The Terrorscape: Geography of Urban Terror Risk (Criminal Justice: Recent Scholarship)

Domestic and international terrorism increases and tactics escalate. Terrorists may use unconventional weapons of mass destruction, HAZMATs such as liquefied chlorine gas. Few have studied the societal effects of such an event. While the field of hazards research includes risk, exposure, vulnerability, and environmental equity associated with accidental releases of HAZMATs, until very recently the field has neglected the potential for a deliberate release by terrorists. Egan brings together considerations of terrorism's potential targets and probable consequences and hazards research. She provides a four-phase Terrorscape Analysis Model for analyzing the spatial distribution of risk, exposure, vulnerability, and environmental equity.