The importance of accounting for equity in disaster risk models

• Main Authors: Soden, Robert, Lallemant, David, Kalirai, Manveer, Liu, Celine, Wagenaar, Dennis, Jit, Sophia
• Other Authors: Asian School of the Environment
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2024
• Subjects: Earth and Environmental Sciences; Disaster management; Equity
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/173865
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Societal efforts to understand and mitigate threats posed by hazards are often informed by complex disaster risk models. Despite research demonstrating the disproportionate effects of disasters on vulnerable groups, current risk modeling approaches lack robust methods to account for such equity conc...