1st Edition
Urban Planning for Global Pandemics Managing the Environments of Emerging Infectious Diseases
Introduction: Preventive planning for a global pandemic
1. Pandemics post-mortem: An anatomy of where COVID-19 came from
2. Planning for the unforeseen: A scientific approach to the future
3. The role of planning futures for pandemics
4. Understanding of the longue durée of global pandemics
5. Justified conjecture: A land use planning origin of pandemics
6. How futurist planners can think more clearly about time
7. The evolution of EID pandemics from a planning perspective: The case of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza
8. Planning principles for pandemic prevention: Proportional responses along the upstream and downstream continuum
9. Planning methods for evidence on the unknowable future: Quantifying probabilities of intersecting causal chains
Biography
James Nguyen H. Spencer is Professor of Urban & Regional Planning and Vice Provost and Dean Emeritus at Louisiana State University. Supported by the National Academies, the Ford Foundation, the National Science Foundation, and others, his work lies at the intersection of scholarly research, actionable recommendations, and community impact.
