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31 Cards in this Set
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Why does work matter?
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- reaffirms your sense of self
- dictates where you will be - defines what you know - dictates what your role is - explains why you do what you do |
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How does sex and gender matter in life?
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- body defined as sex
- identity - sexuality - intimacy - family - division of labour - leisure - power |
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What are the divisions of labour?
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- paid
- unpaid |
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What gender traditionally dominates disaster occupations?
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males
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What are the employment-focused disaster concerns?
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- mitigation
- preparedness - impact & response - recovery |
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What is mitigation?
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what you can do to reduce hazards
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What is preparedness?
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how prepared is your workplace
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What is impact & response?
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- how will you be affected
- what will you do on the job for others |
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What is recovery?
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- how will your workplace recover
- what will you do for others |
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What is classified as risk reduction?
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- mitigation
- recover - preparedness - impact & response |
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Are disasters natural?
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no
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What is natural about disasters?
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the human response to them
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What are the approach to the idea that disasters are inevitable?
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- cultural answer
- faith-based answer - natural hazards approach |
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What is the cultural answer to the inevitability of disasters?
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sense of the powers that be
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WHat is the faith-based answer to inevitability of disasters?
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higher power testing people
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What is the natural hazards approach to the inevitability of disasters?
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result of natural hazards
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What does the social vulnerability analysis challenge?
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- popular conception of disasters
- dominant natural hazards paradigm |
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What is the alternate view of the social vulnerability analysis?
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SV = exposure & susceptibility to harm based on ability to anticipate, cope with, resists, & recover from impact of a hazard
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What are the types of determinants of social vulnerability?
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- social structural factors
- situational vulnerabilities |
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What are social structural factors?
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- class/caste
- race/ethnicity/culture - age/generation - sex/sexuality/gender |
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What are situational vulnerabilities?
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- language/literacy
- foreign birth, residence, status - household size & structure - violence - health & disability/ability |
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What are the elements of women's vulnerability during disasters?
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- economics
- health & safety - housing - household/family factors - transportation - politics |
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How do economics contribute to women's vulnerability?
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- resource dependent labour
- higher poverty rates, more extreme poverty - information sector, subsistence income - lack of tools, credit, savings, land - lower employment rates, contigent & part-time jobs - economic dependence, income insecurity |
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How does health & safety contribute to women's vulnerability?
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- gender-based violence
- rising rates of HIV/AIDS- - more chronic illnesses - temporarily disabling conditions - women living with disabilities |
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How does housing contribute to women's vulnerability?
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- more often low-income renters
- dominate in public housing - homelessness increasing among women with children - insecure housing - informal settlements on urban fringes |
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How do household/family factors contribute to women's vulnerability?
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- unequal access to household assets
- less control over household assets - male authority & power in disasters decisions - lacking social protection - living without men |
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How does transportation contribute to women's vulnerability?
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- more reliant on public transportation
- less access to private transport - less control of private transport - often travel with dependents - often distant form public transit |
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How does gender build resilience?
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through:
- resources - work experience - life experience - community networks |
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What are occupational challenges in disasters?
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- immediate & long-term needs
- increased need & decreased resources - lack of mitigation - on site, new site & off site relief & recovery efforts - extreme conditions - management of volunteers - conflicting interests & organizational change |
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How do women's and men's disaster work vary?
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by:
- social status - social esteem - working conditions - workplace cultures |
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What mat vary between gender in disaster work?
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- work & family cocnern
- health concerns of practitioners - preparedness & training |
