UID:
edocfu_9959244874602883
Format:
1 online resource (xviii, 380 p.) :
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1 map.
ISBN:
93-5280-193-8
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93-5150-239-2
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1-282-50320-0
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9786612503207
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81-321-0480-3
Content:
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.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 81-321-0807-8
Additional Edition:
ISBN 81-321-0148-0
Language:
English
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