Principal Investigator

Airport Disaster Preparedness in a Community Context

James F. Smith

Since 1999 Jim Smith has been a professor at American Public University where he has taught natural disaster management and environmental studies. Since 2006 he has studied the relationships between airports and emergency management agencies, resulting in a series of papers. (See list to right on this page.) U.S. airports participating in these prior studies were CLT, DFW, MEM, MSY, and SFO. Twelve overseas airports were also included. Jim is a member and serves on committess for AAAE, ASCE, and IAEM.

Jim is a Professional Engineer and has his doctorate in environmental design and planning from Virginia Tech.

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Recent Papers on Airports and Emergency Management:

(Copies available upon request)

Smith, J. F., Waggoner, S. S., & Hall, G. (2007). Building sound emergency management into airports. IATC 2007 Proceedings, 47-60.

Smith, J. F., Waggoner, S. S., & Hall, G. (2007). Memphis Airport as a model for disaster response. Crisis Response Journal 3(3), 30-32.

Smith, J. F., Waggoner, S. S., Rabjohn, A., & Bachar, A. (2007). Protecting airport functionality during disaster responses: Natural disasters, accidents, and pandemics. J. Emergency Mgt. 5(6), 29-40.

Smith, J. F., Waggoner, S. S., Rabjohn, A., & Bachar, A. (2008a). Protecting airport functionality during disaster responses: Terrorism, war, civil war, and riots. J. Emergency Mgt., 6(3), 53-62.

Smith, J. F., Waggoner, S. S., Rabjohn, A., & Bachar, A. (2008b). Protecting airport functionality during disaster responses: Solutions. J. Emergency Mgt., 6(4), 57-64.

Smith, J. F. (In press). Maintaining airport continuity of business and operations during disaster response: the role of command and control relationships with emergency management agencies. J. Bus. Continuity & Emerg. Planning. (scheduled for publication in October 2008).