Cumulative Effects of Successive Disasters

This Working Group advances the empirical study of disaster, developing a common set of questions for investigating effects of the pandemic across communities that have already experienced acute disaster. It will develop a question bank and ethnographic protocol that will become open-access for all disaster researchers, practitioners, and policymakers. The group will encourage the adoption of these tools for assessing the comparative experiences of cultural disruption, financial loss, physical confinement, health, suffering, isolation, increased conflict and anger, and possible unexpected benefits of “pausing the world.”