Andrew Rumbach is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Planning and Design at the University of Colorado, Denver. He holds a doctorate and a master’s degree in City and Regional Planning from Cornell University and a bachelor’s in Political Science from Reed College. His research examines the relationships between urbanization and environmental risk, with special focus on the vulnerability of poor and marginalized groups to natural hazards and global climate change. He is especially concerned with the role that planning plays in shaping geographies of risk and resilience in cities, an interest he developed while working on neighborhood recovery plans in New Orleans following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
Rumbach’s current research is centered largely on cities in eastern India and the Pacific islands. For his doctoral work, he received the Gill-Chin Lim Award for the best dissertation in international planning from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning.
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