...Sivakamy Thayaalan; Geneviève Minville; Yvonne Su Purpose To understand the gendered impacts of the cascading disasters that represent the COVID-19 pandemic on Typhoon Haiyan survivors living in resettlement sites in Tacloban City, the city most devastated by the 2013 Typhoon Haiyan. Design...

...Zhizi Li Purpose This article focuses on the representations of natural hazards, disasters, gender roles and norms in Makoto Shinkai’s disaster-themed anime films Your Name (2016) and Weathering with You (2019). Design/methodology/approach This article commences...

... explanator for the anthropogenic disaster landscape that now confronts us. Findings Applying a gender lens to extractivism as it relates to disaster, further highlights that Disaster Risk Management rather than alleviating, creates the problems it seeks to solve, suggesting the need to liberate gender...

...Ana Gabriela Fernández Saavedra; Rosario González Arias; Sandra Dema Moreno; Virginia Cocina Díaz Purpose The aim of this article is to reveal the extent to which a disaster situation contributed to fostering leadership in the population affected in terms of gender. Design/methodology/approach...

...Noémie Gonzalez Bautista Purpose My research is a study of forest fires that occurred near the Atikamekw community of Wemotaci (Quebec, Canada). This article focuses on the gendered aspects of two forest fire situations experienced by the people of Wemotaci, as I realized during fieldwork that men...

... that adds to the sense of identity continuity for the women in the sample, together with interesting differences between employed and self-employed workers that are characterized by distinct challenges and assurances. In regards to the effects of gender in response to disaster events, the results make...

... Gender Natural disasters Sri Lanka Tidal waves Women Article Type: 2012 Awards for Excellence From: Disaster Prevention and Management, Volume 22, Issue 1. The following article was selected for this year's Outstanding Paper Award for Disaster Prevention...

...Per Becker Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine if gendered differences in risk perception automatically mean that women and men rank the hazards of their community differently, focusing any risk reduction measures on the priority risks of only part of the population. Design...

... organizations in the tsunami‐affected town of Batticaloa, local and national nongovernment organizations (NGOs) based in Batticaloa, as well as international aid agencies are discussed in relation to theories on resilience, vulnerability, gender and humanitarianism. Findings Observing that women...

...Dilanthi Amaratunga; Richard Haigh; Kanchana Ginige; Dilanthi Amaratunga; Richard Haigh Purpose The purpose of this paper is to highlight the importance of gender mainstreaming into disaster reduction decision making as a way of reducing disaster vulnerabilities of women, a highly vulnerable group...

.../value High originality. The gendered nature of visual representation following a disaster is explored through the interpretation of four photo‐essays published online. An argument is put that disaster images matter, and that aid agencies have a responsibility to ensure that the complexity and diversity...