Rachel A. Davidson is an American

civil engineer A civil engineer is a person who practices civil engineering – the application of planning, designing, constructing, maintaining, and operating infrastructure while protecting the public and environmental health, as well as improving existing i ...

and professor in the Disaster Research Center at the University of Delaware. She is known for her research on natural disaster risk modeling,

disaster risk management Disaster risk reduction aims to make Disaster, disasters less likely to happen. The approach, also called DRR or disaster risk management, also aims to make disasters less damaging when they do occur. DRR aims to make communities stronger and better ...

and civil infrastructure systems.Modeling natural disaster risk management
/ref> She is a winner of the Dorothy Swanson Excellence in Teaching Award and a nominee for the Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize. She was the president of

Society for Risk Analysis The Society for Risk Analysis (SRA) is a learned society providing an open forum for anyone interested in risk analysis. SRA seeks to: * Bring together individuals from diverse disciplines and from different countries and provide them opportunit ...

(2010-2011).

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Rachel A. Davidson at University of Delaware
American civil engineers American structural engineers Living people Stanford University alumni Princeton University alumni University of Delaware faculty Year of birth missing (living people) {{Civil-engineering-stub

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