Undertaken as part of the National Science Foundation's call for research associated with 9/11 terrorist attacks, this volume contains research addressing the immediate role and utility of geographical information and technologies in emergency management. It also initiates an on-going process to help develop a focused national research agenda on the graphical dimensions of terrorism. Areas covered include: geospatial data and technologies infrastructure research, root causes of terrorism, vulnerability science and hazard research.

Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast in August 2005 with devastating consequences. Almost all analyses of the disaster have been dedicated to the way the hurricane affected New Orleans. This volume examines the impact of Katrina on southern Mississippi. While communities along Mississippi's Gulf Coast shared the impact, their socioeconomic and demographic compositions varied widely, leading to different types and rates of recovery. This volume furthers our understanding of the pace of recovery and its geographic extent, and explores the role of inequalities in the recovery process...