Since Kai Erikson's landmark study of the devastation of five communities in West Virginia,
sociology has leveraged the concept of trauma to describe certain social phenomena …

Community-level social capital has been theorized to shape mental health, particularly in
disaster contexts, but methodological complexities hamper prior studies. Pairing zip-code …

Children have been theorized as vulnerable to the health consequences of climate change,
but data limitations have hampered prior studies of climate-related disasters in the United …

Recent disasters across the United States highlight the devastating effect of climate-change
on individuals and households. The effects of these disasters on access to housing and …

Nearly 50 years of disaster research findings have been accumulated on how pre-existing
vulnerability/inequality as well as post-event environmental changes affect the long-term …