Climate hazards, disasters, and gender ramifications
- Creator
- Kinnvall, Catarina > (ed.)
- Rydstrom, Helle > (ed.)
Climate hazards, disasters, and gender ramifications
Social inequalities have consequences for the everyday lives of women and girls where power relations, institutional and socio-cultural practices make them disadvantaged in terms of disaster preparedness and experience. Chapters in this book unravel how gender and masculinity intersect with age, ethnicity, sexuality and class in specific contexts around the globe. It looks at the various kinds of difficulties for particular groups before, during and after disastrous events such as typhoons, flooding, landslides and earthquakes. It explores how issues of gender hierarchies, patriarchal structures and masculinity are closely related to gender segregation, institutional codes of behaviour and to a denial of environmental crisis.
- Creator
- Kinnvall, Catarina > (ed.)
- Rydstrom, Helle > (ed.)