Indicative Findings in Unravelling Gender in Institutional Responses ASEAN
Disasters are characterised by their severe effects on every aspect of human life – the physical (loss of human life or injury), psychological (stress and trauma), and economic (loss of properties, infrastructure, and resources), which are experienced for long periods of time. While academics provide varying points of understanding of what entails a natural disaster, 1 vulnerability emerges as a key concept, and provides an explanation for the negative socioeconomic impacts that natural disasters have on particular groups of people.
