There is growing demand among stakeholders across public and private institutions for
spatially-explicit information regarding vulnerability to climate change at the local scale …

This chapter presents a critical review of race, class, and ethnicity as used in both historic
and recent disaster research. Using critical race theory, political ecology, and related social …

A leading challenge in measuring social vulnerability to hazards is for output metrics to
better reflect the context in which vulnerability occurs. Through a meta-analysis of 67 flood …

The field of crisis and disaster studies has proliferated over the past two decades. Attention
is bound to grow further as the world negotiates the prolonged challenges of the Covid‐19 …

The historical disparities in the socio-demographic structure of New Orleans shaped the
social vulnerability of local residents and their responses to Hurricane Katrina and its …

Deconstructing causal linkages between place attributes and disaster outcomes at coarse
scales like zip codes and counties is difficult because heterogeneous socio-economic …

In recent years, the world has watched in horror as tsunamis, earthquakes, and hurricanes
have wrought havoc across countries and continents. While these events have different …

In the early years of the new millennium, hurricanes lashed the Caribbean and flooded New
Orleans as heat waves and floods seemed to alternate in Europe. Snows were disappearing …

The reconstruction of the houses that were destroyed or sustained significant damage from
naturally-triggered disasters in rural and urban communities is one of the first steps towards …

Studies warn that global warming and sea level rise will create hundreds of millions of
environmental refugees. While climate change will undoubtedly affect future migration …