Social Class and Disaster Exposure

Lopamudra Banerjee

Review of Radical Political Economics, 2017, vol. 49, issue 4, 607-614

Abstract: Risk of disaster exposure is often associated with prior conditions of economic deprivation, and it is held that risk would be less for an asset-rich household than an asset-poor one. Observational data may, however, contradict this expected pattern. The contradiction is resolved when we examine risk distribution through the lens of Weberian class distribution, and associate risk with peoples’ class situations. This paper draws upon the household survey data from Tanzania to illustrate this argument.

Keywords: disaster; relative risk; social class (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B0 B59 Q54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1177/0486613417733743

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