Persistent Precarity and the Disaster of Everyday Life: Homeless People’s Experiences of Natural and Other Hazards

Persistent Precarity and the Disaster of Everyday Life: Homeless People’s Experiences of Natural and Other Hazards

Abstract Knowledge of how homeless people deal with natural hazards and disasters is sparse and there is a remarkable absence of homeless people in policies and practices for disaster risk reduction (DRR). This article aims at filling this gap by exploring the lives of homeless people in two New Zea...

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Main Authors: J C Gaillard, Vicky Walters, Megan Rickerby, Yu Shi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2019-09-01
Series:International Journal of Disaster Risk Science
Subjects:
Everyday life
Hazard
Homelessness
New Zealand
Precarity
Vulnerability
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13753-019-00228-y

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