Women and Disasters in South Asia: Survival, Security and Development Contributor(s): Rajagopalan, Swarna (Editor) |
|
![]() |
ISBN: 0367177145 ISBN-13: 9780367177140 Publisher: Routledge Chapman & Hall OUR PRICE: $52.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Gender Studies - Social Science | Disasters & Disaster Relief - Social Science | Developing & Emerging Countries |
Dewey: 950 |
Physical Information: 330 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: South 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 region.Women and men experience disaster differently |