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Ethan Raker | DRRN Research Seminar

November 16, 2022, 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm

Room 121 | Liu Institute for Global Issues 6476 NW Marine Drive

Title:

Flooding, Spatial Vulnerability, and Racial Health Disparities: Evidence from Hurricane Harvey

Speaker:

Network member Ethan Raker
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, UBC

Abstract:

The spatial segregation of racially marginalized people into disaster-prone communities is a hallmark of environmental inequality. Yet, climate change is altering flood vulnerability, inundating neighbourhoods not previously considered at risk. This talk will examine the racialized health consequences of flood exposure inside and outside of floodplains using the case of Hurricane Harvey in Houston, Texas.

When?

3:30 - 5:00 PM | Wednesday, November 16

Where?

Room 121
Liu Institute for Global Issues

6476 NW Marine Drive, Vancouver

The idea for this year's seminar series is to encourage DRRN members to share their work and how it relates to the network. In this spirit, members will consider how to share their work accessibly to a transdisciplinary audience with a shared interest in disaster research. This will be a great chance to learn what other members are up to, while communicating our very different forms of knowledge to a diverse academic audience.

The seminars will be 1-1.5 hours, with talks lasting 30-40 minutes, leaving plenty of time for Q & A and discussion. While we encourage in-person attendance as conditions allow, we will be holding the seminars in a hybrid format, in order to provide for virtual participation, as well.


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