RISE 2019 Conference

Philip R. Berke is a Research Professor, Department of City & Regional Planning in the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill. He is a Fellow in the UNC Coastal Resilience Center – DHS Center of Excellence.

His research centers on the relationship between community resilience to hazards and climate change with a focus on methods, theory and metrics of planning and implementation. He has published over 100 peer reviewed articles and book chapters, and 10 books. He is the lead co-author of an internationally recognized book, Urban Land Use Planning (5th Edition), which focuses on integrating principles of sustainable communities into urban form, and co-author of a book, Natural Hazard Mitigation: Recasting Disaster Policy and Planning, which was selected as one of the “100 Essential Books in Planning” of the 20th century by the American Planning Association Centennial Great Books. Two of his publications have received the Best Article Award and one an Honorable Mention Award from the American Planning Association. He received the National Research Council/National Academies of Sciences Service Award, the Faculty Award for Excellence in Doctoral Student Mentoring from the UNC-Chapel Hill Graduate School, and Outstanding Alumni Award from TAMU, College of Architecture.

Berke currently serves on multiple advisory boards including the Urban Institute’s Global Evaluation of the Rockefeller Foundation Global 100 Resilient Cities, National Science Foundation’s Social Science Extreme Events Reconnaissance Platform, and Planet Texas 2050 Technical Advisory Board. He recently served on the technical advisor board for the Louisiana's Master Plan for Coastal Protection and Restoration Plan.