Sudha S Arlikatti
Rabdan Academy, United Arab Emirates
Biography
Sudha Arlikatti has over a decade of private sector experience as an architectural and planning consultant in India and Oman and over 14 years of disaster research and teaching experience in the U.S.A. She is currently an Associate Professor in the Business Continuity and Integrated Emergency Management programs in the Faculty of Resilience at Rabdan Academy, U.A.E. Her research interests include disaster warnings and risk communication in multiethnic communities, protective action decisionmaking, post-disaster sheltering and housing recovery, use of decision support technologies for emergency management, and organizational and community resiliency to natural and intentional hazards. She has published 26 articles in notable disasters, public administration and environmental management journals, 12 book chapters, an edited book and numerous reports. She currently serves as the Vice President (2015-2018) of the Research Committee on the Sociology of Disasters (RC39) with the International Sociological Association.
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