How does social vulnerability evolve after a tropical cyclone?

After tropical cyclones, communities are often left in upheaval. Those that had few resources to begin with tend to be especially vulnerable to external stresses, and people often experience homelessness, health problems and other forms of insecurity as a result. But once the disaster response gets underway, communities recover and tend to become less socially vulnerable than they were before the disaster, new research by Jiang and team suggests. The findings are published in the journal GeoHealth.