. June 2008) Unauthorized Construction, Housing Policy and Hazard Vulnerability in Rapid Growth Cities. Hazards and the Built Environment: Attaining Built-in Resilience, L. Bosher, ed., Taylor & Francis Books, London, 218-237.
Green, R. (2007). Risk Awareness and Education on Natural Catastrophes: Draft Stocktaking. Paris, Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Green, R., Bates, L., Smyth, A. (2007). Impediments to Recovery in New Orleans\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\' Upper and Lower Ninth Ward One Year After Hurricane Katrina, Disasters, 31 (4): 311-335.
Petal, M., Green, R., Kelman, I., Shaw, R., Dixit, A., Gupta, M. and Sharma, A. (est. Sept. 2007) Disaster Risk Reduction and Community-Based Construction. Hazards and the Built Environment: Attaining Built-In Resilience, L. Bosher, ed., Taylor & Francis, London, (invited submission, in press).
Green, R. A. (2005). Negotiating Risk: Earthquakes, Structural Vulnerability and Clientelism in Istanbul. Cornell University, Ithaca.
Petal, M., Tüzün, C., U., C., and Green, R. (2004). \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"Teaching Structural Hazards Awareness: New Partnerships for Preparedness and Community Response.\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\" Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, 2 (2), 155-171.
Green, R., Çalışkan, Ö., Yüzügülü, Ö., and Petal, M. \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"Home and Office Non-Structural Mitigation: Lessons Learned from Shake Table Testing in Turkey.\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\" Proceedings of the Fifth National Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Istanbul, Turkey, May 23-24, 2003.
Green, R. (2004). \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"This Is Istanbul, Real Istanbul: Conversations on Negotiating Earthquake Risk.\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\" American Research Institute in Turkey Newsletter, Fall.
Green, R. (2000). \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"A Second Story.\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\" Research Ethics: Cases and Commentaries, Vol. 4, B. Schrag, ed., Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, Bloomington, IN, 120-127.
PUBLICATIONS IN PROGRESS
Reardon, K., Green, R., Bates, K., and Keily, R. Overcoming the Challenges of Post-Disaster Planning in New Orleans: Lessons from the ACORN Housing/University Collaborative. Journal of Planning Education and Research (in second review).
Bates, Lisa, and Rebekah Green. 2007. (Mis)uses of Data: What Counts as Damage in Post-Katrina New Orleans Recovery Planning. Journal of the American Planning Association (in review).
Franco, Guillermo, Rebekah Green, Bijan Khazai, Andrew Smyth, and George Deodatis. 2008. Field Survey of Katrina Depth-Damage Relationships for New Orleans Homes. Natural Hazards Review (in review).
Green, R., Bijan Khazai, George Deodatis, and Andrew Smyth. 2008. Patterns of Structural Damage to Residential Housing in the Upper and Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans following hurricane Katrina. (in progress).
PUBLICATIONS FOR COMMUNITY RISK REDUCTION
ACORN Housing/University Partnership. (2007). “A People’s Plan for Overcoming the Hurricane Katrina Blues: A Comprehensive Strategy for Building a More Vibrant, Sustainable, and Equitable 9th Ward.” www.rebuildtheninth.org.
CAR-ESI. (2005). \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"Seismic Safety for Adobe Homes: What Everyone Should Know.\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\" GeoHazards International and the Central Asia Region Earthquake Safety Initiative, Palo Alto, CA.
Green, R., Sungay, B., and Paci, Z. (2005). Structural Awareness for Seismic Safety Handbook, Beyaz Gemi Publishers (Turkish edition), Istanbul, Turkey. http://www.ahep.org/ev/egitim4_2e.htm.
Green, R., Çalışkan, Ö., Sungay, B., and Paci, Z. (2005). Non-Structural Risk Mitigation Handbook, Beyaz Gemi Publishers (Turkish edition), Istanbul, Turkey. http://www.ahep.org/ev/egitim3_2e.htm.
Green, R. (2004). \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"This Is Istanbul, Real Istanbul: Conversations on Negotiating Earthquake Risk.\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\" American Research Institute in Turkey Newsletter, Fall.
Green, R. \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"Home and Office Non-Structural Mitigation: Lessons Learned from Shake Table Testing.\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\" Proceedings of the ATC 29-2A Seminar on Seismic Design, Performance, and Retrofit of Nonstructural Components in Critical Facilities, Newport Beach, CA.
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