Doğal Afetlerin Etkilerine ve Afet Risk Yönetimine Toplumsal Cinsiyet Perspektifinden Bakış: Türk ve Japon Kadınlarının Duruş Noktasından Doğal Afetler

Abstract

During the last years the increase of the number and intensity of natural disasters have resulted in big losses both human and material and adversely affected efforts toward achieving sustainable development goals. Due to the fact that in most disasters, the majority of those who have lost their lives are women and girls and at the same time women display a special ability and resilience during the disaster management process, it is important to approach all phases of disaster management from a gender perspective. Today, the concept of “disaster risk reduction” has gained prominence in disaster management efforts thereby prioritising vulnerability and resilience and placing a special focus on gender. This has been the starting point of this thesis. With these considerations it was deemed useful to analyse the disaster experiences of women in two countries, namely Turkey and Japan, which in the past years have experienced large scale natural disasters. With this purpose, in depth interviews have been carried out with women who have lived through disasters as well as with NGO’s which work in this field. The aim was to look at the natural disasters from the perspectives of women. The purpose of this study is to analyse how women were affected from natural disasters and how they contributed to the disaster management process within the context of Turkey and Japan and thus to try to contribute to the work on how to render disaster management more efficient by integrating a more gender sensitive approach