@article{ref1,
title="Women's empowerment following disaster: a longitudinal study of social change",
journal="Natural hazards",
year="2018",
author="Moreno, Jenny and Shaw, Duncan",
volume="92",
number="1",
pages="205-224",
abstract="This paper examines changes in gender relations in a small coastal community as a result of the 2010 Chile earthquake and tsunami. Vulnerability and resilience are used as a conceptual framework to analyse these changes. Based on empirical evidence from a seven-year longitudinal study and quasi-ethnographic work, we explore changes in power relations at the different stages of the disaster and longer-term recovery as well as the conditions that fostered these changes. Our findings show distinct patterns of change. First, disasters can trigger long-lasting changes that challenge historical patriarchal relations. Second, while vulnerability increases following a disaster, resilience can potentially counteract women's vulnerability. We propose that resilience can be a pathway to produce long-term changes in gender relations and empower women in the context of disasters.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0921-030X",
doi="10.1007/s11069-018-3204-4",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11069-018-3204-4"
}