Social provision in the United States is highly decentralized. Significant federal and state
funding flows to local organizational actors, who are granted discretion over how to allocate …

Hazard mitigation encompasses a wide range of strategies, including building protective
structures, retrofitting existing buildings, regulating land use, and relocating from high-risk …

Drawing on the human ecology framework, which describes social structure as dynamic and
social action as environmentally contingent, this article examines behavior and attitudes …

Formulating disaster responses that mitigate social inequalities is crucial because disasters
disproportionately harm marginalized communities. This study seeks to inform more …

In this paper, we analyze the impact of natural hazards on internal migration in the United
States (US). The analysis uses Internal Revenue Service (IRS) tax records and analyzes …

Severe climate events pose an increasing threat to households' financial well-being.
Households affected by these events can face a significant financing challenge as disaster …

The racially unequal impacts of flooding on local housing prices and community recovery
are well established, but an intermediary stage of the housing process that has significant …

In this study, we conduct the first comprehensive, nationwide assessment of social equity
performance of multiple federal post‐and pre‐disaster assistance programs that differ in …

The role climate change plays in increasing the burden on governments and insurers to pay
for recovery is an area not examined by extreme event attribution research. To study these …