Todd BenDor Assistant Professor Office: 307 New East Phone: 919.962.4760 Fax: 919.962.5206 Email: bendor[at]unc[dot]edu Website: todd.bendor.org

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• Full Curriculum Vitae (August 2009)

+ Ph.D. Regional Planning
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
+ M.S. Environmental Science
Washington State University
+ B.S. System Dynamics
Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Courses

PLAN 055: First Year (Freshman) Seminar - Sustainable Cities
PLAN 721: Advanced Planning Methods
PLAN 745: Development Impact Assessment
PLAN 799(2): Planning Seminar: Urban Modeling Workshop

Research, teaching, and Practice

Todd BenDor is part of the land use and environmental planning group in the Department of City and Regional Planning.  His research uses computer modeling and spatial analysis to better understand the impacts that human activities and development can have on sensitive ecological and environmental systems.  During 2009, Todd has been named a GlaxoSmithKline Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Emerging Issues at North Carolina State University (see http://ncsu.edu/iei/faculty/).

If you're interested in learning more about my research and teaching (including old course syllabi) - please see my website: todd.bendor.org/research and todd.bendor.org/teaching.

Professional Activities

+ Member: American Planning Association, International System Dynamics Society, and Society of Wetland Scientists
+ Reviewer for Diversity and Distributions, Environmental Management Review, Ecological Restoration, System Dynamics Review, and the Journal of the American Planning Association

Public Service

+ Modeling Facilitator. Confluence I: Seeking Common Ground for Floodplain Functionality and Development. A Workshop for River Stakeholders to Collaboratively Capture Information and Challenge Assumptions. Organized by: The Nature Conservancy. National Mississippi River Museum and Aquarium, Dubuque, Iowa. (August 16-18, 2005).
+ Community Facilitator for Champaign County, IL “big.small.all” visioning and planning project.
+Facilitator for Water Resources meeting at the Emerging Issues Forum of the NC State Institute for Emerging Issues (February, 2010)

Selected publications

Please see todd.bendor.org/publications for a list of all my publications and op-eds.