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Gender and Climate Hazards in Bangladesh

Terry Cannon
Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich, Central Avenue, Chatham, Kent ME4 4TB.

Abstract/ Executive Summary:

Bangladesh has recently experienced a number of high-profile disasters, including devastating cyclones and annual floods. Poverty is both a cause of the vulnerability and a consequence of hazard impacts. Evidence that the impacts of disasters are worse for women is inconclusive or variable. However, since being female is strongly linked to being poor, unless poverty is reduced, the increase in disasters and extreme climate events linked with climate change is likely to affect women more than men. In addition, there are some specific gender attributes that increase women's vulnerability in some respects. These gendered vulnerabilities may, however, be reduced by social changes.

Keywords: Gender, Climate, Hazards, Bangladesh

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Program Area: Risk Management in Agriculture

Non-commodity: Climate change

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All suggest that there are specific gendered factors which it is essential to take into account in order to reduce the vulnerability of women.

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This topic included the following topics: Climate change, hazards, and their gender dimensions, Understanding disasters and vulnerability, Gender inequality, women's status, and capacity for protection, Women's nutritional status and coping capacity, Women's domestic burden and increased hardship, Women's reduced ability to provide self-protection, Social change: a glimmer of hope?

Source of Information: Gender and Development, Vol. 10, No. 2, Climate Change (Jul., 2002), pp. 45-50

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Evidence that the impacts of disasters are worse for women is inconclusive or variable. However, since being female is strongly linked to being poor, unless poverty is reduced, The increase in disasters and extreme climate events linked with climate change is likely to affect women more than men. In addition, there are some specific gender attributes that increase women's vulnerability in some respects. These gendered vulnerabilities may, however, be reduced by social changes.

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