Introduction: Gender and Resilience

Key Points

• This research aims to explore how gender influences resilience in the face of disasters and the associated economic impacts.
• Analysis of disaster records from 2001 to 2010
• Examination of gender differences in susceptibility and adaptive capacity
• Assessment of economic costs related to disasters
• Disasters affected an average of 232 million people yearly between 2001 and 2010
• Economic losses from disasters reached approximately US$108 billion annually
• Gender-specific vulnerabilities were highlighted, showing varied resilience outcomes.