Disasters cause sweeping damage, hardship, and loss of life. In this article, we first consider
the dominant psychological approach to disasters and its narrow focus on psychopathology …

We review findings from the last decade of research on the effects of disasters, concentrating
on three important themes: the differences between the recovery of places versus people …

Using data from a spring 2020 survey of nearly 10,000 parents of elementary school parents
in one large southeastern public school district, the authors investigate predictors of …

Disasters kill, maim, and generate increasingly large economic losses. But they do not
wreak their damage equally across populations, and every disaster has social dimensions at …

Crises and disasters are windows of opportunity to learn and transform toward enhancing
disaster risk reduction (DRR) and resilience. However, a poor understanding of community …

Disaster studies address the social and behavioral aspects of sudden onset collective stress
situations typically referred to as mass emergencies or disasters. These situations can be …

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

There is an increasing need to evaluate the underlying drivers of community resilience.
Much of the existing research on resilience measurements assesses factors pertaining to a …

The abundant research examining aspects of social-ecological resilience, vulnerability, and
hazards and risk assessment has yielded insights into these concepts and suggested the …

Bonding relationships (with family members and relatives) and bridging relationships (with
neighbours and friends) are key elements of social networks. These relationships play a vital …