Full Description
Women, Gender and Disasterwithin 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 analyses 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.
Contents
ForewordOverview - P G Dhar ChakrabartiSex, Gender and Gender Relations in Disasters - Madhavi Malalgoda AriyabanduA Gender Perspective on Disaster Risk Reduction - Helena Molin ValdesLet's Share the Stage: 'Involving Men in Gender Equality and Disaster Risk Reduction' - Prafulla Mishra Organizing for Risk Reduction: The Honolulu Call to Action - Cheryl L Anderson Overview - P G Dhar ChakrabartiReducing Disaster Risk through Community Resilience in the Himalayas - Manjari MehtaGender Perspectives on Disaster Reconstruction in Nicaragua: Reconstructing Roles and Relations? - Sarah Bradshaw and Brian LinnekerEnvironmental Management and Disaster Mitigation: Middle Eastern Gender Perspective - Samia Galal Saad"Everything Became a Struggle, Absolute Struggle": Post-flood Increases in Domestic Violence in New Zealand - Rosalind HoughtonParenting in the Wake of Disaster: Mothers and Fathers Respond to Hurricane - Katrina Lori Peek and Alice FothergillWomen in the Great Hanshin Earthquake - Reiko Masai, Lisa Kuzunishi and Tamiyo KondoVictims of Earthquake and Patriarchy: The 2005 Pakistan Earthquake - Azra Talat Sayeed"A Part of Me Had Left: " Learning from Women Farmers in Canada about Disaster Stress - Simone ReinschSupporting Women and Men on the Front Lines of Biological Disaster - Tracey L O'Sullivan and Carol A Amaratunga PART THREE: WOMEN'S ORGANIZED INITIATIVESOverview - P G Dhar ChakrabartiWe Can Make Things Better for Each Other': Women and Girls Organize to Reduce Disasters in Central America - Maureen FordhamWomen's Participation in Disaster Relief and Recovery - Ayse Yonder with Seng l Akcar and Prema GopalanWork-focused Responses to Disasters: India's Self Employed Women's Association - Francie Lund and Tony VauxA Climate for Change: Humanitarian Disaster and the Movement for the Commons in Kenya - Leigh Brownhill Sri Lankan Women's Organizations Responding to Post-tsunami Violence - Sarah Fisher'A We Run Tings': Women Rebuilding Montserrat - Judith Soares and Audrey Y MullingsWomen Responding to Drought in Brazil - Adelia de Melo BrancoPART FOUR: GENDER SENSITIVE DISASTER RISK REDUCTIONOverview - P G Dhar ChakrabartiBalancing Gender Vulnerabilities and Capacities in the Framework of Comprehensive Risk Management: The Case of Mexico - Cecilia Castro Garcia and Luisa Emilia Reyes ZunigaTowards Gender Equality in Climate Change Policy: Challenges and Perspectives for the Future - Ulrike Roehr, Minu Hemmati and Yianna LambrouEngendering Tsunami Recovery in Sri Lanka: The Role of Unifem and its Partners - Chandni Joshi and Mihir R BhattGendering Disaster Risk Reduction: 57 Steps from Words to Action - Elaine Enarson Toolkit for Mainstreaming Gender in Emergency Response - P G Dhar Chakrabarti and Ajinder Walia Index
