Handbook on Risk and Inequality

Elgar Handbooks on Inequality

Edited by Dean Curran, Associate Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of Calgary, Canada

This unique Handbook charts shifts in the relationship between risks and inequalities over the last few decades, analysing how inequalities shape risk and how risks condition and intensify inequalities. Expert contributors examine the impacts of environmental, financial, social, urban, economic, and digital risks on inequalities, at both national and global levels.

‘A timely examination of the intersection of risks and inequalities in our “world at risk”, this Handbook brings together innovative theoretical analysis and significant empirical insights. It wholly fulfils its promise to address a gap in the current debate and to delineate novel approaches for understanding the effects of man-made risks across groups, domains, and societies.’
– Maria Grazia Galantino, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy