IJMED special issue: Longitudinal recovery

Hamideh, Sara; Loos, Sabine; Rivera, Jason; Jerolleman, Alessandra; Champeau, Heather; Wu, Haorui

doi:10.1177/02807270231184213

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“…Climate change and climate-induced disasters severely impact all areas of society (Breen et al 2023;Hamideh et al 2023;Lai et al 2019;Lowe et al 2021;Peek et al 2020;Wu and Etienne 2021;Wu et al 2023). The changing climate and associated disasters disproportionately impact populations like racial and ethnic minorities (Breen 2022;Fitzpatrick and Spialek 2021), gender and sexual minorities (Goldsmith et al 2022;Whitley and Bowers 2023), older adults (Wu 2020), children and young people (Gordon-Hollingsworth et al 2016;Lai et al 2018), among other populations who have historically been marginalized.…”

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College Students and Environmental Disasters: A Review of the Literature

Breen,

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College students are a unique population occupying a distinct life-course and transition period between adolescence and adulthood. Although not monolithic in experiences, knowledge, and demographics, this diverse population is particularly susceptible to immediate, short-term, mid-term, and long-term disaster impacts. Recently, disaster research focusing on college students has rightly focused on the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Although the pandemic was a public health disaster interrupting social, developmental, and educational processes for students on a global scale, the climate crisis and related environmental disasters continuously threaten college students’ individual development, health, and well-being. Thus, it is critical to understand current knowledge focusing on environmental disasters and college students in order to determine future research needs. This article used the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) approach to examine research on college students and disasters over the past ten years (2014–2023). We identified 67 articles, which we analyzed through a mixed methods approach, including descriptive statistics and thematic analysis. Results indicate that disaster impacts on college students are an understudied topic in the social sciences, especially in an era of more-frequent and -intense environmental hazards. Our findings demonstrate a need to engage college students in disaster research worldwide so that trade schools, colleges, and universities can collaborate with policymakers to build this unique and disproportionately impacted population’s capacity to mitigate against, respond to, and recover from environmental hazards in an ever-changing climate.

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