ABSTRACT: Planners can be called upon to play a variety of roles in the process of recovery from disaster, beginning with the emergency response and extending years into long term recovery. This presentation discusses these roles, based on direct experience and research of the author. It is intended to help planners understand the nature and context of recovery planning, and to anticipate how they can apply their planning skills to influence successful short and long term recovery.

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Charles Eadie, Director of Campus and Community Planning at the University of California Santa Cruz, has considerable experience in earthquake response recovery and reconstruction in Santa Cruz and Watsonville, the two communities hardest hit by the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. Mr. Eadie also has assisted and studied other recovery efforts including the 1994 Northridge earthquake, the 1995 Hanshin earthquake in Kobe, Japan, and the 1999 earthquake in Taiwan.

From 1991-99 Mr. Eadie worked at the City of Watsonville as Principal Planner and Assistant Community Development Director, integrating economic and housing recovery strategies into the city’s master plan. Prior to that he worked for the City of Santa Cruz Redevelopment Agency as Project Manager for the Downtown Recovery Plan. He also served as Incident Commander of the Santa Cruz emergency operations in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake, coordinating business resumption and recovery activities in the downtown business district.

Mr. Eadie has lectured and consulted extensively in the United States and abroad on earthquake response and recovery issues. He has assisted FEMA in designing training course work at the National Emergency Training Institute and has been a regular speaker at the California Specialized Training Institute. He has participated in a variety of other pre-and post-earthquake planning efforts involving local, regional, state and federal organizations.

Mr. Eadie has helped formulate federal earthquake policy as an advisor to the Executive Office of the President (1994), and served on a Congressional Advisory Panel in 1994-95 that analyzed the National Earthquake Hazard Reduction Program (NEHRP), also participating in a 1999 evaluation of the NEHRP. He was co-chair of the 1997 and 1999 US/Japan workshops on Urban Earthquake Hazard Reduction focusing on Kobe’s recovery, and was a delegate at the 1991 and 1995 US/Japan workshops, the latter of which involved an on-site assessment of the earthquake in Kobe. In 1996 he served on an advisory panel of for the International City Manager’s Association (ICMA) examining disaster -resistant community planning. Mr. Eadie’s published work includes:

Mr. Eadie holds a BA from the University of California at Santa Cruz with honors in environmental planning and a master’s degree from University of California at Berkeley. He also completed doctoral coursework in public administration at the University of Texas where he was a University Fellow and a member of the Phi Kappa Phi honors society. He is a member of the American Planning Association, Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, and Association of Environmental Professionals.

Charles Eadie
Director of Campus & Community Planning
University of California Santa Cruz
515 Swift St.,
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
email: cdeadie@cats.ucsc.edu
or ceadie@att.net
PH: 831-460-3570 or 3572
Fax: 831-460-3580