Profile
Dr. Lindell has a graduate degree in Social Psychology with a specialty in disaster research
and completed hazardous materials emergency responder training through the Hazardous
Materials Specialist level. In addition, he has over 35 years of experience in the field of
emergency management, during which time he has conducted a long term program of research on
the processes by which individuals and organizations respond to natural and technological
hazards. research and related technical services have been provided to 40 different
organizations in the public and private sectors.
Professor Lindell has made over 170 presentations before scientific societies and short
courses for emergency planners, as well as being an invited participant in workshops on risk
communication and emergency management in this country and abroad. He organized and chaired
an American Society of Civil Engineers Specialty Conference on Hazardous Facilities, served
on the ASCE Task Committee on Natural Disaster Reduction, and served twice as Secretary of
the Executive Committee of the ASCE Council on Natural Disaster Reduction.
He participated in the NSF’s Second Assessment of Research and Applications on Natural
Hazards, serving as a member of the committee on Preparedness and Response, and chairing the
committee on Adoption, Implementation, and Evaluation of Hazard Adjustments. He has served
seven times as a consultant to the International Atomic Energy Agency in developing planning
guidance for response to nuclear and radiological incidents, has made four presentations to
National Academy of Sciences panels, and was a member of two National Research Council
panels―
Disasters Research in Social Sciences Assessing
Vulnerabilities Related to the Nation’s Chemical Infrastructure.
He recently served as an external reviewer for the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric
Administration’s
National Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Program
and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Center for
Studies of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism,
currently is a member of the National Earthquake Hazard Reduction
Program’s Advisory Committee on Earthquake Hazard Reduction.
Professor Lindell has also reviewed research proposals for 20 different foreign, federal,
and state agencies as well as performing manuscript reviews for over 40 different journals
in the social and environmental sciences and engineering. He has written extensively on
emergency management and is the author of 70 technical reports, 90 journal articles and book
chapters, and ten books. He recently published a book on risk communication in multiethnic
communities (Sage, 2004) and a textbook on community emergency planning (Wiley, 2006).
He recently completed an introductory textbook on emergency management under contract to the
Federal Emergency Management Agency, a condensed version of which has been published by
Wiley. Professor Lindell is a former director of the Hazard Reduction & Recovery Center and
the current editor of the
International Journal of Mass Emergencies and
Disasters.
Michael received his BA and PhD from University of Colorado....[more]
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