is a Carolina Distinguished Professor of Geography and Director of the Hazards Research Lab at the University of South Carolina. She was formerly President of the Association of American Geographers.

Introduction: Pathways to Disaster; Part I—Old, New and Familiar Hazards: 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 Casualities: Women, Children and Environmental Change—Susan L. Cutter; Part II—Vulnerability to Threats: 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; Part II—Societal Responses to Threats: 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 Behaviours 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 Wisk Assessment—Kirstin Dow and Susan L. Cutter; Part IV—Environmental Justice: 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 Justicw 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; Part V—From Theory to Practice: 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; Index.