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Disaster Risk Management
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Disaster Risk Management

by Dr. Huong Ha, Dr. R. S. Fernando, Sanjeev Kumar Mahajan
January 2019
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
220 pages
5h 36m
English
Business Expert Press
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CHAPTER 5

Engendering Disaster Risk Reduction at Grassroots Level

Neena Joseph

Independent ResearcherKerala, Kochi, India

 

Introduction

Disaster risk reduction (DRR) is the crucial aspect of disaster management (DM). Global experience and research evince that hazards have disproportionally a more disastrous impact on women. Higher vulnerability and lesser coping capacity arising out of societally ordained lower position in the gender hierarchy lends partial explanation for this disparity. Hence, risk reduction initiatives, which are gender inclusively designed and implemented, would be inherently covering the risk reduction requirements of the general population. A comprehensive discussion considering the ground realities of politics, ethics, ...

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ISBN: 9781949443073