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Women, Gender and Disaster: Global Issues and Initiatives examines gender within the context of disaster risk management. It argues for gender mainstreaming as an effective strategy towards achieving disaster risk reduction and mitigating post-disaster gender disparity. Highlighting that gender inequalities pervade all aspects of life, it analyses the failure to implement inclusive and gender sensitive approaches to relief and rehabilitation work. While examining positive strategies for change, the collection focuses on womoen`s knowledge, capabilities, leadership and experience in community resource management. The authors emphasize that these strengths in women, which are required for builiding resilience to hazards and disasters, are frequently overlooked.