The conceptualization of social equity in public administration and emergency management
has been subjective to the user of the term. While the vagueness of the concept provides …

Because governmental structures put in place to mitigate disaster risks and aid communities
in the disaster recovery process have, at times, proven to be inadequate, reliance on other …

The Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship series covers three important aspects of the
migration progress. Firstly, the determinants, dynamics and characteristics of international …

This article identifies new trends in youth sport participation, particularly the growing
popularity of non-competitive, informal, non-institutionalized 'action sports'(eg …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to analyze public trust during the aftermath of
technological and hybrid natural-technological/natech disasters–Hurricane Katrina (2005) …

In this chapter we provide a broad overview of three dominant ways environmental justice is
framed within the scholarship and consider how Indigenous peoples' understanding and …

Hurricane Katrina's impacts have been debated and discussed as resulting from either
natural forces or from the failure of man-made levees. However, both the immediate (3 …

Systemic Interventions for Collective and National Trauma explains the theoretical basis for
understanding collective and national trauma through the concept of systems theory, and …

Taking inspiration from French sociologist and philosopher Henri Lefebvre's theory of
'rhythmanalysis', the author advocates new ways of thinking about the impact of natural …

How are individuals affected when the communities they live in change for the worse? This
question is central to understanding neighborhood effects, but few study designs generate …