Quarantine, though necessary to reduce COVID19 disease spread, has serious
psychological and socially disruptive consequences including a surge in the cases of …

The sociology of disasters has developed in ways that have weakened its ties with
mainstream sociology. It has remained remarkably resistant to changes in the broader …

Although climate change is expected to increase vulnerabilities, marginalization, and
sufferings of many in the Global South, impacts will be unevenly felt across social strata …

Raging floods, massive storms and cataclysmic earthquakes: every year up to 340 million
people are affected by these and other disasters, which cause loss of life and damage to …

Climate change is projected to have wide-ranging effects on natural resources, environment,
agriculture and fisheries. The various impacts of climate change pose significant risks to …

Gendered disaster social science rests on the social fact of gender as a primary organizing
principle of societies and the conviction that gender must be addressed if we are to claim …

Flooding has only relatively recently been considered as an environmental justice issue. In
this paper we focus on flooding as a distinct form of environmental risk and examine some of …

A comparative analysis of six vulnerability models aims to identify differences and
similarities between several approaches towards understanding vulnerability. The analysis …

Natural disasters are increasing in frequency and severity worldwide. Associations between
individual-level vulnerability to natural disasters and social stratification have been widely …

Consideration of gender in the disaster sphere has centred almost exclusively on the
vulnerability and capacities of women. This trend stems from a polarised Western …