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Disaster Inequality

Disaster Inequality is a social analytic construct in disaster anthropology that denotes the uneven distribution of vulnerability, risk, and recovery burdens across different social groups due to pre-existing structural inequities.

427

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36.4K

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869

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475

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2017–2026

203

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427

The Death Toll from Natural Disasters: The Role of Income, Geography, and Institutions

Matthew E. Kahn · The Review of Economics and Statistics · 2005 · 1.4K citations

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The Gendered Nature of Natural Disasters: The Impact of Catastrophic Events on the Gender Gap in Life Expectancy, 1981–2002

Eric Neumayer, Thomas Plümper · Annals of the Association of American Geographers · 2007 · 1.2K citations · Full text

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Economic development and the impacts of natural disasters

Hideki Toya, Mark Skidmore · Economics Letters · 2006 · 928 citations

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Race, class, and Hurricane Katrina: Social differences in human responses to disaster

James R. Elliott, Jeremy Pais · Social Science Research · 2006 · 841 citations

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Building resilience: social capital in post-disaster recovery

Choice Reviews Online · 2013 · 733 citations

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Authors

869

  1. EE
    Elaine Enarson

    Metropolitan State University of Denver, United States

    9 publications · 1.2K citations

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  2. MF
    Maureen Fordham

    University College London, United Kingdom

    7 publications · 840 citations

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  3. SL
    Susan L. Cutter

    University of South Carolina, United States

    6 publications · 1.1K citations

    6

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  4. JR
    James R. Elliott

    Rice University, United States

    5 publications · 1.4K citations

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  5. BH
    Betty Hearn Morrow

    NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, United States

    5 publications · 1.4K citations

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Institutions

475

  1. The University of Sydney

    Sydney, Australia

    7 h-index

    15 publications

    487 citations

  2. University of Colorado Boulder

    Boulder, United States

    7 h-index

    7 publications

    1.6K citations

  3. Florida International University

    Miami, United States

    7 h-index

    10 publications

    864 citations

  4. Northumbria University

    Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

    6 h-index

    9 publications

    536 citations

  5. University of Florida

    Gainesville, United States

    6 h-index

    6 publications

    809 citations

  6. Monash University

    Melbourne, Australia

    6 h-index

    8 publications

    347 citations

  7. University of South Carolina

    Columbia, United States

    6 h-index

    7 publications

    1.5K citations

  8. University of Auckland

    Auckland, New Zealand

    5 h-index

    5 publications

    418 citations

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Venues

  1. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction

    53 publications · 2.8K citations

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  2. Disasters

    19 publications · 1.7K citations

    18

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  3. Natural Hazards

    13 publications · 739 citations

    14

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  4. World Development

    13 publications · 1.8K citations

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