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DOI	10.1007/s11069-020-04295-z
	How natural hazards impact the social environment for vulnerable groups: an empirical investigation in Japan
	Ye M.; Aldrich D.P.
发表日期	2021
ISSN	0921030X
起始页码	67
结束页码	81
卷号	105 期号:1
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.
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
语种	英语
来源期刊	Natural Hazards
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/206691
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
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Ye M.,Aldrich D.P.. How natural hazards impact the social environment for vulnerable groups: an empirical investigation in Japan[J],2021,105(1).
APA	Ye M.,&Aldrich D.P..(2021).How natural hazards impact the social environment for vulnerable groups: an empirical investigation in Japan.Natural Hazards,105(1).
MLA	Ye M.,et al."How natural hazards impact the social environment for vulnerable groups: an empirical investigation in Japan".Natural Hazards 105.1(2021).