Walter Gillis Peacock

Professor and Director, Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center
Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning

Location : A134 • Phone: (979) 845-7853
peacock@archone.tamu.edu
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Dr. Peacock is Professor of Urban Planning in Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning and serves as Director of Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center at Texas A&M University. His teaching areas include: Planning Methods and Analysis; Planning Research Methods, Hazard Mitigation and Long-term Recovery; and Sociology of Hazards and Disasters.
His research interests include urban planning, sustainable community development, natural hazard, hazard mitigation, and long-term recovery quantitative methods.

Walter has written or co-authored several books and articles including Hurricane Andrew: Ethnicity, Gender and the Sociology of Disaster. London: Routledge, 1997; Living Conditions, Disasters and Development: An Approach to Cross-Cultural Comparisons: University of Georgia Press, 1993; “Hurricane risk perceptions among Florida’s Single Family Homeowners,” Landscape and Urban Planning, 2005; “Hurricane Mitigation Status and Factors Influencing Mitigation Status Among Florida’s Single-Family Homeowners,” Natural Hazards Review, 2003; “Modeling Hurricane Evacuation Decisions with Ethnographic Methods,” International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters, 2001.

Walter received his B.A. from Columbus College and his M.A. and Ph.D. from University of Georgia...[more]