While natural disasters are traumatic for all people involved, some populations are disproportionately impacted. Here are some resources explaining how social justice is intimately tied to natural disasters:
- Responses to natural disasters vary widely depending on available infrastructure, leading to significant differences in impact of areas hit by the same disaster (Ferris 2010)
- People living in poverty are most vulnerable, as they live in the least safe areas (Ferris 2010)
- Disaster SNAP (D-SNAP), or food stamps available during natural disasters, often come weeks after the disasters themselves (Baxter 2017)
- Already-struggling college students can be more likely to drop out after a natural disaster (Kamenetz 2017)
- Women are more likely to die in natural disasters than men as they tend to have fewer resources in both preparing for and recovering from natural disasters (Ferris 2010)
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