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UNU-EHS :: Gender and Disasters by Úrsula Oswald Spring - New SOU ...
Gender and Disasters by Úrsula Oswald Spring - New SOURCE Issue Out Now
Oswald Spring calls therefore for renewed efforts to reduce social vulnerability by critically examining gender specific beliefs that lead to violence and victimization.
The publication is a great contribution to understand more about the gender aspects of risk and vulnerability.
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Human Security is not only linked to the individual, but also to the characteristics of different demographic groups. Therefore, it is very important to understand gender in the context of human security, because men and women try to fulfill socially defined expectations, so there exists a gender-related social vulnerability. The SOURCE issue “Gender and Disaster” shows the interrelation between environmental risk factors and social vulnerability factors, with special focus on gender as an aspect of social vulnerability.
The publication underlines the importance of women within the risk management and resilience building community and outlines a series of policy-relevant issues for human security.
Prof. Oswald Spring was the first chairholder of the Munich Re Foundation Chair on Social Vulnerability at UNU-EHS.
Excerpts taken from the forewords by Janos J. Bogardi and Thomas Loster