Moving through the city : gender and floods at play; a case study in Sweet Home Farm informal settlement, Cape Town
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2013-05
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Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy, Central European University, Budapest, HU
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Vulnerability is defined by UN HABITAT as a function of the way “a system is exposed, its sensitivity and its adaptive capacity relative to climatic change.” Vulnerability to floods is not gender-neutral. Vulnerability to environmental hazard is understood and experienced differently according to gender. Not only are floods a stressor, they reflect human made infrastructure, and can be seen to provoke the disaster. This research examines the situation of poor women as breadwinners and caregivers in their communities when floods occur; they are most often the poorest of the urban poor, the most exposed and least resilient.
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VULNERABILITY, GENDER SENSITIVE ANALYSIS, FLOODS, FEMINISM, SOUTH AFRICA, URBAN POOR, MOBILITY, GENDER DISCRIMINATION, POVERTY, WOMEN'S ROLE, ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT, PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE, CLIMATE CHANGE, ADAPTATION TO CHANGE, SOUTH AFRICA--CAPE TOWN--SWEET HOME FARM