Courses

Dr. Burby teaches courses in land use and environmental planning, development impact assessment, sustainable cities, hazard mitigation and research methods.   He is the Director of Undergraduate Studies and the Coordinator of the Minor in Urban Studies and Planning.

PLAN 006E:  Sustainable Cities
PLAN 110:  Special Topics: Hazards and Sustainability
PLAN 245:  Development Impact Assessment
PLAN 302:  Advanced Research Design Seminar

Research and Practice

Dr. Burby is a fellow of American Institute of Certified Planners and is a member of numerous professional organizations. He is a former co-editor of the Journal of the American Planning Association. He has been an author or editor on 14 books and published extensively in planning and policy journals including, among others, Journal of the American Planning Association, Journal of Planning Education and Research, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Land Economics, Environmental Management, and Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. He has received many research grants and is currently principal investigator on a study of citizen participation in planning funded by the National Science Foundation as well as co-pi on an NSF-funded study of risk and planning behaviors associated with combined natural and technological disasters. Recent papers include:
 

Baton Rouge: The Making (and Breaking) of a Petrochemical Paradise
Code Enforcement Burdens and Central City Decline
Creating Hazard Resilient Communities Through Land-Use Planning
Urban Containment Policy and Disaster: Is There A Connection?

Selected Publications

• Cooperating with Nature: Confronting Natural Hazards with Land-Use Planning for Sustainable Communities. Raymond J. Burby, ed. Washington, DC: Joseph Henry/National Academy Press, 1998.

• Making Governments Plan: State Experiments in Managing Land Use. Raymond J. Burby, et al. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.

• Environmental Management and Governance: Intergovernmental Approaches to Hazards and Sustainability. Peter J. May, Raymond J. Burby, et al. London: Routledge Publishers, 1996.

• "Chapter 5 Environmental Assessment," Margot Garcia, Robert Olshansky, and Raymond J. Burby in The Practice of Local Government Planning, 3rd Edition, Frank So, Linda Dalton, and Charles Hoch, eds. Washington, DC: International City Management Association and American Planning Association, 2000.

• "Code Enforcement Burdens and Central City Decline," Raymond J. Burby, et al. Journal of the American Planning Association 66, 2 (Spring 2000): 143-161.

• "Heavy Industry, People, and Planners: New Insights on an Old Issue," Raymond J. Burby. Journal of Planning Education and Research 19, 1 (Autumn 1999): 15-25.

• "Unleashing the Power of Planning to Create Disaster-Resistant Communities," Raymond J. Burby, et al. Journal of the American Planning Association 65 (Summer 1999): 247-258.