The multiplicity of impact: how social marginalization compounds climate disasters

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dc.citation.firstpage269en_US
dc.citation.issueNumber3en_US
dc.citation.journalTitleEnvironmental Sociologyen_US
dc.citation.lastpage283en_US
dc.citation.volumeNumber9en_US
dc.contributor.authorPriest, A. Alexanderen_US
dc.contributor.authorElliott, James R.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2023-07-17T20:44:48Zen_US
dc.date.available2023-07-17T20:44:48Zen_US
dc.date.issued2023en_US
dc.description.abstractThis study advances and examines the proposition that social marginalization, especially along racial and ethnic lines, produces compound disadvantages that accumulate across a wide range of personal, social and political domains when climate disasters strike, producing a multiplicity of impact often missed by quantitative research on social vulnerability. To test this claim, we use data collected by the Houston Area Survey after the historic rainfall brought by Hurricane Harvey in 2017. Analyses reveal that impacts to Black residents were much more pervasive than for any other group, including a disproportionate likelihood of impact to their income, transportation and personal networks in addition to their housing. Results also indicate that this multiplicity of impact across one’s personal and social domains associates with greater scrutiny of local government’s role in the disaster, net of one’s general political ideology. The implication is that we cannot fully understand the social impacts of a changing climate through social vulnerability metrics and property damage assessments, alone. More comprehensive frameworks and impact accounting are needed.en_US
dc.identifier.citationPriest, A. Alexander and Elliott, James R.. "The multiplicity of impact: how social marginalization compounds climate disasters." <i>Environmental Sociology,</i> 9, no. 3 (2023) Taylor & Francis: 269-283. https://doi.org/10.1080/23251042.2023.2215592.en_US
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1080/23251042.2023.2215592en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/114934en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherTaylor & Francisen_US
dc.rightsThis work is protected by copyright, and is made available here for research and educational purposes. Permission to reuse, publish, or reproduce the work beyond the bounds of Fair Use or other exemptions to copyright law must be obtained from the copyright holder.en_US
dc.titleThe multiplicity of impact: how social marginalization compounds climate disastersen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.type.dcmiTexten_US
dc.type.publicationpost-printen_US
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