Andrew Rumbach is a senior fellow in the Housing and Communities Division at the Urban Institute, where he coleads the Climate and Communities practice area. He is a leading expert on the impacts of natural hazards, disasters, and climate change on US communities and the federal, state, and local policies aimed at reducing risk and increasing resilience. His areas of research emphasis include affordable housing, land-use policy, and postdisaster recovery.
Rumbach has published dozens of peer-reviewed studies on disaster and climate-related topics in venues such as Natural Hazards, Natural Hazards Review, Housing Studies, Urban Studies, the Journal of Urban Affairs, and Habitat International, and he sits on the editorial boards of the Journal of the American Planning Association and the Journal of Planning Literature. Before joining Urban, Rumbach was a tenured professor of urban planning at Texas A&M University and previously at the University of Colorado Denver. He earned a BA in political science from Reed College and a PhD and MRP in city and regional planning from Cornell University.
You can find him on Substack where he writes the Place + Resilience newsletter.
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