Professor Bruce Glavovic

BSc Agric (Natal) MSc Env Sc (Cape Town) MURP PhD (Virginia)

Associate Director, Joint Centre for Disaster Research, Massey University, Member of New Zealand Planning Institute

Bruce Glavovic has 25 years of experience in academia, private consulting and Government, in South Africa, the United States of America, and New Zealand. I was the Programme Co-ordinator of the Resource and Environmental Planning Programme at Massey University before my appointment as the first EQC Fellow in Natural Hazards Planning in July 2005. I am the Associate Director of the Massey-GNS Science Joint Centre for Disaster Research.My research focuses on natural hazards planning, governance and the social dimensions of hazards. It examines the role of land-use planning and governance in building sustainable, hazard-resilient communities, focusing on disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation.