Gender and Urban Risk Reduction
2015
This guide from the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) discusses the importance of urban risk reduction through interventions that advance equality and women’s empowerment. Cities experience large- and small-scale disasters that can pose great challenges to sustainable development. Natural and human-made disasters have enormous economic, social, and political impacts on human lives. These risks will increase as urban populations continue to grow. Disasters can present opportunities for transformative change to begin and advance more quickly because the vulnerabilities that emerge as a result of crisis or disaster are clearer and consensus may be obtained more quickly to mitigate vulnerabilities. Population displacements as a result of disasters further create new settlements that present opportunities for planning how municipalities or cities will be managed and planned to cope, in equitable ways, with population changes. Related resources include links to other publications in the “Gender Issue Guide” series and links to related volumes on gender themes.
Gender and Urban Risk Reduction
Source:
Gender Responsive Risk Reduction and Rehabilitation. United Nations Human Settlements Programme 2015. https://new.unhabitat.org/gender-responsive-risk-reduction-and-rehabilitation.