June 13, 2003

The Role of Geographers in a Time of Terrorism

By PETER MONAGHAN

After September 11, 2001, the National Science Foundation called for more research on how to prevent terrorist attacks. Academic, private, and government geographers have responded with The Geographical Dimensions of Terrorism (Routledge), in which they discuss the contributions of such technologies as satellite imaging. One of the book's three editors, Susan L. Cutter, director of the Hazards Research Lab in the department of geography at the University of South Carolina at Columbia,

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