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| Rae Zimmerman | |
|---|---|
| Title | Research Professor and Professor Emerita of Planning and Public Administration |
| Academic background | |
| Education | University of California, Berkeley University of Pennsylvania |
| Alma mater | Columbia University |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Planning and Public Administration |
| Institutions | New York University |
Rae Zimmerman is an American risk analyst, teacher, and author, currently at New York University and an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Rae lived in Brooklyn as a child, and was interested in the arts, science, and geology. She attended the University of California, Berkeley in the 1960s and got a B.A. in chemistry, then earned a Master of City Planning from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Ph.D. in planning from Columbia University. Her doctoral work focused on industrial water pollution.
She taught graduate-level courses in risk management and the environmental movement in the 1970s, and received a grant from the National Science Foundation in 1980. She was president of the Society for Risk Analysis from 1996 to 1997, and received awards from it for "extraordinary achievement in risk analysis pertaining to the planning and operations of infrastructure systems"
Bibliography
- Governmental Management of Chemical Risk (1990)
- Transport, the Environment and Security (2012)
- Sustaining Urban Networks: The Social Diffusion of Large Technical Systems (co-editor, 2004)
References
- "Zimmerman, Rae". aaas.org. Archived from the original on April 21, 2017. Retrieved April 20, 2017.
- "Rae Zimmerman". nyu.edu. Retrieved April 20, 2017.
- ^ Greenberg, Michael R.; Lowrie, Karen (2020). "Rae Zimmerman: A Lifetime of Building Networks". Risk Analysis. 40 (4): 662–666. Bibcode:2020RiskA..40..662G. doi:10.1111/risa.13469. PMID 32255195.
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