DOI: 10.1007/s11069-020-04295-z
论文题名: How natural hazards impact the social environment for vulnerable groups: an empirical investigation in Japan
作者: Ye M. ; Aldrich D.P.
刊名: Natural Hazards
ISSN: 0921030X
出版年: 2021
卷: 105, 期: 1 起始页码: 67
结束页码: 81
语种: 英语
中文关键词: Discrimination
; Japan
; Natural hazards
; Social environment
; Vulnerable groups
英文关键词: civil society
; data set
; decision making
; disaster management
; empirical analysis
; natural hazard
; panel data
; vulnerability
; Japan
英文摘要: Much research has demonstrated that vulnerable people fare more poorly than non-vulnerable ones in disasters and crises across a variety of outcomes—including mental and physical health, disaster aid received, re-housing processes, and overall satisfaction with recovery. But little is known about how natural hazards change the social and political environment for those vulnerable groups. Some have argued that shocks raise the consciousness of civil society and decision makers so that conditions improve for vulnerable groups, while others believe that disasters have little or even negative impact on their status in society. This paper uses a new panel dataset across 17 years (1999 through 2015) of Japan’s 47 prefectures to investigate how disasters impact discrimination rates for vulnerable groups, including women, the elderly, foreigners, and those with disabilities. Controlling for demographic and social factors, we find that disasters actually reduce discrimination against certain vulnerable groups—especially women and the elderly—while having no measurable impact on discrimination against other groups—foreigners and the disabled. These results bring with them important policy recommendations for local residents, disaster managers, and decision makers. © 2020, Springer Nature B.V. Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/169490
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作者单位: Department of Sociology, School of Humanities, Southeast University, 2 Southeast University Road, Jiangning District, Nanjing, 211189, China; Department of Political Science and School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Northeastern University, Boston, United States
Recommended Citation:
Ye M.,Aldrich D.P.. How natural hazards impact the social environment for vulnerable groups: an empirical investigation in Japan[J]. Natural Hazards,2021-01-01,105(1)