Dilanthi Amaratunga is a Professor of Disaster Risk Management and heads the Global Disaster Resilience Centre at the University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom.
Progress in the Development of Globally Accessible Early Warning Systems: The Gender Dimension of Disaster Risk Reduction
The impacts of hazard events are not gender-neutral. Women are often placed at greater risk through a lack of timely and relevant information about imminent hazards.