The readings listed below are suggested to accompany the activities in this module.  Because of copyright restrictions and cost, the readings have not been reproduced for the on-line version of this module.  Instead, it is suggested that you access these readings through your library and put them on reserve for your students. Some of the readings, as indicated below, are available in the printed version of the module available through the Association of American Geographers.
 

Unit 1:  Suggested Readings

• Jones, David. 1993. Environmental hazards in the 1990s: Problems, paradigms and prospects. Geography 78, 2: 161-165. (Provided in the printed version of the module.)

• Namafe, Charles and Frances Slater. 1995. Floods: Friends or enemies? Geographical Education 8, 3: 57-62.

• Mitchell, James K. 1989. Hazards Research. In: Geography in America, 410-424.

• Greenberg, Michael and Dona Schneider. 1995. Gender differences in risk perception: Effects differ in stressed vs. non-stressed environments. Risk Analysis 15, 4: 503-511.

• Flynn, James, Paul Slovic, and C.K. Mertz. 1994. Gender, race, and perception of environmental risks. Risk Analysis 14, 6: 1101-1108.  (Provided in the printed version of the module.)

• Cutter, Susan. forthcoming. Environmental disasters. In: The Women’s Studies encyclopedia, eds. C. Karmaraw and D. Spender. New York: Wheatsheaf.

 

Unit 2:  Suggested Readings

• Cutter, Susan L. 1995. The forgotten casualties: Women, children, and environmental change. Global Environmental Change 5, 3: 181-194.

• Burton, Ian, R.W. Kates, and G.F. White. 1993. Emerging synthesis. In: The environment as hazard, 241-263. Second edition. New York, NY: Guilford Press.

• Showalter, P.S., W.E. Riebsame, and M.F. Myers. 1993. Natural hazard trends in the United States: A preliminary review for the 1990s. Working Paper # 83, Natural Hazards Research and Application Information Center, University of Colorado, Boulder. (This paper is available from the NHRAIC, Institute of Behavioral Science # 6, Campus Box 482, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0482; also through the Center’s Web site at http://www.colorado.edu/hazards.)

• Flavin, Christopher. 1994. Storm warnings: Climate change hits the insurance industry. World Watch 7,6: 10-20. (Provided in the printed version of the module.)

• Cutter, Susan L. 1996. Societal responses to environmental hazards. International Social Science Journal 48,4 (1 December).

Unit 3:  Suggested Readings

• Smith, Keith. 1992. Adjustment to hazard: Sharing the loss (Chapter 4) & Adjustment to hazard: Reducing the loss (Chapter 5) in: Environmental hazards: Assessing risk and reducing disaster, 66-100. New York: Routledge.

• Mitchell, James. 1995. Coping with natural hazards and disasters in megacities: Perspectives on the twenty-first century. GeoJournal 37, 3; 303-311.