Research
My major research projects address vulnerability and decision-making with respect to climate variability, climate change and water resources. http://www.cas.sc.edu/geog/cisa/

I am beginning research on the development and future of flood risks and environmental justice in Baltimore in conjunction with the Baltimore LTER research. http://www.beslter.org/

Recent Publications
_____ and T. E. Downing. (2006) Atlas of Climate Change. Berkely: University of California Press and London: Earthscan. (Translations in Korean, Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish Forthcoming)

• Winner of Planeta Environment Book of the Year 2006. http://www.planeta.com/topshelf.html
• Included among Kirkus Reviews’ Reference Books of the Year 2006.

_____, R.E. O’Connor, B, Yarnal, G. J. Carbone, and C. L. Jocoy. Accepted 7/06. Why worry? Community water system managers’ perceptions of climate vulnerability. Global Environmental Change.

______, R.E. Kasperson, and M. Bohn. 2006. "Exploring the Social Justice Implications of Adaptation." In Adger, W.N. et al., eds. Fairness and Climate Change. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Pp. 79-96.

R.E. Kasperson and ______ , Coordinating Lead Authors, Lead Authors: E. Archer, D. Caceres, T. Downing, T. Elmqvist, C. Folke, G. Han, K. Iyengar, C. Vogel, K. Wilson, G. Ziervogel. 2006. "Vulnerable Peoples and Places," Chapter 6 for the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: Conditions and Trends Volume. Washington, D.C.: Island Press pp. 143-164.

O'Connor, R.E., B. Yarnal, _____, C.L. Jocoy, and G. J. Carbone. 2005. Feeling at-Risk Matters: Water Managers and the Decision to Use Forecasts. Risk Analysis 25(5): 1265-1275.

Carbone, G.J. and _____. 2005. "Water Resource Management and Drought Forecasts in South Carolina." Journal of the American Water Resources Association 41(1):145-155.

Maltias, A., _____, and Å. Persson. 2003. Integrating Perspectives on Environmental Security. SEI Risk and Vulnerability Programme Report 2003-01. Stockholm: Sweden.

_____. 2002. "Social Dimensions of Gradients in Urban Ecosystems", Urban Ecosystems, 4: 255-275.

_____ and S.L. Cutter. 2002. "Emerging Hurricane Evacuation Issues: Hurricane Floyd and South Carolina", Natural Hazards Review, 3(1): 12-18.

Cutter, S.L., Hodgson, M.E., and _____. 2001. "Subsidized Inequities: The Spatial Patterning of Environmental Risks and Federally-Assisted Housing", Urban Geography 22(1):29-53.

Kasperson, R.E., Kasperson, J.X., and _____, with contributions from Exequiel Ezcurra, Diana M. Liverman, J. Kenneth Mitchell, Samuel J. Ratick, Timothy O'Riordan, and Peter Timmerman. 2001. "Introduction: Global Environmental Risk and Society", in Global Environmental Risk, J.X. Kasperson and R.E. Kasperson, eds., Tokyo: United Nations University Press. pp. 1-48.

Kasperson, R.E., Kasperson, J.X., and _____. 2001. "Equity, Vulnerability and Global Environmental Change", in Global Environmental Risk, J.X. Kasperson and R.E. Kasperson, eds. Tokyo: United Nations University Press. pp. 247-272.

O'Connor, R.E. , Bord, R., _____, and B.Yarnal. 2001. "Risk Perceptions of Natural Hazards: Community Water System Managers in Pennsylvania and South Carolina", in Risk-Based Decision Making in Water Resources IX, Yacov Y. Haimes, David A. Moser, and Eugene Z. Stakhiv, eds., Reston:VA: American Society of Civil Engineers. Pp. 87-95.