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Social Class and Disaster Exposure

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  • Lopamudra Banerjee

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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.

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  • Lopamudra Banerjee, 2017. "Social Class and Disaster Exposure," Review of Radical Political Economics, Union for Radical Political Economics, vol. 49(4), pages 607-614, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:reorpe:v:49:y:2017:i:4:p:607-614
    DOI: 10.1177/0486613417733743
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    Keywords

    disaster; relative risk; social class;
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    JEL classification:

    • B0 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - General
    • B59 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Current Heterodox Approaches - - - Other
    • Q54 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Climate; Natural Disasters and their Management; Global Warming

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