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John T. Cooper

John Cooper, Jr., is Associate Professor of Practice in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning at Texas A&M University.

Planning for Community Resilience

A Handbook for Reducing Vulnerability to Disasters

How can we plan and design stronger communities? From New Orleans to Galveston to the Jersey Shore, communities struck by natural disasters struggle to recover long after the first responders have left. Globally, the average annual number of natural disasters has more than doubled since 1980.