Gender and Disaster Resilience
摘要
This chapter utilises an intersectional approach to analyse the gendered dimensions of disaster resilience. An intersectional approach identifies that people have different individualities, wants, priorities and capabilities that are not static, and will shift and change over time—disturbing their ability to arrange for, cope with and respond to natural hazards and climate variability. Intersectional approaches offer a way to understand and respond to the ways different factors, such as gender, age, disability, class and ethnicity, intersect to shape individual identities, thereby enhancing awareness of people’s needs, interests, capacities and experiences. In understanding resilience, it is also important to analyse how localised responses to climate shocks are also gendered whereby women and men may have different forms of agency, capacities and knowledge related to everyday practices of resilience. Social inclusion in resilience also needs to understand the patriarchal nature of communities and how these social systems influence everyday lives including livelihood strategies and opportunities.