Women, Gender and Disaster: Global Issues and Initiatives (Hardback)
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Full description- Publisher: Sage Publications India Pvt Ltd
- Published: 01 January 2010
- Format: Hardback 404 pages
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- Categories: Gender Studies, Gender Groups | Gender Studies: Women
- ISBN 13: 9788132101482 ISBN 10: 8132101480
- Sales rank: 1,034,812
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Full description for Women, Gender and Disaster
"Women, Gender and Disaster: Global Issues and Initiatives" examines gender within the context of disaster risk management. It argues for gender mainstreaming as an effective strategy towards achieving disaster risk reduction and mitigating post-disaster gender disparity. Highlighting that gender inequalities pervade all aspects of life, it analyzes the failure to implement inclusive and gender-sensitive approaches to relief and rehabilitation work. While examining positive strategies for change, the collection focuses on women's knowledge, capabilities, leadership and experience in community resource management. The authors emphasize that these strengths in women, which are required for building resilience to hazards and disasters, are frequently overlooked. This timely book will be extremely useful to policy makers and professionals active in the field of disaster management and to academics and students in gender studies, social work, environmental studies and development studies.
