Susan Lynn Cutter (born 1950) is an American
geographer and
disaster researcher who is a Carolina Distinguished Professor of Geography and director of the Hazards and Vulnerability Research Institute at the
University of South Carolina. She is the author or editor of many books on disasters and disaster recovery.[1][2] Her areas of expertise include the factors that make people and places susceptible to disasters, how people recover from disasters, and how to map disasters and disaster hazards.[3][4] She chaired a committee of the
National Research Council that in 2012 recommended more
open data in disaster-monitoring systems, more research into disaster-resistant building techniques, and a greater emphasis on the ability of communities to recover from future disasters.[5]
Before joining the South Carolina faculty in 1993, Cutter worked for the
University of Washington and
Rutgers University. She also worked from 2009 to 2012 at the University Institute for Environment and Human Security, in
Bonn, Germany, as Munich Re Foundation Chair on Social Vulnerability.[3]
Rating Places: A Geographer's View on Quality of Life (Association of American Geographers, 1985)[9]
Exploitation, Conservation, Preservation: A Geographic Perspective on Natural Resource Use (with William H. Renwick, Wiley, 1991; 4th ed., 2003)[10]
Environmental Risks and Hazards (Prentice-Hall, 1994)
Living with Risk: The Geography of Technological Hazards (Wiley, 1995)[11]
South Carolina Atlas of Environmental Risks and Hazards (with Deborah S. K. Thomas, Micah E. Cutler, Jerry T. Mitchell, and Michael S. Scott, University of South Carolina Press, 1999)[12]
American Hazardscapes: The Regionalization of Hazards and Disasters (edited, National Academies Press / Joseph Henry Press, 2001)[13]
The Geographical Dimensions of Terrorism (edited with Douglas B. Richardson and Thomas J. Wilbanks, Routledge, 2003)[14]
Geography and Technology (edited with Stanley D. Brunn and J. W Harrington Jr., Kluwer, 2004)[15]
Hazards, Vulnerability and Environmental Justice (edited, Routledge, 2006)[16]
Hurricane Katrina and the Forgotten Coast of Mississippi (with Christopher T. Emrich, Jerry T. Mitchell, Walter W. Piegorsch, Mark M. Smith, and Lynn Weber, Cambridge University Press, 2014)[17]
References
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ab"Susan L. Cutter", Faculty & Staff Directory, University of South Carolina College of Arts and Sciences, archived from
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ab"Susan L. Cutter", Enabling the next generation of hazard researchers, University of North Carolina, retrieved 2018-08-11
Pasqualetti, Martin J. (March 1996), Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 86 (1): 156–157,
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^Reviews of South Carolina Atlas of Environmental Risks and Hazards:
Monmonier, Mark (September 2000), Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 90 (3): 616–618,
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