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Anuradha Mukherji
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Anuradha Mukherji is Associate Professor of Community and Regional Planning at East Carolina University. She received her Ph.D. in Architecture from theUniversity of California at Berkeley, a Master's fromTexas A&;M University at College Station, and a Diploma in Architecture from theCenter for Environmental Planning and Technologyin India.
Her work is located at the intersection of disaster planning, climate change adaptation, and community resilience, and focuses on two aspects of community planning: 1) the ability of communities to embed disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation into the planning of cities and regions, and 2) institutions and governance structures that shape hazard mitigation and community recovery after disasters. She has conducted research in India and Haiti and more recently in Japan and the United States. Her work appears in various peer-reviewed journals such as the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, Housing Studies, Natural Hazards, and Disasters.
Her research has been funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership, by the Asia Pacific Network (APN), the National Science Foundation (NSF), and the American Association of University Women (AAUW).In 2020, she was recognized for her teaching and research through East Carolina University's Scholar-Teacher Award.