Natural Disaster and Women: A Gendered Perspective

Book Details

• Publisher: Rawat Publications

• Author: Pradeep Kumar Parida

• Language: English

• Edition: 2018

• ISBN: 9788131609460

• Pages: 327

• Cover: Hardcover

• Package Dimensions: 8.7 x 6.0 x 1.0 inches

About the Book
This book explores the paradox of persistent socio-economic progress alongside growing insecurity, particularly in the face of natural disasters. It addresses the growing intensity and frequency of natural disasters and their direct impact on societies. Socio-economic development and disasters emerge from the same ongoing processes of change, and as the world’s population increases, certain communities remain more exposed to hazards due to their political, economic, and environmental contexts.

The primary focus of the book is on gendered vulnerabilities to natural disasters. Why are women more exposed and at risk during such events? How can gender concerns be integrated into disaster risk reduction to make women and children less vulnerable? The book provides a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approach, aimed at social scientists, social workers, planners, and emergency managers. It also offers a valuable resource for science-based decision-making in the context of disaster preparedness and response.

Contents
PART I: Introduction

1. Natural Disaster and Women: A Gendered Perspective / Pradeep Kumar Parida

PART II: Gender Inequality, Susceptibility, and Disaster
2. Gender and Disaster: An Overview of Differential Vulnerabilities / Sudha Sitharaman
3. The Socio-cultural Aspects of Gendered Vulnerabilities to Disasters: Case Studies of Women-Headed Households, Post Mumbai Train Blasts, 2006 / Nalini Yadav
4. Gender Difference in PTSD, Mental Health, and Quality of Life: A Focus on Female Tsunami Survivors / Neethu P.S. and Surendra Kumar Sia
5. Dealing with Gender Vulnerability through Mediated Communication in the Tamil Nadu Floods, 2015 / S. Mahalakshmi and Sunitha Kuppuswamy

PART III: Women’s Vulnerability and Responses to Disaster
6. Revisiting Odisha Super Cyclone of 1999: The Barriers and Coping Mechanisms of Disabled Women to Natural Disasters / Pradeep Kumar Parida
7. Impact of Nepal Earthquake of 2015 on Women: Challenges and Responses / Rishi Gupta
8. Women’s Participation in Relief Work Utilizing Social Media Network / Shanmugaraj G. and Balasaravanan T.
9. Understanding Women’s Experience of Trauma and Posttraumatic Growth: A Review Study / Alphonsa Jose K. and Surendra Kumar Sia

PART IV: Assessing Preparedness, Recovery, and Mitigation
10. Gender Sensitivity in Disaster Risk Management: Lesson Learnt from the Chennai Floods of 2015 / Suriya S.
11. Indigenous Knowledge System and Disaster Management among the Indigenous People of North-eastern Himalayas, India / Ajeet Jaiswal
12. Natural Calamities and Native Perceptions: Evolving Effective Rehabilitation Strategies / Jesurathnam Devarapalli
13. Disaster Diplomacy in South Asia: India’s Humanitarian Assistance Programmes in Neighbourhood / Sibaram Badatya

PART V: Conclusion
14. Natural Disaster and Women: Towards a Sustainable Disaster Risk Reduction / Pradeep Kumar Parida

About the Author
Pradeep Kumar Parida is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Pondicherry University, Puducherry. His research focuses on the sociology of disasters and development. He has authored numerous articles in national and international journals and is actively engaged in enhancing his understanding of disaster sociology. His work examines various aspects of natural disasters, including impact on society, mitigation, preparedness, response, recovery, and differential vulnerability.