Sexual and Gender Minorities in Disasters

Author(s): Dale Dominey-Howes, Scott McKinnon, Andrew Gorman-Murray, Christine Eriksen
Book Title: Routledge Handbook of Environmental Hazards and Society
Pages: 259-272
Publisher(s): Routledge
Publication Year: 2022

The effects of disasters on people vary between different social groups at a range of spatial and temporal scales. In this book chapter, Dale Dominey-Howes, Scott McKinnon, Andrew Gorman-Murray and CSS' Christine Eriksen provide an overview of the slowly emerging field of scholarship and analyze the differing experiences of sexual and gender diverse individuals in relation to a series of disasters occurring in different sociopolitical contexts and in Australia and New Zealand in particular.

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