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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Susan L Cutter |
ISBN: | 1844073114 9781844073115 1844073106 9781844073108 |
OCLC Number: | 986571987 |
Description: | 397 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Introduction : pathways to disaster -- 1. The changing landscape of fear / Susan L. Cutter, Douglas B. Richardson and Thomas J. Wilbanks -- 2. Chemical hazards in urban America / Susan L. Cutter and John Tiefenbacher -- 3. Fleeing from harm : international trends in evacuations from chemical accidents / Susan L. Cutter -- 4. Ecocide in Babylonia / Susan L. Cutter -- 5. The forgotten casualties : women, children and environmental change / Susan L. Cutter -- 6. Vulnerability to environmental hazards / Susan L. Cutter -- 7. Revealing the vulnerability of people and places : a case study of Georgetown County, South Carolina / Susan L. Cutter, Jerry T. Mitchell and Michael S. Scott -- 8. Social vulnerability to environmental hazards / Susan L. Cutter, Bryan J. Boruff and W. Lynn Shirley -- 9. The science of vulnerability and the vulnerability of science / Susan L. Cutter -- 10. Societal responses to environmental hazards / Susan L. Cutter -- 11. Risk cognition and the public : the case of Three Mile Island / Susan L. Cutter -- 12. En-gendered fears : femininity and technological risk perception / Susan L. Cutter, John Tiefenbacher and William D. Solecki -- 13. Evacuation behaviour and Three Mile Island / Susan L. Cutter and Kent Barnes -- 14. Crying wolf : repeat responses to hurricane evacuation orders / Kirstin Dow and Susan L. Cutter -- 15. Public orders and personal opinions : household strategies for hurricane risk assessment / Kirstin Dow and Susan L. Cutter -- 16. Race, class and environmental justice / Susan L. Cutter -- 17. Issues in environmental justice research / Susan L. Cutter -- 18. The role of geographic scale in monitoring environmental justice / Susan L. Cutter, Danika Holm and Lloyd Clark -- 19. Setting environmental justice in space and place : acute and chronic airborne toxic releases in the southeastern United States / Susan L. Cutter and William D. Solecki -- 20. Using relative risk indicators to disclose toxic hazard information to communities / Michael S. Scott and Susan L. Cutter -- 21. Dumping in Dixie revisited : the evolution of environmental injustices in South Carolina / Jerry T. Mitchell, Deborah S.K. Thomas and Susan L. Cutter -- 22. Emergency preparedness and planning for nuclear power plant accidents / Susan L. Cutter -- 23. Airborne toxic releases : are communities prepared? / Susan L. Cutter -- 24. Geographers and nuclear war : why we lack influence on public policy / Susan L. Cutter -- 25. Emerging hurricane evacuation issues : Hurricane Floyd and South Carolina / Kirstin Dow and Susan L. Cutter -- 26. GIScience, disasters and emergency management / Susan L. Cutter. |
Responsibility: | Susan L. Cutter. |
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