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Women, Disaster Crisis and Building Resilience

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Part of the book series: Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals ((ENUNSDG))

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Resilience is conceptualized as the capacity of a system in order to encounter and resist the hindrance without distorting its basic and rudimentary functions and structure (Walter et al. 2006). The two main purposes for building resilience is firstly, to prevent the system from moving to an undesired, alternative regime in the phase of climate disaster. Secondly, to nurture and preserve the components of the system that build resilience and allow the system to renew and reorganize after a disturbance (Walter et al. 2006). Being resilient means absorbing the negativities of disaster and preventing disastrous effects and facing the aftershock and recovering from vulnerabilities and building sustainability including livelihood sustainability (Roy 2018). Resilience of a person which means recovering from the aftershock of disaster prerequisites their socio-economic stability and status, physical and psychological stability and also financial independency (Roy 2018). Even...

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  1. Institute for Culture and Society, Building EM, Western Sydney University, Rydalmere, NSW, Australia

    Sajal Roy

  2. Humanitarian and Development Studies Program, School of Social Sciences, Western Sydney Univeristy, Sydney, Australia

    Sajal Roy

  3. International Centre for Climate Change and Development, Independent University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

    Saleemul Huq

  4. International Institute for Environment and Development, London, UK

    Saleemul Huq

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Roy, S., Huq, S. (2020). Women, Disaster Crisis and Building Resilience. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A.M., Brandli, L., Lange Salvia, A., Wall, T. (eds) Gender Equality. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70060-1_65-1

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