Disasters: Impact on Child Poverty and Development

• 2019

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• Koko Warner; Vidya Diwakar; Kamal Kishore; Hamish Young; Nancy Yuan

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This hour and a half video presentation discusses the effect of natural hazards on the different life stages of children and adolescents living in poverty. Panelists discuss how natural hazards experienced during childhood affect future life stages into adolescence and beyond, and what the implications of natural hazards for child and adolescent poverty trajectories are. They draw on a recent research report on Child Poverty, Disasters and Climate Change: Investigating Relationships and Implications Over a Child’s Life Course.

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Focus Areas: Natural Disasters; Severe Weather

Audiences: Behavioral Health Professionals; Emergency Managers; Public Health Professionals

Emergency Management Stage: Recovery

Keywords: Child Development; Child Welfare; Disasters; Natural Disasters; Poverty; Risk Factors; Adolescent; Adolescent Health; Climate Change; Psychological Trauma; Child Poverty

Institutions: ODI Global

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