Ernest Sternberg is an American scholar of urban planning who specializes in disaster preparedness. He is a professor in the school of Architecture at the University of Buffalo.

Sternberg attended Empire State College

Empire State College

Empire State College, one of the thirteen arts and science colleges of the State University of New York, is a multi-site institution offering associate, bachelor's, and master's degrees. It is primarily oriented towards the adult learner...

 and earned his PhD in city and regional planning at Cornell University

Cornell University

Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...

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Sternberg has published estensively about the particular risks that terrosism poses to urban environments.

Publications

• “Purifying the World: What the New Radical Ideology Stands For,” Orbis 54:1, Winter 2010, pp. 61–86.
• “Prospects for Building Regional Clusters of Technological Strength in the Homeland Security Sector: The Case of New York State,” Journal of Applied Security Studies 4:3, Jul.-Sept. 2009, pp. 341–362.
• (with George C. Lee) “New York City’s Healthcare Transportation During Disaster: A Preparedness Framework for a Wicked Problem,” Prehospital and Disaster Medicine 25:2, 2009, pp. 95–107
• “The Urban Region as Locus of Security Problems: Toward Research and Education to Safeguard New York and Other Urban Areas from Terrorism and Disaster,” Journal of Applied Security Research, 3:1, 2007, pp. 11–24.
• “Planning for Community Health Emergencies: The Research Challenge,” Journal of Security Education 1:4, 2006, pp. 133–144.
• "Classical Precariousness versus Modern Risk: Lessons in Prudence." Humanitas (forthcoming).
• "Counting Crises: US Hospital Evacuations 1971-1999," (with George C. Lee and Daniel Huard). Prehospital and Disaster Medicine. (2004)
• "Planning for Resilience in Hospital Internal Disaster." (2003). Prehospital and Disaster Medicine. Vol. 18, No. 4
• "Educating the Economic Strategist." (2002). in James Dator, ed., Advancing Futures: Futures Studies in Higher Education. Westport, CT: Praeger
• "What Makes Buildings Catalytic? How Cultural Facilities Spur Surrounding Development." (2002). Journal of Architecture and Planning Research. Vol. 19, No. 1
• “An Integrative Theory of Urban Design.” (2000). Journal of the American Planning Association. Vol. 66, No. 3
• The Economy of Icons: How Business Manufactures Meaning. (1999). Westport, CT: Praeger
• “Transformations: The Forces of Capitalist Change.” (1999). in Kenneth Taylor and William E. Halal, eds., 21st Century Economics. Boston, MA: St. Martin’s Press
• “The Iconography of the Tourism Experience.” (1997). Annals of Tourism Research. Vol. 24
• "Recuperating from Market Failure: Planning for Biodiversity and Technological Competitiveness." (1996). Public Administration Review. Vol. 56, January/February
• Photonic Technology and Industrial Policy: U.S. Responses to Technological Change. (1992). Albany, NY: State University of New York Press