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Women, gender and disaster [electronic resource]

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This work 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.

כותר Women, gender and disaster [electronic resource] : global issues and initiatives / edited by Elaine Enarson, P.G. Dhar Chakrabarti.
מוציא לאור Delhi
London : SAGE
שנה 2009
הערות Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
הערת תוכן ותקציר Cover
Contents
List of Tables, Figures and Boxes
Foreword
Preface
Part One: Understanding Gender Relations in Disaster
1 - Sex, Gender and Gender Relations in Disasters
2 - A Gender Perspective on Disaster Risk Reduction
3 - Let's Share the Stage: Involving Men in Gender Equality and Disaster Risk Reduction
4 - Organising for Risk Reduction: The Honolulu Call to Action
Part Two: Gendered Challenges and Responses in Disasters
5 - Reducing Disaster Risk through Community Resilience in the Himalayas
6 - Gender Perspectives on Disaster Reconstruction in Nicaragua: Reconstructing Roles and Relations?7 - Environmental Management and Disaster Mitigation: Middle Eastern Gender Perspective
8 - 'Everything Became a Struggle, Absolute Struggle': Post-flood Increases in Domestic Violence in New Zealand
9 - Parenting in the Wake of Disaster: Mothers and Fathers Respond to Hurricane Katrina
10 - Women in the Great Hanshin Earthquake
11 - Victims of Earthquake and Patriarchy: The 2005 Pakistan Earthquake
12 - 'A Part of Me Had Left': Learning from Women Farmers in Canada about Disaster Stress
13 - Supporting Women and Men on the Front Lines of Biological DisasterPart Three: Women's Organised Initiatives
14 - 'We Can Make Things Better for Each Other': Women and Girls Organise to Reduce Disasters in Central America
15 - Women's Participation in Disaster Relief and Recovery
16 - Work-focused Responses to Disasters: India's Self Employed Women's Association
17 - A Climate for Change: Humanitarian Disaster and the Movement for the Commons in Kenya
18 - Sri Lankan Women's Organisations Responding to Post-tsunami Violence
19 - 'A We Run Tings': Women Rebuilding Montserrat
20 - Women Responding to Drought in BrazilPart Four: Gender-sensitive Disaster Risk Reduction
21 - Balancing Gender Vulnerabilities and Capacities in the Framework of Comprehensive Disaster Risk Management: The Case of Mexico
22 - Towards Gender Equality in Climate Change Policy: Challenges and Perspectives for the Future
23 - Engendering Tsunami Recovery in Sri Lanka: The Role of UNIFEM and its Partners
24 - Gendering Disaster Risk Reduction: 57 Steps from Words to Action
25 - Toolkit for Mainstreaming Gender in Emergency Response
About the Editors and Contributors
Index
היקף החומר 1 online resource (xviii, 380 p.) : 1 map.
שפה אנגלית
מספר מערכת 997010714452605171
תצוגת MARC

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