Dr. Sudha Arlikatti joins as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Administration, University of North Texas, Denton, from September 2006. She teaches in the Emergency Administration and Planning Program. Dr. Arlikatti has an undergraduate degree in Architecture and a graduate degree in City Planning from her home country India. She has eight years of work experience as an architectural consultant and lecturer in the Sultanate of Oman and India. She received her doctoral degree in Urban and Regional Science from the Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning at Texas A&M University in August 2006. As part of her doctoral research she studied the stability of risk perceptions and long-term adjustments to earthquake hazard by households in southern California and western Washington. As a researcher in the Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center, at Texas A&M University, she has been involved in projects funded by the National Science Foundation and the Texas Governor’s Division of Emergency Management which include, Social Vulnerability Mapping and GIS in Tsunami Impact Analysis - India, Developing a Hurricane Evacuation Management Decision Support System, and Hurricane Planning Support for the Texas Gulf Coast. She received volunteer training from the Brazos County Inter Jurisdictional Disaster Academy and has volunteered at the Emergency Operations Center during hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Dr. Arlikatti’s academic interests include environmental planning, coastal sustainability, natural hazards mitigation and recovery, emergency management, consensus building, and Geographic Information Systems. She is especially interested in cross-national and international research focusing on special needs populations in disaster contexts.

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