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Women's Vulnerabilty to a Seasonal Hazard: Their Capacity to Adapt and Their Resilience

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 February 2012

Alison Cottrell
Alison Cottrell*
Affiliation:
James Cook University, Australia. alison.cottrell@jcu.edu.au
*
*Address for correspondence: Alison Cottrell, School of Earth and Environmental Science, James Cook University, Townsville, Qld 4811, Australia.

Abstract

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Women as a group may be more vulnerable to the impact of hazards, but at an individual level, they also have capacity to adapt to changing circumstances in ways that contribute to their own resilience. This paper provides examples of the ways in which some women adapt to a recurrent natural hazard to which they are exposed, in turn, providing insights on adaptive capacity at a personal level.

Keywords

hazardswomen vulnerabilityresilienceadaptive capacity
Type
Articles
Information
Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology , Volume 3 , Issue 1 , 01 May 2009 , pp. 4 - 10
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009