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Dean Kyne
Dr. Dean Kyne serves as an assistant professor of environmental sociology at the Sociology and Anthropology Department, the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV). He is a core faculty member of M.A. Disaster Studies program which was recently opened. Before joining UTRGV, Dr. Kyne worked as director of research at the Maricopa County Government in Phoenix, Arizona. In addition, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at University of Karlsruhe, Germany and Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand. He has published a book, the first-of-its-kind, namely Nuclear Power Plant Emergencies in US by Springer Publishing in March 2017. In addition, his second book, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for Disaster and Emergency Management: An Introduction is under new contract with Springer Publishing and expected to publish in early 2018. He currently serves as an Editor-in-Chief for International Journal of Disaster Response and Emergency Management (IJDREM). He has published numerous articles focusing on disasters and emergency management, environmental justice, sustainability, resiliency, social capital, and preparedness for and evacuation in hurricane events in the Rio Grande Valley (RGV). On April 20, 2017, UTRGV honored Excellent Community Partnership Award to Dr. Kyne and his community partner the City of Edinburg Solid Waste Management for their work in creating a service-learning project for students to learn about issues the management officials faced and to provide researched sustainable solutions. On May 4, 2017, UTRGV also honored Dr. Kyne for his achievement in publishing the book in the University Faculty Excellence Awards and Recognition Event held in El Gran Salon on the Brownsville Campus.

Career
Dr. Dean Kyne serves as an assistant professor of environmental sociology at the Sociology and Anthropology Department, the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV).

Selected Publications
Dean Kyne. Nuclear Power Plant Emergencies in the United States: Managing Risks, Demographics and Response. Springer, 2017.

Dean Kyne. "A Fukushima-Like Disaster in New York City and Possible Issues Associated with the Extreme Event Management System," New Jersey/World Scientific Publishing: Journal of Extreme Events 3, no. 1 (December 2016): 26.

Dean Kyne. "Living with the Invisible Risks in U.S. Urban Areas: Potential Nuclear Power Induced Disasters, Urban Emergency Management Challenges and Environmental Justice Issues," New Jersey/Wiley Publishing: Hazards, Risks, and Crisis in Public Policy 7, no. 4 (December 2016): 33.

Dean Kyne, Bob Bolin, "Emerging Environmental Justice Issues in Nuclear Power and Radioactive Contamination," Basel: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 13, no. 7 (July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2016): 19.

Dean Kyne and Jason Harris. "A Longitudinal Study of Human Exposure to Potential Nuclear Power Plant Risk," International Journal of Disaster Risk Science 6, no. 4 (December 2015): 399-414.

Dean Kyne. "Managing Nuclear Power Induced Disasters," Emergency Management Journal 13, no. 5 (September 2015): 417-430.

Dean Kyne. "Public Exposure to US Commercial Nuclear Power Plants Induced Disasters," International Journal of Disaster Risk Science 6, no. 3 (September 2015): 238–249.

External Link
Dean Kyne. Faculty Listing at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.