Robert Deyle

Education

B.A. (Biology) Dartmouth College , 1972. M.S. (Environmental Management) Duke University , 1977. Ph.D. (Environmental Science) State University of New York - Syracuse , 1987.

Interests

Professor Deyle teaches courses in environmental and coastal planning, planning and mitigating climate change, GIS, and plan implementation. His research interests include plan implementation, hurricane hazard mitigation and recovery planning, and inter-organizational collaboration. Current research examines the effects of Florida's hurricane hazard planning mandates on residential development within hurricane flood hazard zones.

[Curriculum vitae]

Selected Publications

Deyle, Robert E., Timothy S. Chapin, and Earl J. Baker. Forthcoming. Are We Any Safer? An Evaluation of Florida's Hurricane Hazard Mitigation Planning Mandates. In Charles E. Connerly, Timothy S. Chapin, and Harrison T. Higgins (eds), Evaluating Florida’s Growth Management Approach. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

URS Corporation and Robert E. Deyle. 2005. Protecting Florida's Communities: Best Land Use Planning and Development Management Practices for Minimizing Vulnerability to Coastal Storms and Flooding. Tallahassee, FL: Florida Department of Community Affairs.

Yoshida, Kaori and Robert E. Deyle. 2005. “The Determinants of Small Business Hazard Mitigation.” Natural Hazards Review 6(1): 1-12.

Deyle, Robert E. and Mary Kay Falconer. 2003. “Revenue Options for a Risk-Based Assessment of Developed Property in Hurricane Hazard Zones.” Journal of Land Use and Environmental Planning 18(2): 299-330.

Nixon, Scott, George Dalrymple, Robert Deyle, Wayne Huber, Mark Peterson, Stephen Polasky, Norbert Psuty, Malcolm Rivkin, and Daniel Sheer. 2002. A Review of the Florida Keys Carrying Capacity Study. Washington, DC: National Research Council. 166p.

Deyle, Robert E. and Richard A. Smith. 2000. “Risk-Based Taxation of Hazardous Land Development.” Journal of the American Planning Association 66(4): 421-434.

Burby, Raymond J., Robert E. Deyle, David R. Godschalk, and Robert B. Olshansky. 2000. “Creating Hazard Resilient Communities through Land-Use Planning.” Natural Hazards Review 1(2): 99-106.

Burby, Raymond J., Timothy Beatley, Philip R. Berke, Robert E. Deyle, Steven P. French, David R. Godschalk, Edward J. Kaiser, Jack D. Kartez, Peter J. May, Robert Olshansky, Robert G. Paterson, and Rutherford H. Platt. 1999. “Unleashing the Power of Planning to Create Disaster-Resistant Communities or Why the Staggering Toll of Economic Losses and Human Suffering in Natural Disasters Will Continue to Rise if Federal Policy Is Not Revised to Reverse Disincentives that Have Stifled Local Efforts to Plan for and Manage the Development of Hazardous Areas.” Journal of the American Planning Association 65(3): 247-258.

Smith, Richard A. and Robert E. Deyle.1998. "Hurricane Case Study: Opal in the Florida Panhandle." In James Schwab (ed.), Planning for Post-Disaster Recovery and Reconstruction, pp. 235-260. Planning Advisory Service Report No. 483/484. Chicago, IL: American Planning Association.