Participants will learn from examples of Rockport’s and Houston’s application of the Plan Integration for Resilience Scorecard™ (PIRS), a method to build resilience and equity across a community’s network of plans. They will also understand opportunities to connect with different professional areas.
Do you know how the range of policies across all plans impacts different neighborhoods and planning districts? Do you know if your community is unintentionally exacerbating hazard vulnerabilities or inequities? Over the past eight years, the Plan Integration for Resilience Scorecard™ (PIRS) has gained traction in Texas and nationally as a method and tool for helping communities build resilience to natural hazards by spatially evaluating their network of plans. Tested and applied globally and locally– including in Rockport and Houston, Texas after Hurricane Harvey – the scorecard provides local planning practitioners the opportunity to identify when and where their community plans are in conflict, as well as how well they target areas of the community that are most vulnerable. Armed with this new knowledge, planners can inform the public and decision-makers regarding opportunities to strengthen and streamline local hazard mitigation planning and investments.
This session illuminates plan integration challenges and explores lessons learned from flood related applications in Rockport and Houston. The session will explore how this tool could be applied to other planning professional areas and is integrated into professional assessments like FEMA’s Community Rating System.
Jaimie Masterson
Invited Speaker
"Jaimie Hicks Masterson, AICP, is director of Texas Target Communities at Texas A&M University, a high impact service-learning and engaged research program that works alongside low capacity communities within the university curriculum. She is author of Planning for Community Resilience: A Handbook for Reducing Vulnerabilities to Disasters and Engaged Research …
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"Jaimie Hicks Masterson, AICP, is director of Texas Target Communities at Texas A&M University, a high impact service-learning and engaged research program that works alongside low capacity communities within the university curriculum. She is author of Planning for Community Resilience: A Handbook for Reducing Vulnerabilities to Disasters and Engaged Research for Community Resilience to Climate Change.
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Siyu Yu
Invited Speaker
iyu Yu, PhD, AICP is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning and a core faculty member with the Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center at Texas A&M University. Much of Dr. Yu?s current research focuses on the development, application, and extension of the Plan Integration …
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iyu Yu, PhD, AICP is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning and a core faculty member with the Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center at Texas A&M University. Much of Dr. Yu?s current research focuses on the development, application, and extension of the Plan Integration for Resilience Scorecard? (PIRS) evaluation methodology. She aims to increase multi-hazard resilience and social equity in an era of climate change. Her research has been published in the Journal of the American Planning Association, Journal of Planning Education and Research, Landscape and Urban Planning, and Sustainable Cities and Society, among others. She holds a Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Science from Texas A&M University and is certified by the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP). Her research has been funded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the National Science Foundation (NSF), and the National Academies of Sciences (NAS).
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Roy Malini
Invited Speaker
Instructional Assistant Professor, University of Arizona
Malini Roy is a postdoctoral research associate for the Southwest Urban Corridor Integrated Field Laboratory (SW-IFL) at the University of Arizona. Prior to joining University of Arizona, Malini completed her Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Sciences from the Texas A&M University. As a research …
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Instructional Assistant Professor, University of Arizona
Malini Roy is a postdoctoral research associate for the Southwest Urban Corridor Integrated Field Laboratory (SW-IFL) at the University of Arizona. Prior to joining University of Arizona, Malini completed her Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Sciences from the Texas A&M University. As a research assistant at the Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center at Texas A&M, she examined spatial decision-making processes that drive unequal climate change impacts, with a focus on planning in disenfranchised communities in Houston after Hurricane Harvey.
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Justin Golbabai
Invited Speaker
"Justin Golbabai, AICP, CNU-A, CFM is an Associate Professor of the Practice and Coordinator of the Bachelors of Science in Urban & Regional Planning Program at Texas A&M University and founding principal of Common Home Planning & Design. Prior to his current endeavors, Justin served as Planning Administrator for the …
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"Justin Golbabai, AICP, CNU-A, CFM is an Associate Professor of the Practice and Coordinator of the Bachelors of Science in Urban & Regional Planning Program at Texas A&M University and founding principal of Common Home Planning & Design. Prior to his current endeavors, Justin served as Planning Administrator for the City of College Station, TX and Neighborhood Partnering Program Manager for the City of Austin, TX. Justin’s work partnering with neighborhoods earned numerous national awards in sustainability and innovation. Despite these awards and winning the ""Punniest of Show"" in the O'Henry Wold Pun-Off Championships, Justin considers his greatest accomplishment marrying the most amazing woman in the world and raising their four children.
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