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		James K. Mitchell Professor Department of Geography This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. voice: 848.445.4082 fax: 732 445 0006 Curriculum Vita
	Research Interests:	human response to environmental hazards; environmental policy and planning; global environmental change Hazards Research page
	Education:	1967-70 University of Chicago, Ph.D. (Geography) (1973) 1965-67 University of Cincinnati, M.A. (Geography) M.C.P. (Community Planning) 1961-65 Queens University, Belfast, B.Sc. (Hons) (Geography)
	Students:	Monalisa Chatterjee; Robert Donovan; Mariana Mossler; James Jeffers
	Recent Publications:	Mitchell, James K. 2009. “How must society adapt to rapid climate” Commentvisions: Debating the challenges of the future. http://www.commentvisions.com/month/november/2009/visions_from#4 "Makers of modern geography: Gilbert F. White (1911-2006); includes Mitchell, James K. 2008. “Perspectives on alternatives: Differentiation and integration in pursuit of a better fit between society and nature,” Mini-forum on the contributions of Gilbert F. White, Progress in Human Geography 32(3): 451-458. Report on Delaware River Flood Mitigation Mitchell, James K. 2003. ³European river floods in a changing world,² Risk Analysis Vol. 23, No. 3: 567-574. Mitchell, James K. 2006. ³A century of natural disasters in a state of changing vulnerability,² New Jersey¹s Environments: Past, Present, and Future. Neil Maher, Ed. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press: 164-198. Mitchell, James K. 2006. ³The primacy of partnership: Scoping a new national disaster recovery policy,² in ³Winds of Change: Repairing the national emergency management system after Katrina.² Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 604(1): 228-255. Empowering knowledge: A modest proposal for a broader social science research agenda in the wake of Katrina "The fox and the hedgehog: Myopia about homeland security in U.S. policies on terrorism" Crucibles of Hazard: Megacities and disasters in transition. James K. Mitchell, ed., Tokyo: United Nations University Press. 1999. 535 pp. The Long Road to Recovery: Community Responses to Industrial Disaster. James K. Mitchell, ed., Tokyo: United Nations University Press. 1996. 307 pp.
	Courses Offered:	Natural Hazards and Disasters 01:450:311 Seminar in Natural Hazards 16:450:612

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