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Young Professionals For Disaster Risk Reduction

Welcome! The goal of YPDR is to establish an international network between young professionals and relevant organizations whose mission is to strengthen disaster management and risk reduction initiatives. YPDR activities will be limited until February 2009; join our Facebook group to continue networking in the meantime...

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Gender, Climate Change and Natural Disasters

From Science Alert Australia/New Zealand, this is an article on gender, climate change and 'natural' disasters. It was circulated through the NGOFL-L Digest. While the findings in the report are not new, and often echo debates we have held for a decade, it brings back into discussions issues of gender and disasters...it also makes us ask why we have been having these discussions, without little follow-up in the form of action...
Posted by Admin: Erin Michelle Smith
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