Profile
Dr. Prater is a Lecturer in the Landscape Architecture
and Urban Planning at Texas A&M University. She also serves as Executive
Associate Director of Hazard Reduction & Recovery Center at Texas
A&M University where she has worked since 1990.
She teaches courses including Organizational
and
Community Response to Disasters, Analyzing Risk and Hazard
Policy, Hazard Mitigation and Disaster Recovery, Introduction to Emergency
Management, and Applied Planning. Her research focuses on environmental
politics and
policy and
natural
hazard and disasters.
Publications include “Risk area accuracy and hurricane evacuation expectations
of coastal residents,” Environment & Behavior, 2005; “Risk
Area Accuracy and Evacuation from Hurricane Bret,” Natural Hazards Review,
2004; “Assessing Community Impacts of Natural Disasters,” Natural
Hazards Review, 2003; ”The Politics of Emergency Response and Recovery:
Preliminary Observations on Taiwan’s 921 Earthquake,” Australian
Journal of Emergency management, 2002; “Risk Area Residents’ Perceptions
and Adoption of Seismic Hazard Adjustments,” Journal of Applied Social
Psychology, 2002;” The Politics of Hazard Mitigation,” Natural
Hazards Review, 2000.
Ph.D., Political Science, Texas A&M University, 1999;
M.S., Urban and Regional Planning, Texas A&M University, 1993; B.A.,
Foreign Languages, Pepperdine University, 1975....[more]
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