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Susan Cutter
Susan Cutter
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Lead Investigator on START Research Projects
Domestic Weapons of Mass Destruction: Populations at Risk from U.S. Chemical Facilities Releases
June 2008
to
October 2011
Population Vulnerability Analysis, Spatial Social Science, and GIS
May 2005
to
May 2009
Shifting Terrorism Trends Across Time and Space
June 2005
Selected Publications
U.S. Emergency Management in the 21st Century: From Disaster to Catastrophe
(Book)
Implementing Disaster Policy: Exploring Scale and Measurement Schemes for Disaster Resilience
(Journal Article)
Linkages between Vulnerability and Resilience
(Book Chapter)
Autologistic Models for Benchmark Risk or Vulnerability Assessment of Urban Terrorism Outcomes
(Journal Article)
Urban-Rural Differences in Disaster Resilience
(Journal Article)
Resilience to What? Resilience for Whom?
(Journal Article)
Our Hazardous Environment: Four Decades of Progress or Retrenchment?
(Journal Article)
The Landscape of Disaster Resilience Indicators in the USA
(Journal Article)
The Precarious Nature of Food
(Op-ed)
Building Disaster Resilience: Steps Toward Sustainability
(Journal Article)
Early Detection of Terrorism Outbreaks Using Prospective Space–Time Scan Statistics
(Journal Article)
The Geography of U.S. Terrorist Incidents, 1970-2004
(Journal Article)
When Do Losses Count? Six Fallacies of Natural Hazards Loss Data
(Journal Article)
Spatial Patterns of Natural Hazards Mortality in the United States
(Journal Article)
Planning for Pet Evacuations During Disasters
(Journal Article)
Temporal and Spatial Changes in Social Vulnerability to Natural Hazards
(Journal Article)
Benchmark Analysis for Quantifying Urban Vulnerability to Terrorist Incidents
(Journal Article)
Toward a Comprehensive Loss Inventory of Weather and Climate Hazards
(Book Chapter)
Vulnerability of U.S. Cities to Environmental Hazards
(Journal Article)
Improving Shadow Evacuation Management: Case Study of the Graniteville, South Carolina, Chlorine Spill
(Journal Article)
The Geography of Social Vulnerability: Race, Class, and Catastrophe
(Report)
Moral Hazard, Social Catastrophe: The Changing Face of Vulnerability along the Hurricane Coasts
(Journal Article)
Are Natural Hazards and Disaster Losses in the U.S. Increasing?
(Journal Article)
News References
Fox News: 'Death Map' Shows Where Americans Most Likely to Die
(START in the News)
START Bulletin Summer 2008 Inaugural Issue
(Newsletter)
Washington Post: Terrorism Study Drops a Bombshell on Boise
(START in the News)
SC's Hazards & Vulnerability Research Institute releases Social Vulnerability Index (SoVI)
(Featured Research)
START researcher Susan Cutter receives Decade of Behavior Research Award
(People Spotlight)
START investigator, Susan Cutter, advises Congress
(Featured Research)
Secretary Ridge announces creation of terrorism center
(News)