Start Date
26-2-2024 3:45 PM
End Date
26-2-2024 5:00 PM
Access Type
Open Access
Abstract
This research talk is bringing together several experts on climate change issues to discuss the impacts of environmental risks on vulnerable communities and society from a cross-regional perspective. Based on a research study by Ly Quoc Dang, the discussion centers on Can Tho City (Vietnam), identifying how women in Can Tho City experience the impacts of flooding on their health, income, household and personal finances. Participants discuss limitations to women's participation in flood-related planning activities. Drawing on a feminist framing, participants not only offer insight into the unique harms that women experience from floods, but also demonstrate that women have important knowledge and insights into flood-related planning. The discussion serves as an important reminder to governments to integrate a gender perspective in better understanding climate vulnerabilities, such as flooding in risk management strategy policies.
Biography
Discussant: Ravina Aggarwal is a sociocultural anthropologist and higher education professional with over 25 years of expertise in education leadership, philanthropy, research and teaching, and global programming. She was a tenured professor at Smith College and has worked at institutions like Columbia University and the Ford Foundation, focusing on issues including climate and environment, gender, education, social enterprise, culture, and media.
Speaker:Ly Quoc Dang is an environmental educator, community leader, and researcher at Can Tho University’s Mekong Delta Development Research Institute. His research focuses on water, disaster and risk management through the lens of gender perspectives, youth development, and migration. He is also the founder of Youth Farm Network, an organization centered on education, sustainable farming, youth engagement groups in five lower Mekong Countries.
Moderator: Neeraj Vedwan is an Associate Professor at Montclair and environmental anthropologist. He works on water resources management, environmental risk perception, vulnerability, and the linkages between consumerism, nationalism and environmental values and behavior. He teaches courses on Cultural Anthropology, Cultures of South Asia, Environmental Anthropology, Anthropology of Food and Nutrition and Environment and Community.
Women and Urban Flooding Vulnerability
This research talk is bringing together several experts on climate change issues to discuss the impacts of environmental risks on vulnerable communities and society from a cross-regional perspective. Based on a research study by Ly Quoc Dang, the discussion centers on Can Tho City (Vietnam), identifying how women in Can Tho City experience the impacts of flooding on their health, income, household and personal finances. Participants discuss limitations to women's participation in flood-related planning activities. Drawing on a feminist framing, participants not only offer insight into the unique harms that women experience from floods, but also demonstrate that women have important knowledge and insights into flood-related planning. The discussion serves as an important reminder to governments to integrate a gender perspective in better understanding climate vulnerabilities, such as flooding in risk management strategy policies.