Academic Publications:
Cutter, S. L., L. A. Johnson, C. Finch, and M. Berry, 2007. "The U.S. Hurricane Coast: Increasingly Vulnerable?" Environment 49(7): 8-20.
This paper outlines spatial and temporal differences in social vulnerability among U.S. counties and coastal counties particularly.
Piegorsch, W. W., S. L. Cutter, and F. Hardisty, 2007. "Benchmark analysis for quantifying urban vulnerability to terrorist incidents," Risk Analysis 27(6): 1411-1425.
This paper outlines a methodology to assess the vulnerability of urban areas to terrorist attacks in the United States. The methodology combines SoVI with indices on environmental exposure and the built environment to generate an overall place-based vulnerability index.
This paper highlights the differences in social vulnerability of the Gulf coast population. It connects differential vulnerability to the need for differential mitigation, disaster response and recovery actions.
Cutter, S. L., C. T. Emrich, J. T. Mitchell, B. J. Boruff, M. Gall, M. C. Schmidtlein, C. G. Burton, and G. Melton, 2006. "The Long Road Home: Race, Class, and Recovery from Hurricane Katrina," Environment 48(2): 8-20.
This article addresses the socioeconomic effects of Hurricane Katrina. It outlines the socioeconomic and demographic changes of the region and their implications for pre-Katrina vulnerability levels as well as post-Katrina recovery. Most notable is the consistent ranking of Orleans County as a highly vulnerable county, which is reflected in its high SoVI scores since 1960.
Boruff, B. J., C. Emrich, and S. L. Cutter, 2005. “Hazard Vulnerability of U.S. Coastal Counties”, Journal of Coastal Research 21(5): 932-942.
This paper combines the coastal vulnerability index developed by NOAA with SoVI to study the relative importance of physical and socioeconomic characteristics of U.S. coastal counties in their determination of overall vulnerability.
S. L. Cutter, B. J. Boruff, and W. L. Shirley 2003. “Social Vulnerability to Environmental Hazards,” Social Science Quarterly 84 (2): 242-261.
This article introduces the Social Vulnerability Index for the United States for the first time. It provides an overview of social vulnerability research and the quantification of social vulnerability in particular. The SoVI presented in this paper is based on U.S. census data from 1990.
Applications:
California State Hazard Mitigation Plan
Oliveira Mendes, J. M. d., 2007. Social Vulnerability Indexes as Planning Tools: Beyond the Preparedness Paradigm.
Natural Hazards Risk Assessment for the State of Colorado
Presentations:
Dr. Cutter testifies on the role of social science research in disaster preparedness and response before the Subcommitte on Research (Searl No. 109-32, November 2006).
SoVI on the Emergency Information Infrastructure Partnership's Virtual Forum.
Coastal Pressures and SoVI at the Disasters Roundtable at the National Academies.
Discussions of SoVI:
Levine, J. N., 2007. "Population displacement and housing dilemmas due to catastrophic dissaters," Journal of Planning Literature 22(1): 3-15.
Publications referencing Cutter et al. (2003):
Ashley, W. S., 2007. "Spatial and temporal analysis of tornado fatalities in the United States: 1880-2005," Weather And Forecasting 22 (6):1214-1228.
Bakker, K., 2005. "Katrina: The public transcript of 'disaster'," (guest editorial) Environment And Planning D 23 (6):795-802.
Belliveau, S., B. Smit, and B. Bradshaw, 2006. "Multiple exposures and dynamic vulnerability: Evidence from the grape industry in the Okanagan Valley, Canada," Global Environmental Change 16 (4):364-378.
Bryant, D. L., and M. D. Abkowitz, 2007. "Development of a terrestrial chemical spill management system," Journal Of Hazardous Materials 147 (1-2):78-90.
Burningham, K., J. Fielding, and D. Thrush, 2008. "'It'll never happen to me': understanding public awareness of local flood risk," Disasters 32 (2):216-238.
Cigler, B. A., 2007. "The "Big Questions" of Katrina and the 2005 great flood of New Orleans," Public Administration Review 67:64-76.
Costanza, R., W. J. Mitsch, and J. W. Day, 2006. "Creating a sustainable and desirable New Orleans," Ecological Engineering 26 (4):317-320.
Costanza, R., W. J. Mitsch, and J. W. Day, 2006. "A new vision for New Orleans and the Mississippi delta: applying ecological economics and ecological engineering," Frontiers In Ecology And The Environment 4 (9):465-472.
Crozier, M., J. McClure, J. Vercoe, and M. Wilson, 2006. "The effects of hazard zone information on judgments about earthquake damage," Area 38 (2):143-152.
Curtis, A., J. W. Mills, and M. Leitner, 2007. "Katrina and vulnerability: The geography of stress," Journal Of Health Care For The Poor And Underserved 18 (2):315-330.
Denberg, T. D., F. J. Kim, R. C. Flanigan, D. Fairclough, B. L. Beaty, J. F. Steiner, and R. M. Hoffman, 2006. "The influence of patient race and social vulnerability on urologist treatment recommendations in localized prostate carcinoma," Medical Care 44 (12):1137-1141.
Denberg, T. D., and J. F. Steiner, 2007. "Vulnerability - More than a construct, a clinical reality: Response to Denberg et al, December 2006 Medical Care - Response to letter from Dr. Gregory D. Stevens," Medical Care 45 (3):275-276.
Eakin, H., and L. A. Bojorquez-Tapia, 2008. "Insights into the composition of household vulnerability from multicriteria decision analysis," Global Environmental Change 18 (1):112-127.
Eakin, H., and A. L. Luers, 2006. "Assessing the vulnerability of social-environmental systems," Annual Review of Environment and Resources 31:365-394.
Fielding, J., 2007. "Environmental injustice or just the lie of the land: an investigation of the socio-economic class of those at risk from flooding in England and Wales," Sociological Research Online 12 (4).
Flint, C. G., and A. E. Luloff, 2005. "Natural resource-based communities, risk, and disaster: An intersection of theories," Society & Natural Resources 18 (5):399-412.
Harlan, S. L., A. J. Brazel, L. Prashad, W. L. Stefanov, and L. Larsen, 2006. "Neighborhood microclimates and vulnerability to heat stress," Social Science & Medicine 63 (11):2847-2863.
Hufschmidt, G., M. Crozier, and T. Glade, 2005. "Evolution of natural risk: research framework and perspectives," Natural Hazards And Earth System Sciences 5 (3):375-387.
Hufschmidt, G., and M. J. Crozier, 2008. "Evolution of natural risk: analyzing changing landslide hazard in Wellington, Aotearoa/New Zealand," Natural Hazards 45 (2):255-276.
Lahiri-Dutt, K., 2007. "Like the drifting grains of Sand: Vulnerability, security and adjustment by communities in the charlands of the Damodar river, India," South Asia-Journal Of South Asian Studies 30 (2):327-349.
Levine, J. N., A. M. Esnard, and A. Sapat, 2007. "Population displacement and housing dilemmas due to catastrophic disasters," Journal Of Planning Literature 22 (1):3-15.
Lin, S. Y., D. G. Shaw, and M. C. Ho, 2008. "Why are flood and landslide victims less willing to take mitigation measures than the public?" Natural Hazards 44 (2):305-314.
Masuda, J. R., and T. Garvin, 2006. "Place, culture, and the social amplification of risk," Risk Analysis 26 (2):437-454.
Negri, A. J., N. Burkardt, J. H. Golden, J. B. Halverson, G. J. Huffman, M. C. Larsen, J. A. McGinley, R. G. Updike, J. P. Verdin, and G. F. Wieczorek, 2005. "The hurricane-flood-landslide continuum," Bulletin Of The American Meteorological Society 86 (9):1241-1247.
Norris, F. H., S. P. Stevens, B. Pfefferbaum, K. F. Wyche, and R. L. Pfefferbaum, 2008. "Community resilience as a metaphor, theory, set of capacities, and strategy for disaster readiness," American Journal Of Community Psychology 41 (1-2):127-150.
Peguero, A. A., 2006. "Latino disaster vulnerability - The dissemination of hurricane mitigation information among Florida's homeowners," Hispanic Journal Of Behavioral Sciences 28 (1):5-22.
Roberts, P., 2007. "Toward a national hazards risk assessment," Journal Of Homeland Security And Emergency Management 4 (3).