FACULTY POSITION

ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARD MANAGEMENT & PLANNING
Department of Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning
College of Architecture | Texas A&M University

The Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning (LAUP) invites applications for a tenure-track or tenured faculty position in environmental planning with an emphasis on hazard management and planning and broader sustainability/resiliency issues starting Fall 2008. The rank is contingent on the candidate’s qualifications.

The successful candidate will play significant roles in the department’s research, teaching, and service activities and will be affiliated with the Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center (HRRC). Consistent with a major research university and center, junior level candidates must display a strong potential for significant research and publications while senior level candidates must have established records in research and publications. All candidates must be interested in teaching in the Department’s undergraduate and graduate planning programs and in directing and serving on graduate committees. Opportunities to teach in the HRRC’s Environmental Hazard Management certificate program are open. We will consider applicants from economics, engineering, geography, planning, political science, psychology, and sociology. Applicants’ academic disciplines are less important than their past records or future potential for research productivity and their commitment for teaching in environmental hazard management and planning.

The Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning (archone.tamu.edu/laup) has 35 full-time faculty and offers the following six degrees: the Bachelor of Urban and Regional Science, the Bachelor of Landscape Architecture, the Master of Landscape Architecture, the Master in Urban Planning, the Master of Science in Land Development, and the Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Science. The Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center (archone.tamu.edu/hrrc) is an interdisciplinary research center established in 1988 and housed in the College of Architecture. The Center engages in research on environmental, hazard, and disaster planning issues and disaster preparedness, response and recovery. The HRRC’s commitment to broader sustainability and resilience issues is reflected by the creation of its Environmental Planning and Sustainability Research Unit. The Center’s core faculty are highly successful at attracting external funding with current funding levels in excess of 3 million dollars from agencies such as the NSF and NOAA.

The College of Architecture at Texas A&M University is one of the largest of its kind in the United States. Over 100 faculty members in the departments of Architecture, Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning (LAUP), and Construction Science serve over 1800 students in 13 degree programs. These cover the entire spectrum of professional and academic disciplines having to do with designing, planning, developing, constructing, and managing the built environment.

Applicants should send a detailed letter of application, curriculum vitae, and three letters of references. Review of applications will begin November 15, 2007, and continue until position is filled.

Application materials should be sent to:

Walter Gillis Peacock
Chair, LAUP/HRRC Search Committee,
Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center
Texas A & M University
College Station, TX 77842-3137
peacock@tamu.edu

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