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New Article Alert: Disaster's disparate impacts: Analyzing perceived stress and personal resilience across gender and race

  • by Clare Cannon

The purpose of this research was to identify differences in perceived stress and personal resilience across race, gender, and different types of stressors (i.e., rent/mortgage stress) for a sample of U.S. residents experiencing the COVID-19 pandemic. This study used a cross-sectional, convenience sampling design for primary survey data collected over 10 weeks starting in April 2020 (n = 374).

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New Article Alert: Assessing explanatory variables of perceived stress to disaster: implications for risk research

  • by Clare Cannon

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to increase social, economic, and psychological risks, including increased perceived stress – or the degree to which a person perceives a stressor and their ability to cope with it. The current study uses novel data collected during the COVID-19 pandemic to assess the role of a range of demographic and disaster-related experiential variables on perceived stress (n = 744). Hierarchical linear regression indicates that women experience greater perceived stress than men and as age and educational attainment increase, perceived stress decreases.

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NEW JOURNAL ARTICLE ALERT: Depression and sociodemographic characteristics of rural communities during the COVID-19 pandemic

  • by Clare Cannon

New research identifies sociodemographic predictors of depression for a rural population in the U.S. during the COVID-19 pandemic, in order to enhance mental health disaster preparedness. This research used t-tests to differentiate between gender and ethnicity groups regarding depression status; binary logistic regression to identify socio-demographic characteristics that predict depression status; and t-test to differentiate between average depression scores, measured by the PHQ-9, pre-COVID-19 pandemic (2019) and after it’s start (2020).

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New Peer-Review Journal Article: Surviving Intimate Partner Violence and Disaster

  • by Clare Cannon

Few studies investigating disaster have examined the risks associated with surviving both disaster and intimate partner violence (IPV). IPV is psychological or physical abuse in a personal relationship. Using an intersectional approach, the purpose of this study is to investigate contributions to and differences in perceived stress and personal resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic among a sample of predominantly female-identified IPV survivors (n = 41) to examine risks associated with this vulnerable population during disaster.

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New Article Alert: Unpacking Sustainability in ELEMENTA (Open access)

  • by Clare Cannon

Recent research published in ELEMENTA: Science of the Anthropocene unpacks sustainability by bringing together quantitative methods and feminist political ecology theory to better understand the role gender plays in global sustainability. To advance sustainability globally and equitably, a holistic approach to investigating economic, environmental, and social systems is needed.

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NEW Peer-Reviewed Journal Article Alert: Intersectional and Entangled Risks: An empirical analysis of disasters and landfills in Frontiers in Climate

  • by Clare Cannon

Landfills are environmental hazards linked to harms, such as the production of greenhouse gases and the accumulation of toxins in natural and human systems. Although environmental justice research has established such unwanted land uses as hazardous waste sites occur in poor communities and communities of color, less is known about the relationship between landfills and gender. As a driver of global climate change, there is also limited research into the relationships among disasters, landfills, and climate-related risks.

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New Peer-Reviewed Journal Article Alert: Meeting at the crossroads: An environmental justice framework for large carnivore reintroductions and recoveries in ELEMENTA

  • by Clare Cannon

In this article, we apply environmental justice theories to conservation biology, particularly large carnivore reintroductions and recoveries. To do this, we develop a concept of affective justice - which describes the complex role of emotions as environmental harms, as disruptors of understanding other forms of justice, and as links between logics of oppression. Read more here.

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