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Rae Zimmerman Ph.D.
Professor of Planning and Public Administration
EDUCATION:
B.A., Chemistry, University of California (Berkeley), 1965
M.C.P. (Master of City Planning), University of Pennsylvania, 1969
Ph.D., Planning, Columbia University, 1972
About:
Rae Zimmerman is Professor of Planning and Public Administration, Director of the Urban Planning Program and the Director of the Institute for Civil Infrastructure Systems (ICIS). ICIS promotes collaboration among disciplines and interests around urban infrastructure issues. She teaches and conducts research in environmental management and planning, urban infrastructure, and environmental health risk management, and the socioeconomic dimensions of environmental and transportation infrastructure. Her recent research includes social and environmental performance measures of urban infrastructure services, adaptability of agency decision-making in the NY region to global climate change, farmer attitudes toward the environment and adoption of agricultural practices that protect water quality, and social and economic characteristics of communities with inactive hazardous waste sites.
 
Her publications have appeared in several edited works as well as in numerous planning, environmental and public administration journals including The Sciences, Water Resources Research, Policy Studies Journal. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a past president and Fellow of the international Society for Risk Analysis. Professional appointments include the U.S. EPA National Drinking Water Advisory Council (NDWAC) Working Group on Drinking Water Research, the U.S. EPA Board of Scientific Counselors, U.S. EPA Science Advisory Board Subcommittee on Residual Risk, and the National Research Council Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment. Professor Zimmerman has directed research projects for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of the Interior, the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress, and the New York State Department of Transportation. Professor Zimmerman holds a B.A. in Chemistry from the University of California (Berkeley), a Master of City Planning from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Ph.D. in planning from Columbia University.
Professional Activities:
Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Appointed Member, National Drinking Water Advisory Council Research Working Group, U.S. EPA, 2000-
Co-Chair, Rebuild New York Coalition (NY Chapter of the Rebuild America Coalition), appointed by the NYC Comptroller, 1999-
Appointed Member, Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment, National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences, 1998-2001
Appointed Member, U.S. EPA, Office of Research and Development, Board of Scientific Counselors, 1996-2003 (Subcommittee Chair for the development of BOSC Operating Principles; review of the National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory; Assessment of Particulate Matter; and Standing Committee for the National Center for Environmental Assessment)
President, Society for Risk Analysis, 1997 and Fellow
Appointed Member, NYS Department of Environmental Conservation Comparative Risk Project Steering Committee, 1996-2000
Various appointments to transportation boards: Council on Transportation, Alternate Board Member, University Transportation Research Center (City University of NY), Alternative Board Member, Transportation Infrastructure Research Consortium (Cornell University), 1996-1997-
Appointed Member, NYS Dept. of Environmental Conservation Air Toxics Workgroup, 1996-1998
Appointed Chairperson, Meta-Analysis Advisory Committee for the International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI), Risk Science Institute, 1994-1995
Appointed member, U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment Advisory Panel for "Research on Risk Assessment Methodology for Chemical Carcinogens" and co-Chair, Workshop on Research Structure and Organization, 1991-1992.
Appointed member, Technical Advisory Committee to the Greenpoint-Williamsburg (Brooklyn, New York) Environmental Benefits Program, New York City Department of Environmental Protection, 1991
Appointment to the American Arbitration Association Commercial Panel of Arbitrators, 1990.
Appointed Member, New York State Department of Health Advisory Committee on Safe Drinking Water, 1984-1991.
Member, Environmental Institute for Waste Management Studies, University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa), 1984-1990.
Selected Representative Publications:

Governmental Management of Chemical Risk. Regulatory Processes for Environmental Health. Chelsea, MI: Lewis Publishers, 1990.
"Institutional Decision-making," (with M. Cusker) Chapter 9 and Appendix 10 in Climate Change and a Global City: The Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change. Metro East Coast, edited by C. Rosenzweig and W. D. Solecki. New York, NY: Columbia Earth Institute and Goddard Institute of Space Studies, in press, 2001. Pp. 9-1 to 9-25 and A11-A17.
"Performance Measurement for Managing Infrastructure Assets" (with Detlof von Winterfeldt) in the Proceedings of The International Society For Optical Engineering (SPIE) Annual International Symposium - NDE for Health Monitoring and Diagnostics. Seattle WA, SPIE, 2001.
"Planning and administration: Frameworks and case studies" [integrating risk management and natural hazard management], in Natural Disaster Management. Edited by John Ingleton. Leicester, England: Tudor Rose, 1999. Pp. 225-227. [Commemorative volume of the United Nations' International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction 1990-2000.]
"Assessing and Managing Risks of Extremes," (with V.M. Bier, Y.Y. Haimes, J.H. Lambert, N.C. Matalas), Risk Analysis: An International Journal Volume 19, No. 1 (1999), pp. 83-94.
"Adverse Health Effects, Environmental Attitudes, and Pesticide Usage Behavior of Farm Operators" (with E. Lichtenberg), Risk Analysis: An International Journal, Volume 19, No. 2 (1999), pp. 283-294.
"Information and Farmers' Attitudes about Pesticides, Water Quality and Related Environmental Effects" (with E. Lichtenberg), Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, 73 (1999), pp. 227-236.
"Farmers' Willingness to Pay for Ground Water Protection" (with E. Lichtenberg), Water Resources Research, Vol. 35, No. 3 (March 1999), pp. 833-841.
"The Emerging Role of Environmental Justice in Decision-making" (with K. Sexton) in Better Environmental Decisions: Strategies for Government, Businesses and Communities. Edited by Sexton, K., Marcus, A.A., Easter, W., Burkhardt, T. (eds.), Washington, DC: Island Press, 1999. Pp. 419-444.
"Historical and Future Perspectives on Risk Perception and Communication," in Risk Research and Management in Asian Perspective. Proceedings of the First China-Japan Conference on Risk Assessment and Management, November 23-26, 1998, Beijing China. Edited by Beijing Normal University, Society for Risk Analysis-Japan Section, Department of Earth Sciences-National Natural Science Foundation of China. International Academic Publishers, 1998 (Fall). Pp. 481-487
"Interdisciplinary Approaches to Safety and Risk in Urban Infrastructure Systems," In: Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management, edited by A. Mosleh and R.A. Bari. London: Springer-Verlag, 1998 (Fall). Volume 4, Pp. 2553-2558.
"Environmental Justice," in Fundamentals of Risk Analysis and Risk Management, edited by V. Molak. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 1997. Pp. 281-291. ..............
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