Disaster and Life Course Processes

Jack DeWaard

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-20880-0_14

Disaster and Life Course Processes

Jack DeWaard

Sociology (Twin Cities)

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Disasters exist by virtue of the fact that persons and places are adversely affected by environmental hazards, which raises important questions about the characteristics and origins of differential vulnerability to such hazards in the first place. In this chapter, I consider the import of a life course perspective for studying the differential vulnerability of persons and places to environmental hazards. I also consider the utility of life course perspective for understanding disasters as processes (versus events), which persist in time and desist slowly. I demonstrate these ideas in the context of a stylized model. Implications and avenues for future research on disaster and life course processes are discussed.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research
Publisher	Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
Pages	321-338
Number of pages	18
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20880-0_14
State	Published - 2016

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Name	Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research
ISSN (Print)	1389-6903
ISSN (Electronic)	2542-839X

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Keywords

Desistance
Disasters
Life course
Vulnerability

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