Public engagement on socioscientific issues is crucial to explore solutions to different crises
facing humanity today. It is vital for fostering transformative change. Yet, assumptions shape …

Disabled people are highly susceptible to climate change impacts and disasters, yet they
often remain sidelined or largely invisible. Policy makers, humanitarian agencies, and …

Globally, more than 1 billion people with disabilities are disproportionately and differentially
at risk from the climate crisis. Yet there is a notable absence of climate policy, programming …

Health risk resulting from non-optimal temperature exposure, referred to as “systematic risk”,
has been a sustainable-development challenge in the context of global warming. Previous …

Abstract Communities across the United States are continually impacted by natural hazards,
leading to material and human losses. Natural Hazard Vulnerability (NHV) assessments can …

Background Climate change and disability are rarely addressed by academic scholars
within the spectrum of disabilities and as a single field of study. However, the …

While the sociology of disasters was slow to incorporate the study of inequality in analyses,
recent research in the field has centered the study of inequality. Powered by changing …

This article argues that embodied knowledge depicted in climate fiction novels by African
authors offers insights into marginalized subjectivities; and that these perspectives can …

In this article we present case studies from different global regions to illustrate how disability
is overlooked in responding to climate-related health impacts and disaster planning …

Disability is widespread: nearly one in four Americans has a disability (Taylor, 2018) and
disability cuts across demographic categories. Among individuals aged 15 and over, 12.6 …