Women building disaster resilience: New resources and strategies

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April 25, 2012 -- 12:00 Noon Eastern

Please take time to review the new instructions in advance

EMForum.org will host a one hour presentation and interactive discussion Wednesday, April 25, 2012, beginning at 12:00 Noon Eastern time (please convert to your local time).

The topic will be highlights of the new book, Women Confronting Natural Disaster: From Vulnerability to Resilience, together with some practical implications and ideas for extending the analysis to men/gender. Additional resources, including The Women of Katrina: How Gender, Race, and Class Matter in an American Disaster and other policy and practice guides will also be presented.

Their guest will be researcher and author Elaine Enarson*, Ph.D. Dr. Enarson describes herself as "an accidental disaster sociologist" whose personal experience in Hurricane Andrew sparked extensive work on gender, vulnerability and community resilience. In addition to her work on these two new books, she previously co-edited The Gendered Terrain of Disaster: Through Women's Eyes (1998), as well as Women, Gender and Disaster: Global Issues and Initiatives (2009). Dr. Enarson is a founding member of the global Gender and Disaster Network and initiator of the US-based Gender and Disaster Resilience Alliance.

To join this session, see the Background Page for links to related resources and the new Instructions. If this will be your first time to participate, you may set up WebEx in advance.

On the day of the program you may use the Webinar Login link or login from their home page not more than 30 minutes before the scheduled time. The password is attend. Please feel free to extend this invitation to your colleagues.

EIIP and Jacksonville State University are now partnering to offer CEUs for attending EMForum.org Webinars.  See this web page for details.

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* To read more about the work of Dr. Enarson, see CWHN’s booklet Not Just VICTIMS: Women in Emergencies and Disaster, available for free download on our website.