This article provides an overview of the origins and development of stratification economics
as a subfield that centers the importance of identity, social ranking, and relative group …

How do we understand displacement and resettlement in the context of climate change?
This chapter outlines challenges and debates in the literature connecting climate change to …

Countries with high levels of human development should be able to reduce the impact of
natural disasters in terms of the total numbers of people killed and affected, and damage. In …

Improvements in hurricane forecasts allowing for more timely evacuations from storm-surge
zones are credited with reducing lethality of US landfalling hurricanes. The deadly reach of a …

Informed by insights drawn from stratification economics and deploying dynamic game
theory, we project the long-term outcome of racial/ethnic wealth disparities under multiple …

Conventional evacuation studies typically do not gauge the development of participants'
certainty about evacuation-related decisions with the updates in the information provided to …

Theoretical justifications for state-sanctioned sterilization of individuals provided by Irving
Fisher rationalized its racialization on grounds that certain non-white racial groups …

Poorer countries are generally found to be more vulnerable to weather extremes (Cavallo &
Noy, 2011) and to climate change (Tol, 2018). This is typically explained by the structure of …

Hurricane or Cyclone is an extreme environment and climate event that has both long-term
and short-term impact, and produces environmental emergency displacement. This study …

Abstract Bondesson, S. 2017. Vulnerability and Power. Social Justice Organizing in
Rockaway, New York City, after Hurricane Sandy. 205 pp. Uppsala: Department of …