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Foreshadowing Katrina: Recent Sociological Contributions to Vulnerability Science

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Based on: The Northridge Earthquake: Vulnerability and Disaster, by Bolin Robert with Stanford Lois. London, UK: Routledge, 1998. 272 pp. $165.00 cloth. ISBN: 0-415-17897-5.
Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class, and Environmental Quality, 3rd ed., by Bullard Robert D. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2000. 234 pp. $29.99 paper. ISBN: 0-8133-6792-1.
Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago, by Klinenberg Eric. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2002. 320 pp. $15.00 paper. ISBN: 0-226-44322-1.
Hurricane Andrew: Ethnicity, Gender and the Sociology of Disasters, edited by Peacock Walter Gillis, Morrow Betty Hearn, and Gladwin Hugh. New York, NY: Routledge, 1997. 304 pp. $175.00 cloth. ISBN: 0-415-16811-2.
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Article first published: May 2006
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