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Women At Risk İn Post-disaster Relief And Collaborative Preparedness: 
lessons Learned

Deirdre BOWEN
Peter RUDOLF

I. Introduction

The United Nations Office of Disaster Risk Reduction defines a disaster as “[a] serious disruption of the functioning of a community or a society involved in widespread human, material, economic or environmental losses and impacts, which exceed the ability of the affected community or society to cope using its own resources.”1 Three elements tend to combine to create a disaster:“the exposure to a hazard; the conditions of vulnerability that are present, and; insufficient capacity or measures to reduce or cope with the potential negative consequences.”2 While a hazard might be the result of some natural phenomenon, the definition of “disaster risk reflects the concept of disasters as the outcome of continuously present conditions of risk.”3

Women often suffer disproportionately in comparison to most men when disaster strikes.4 And certainly, Turkey, which has a population of over 80 million, 71% of whom live in an urban area on a major fault line, must confront and prepare for the inevitable disasters it will face.

The focus of this paper is to consider the unique risks women encounter in the face of disaster. Part I explores what variables coincide with being a woman that put them at greater risk than men. Part II provides a case study. Part III makes recommendations.