The gendered terrain of disaster

Abstract
This chapters overviews the subfield of gender and disaster research, identify trends and gaps in past research on men and disaster, and suggest how this body of work can be used. Disaster risk, in turn, is best understood as a function of social and physical vulnerabilities in the face of exposure to environmental, technological, biological and human-induced or purposive hazards, both modified by people's capacity to mitigate, anticipate, adapt, resist and recover from disasters. Disaster research informed by intersectional analysis has contributed essential knowledge about family and kin relationships in crises, about social change and global development, race relations, organizational dynamics in crisis, disaster popular culture, social justice, crisis management and much more. Critical linkages between gender, disaster and climate risk are now more visible on the ground, around policy tables and in the academy and communities of practice are better for it. But what about the gendered terrain of disaster "through the eyes of men".