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

A scene from the aftermath of the 2015 Nepal earthquake. Rajan Journalist/Wikimedia Commons
Evacuation centre registration during early warning drill, part of the Indian Ocean Wave 2018 (IOWave18) for Sri Lanka, an Indian Ocean-wide tsunami warning and communications exercise, 5 September 2018. Photo provided by author.
A photograph of the 2004 tsunami in Ao Nang, Krabi Province, Thailand. David Rydevik/Wikimedia Commons

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.