Women and Disasters in South Asia - 9781138122086

Taylor & Francis

Women and Disasters in South AsiaSurvival, security and development\nAuthor(s): Linda Racioppi, Swarna Rajagopalan\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge India\nISBN-13: 9781138122086, 978-1138122086\nSynopsis\nSouth Asia is one of the most vulnerable areas of an increasingly disaster-impacted world, with cyclones, earthquakes, floods and droughts causing several casualties and disrupting lives and livelihoods every year. Yet the impacts of disasters are not equally distributed across the peoples of the [url] and men experience disaster differently, and their needs in the aftermath of disaster often differ. \n\nBringing together perspectives from academics, emergency response specialists and development practitioners, the volume investigates to what extent and in what ways gender affects the course of post-disaster reconstruction. Conversely, it also explores in what ways gender politics may be altered by disaster and post-disaster .