Philip R. Berke

Professor & Director
Center for Sustainable Community Design

B.S., Empire State College
M.S., University of Vermont
Ph.D., Texas A&M University

Office:	204 New East
Phone:	(919) 962-4765
Fax:	(919) 962-5206
Email:	pberke@email.unc.edu

Courses
Dr. Berke teaches courses in land use and environmental planning and policy, environmental analysis
and land use planning, and planning theory.

• PLAN 641 Ecology and Land Use Planning
• PLAN 704 Theory of Planning I
• PLAN 740 Land Use and Environmental Policy
• PLAN 741 Land Use and Environmental Planning

Research and Professional Activities
Dr. Berke is Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning. He is Director of the Center
for Sustainable Community Design of the Institute for the Environment, and Adjunct Professor in the
Curriculum of Ecology at the University of North Carolina. He is currently a Collaborative Research
Scholar of the International Global Change Institute in New Zealand.

The central focus of his research is to develop a deeper understanding of the connections between
human settlements and the natural environment. His research seeks to explore the causes of land
use decisions and their consequences on the environmental, social, and economic systems of human
settlements. His ultimate goal is to seek solutions to complex urban development problems that
enhance the transition to sustainable communities.

Students currently supported by Dr. Berke's research funding

Berke’s current research projects address domestic and international issues in the areas of environmental
impacts of urbanization, land use planning, natural hazard mitigation, environmental justice, and sustainable
development. His research has been supported by the United Nations Division of Humanitarian Affairs,
U.S. National Science Foundation, New Zealand Foundation for Research Science and Technology,
Federal Emergency Management Agency, North Carolina Water Resources Research Institute, and
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. He is a co-recipient of the 2001 Best Article Award and 2000 Honorable
Mention Best Article Award from the American Planning Association.

Since 1990, Dr. Berke has presented seminars at 10 universities throughout the United States, and lectured
in Belgium, Canada, England, France, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Thailand,
Switzerland, and Taiwan. Between 2003 and 2005 he was a member of the National Research Council’s
Committee on Disaster Research and the Social Sciences, and between 1995 and 2002 he was a Faculty
Fellow of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. In 1993, he was a Senior Fulbright Scholar, Centre for
Environmental and Resource Studies, University of Waikato, New Zealand. He has also served as a
consultant on land use and environmental planning to state and local governments, served as a Hazard
Mitigation Specialist for the Federal Emergency Management, and consultant on disaster recovery to
international disaster relief organizations.

He currently serves as Guest Editor for a 2008 special issue on green communities of the Journal of the
American Planning Association, and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of the American Planning
Association and Journal of Architecture and Planning Research. He was Editor of the Architectural Research
Centers Consortium Research Newsletter between 1986 and 1990.

Following is a Summary of Recent and Ongoing Research Projects:
• Emergency Preparedness Demonstration Program for Disadvantaged Communities
• New Urban Development and Natural Hazard Mitigation
• Water Quality Impacts of New Urban Developments
• Coastal Ecosystems and Tsunami Mitigation in Thailand

Selected Publications
Articles
• What Makes Successful Plan Implementation? An Evaluation of Implementation Practices of Permit Reviews
   in New Zealand, Philip Berke, Michael Backhurst, Luice Laurian, Jan Crawford, Maxine Day, Neil Ericksen,
   Jennifer Dixon, Environment and Planning B, (2006) Vol. 33 (4): 581-600.

• Ecology and New Directions for Land Use Planning: Barriers and Opportunities to Change, Philip Berke.
In Lasting Landscapes: Reflection on the Role of Conservation Science in Land Planning, Eds. R.I. Kihslinger
and J. Wilkinson, Environmental Law Institute, Washington, D.C.: (2007) 59-71.

• Planning for Resiliency After Hurricane Katrina, Philip Berke and Thomas Campanella, The Annals of the American
   Academy of Social and Political Sciences, (2006) Vol. 604 (May): 192-208.

• Coastal Ecosystems and Tsunami Protection. Stephanie Chang, Beverley J. Adams, Jacqueline Alder,
   Philip R. Berke, Ratana Chuenpagdee, and Shubharoop Ghosh, and Colette Wabnitz, Earthquake Spectra,
   (2006) Vol. 22 (S3): 863-877.

• "What Makes a Good Sustainable Development Plan? An Analysis of Factors that Influence Principles of Sustainable
  Development", Maria Manta Conroy and Philip Berke, Environment and Planning A., (2004) Vol. 36: 1381-1396.

• Evaluating Plan Implementation: A Conformance-Based Methodology , Lucie Laurian, Maxine Day, Philip Berke,
  Neil Ericksen, and Jan Crawford, Journal of the American Planning Association, (2004) Vol. 70, No. 4: 471-480.

• "Greening Development for Watershed Protection: Does New Urbanism Make a Difference?", Philip Berke,
   Joseph McDonald, Nancy White, Michael Holmes, Kat Oury, and Rhonda Ryznar, Journal of the American
   Planning Association, (2003) Vol. 69, No. 4, pp. 397-413.

• "Does Sustainable Development Offer a New Direction for Planning? Challenges for the Twenty First
Century", Philip Berke, Journal of Planning Literature, (2002) Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 22-36.

• "Planning and Indigenous People: Human Rights and Environmental Protection in New Zealand", Philip Berke,
  Neil Ericksen, Jan Crawford, and Jenny Dixon, Journal of Planning Education and Research, (2002)
  Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 115-134.

• Are We Planning for Sustainable Development?* An Evaluation of 30 Comprehensive Plans, Philip Berke
  and Maria Manta, Journal of The American Planning Association, (2001) Vol. 66, No. 1, pp. 21-34.
  *2001 Best Article Award, National Planning Award of the American Planning Association.

Books
• Urban Land Use Planning, 5th Edition, Philip Berke, David Godschalk, and Edward Kaiser, with
Daniel Rodríguez. University of Illinois Press, Chicago. 2006 (in press).

• Plan-making for Sustainability: The New Zealand Experience, Neil Ericksen, Philip Berke, and Jan Crawford,
  Ashgate Publishers, London, 2004.

• Natural Hazard Mitigation: Recasting Disaster Policy and Planning, David Godschalk, Timothy Beatley,
Philip Berke, David Brower and Edward Kaiser, Island Press, Washington, D.C., 1999.

• After the Disaster: Linking Recovery to Sustainable Development in the Caribbean, Philip Berke and
Timothy Beatley, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland, 1997.