The multiplicity of impact: how social marginalization compounds climate disasters

IF 2.4 Q3 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Environmental Sociology Pub Date : 2023-05-25 DOI:10.1080/23251042.2023.2215592

A. Priest, James R. Elliott

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ABSTRACT This 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.

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影响的多样性:社会边缘化如何加剧气候灾害

摘要本研究提出并检验了这样一个命题，即当气候灾害发生时，社会边缘化，特别是种族和族裔边缘化，会产生在广泛的个人、社会和政治领域积累的复合劣势，产生社会脆弱性定量研究经常忽略的多重影响。为了验证这一说法，我们使用了休斯顿地区调查局在2017年飓风哈维带来历史性降雨后收集的数据。分析显示，对黑人居民的影响比任何其他群体都要普遍得多，包括对他们的收入、交通和个人网络以及住房产生影响的可能性不成比例。研究结果还表明，这种跨越个人和社会领域的多重影响与对地方政府在灾难中的作用的更严格审查有关，这与一个人的总体政治意识形态有关。这意味着，我们无法仅通过社会脆弱性指标和财产损失评估来充分了解气候变化的社会影响。需要更全面的框架和影响核算。

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